Digital invitation for a Valencia wedding: order it first

If you're working out where to order wedding invitations in Valencia, start with the calendar rather than the printer. The church or the garden is booked for a Saturday in May and both families already have the date on WhatsApp. It's July. Nobody knows what's for dinner. A digital invitation lets you send the link now: pick a design from the catalogue, fill in the five fields, publish, and sort the menu out later.

That's the whole point. The invitation isn't a snapshot of a plan you haven't finished yet. It's the page you keep updating, and the address stays the same from the first send to the last confirmation.

The date is fixed in May, the menu lands in September

You book the day and the venue, then message the family a date that isn't going to move. The menu will keep shifting until a fortnight before, and so will the seating, the flowers and the playlist. So order the invitation once the date is solid. You don't need the restaurant, the table centres or the colour of the napkins to publish a link. Here's what you do need ready:

• The date as you'd say it out loud: Saturday 16 May, half past twelve. Not 'spring'.
• The names exactly as you want them, middle names included, spelled the way your mother spells them.
• One sentence about why that place: the patio where you met, the church your grandparents used.
• The venue name and the street, so the map opens on the right door and not on the car park behind it.

Where to order digital wedding invitations in Valencia

Before you go to the print shop round the corner, check what you're actually buying: a page with its own link, or a PDF that gets forwarded from phone to phone. For Valencia city and guests spread across the province, the link wins every time. It opens in a browser, on whatever the guest is holding, and nobody installs anything.

Make sure the editor runs in the browser with nothing to download, and that you can try the cover before paying anything. Ask about languages, too. The site runs in Spanish, English, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and German, and the invitation content can be set up in any of them. That matters when half the family reads in Valencian and the other half is flying in from Leeds.

Four things to check before you pay

Ask four questions and you'll sort the good ones from the rest. Can you edit the invitation after sending it, with the link staying the same so you never resend? Do the confirmations arrive inside the invitation as an ordered list, or as a thread of messages you count by hand? Does it take up to six of your own photos, with one marked as the cover and any of them replaceable later? And does a character counter stop you when the text runs long, instead of letting you find out once it's live?

The date is the only thing you can't edit later. The time, the venue, the map, the dress code — those you fix from your phone, and your guests keep the same link.

One link for everyone, paper for the two who'll keep it

Two weeks out, the aperitivo moves from the plaza to the restaurant across the street. You edit the place and the map; whoever opens the link that afternoon reads the new version, whether they confirmed in June or opened it for the first time today. If your grandmother wants something for the drawer, print a handful of cards for her alone. The digital invitation doesn't print or post anything, and 180 cards for a list of 120 always ends with a box of envelopes in the wardrobe. Your date is already set, so choose a design, try it free and publish the link today for 29.99 EUR.