Digital Invitation for a Wedding in Bilbao: What to Ask

Your partner's aunt has asked twice when the wedding is, and you still haven't sent anything. You're weighing up where to order a digital invitation for a wedding in Bilbao: three suppliers, three quotes, and not one of them has shown you the invitation working on a phone. You don't need a meeting for that. Pick a design from the catalogue, edit the cover and publish the link today.

The price, the questions and what a real one does are all below. Read it before you leave a deposit, because the difference between an invitation that works and a PDF nobody opens shows up in the first thirty seconds on a phone.

What to ask before you order a digital invitation in Bilbao

Ask for the link, not the file, and open it on your own phone with mobile data on. If it drags on the Metro between Casco Viejo and Moyúa, your guests will close it and not come back. Then ask how you pay and how you edit: those are the two things that get expensive later.

• Does the link open in any browser, and can a guest confirm without installing an app?
• Is it one payment, or a subscription with an annual renewal?
• Can I change the time, the venue, the map or the wording afterwards without resending the link?
• Where do the RSVPs arrive, and can I set the questions on the confirmation form?

Digital invitations vs. a PDF with a nice name

If the supplier emails you something to download, it isn't a digital invitation. It's a PDF with a nice name. A digital invitation is its own web page for your event, with its own link, and it opens in a browser like any other page.

Run the test out loud: can a guest confirm from their phone without installing anything? If the answer is 'message me on WhatsApp', it isn't one. Ask how many scenes are included and whether each is edited on its own. Send The Joy chains scenes such as Umbral de cal, Cena larga and Último baile, and each one takes your own text and photos.

An invitation is digital when your guest confirms from their own phone, on the link you sent, without installing a thing.

How much a digital invitation costs and what to compare

A digital invitation from Send The Joy is 29.99 EUR, paid once, with no subscription and no renewal. Put that next to whatever you're quoted for design, printing and postage. You can try it free first: in trial mode you edit the cover at no cost, and buying unlocks every scene. If your grandparents want paper, mix the two — a link for everyone, a few printed copies for whoever will keep one in a drawer. Edit the cover for free and publish when you're ready.

Have these ready before you sit down to choose

Write out the label, the names, the date, the phrase and the place first. Each is its own field with a character counter, and a long double-barrelled surname shows up straight away on the cover. Choose five or six photos and decide which one goes on the cover — you can swap any photo later and mark a different one as the main one without changing the link. And think about languages: if you have an aunt in Lyon or cousins in Munich, the invitation content can be set per language, and the site runs in seven.