Digital invitation: the one-day hen do timetable

Nine o'clock on a Saturday morning, and the hen do chat has forty-one messages and no start time. Someone asks where you're meeting. Someone else answers "around midday, I think". By ten, two people are still deciding whether to book a train. Nobody is being difficult — there just isn't a plan in a form anyone can read.

That's the whole case for a digital invitation. One link holds the start time, the address, the order of the day and the RSVP list. No app, no download: your guests open it in the browser on their phone. You pick a design, try the cover for free and send your one-day hen do invitation today, straight from the catalogue.

A digital invitation is the hen do timetable nobody loses

The first thing anyone reads is the first stop: "11:30, at the market gate". Not a "I'll text you the details" buried under memes. The scenes run in order — brunch, walk, dinner, last drink — so the page reads the way the Saturday actually happens. If you move dinner to a different terrace at six in the evening, you edit the text and the same link shows the new address. Nobody scrolls back through the chat to check.

• Give the first stop a real time: 11:30 at the market gate, not "late morning".
• Chain the scenes in the order you'll live them: brunch, walk, dinner, last drink.
• Put the dress code next to the stop that needs it: white for the brunch, flat shoes for the walk after.
• Change a time or a venue whenever you like — same link, updated version, no second message to the group.

How to create digital invitations for a one-day hen do

Name each stop the way your group will actually remember it. "Chalk doorway" for the welcome toast. "Last dance" for karaoke o'clock. A name does more work than a paragraph of description, and it's the thing people repeat to the friend who joined the chat late.

Add one photo per stop, up to six across the invitation, and take them yourself: the real terrace, the real bar, the table you've booked. A stock image of a rooftop you'll never see helps nobody. You can mark which photo is the cover, swap any of them later, and put music on it if that's the mood you're after.

Confirm once, and say how the night ends

The RSVP form sits inside the invitation. Answers arrive in one ordered list instead of forty separate messages, and you set the questions yourself: who's staying for dinner, who's coming straight to the last stop. Anyone who already replied doesn't need chasing — if the time or the map changes, they open the same link and see the current version. Write down when the last stop ends and how everyone gets home, so nobody is asking how to get a taxi at one in the morning. And put the meeting point on a linked map: a named square stops half the group waiting on the wrong corner.

The plan isn't the hard part. Writing it once, where everyone can find it, is.

Why a digital invitation sorts out your one-day hen do

It's a page with its own link, not a PDF that sinks between memes. Your guests tap, read and reply from the phone in their hand — nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and the page works the same on a laptop if someone prefers that. Before you publish, check five things: the first stop has a real time, the venue name matches what the map search shows, the street is in there, the cover photo is one of yours, and the confirm button is visible without scrolling. Then hit publish. If someone wants paper, print two copies for the people who'll keep them and send the link to everyone else. €29.99, one payment, no subscription, and you can try the cover free first.