Digital invitation for a Lisbon baptism: what €29.99 buys

Sixty names in a notebook. A baptism in May, the service at eleven, lunch afterwards in Alfama, and a list split between Lisbon, Cascais and four people flying in from London. Paper means envelopes, stamps and a reprint the moment the restaurant moves lunch from 1pm to 1.30. The other route is a digital invitation for a baptism in Lisbon that you can put together and send today from the catalogue: pick a design, fill in the names, publish, share the link.

The price is €29.99, paid once. Here's what that covers for 60 guests — and the three things it genuinely doesn't do.

How much does a digital invitation for a baptism in Lisbon cost?

€29.99, once, per invitation. Not per guest, not per copy. Sixty people opening the same link costs exactly the same as six, and there's no subscription on top. Unlike paper, digital invitations don't multiply with the guest list — what actually moves the budget of a baptism is the list itself: who's on it, who has confirmed, and how many chairs go at the table.

• Count the guests who will open the link, not the ones who "will definitely come".
• Settle the time and the restaurant before you style a single scene: changing them later is free, but better to do it once.
• Have six photos ready — one for the cover and five to decorate the scenes.
• Decide the language now: Portuguese only, or Portuguese plus Spanish or English for the family abroad.

What the €29.99 unlocks before you send it

It isn't a PDF and it isn't an image. It's a web page for your baptism, built from chained scenes you fill with your own words and up to six of your own photos, which frame themselves. Guests open it in the browser on their phone and nobody installs an app. If half the family lives outside Lisbon, you can set the content in Portuguese, Spanish, English or Catalan.

You also try it before paying: in test mode you edit the cover for free, and buying unlocks every scene. After that, changes stay live. If the restaurant confirms 1.30 instead of 1pm, you correct the scene and the link is the one you already sent. No reprint, no second round of messages. The aunt in Cascais who saved it in the family chat opens the updated version.

The invitation is one link, and it stays right even after you send it.

RSVPs land in a list, not in your WhatsApp

The confirmation form sits inside the invitation. Answers stack up in one ordered list instead of arriving as screenshots and one-line messages you copy into a notebook. You choose the questions before you publish, so you ask what you actually need for this baptism rather than a generic text nobody fills in.

What a digital invitation won't do for you

It doesn't print or post paper. If a grandparent wants something to keep, the sensible version is a link for everyone plus a handful of printed copies for the people who'll put them in a drawer. It needs a phone, tablet or laptop with a connection — for the uncle who never checks his email, a QR code on the church door does the job on the day. And nothing chases people for you: the list shows who has replied, but the last nudge is a message you write yourself.

If the baptism is in May and you're 60, sort it now rather than the week before. Open the catalogue, try the cover of your invitation free and edit it without paying — you'll see the scenes, the photos and the form before you decide. Buying it is €29.99 once, no subscription, and one link for everyone on the list.