Digital Invitation for Your A and B Wedding Guest List

It's Tuesday night and the guest list is open on the kitchen table. One column has your brother, your two witnesses and the friends who heard about the engagement before your parents did. The other has a colleague from your last job and a cousin you'd love to have there — you just don't know yet whether the room fits everyone. That's the A and B wedding guest list problem, and it only gets ugly when nobody knows when the waiting ends. A digital invitation sorts it out: choose a design from the collection, try it for free and publish the link the day you send the first round.

Two lists are not two weddings. They're one wedding with a second round that moves slower, and the only thing that should change between them is the day you press send.

A and B wedding guest lists: two speeds, one celebration

List A gets the link the day you lock the date: parents, siblings, witnesses and the people who were already texting you about hotels. List B isn't the maybe pile. It's people you want there just as much, waiting on a number — how many fit, whether the trip is happening, if the date survives one more week of planning. The waiting was never the problem. Not knowing when it ends is. With no deadline, list B stretches for months and you end up with two different invitations: one with a time and a map, and one with a 'I'll let you know' nobody can read.

• One written rule you set before you look at the names: immediate family, witnesses and lifelong friends go in A; recent colleagues and distant cousins go in B.
• A maximum for B, decided once, not recalculated every time someone makes you laugh at dinner.
• A confirmation deadline for each round, visible inside the invitation itself.
• One sending channel for everyone: the same link and the same design, only the day changes.

How to create a digital invitation for two sending rounds

Send both rounds with the same design, the same time and the same map. The moment list B gets a different wording or a different layout, you've told them which list they were on. The invitation is identical; the day it lands is what differs. Leave ten days to two weeks between rounds, enough to see how A responds and decide how many names move up from B.

If someone in B writes before their round, answer with a fact: 'the link reaches you this week, with the time and the map'. That closes the conversation. 'We'll see' does the opposite, and it usually comes back three times.

The B list isn't the second-best list. It's the same list, sent later.

Your wedding invitations, digital and on one single version

With digital invitations there are no two documents. You have one web page with its own link, and you publish when you decide, so list B opens exactly what list A opened. If the room changes, the ceremony moves or the dress code goes from formal to cocktail, you edit it and the link stays the same. Nothing gets reprinted, no envelope goes out twice, and no guest compares versions. Guests don't install anything: it opens in any browser on a phone, tablet or computer. And if someone wants paper as a keepsake, the sensible move is to combine — a link for everyone and a few printed copies for the people who will actually keep them.

RSVP that turns list B into a list, not forty messages

Confirmations arrive inside the invitation, in an ordered list. You choose which questions the RSVP form asks, so each answer comes back with the name and the detail you asked for, with no phone calls in between. The day you close list B you can see how many have said yes, instead of rebuilding the count from scattered chats or counting names on a napkin.

Write your rule on one page, decide how many names B holds, and only then choose a design. You can try it free before paying, buy it for 29.99 EUR as a one-time payment and publish the link the day your first round goes out. Every name you move between A and B later lands on that same link.