Digital invitation for a pajama party birthday

It's 11:20 on a Saturday night and your phone lights up. 'What time do we pick her up?' Then: 'Does she need a sleeping bag?' Then a third message from a parent you've never met. A digital invitation for a pajama party birthday answers most of that before it starts: one page, one link, the pickup time, the address and the packing list in the same place. You can choose a design in the collection, fill it in and send it today.

A sleepover has more moving parts than a two-hour party. There's an overnight bag, a change of clothes, one parent on the drop-off and another on the morning run. Write those details down once and the questions stop arriving at midnight.

Pickup time comes before the popcorn

Two times, both near the top of the page: arrival at 6:30 pm with the bag already packed, and pickup at 10:00 the next morning, breakfast included. It's the first thing every family asks. Add the full address with the door number and the gate code, and say which door to use after dark — nobody wants to ring the wrong bell at eleven at night. Then name the sleeping arrangement. Mattresses in the living room, a shared bedroom or tents in the garden changes who drives, who stays and what gets packed.

• Arrival 6:30 pm; pickup 10:00 am the next day, breakfast included.
• Full address with the door number, the unit and the gate code.
• Which door to use after dark, so nobody rings the neighbour's bell.
• Where everyone sleeps: living room floor, shared bedroom or garden tents.

What to bring to a pajama party: the list that ends ten messages

Keep it to five things and put them in one block, not three separate messages: a sleeping bag or a blanket, pyjamas and comfortable clothes, a toothbrush with a small toothpaste, a torch for the game in the dark and their favourite cushion. Ask for names on the labels. Then say what stays at home: no expensive gifts, no phones if the plan is to play with the lights off, and no makeup that ends up on the pillowcases.

Add one adult's phone number and the hours when it's fine to text. A question at 9 pm gets an answer. The same question at 23:40 lands in a group chat with thirty people in it.

Two times, one address and five things to pack. That is the whole invitation.

A digital invitation for a pajama party birthday, from the cover photo to the RSVP list

The invitation is a page with its own link. You send it on WhatsApp and everyone opens it in a browser: no app, no account, no 'the link doesn't work' from the uncle who says he can't do phones. Confirmations land in a list inside the same page, with the questions you set — who is staying over, who is driving in the morning — so you're not chasing replies one by one. It also holds up to six of your own photos: take the cover shot with the cushions and blankets already out, add a song the birthday girl sings in the car, and send. A drawing of stars is fine. A photo of the actual room is better.

What a pajama party digital invitation costs

One price: 29.99 EUR per invitation, one payment, no subscription. Test a design for free first — in test mode you edit the cover without paying, and the whole invitation unlocks when you buy. Digital invitations don't print or post anything, so if a grandparent wants paper, combine: the link for everyone plus two or three printed copies for the people who'll keep them. Pick a design, write the two times and the five things to pack, and publish with one button. If breakfast runs late, change the pickup time and the same link shows the new version.