Digital invitation for your LGBTQ wedding: no clichés

You are both on the balcony with one phone between you, scrolling covers. One of you likes the sage one. The other has said the word 'rainbow' twice, and neither of you wants a wedding that looks like a bank advert in June. That is the whole argument for a digital invitation: you can open the catalogue, put your two names on a cover and send the link today, without ordering proofs or waiting for a printer.

Nothing on that page needs a symbol to explain who you are. What you actually have to decide is small: what the two of you are called, one lead colour, six photos, and the questions you want answered before the day.

What makes a digital invitation for an LGBTQ wedding yours

Start with the label, before you look at a single font. Decide whether the cover reads your two names, 'the brides', 'the grooms', or the nickname your friends use, because that line is the first thing people see when the link opens. A phrase only you two understand is worth more than any flag: the bar where you met, a joke about the boiler in your first flat, the name of the dog. You can test it free — in test mode you edit the cover without paying and see how it sits on a phone screen.

• A label people read in one second: your two names, 'the brides', or the nickname your friends already use.
• A short line only you could have written, in place of a quote you found online.
• One horizontal photo for the cover, not a collage of four.
• The RSVP questions decided before you send, and in which language.

The best digital invitations for an LGBTQ wedding treat the rainbow as a detail

Choose one colour to lead: sage green, terracotta, ink blue. Let the rainbow sit in a thin strip on the cover or in the last-dance scene. If you want the flag, make it material rather than decorative — a photo from the march the year you met says more than a gradient.

Then check the type. If the lettering looks like a bank advert, the invitation will read like one. Open the preview on your phone, not your laptop, because that is where your guests will open the link.

A rainbow says what you are. Your names, your bar and your bad joke say who you are.

Six photos, one order, no Photoshop

Mark which photo is the cover, and swap any of them later without touching the rest of the invitation. Each one frames itself inside the layout, so nobody is cropping by hand the night before. Six is enough: one cover, plus five that show the place, the people and whatever you two do on a Sunday.

How to decide in one afternoon, and what it costs

Filter by style, open three designs and try only the cover with your names. If the third still isn't you, change style, not wording. The price is fixed at 29.99 EUR per invitation, one payment, no subscription. The site runs in seven languages — Spanish, English, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and German — and you set the content of the invitation per language, so family abroad reads all of it instead of half. RSVPs arrive inside the invitation in one ordered list, so nobody chases confirmations on WhatsApp. And because nothing is printed, changing the time, the map or the dress code after you send it costs nothing: the link stays the same.