Digital invitation for your Malaga beach wedding

It's 19:20 on the Malagueta and the wind has just picked up. Half your guests are at the wrong end of the beach because the only directions they got were the name of the beach, and two of them are still texting to ask whether the ceremony happens on the sand or up on a terrace. A digital invitation for a Malaga beach wedding sorts that out before it happens: exact spot, hour, map, dress code and plan B in one link. You can build and send it today from the catalogue.

It's a web page of your own, not a PDF and not a picture. Guests open the link in the browser on their phone, no app to install, and confirm from there. And you keep editing the same link whenever the wind changes its mind.

A digital invitation for a Malaga beach wedding: hour, exact spot and a plan B

Don't stop at the name of the beach. Say where to stand and when, in one line: 'Ceremony at 19:00 on the sand in front of the Malagueta beach bar; if the wind gets up, we move to its terrace.' Then do the same for the shoes and for the drive.

• The exact spot on the sand, with a map, not just the name of the beach.
• Ceremony time and the time to set off: if it starts at 19:30 in June, tell people that from 19:00 they can park and still find the spot.
• A dress code that survives the sand: light suit and espadrilles; thin heels sink.
• One short line about plan B: the terrace, the awning, whatever you have already agreed.

RSVPs in one list, not forty WhatsApp messages

The RSVP sits inside the invitation. Confirmations land in one ordered list instead of forty WhatsApp messages that start with 'I think I'm coming'. You choose the questions, attendance and whether they stay for the last dance, and you only ask what you are actually going to read.

Change the hour, the map or the dress code and you edit the invitation; the link stays the same and guests see the updated version. No reprints and no second round of envelopes.

Digital invitations or paper: sand, heels and the guest who wants a keepsake

For a beach, the sensible option is a link for everyone: share it with a QR code in the family group or a direct message, and nothing gets wet on the way there. If someone wants paper, combine: the link for all, plus a handful of printed copies for whoever will keep them. The invitation itself is digital, so it doesn't print or send anything. Your guests need one thing: a phone, a tablet or a computer with a connection.

The wind doesn't cancel the link: change the hour, the terrace or the map and your guests see the new version straight away.

What goes in the invitation: names, date and one line that smells of salt

Each text has its own field: opening line, names, date, your sentence, the place. 'Laura and Alvaro · 14 June · Playa de la Malagueta, Malaga' does the job. You can add up to six of your own photos, the two of you at the waterline as the cover and the sunset or bare feet as decoration, and they frame themselves. Choose the music, and watch the character counter: 'We're getting married where the waves break' fits; a whole paragraph doesn't. If your wedding is on a Malaga beach, don't leave the details to the wind. Start your digital invitation at Send The Joy and share one link that stays current.