Digital invitation for your paper wedding anniversary

A year ago you were at the front of a room with a ring in your hand. This Saturday there are eight of you around the kitchen table, and you are stuck on the same question: do you print cards for the paper wedding anniversary, or send a link? A digital invitation answers it in an evening. You pick a design from the catalogue, type in the date, the address and the RSVP questions, and send it as a link, a QR code or a message.

Here is what that costs, what to put in it, and how to keep one piece of paper without printing forty.

A digital invitation gets shared. Paper gets kept.

Nobody pins an envelope to the fridge. The card with your handwriting goes in the album. So give each version the job it does best: one printed copy stays at home for the two of you, and the working invitation, the one with the time, the address and the RSVP, lives at the end of a link. It opens in a browser on a phone, a tablet or a laptop. No app, nothing to install. It is not a PDF and not a picture: it is your own page, with scenes that follow one another, your photos and a song if you want one.

• A wide photo from the wedding for the cover, and one from the trip you took in the first year. You upload them and the editor frames them for you.
• The date of the anniversary, the time you sit down to eat and the address, each in its own field: label, names, date, phrase, place.
• The song from your first dance, if you want it to play when the invitation opens.
• The RSVP questions you actually need: who is coming and how many people they are bringing, answered from a phone.

How much do digital invitations for a paper wedding anniversary cost?

€29.99, paid once. That covers the invitation, every scene inside it and the RSVP list. There is no subscription and no charge per guest, so the price is the same for eight people as for twenty.

Put that next to the printed route: cards, envelopes, postage, and a reprint every time the plan changes or a name is spelled wrong. You can open a design in trial mode and edit the cover without paying; when you buy, every scene in the invitation unlocks.

Print one copy for the album. Send the link to everyone else.

Ideas for a paper wedding anniversary invitation

Start with the cover: the photo where you are both laughing, not the formal one. Then the wording. There is a field for each piece, label, names, date, phrase, place, so "Dinner at ours, 8pm, bring nothing" lands where it should. The phrase is worth a minute of thought: the nickname only the two of you use, the private joke about the cake. A character counter warns you when the line no longer fits the design. And the photos are not fixed: if you take a better one this year, replace it and the same link shows the new version.

Digital for everyone, one printed copy for the two of you

If your mum wants something to hold, print a single copy and hand it to her. The invitation itself does not print or post anything, so that part is yours to do on purpose. Everything else sits behind one link: push dinner an hour later, change the address, and your guests see the new version without you resending a thing. Pick a design, try it free, and publish your invitation when the date is fixed: €29.99, paid once.