Digital Invitation for a May Wedding: Send It Today

Two Saturdays in a row, the same people, two links open in the same family chat. One reads "Saturday 16 May, 12:00, the patio". The other is a photo with no time on it, and by the third forward nobody is sure which wedding it belongs to. That's the May wedding problem: the month fills up and the details blur. A digital invitation from the catalogue fixes it in about two seconds — you can build it today, send the link tonight and change the hour tomorrow if the restaurant calls.

Below: what goes on the front screen, what to settle before you press publish, and what you can leave until the day before. No app for your guests, no PDF with a strange filename, no second message with a correction.

A digital invitation for a May wedding arrives before the forgetting

One link in the family chat replaces the downloaded PDF with the odd filename and the screenshot that's been forwarded three times and no longer reads. Your guests open it in the phone browser and answer on the spot — twenty seconds, nothing to install. If two couples you know are marrying on consecutive Saturdays, the front screen is what keeps them apart: names, day, date, time and city on the first screen, not buried in scene five.

• Fill one field per piece of information — label, names, date, sentence and place — and watch the character counter so "Saturday 16 May, 12:00, the patio" doesn't break mid-line on a small screen.
• Add up to six of your own photos, mark which one opens the invitation, and let the rest decorate the scenes; they crop into the frame on their own, even vertical phone shots.
• Keep the hour and the address on the first screen. In May, a lovely design without a time looks like the wedding from the week before.
• Try the front screen free in test mode. You only unlock the rest of the scenes when you buy.

Change the time the day before, the RSVP list sorts itself

If the restaurant moves you to another room or the ceremony slips half an hour, edit the scene and keep the same link. Nobody gets a second message with the correction. The map, the dress code or that one sentence you rewrote three times — guests see the current version every time they open it, and there's nothing to reprint or re-send.

Confirmations land inside the invitation in one ordered list, so you're not chasing replies across five chats the week before. Write the RSVP questions before you publish — how many of you are coming, the name you want on the list — because anyone who already answered won't see a question you add later. And do tell the chat yourself when something changes: the invitation doesn't send reminders on its own.

In May you don't need a prettier invitation. You need one that says the day, the hour and the city before anyone scrolls.

Digital invitations vs paper invitations: what to do when someone wants to keep it

This is a page of its own, not a PDF: no paper, no postage, no reprint. The site runs in seven languages and the invitation content can be set per language, so the guests who read in English or French see the same thing as everyone else. If an aunt wants the card in her hand, the sensible move is both: one link for everybody and a handful of printed copies on the side. Before you send, check the front screen names the day, date, time and city, and that the RSVP questions are the ones you actually want. Pick a design, try it free, publish when the venue and the hour are confirmed — not when you've simply chosen the design. It's 29.99 EUR, paid once.