Digital Invitation for a Rehearsal Dinner with 20 Guests

Twenty people, one long table, and a message you can't put in the wedding group. That's the rehearsal dinner, and it's the only part of the weekend that isn't for everyone. Get it wrong and you're answering questions at midnight about who is actually invited. A digital invitation sorts the logistics before they start: you choose a design from the catalogue, write the texts today and share the link tonight.

The night before the wedding doesn't need speeches or a seating plan. It needs a closed list, a clear time and a way to hear back from everyone without asking twice. That's what a rehearsal dinner invitation is for, and it's why it works better as its own page than as a note buried in the wedding thread.

The rehearsal dinner is decided by a list, not a menu

Write the names before you look at restaurants. Twenty is a long table where one conversation carries the whole room; sixty needs a microphone and a different kind of evening. If your list is already past thirty, you're planning the wedding banquet a day early, and no venue choice will fix that.

• Yes, no matter what: parents, siblings, the two witnesses. Build everything else around those names.
• One or two spare seats for whoever confirms late, and decide now who gets them.
• Anyone you haven't spoken to in a year stays off it. Nobody at this table needs context for the wedding.
• Count the final number before you book: restaurants take bookings by seat, not by feeling.

A digital invitation keeps the rehearsal dinner off the wedding radar

Send the link to the names on your list and to nobody else. Who doesn't receive it, doesn't open it, and won't turn up expecting a chair. The rest of your guests get the wedding information through the usual channel; this dinner lives on its own page, with its own label and its own time.

Replies land inside the invitation as an ordered list, so you're not chasing confirmations in WhatsApp at eleven at night. You decide which questions the RSVP form asks, and you can change them whenever you need to. Nobody has to install anything: the link opens in any browser.

The rehearsal dinner is the one evening you get with twenty people instead of two hundred. Keep it small, keep it private, and let the link do the organising.

What goes in the message: label, arrival time, dress code

Three things matter more than the design: the label, the time and the place. Write “Rehearsal dinner” with the date so nobody reads it as the wedding banquet. Give the arrival time, not the booking time: 20:45 for drinks on the terrace if the table is at 21:00. Name the restaurant exactly as it appears on the map, and link the location. The dress code takes three words: “smart but easy”, “jacket, no tie”. If you want a line from the two of you, keep it to one sentence: “we want to have dinner with you before the yes.”

Change the time and nobody needs a new link

Restaurants move tables. If yours calls and shifts dinner from 21:00 to 21:30, you edit the invitation and the link stays the same. Change the address, redraw the map or rewrite the line from the two of you, and every guest sees the current version. No second message, no reprinted card sitting in someone's pocket, no one asking whether dinner is still on.

Twenty names and a booking is the hard part. The invitation itself takes minutes: pick a design, try it free, drop in your texts and photos, and publish. One payment of 29,99 EUR, no subscription, and the dinner stays out of the wedding group chat from the first message to the last confirmation.