Digital invitation vs wedding graphic designer: what it costs

It's ten on a Thursday night and you're reading a quote from a graphic designer. Three rounds of changes included. Extra amendments billed separately. The first proposal takes two weeks, and that's before anyone has agreed on a colour. What you actually want is one page with your photos, the date, the place, the dress code and a way for people to reply. You can build and send that today from the catalogue: a Digital invitation costs 29,99 EUR, one payment, no subscription. So the question isn't paper or pixels. It's whether you need a wedding graphic designer at all.

Here's the honest version. First, what you pay for when you hire someone. Then, what a ready-made page includes. And last, the test that settles it: what happens when the ceremony moves from 12:00 to 18:30 three weeks before.

Digital invitation vs wedding graphic designer: what each one costs

Ask for a closed quote in writing, with the number of revision rounds spelled out. The first draft rarely has the final date or the spelling of your names right, and that isn't sloppiness — it's how the work goes. You're buying hours, and hours get spent in back-and-forth. The more decisions you arrive with already made, the shorter the project and the smaller the bill.

• Get the quote closed and in writing, with the number of revision rounds included and what happens if the date moves.
• Bring your own material. If you arrive with the copy, the palette and the photos chosen, the project gets shorter. If you don't, you pay for the messages spent deciding on a colour.
• Ask which files you keep at the end. If all you get is a flat PDF, every later fix — a new time, a typo in the venue name — is billed as new work.
• Ask who updates the piece after it's sent. With a designer, that's an email and a new invoice. Fair enough, as long as you know before you sign.

Digital invitations: what comes already built, and what you can still change

A Digital invitation isn't a PDF or an image. It's a web page for your event. You share it with a link, a QR code or a message, and guests open it in any browser and reply from their phone — no app to install. All they need is a phone, tablet or computer with a connection.

It costs 29,99 EUR, one payment, no subscription. Choose a design from the collection and filter by style. Test it free: in trial mode you edit the cover without paying anything. Buy it and every scene unlocks. Inside go up to 6 of your own photos — cover and decorative ones, which frame themselves — plus music, text with one field per item (kicker, names, date, line, place) and the RSVP questions you set. Replies arrive in a list inside the invitation, not scattered across WhatsApp.

A designer sells you hours. A Digital invitation gives you a page that's already built — and that you can still edit after sending.

When a wedding graphic designer is the right choice

Some jobs need a person, not a template. A hand-drawn map of the venue. A monogram with your initials woven together. Paper your guests will keep: menus, cards, the signs by the door. And if the wedding has an identity that repeats on posters, a photo corner or props, paying for the full system makes sense — that's not an invitation, it's a brand with a date. For everything else, a Digital invitation covers what guests actually use: the link, the photos, the music and a reply from the phone. And when something changes, you edit it and the link stays the same. Pick a design, test it free by editing the cover, and publish this afternoon.