Digital invitation vs PDF: 150 guests, one live link

It's three weeks before the wedding and the ceremony moves from six to seven because the courtyard looks better later. With a PDF you build a new file and send it to 150 people. With a digital invitation you change one field and the same link shows the new time. That's the whole argument, and you can set one up and send it today from the catalogue.

What follows is the practical part: where the confirmations end up, what a change costs you in messages, and the one situation where paper still wins.

A digital invitation is a live page; a PDF is a photo

A PDF is generated once and stays still. Move dinner from 20:00 to 21:00 and you're building a second file, guessing who still has the old one, and writing another round of messages. A digital invitation is its own web page. You edit the text in the browser, hit publish, and whoever opens the same link sees the current version. No download, no attachment, no final_v3.

• The ceremony slides from 18:00 to 19:00 and the link shows 19:00. No new file, no second round of messages.
• The dress code changes from black tie to garden formal. One field, and the guest who saved the link in March reads the update in June.
• The dinner moves from a restaurant to a courtyard and the map is replaced. The link stays the same, so nobody hunts for an old email.
• You fix a misspelled surname after sending. Guests see the corrected invitation the next time they open it, not an apology.

Digital wedding invitations vs PDF: where the confirmations land

With a file, replies arrive wherever the guest happens to be. One by WhatsApp, one by phone call, two that nobody wrote down, and a cousin who told your mother at lunch. Three weeks later you're scrolling a chat to count heads for the caterer.

In a digital wedding invitation the confirmations collect inside the invitation itself, in one ordered list, and that list is what you use to draw the table plan. The questions on the RSVP form are configurable, so you ask what you need and leave out what you don't.

A PDF tells people what to do. A digital invitation tells you who is coming.

What a digital invitation costs for a 150-guest wedding

29,99 EUR per invitation, paid once, with no subscription behind it. No reprints, no envelopes, no postage when the map changes. Guests install nothing: they open the link in the browser on a phone, tablet or laptop and answer from there. You build it in the browser too, with one field per piece of text, up to 6 of your own photos, music and chained scenes. The content can also be set per language, and the site runs in seven if you have guests abroad.

When paper still wins, and how to mix it with a digital invitation

A printed card is a good object to keep, and some people will pin it to a fridge for a year. On its own it will never tell you who's coming to dinner. If paper matters to you, the sensible version is a link for everyone plus a handful of printed copies for the people who'll keep them. And if a guest has no phone, tablet or computer with a connection, paper is the honest answer for that one person.

If your wedding is 150 people and you want to know who's coming without chasing anyone, a digital invitation hands you the table plan from day one. Try the cover for free, type your names and date, and unlock every scene for 29,99 EUR. One payment, no subscription.