Digital invitation cost with wedding guest accommodation

Fourteen keys hang on a rack in the hall of a village inn, and the owner asks the question that decides your wedding budget: how many doubles? You haven't sent anything yet. That number matters more than the flowers or the menu — and if you're going to set up a digital invitation, this is the week. Pick a design, personalise it and send it out today from the catalogue.

Here's the split, without the smoke: what the beds cost, what the link costs, and where the two overlap.

How much does a digital invitation cost when half your list sleeps over

Start with beds, not people. Thirty-four guests from out of town can be seventeen double rooms for two nights, and that line eats the price of the link many times over. Close the room block before you send anything. If the house only holds twelve rooms, your real guest list changes — and nothing has gone out yet.

• Count double rooms, not guests: seventeen doubles, not thirty-four people. That's the figure the hotel will ask you for.
• Add the lines that aren't the room: Saturday breakfast, the extra night for whoever lands on Friday, the taxi from the station.
• Agree one booking deadline with the hotel and publish the same date in the invitation. Two dates mean lost rooms.
• Decide your confirmation questions before you publish. They're configurable, but nobody answers a question you never asked.

Digital invitations: what the 29,99 EUR actually covers

One payment. No subscription, no monthly bill. What you get is a web page for your event — not a PDF, not an image — that opens from a link, a QR code or a message. Guests install nothing: it loads in the browser on their phone.

Inside are all the scenes of the invitation, up to six of your own photos, music and the confirmation questions you configure yourself. The site and the content can be set up in seven languages, which matters when half the list is flying in from abroad. You can try the design for free in test mode and edit the cover before you pay; buying unlocks the remaining scenes, and publishing is one button.

An invitation that updates itself is worth more than an envelope that goes stale the moment the time changes.

What changes when the time changes

Move the toast, redraw the map, fix the dress code: the link stays the same and guests see the updated version. No reprints, no new envelopes, no second round of one-to-one messages. With printed cards, a single change of time turns into a Sunday afternoon on WhatsApp.

Confirmations arrive in an ordered list inside the invitation, on the same page as the room deadline. And paper still has its place — if someone in the family wants a copy to keep, print three and send the link to everyone else. Be honest about the limit, though: guests need a phone, tablet or computer with a connection. That's the real comparison when you weigh alternatives to paper invitations.

Count the rooms, fix one deadline, then build the page. The link answers the questions for you, and it keeps answering them after the first change of plan. Start with a free test of the design; unlocking every scene costs 29,99 EUR, once.