Digital invitation cost: what a save the date really costs

You've booked the venue and told both families. Then you sit down to write the save the date and the question lands: what does this actually cost? A paper card means a design, a print run and postage to every address on the list. A digital invitation is a web page with your names on it, and at Send The Joy it costs 29.99 EUR, one payment, no subscription. You can choose a design, try the cover free and send it the same day from the catalogue.

Below is what those 29.99 EUR cover, what happens after you send it, and where a paper save the date stops making sense. Nothing hidden at checkout.

What you really pay for in a save the date digital

You're not buying a file. You're buying a page of its own that opens from a link, a QR code or a message, with scenes that follow one another as your guests scroll. Names, date, venue, dress code and photos are fields in an editor called Joy Studio, not layers in a design you have to rebuild. You fill in one field per detail, watch the character counter, see the preview update without reloading the page, and add up to six of your own photos, which are framed automatically. You pick which one sits on the cover, and you can swap any of them later.

• It opens as a web page with your names on it, not a PDF that disappears into the phone's gallery.
• You can try the cover free before paying anything.
• The price is 29.99 EUR, one payment, no subscription.
• You can change the time, the venue or the map after sending, and the link stays the same.

How much does a digital invitation cost? 29.99 EUR, all in

At Send The Joy, one invitation costs 29.99 EUR. You pay once, there's no subscription and no monthly fee. Buying unlocks every scene of the invitation, and the editor, the six photos, the music and the confirmation form all sit inside that same price.

The invitation works in seven languages — Spanish, English, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and German — and you can set the content per language, so a guest list split between London and Valencia doesn't need two separate sends. Editing after publishing is included too: change the hour, the venue, the map or the dress code and the link stays exactly as you sent it. Nobody has to forward a WhatsApp message or print a correction.

You pay 29.99 EUR once. The link never changes, and everyone sees the updated version.

Digital invitations versus a paper save the date

A paper save the date means a design fee, a print run and postage, plus a reprint every time the plan moves. With a digital invitation there's no printing and no envelopes: you correct a name or push the time back an hour, and the same link shows the new version. If you want something to hold on to, keep a few printed copies for the people who save things and send the link to everyone else. Try the cover free, look at it on your own phone the way a guest will, and publish when it reads right. One payment of 29.99 EUR, and the invitation stays current for the whole list.