Digital Invitation: Wedding Guests Who Don't Drink

Your friend's wedding is three weeks away. Venue booked, menu chosen, band confirmed. She's stuck on one line: how to tell people that dinner comes with a full bar and plenty of drinks without alcohol. Half her table doesn't drink — her brother, two cousins, a colleague who's driving — and she'd rather not have them standing at the toast with an empty hand. You can sort that line today with a Digital invitation from the collection: write it, place it in the dinner scene, send the link.

Good news: it takes one sentence and the right place to put it. Bad news for most invitations: that sentence ends up buried at the bottom in small print, which is where nobody looks. Get those two things right and you won't have to explain the bar to anyone at the table.

Where the note goes for wedding guests who don't drink

Put it in the same scene that announces dinner, not at the end. If a guest reads 'long table dinner' and right underneath 'bar with and without alcohol', the question is answered before they start wondering whether to bring their own bottle. Same font, same size, same block as the rest of the dinner details.

• Bar with and without alcohol: pick your glass.
• We toast at 9:30, with options for every taste.
• Alcohol-free beer, mocktails and the house lemonade.
• Nobody has to explain what's in their glass.

How to say it without it sounding like a hospital menu

Name what's there. 'House mocktails' or 'rosemary tonic' sound like a bar. 'Water and soft drinks' sounds like a box ticked. The words decide whether the bar reads as a choice or as a fallback.

Swap 'options for those who don't drink' for 'options for everyone'. Same information, nobody singled out at their own table. And leave out the reason — pregnancy, religion, health, a long drive home. Whoever isn't drinking would rather not explain it, and it isn't your job to explain it for them on your own invitation.

Name what's on the bar, not what's missing from it.

Announce the toast, and keep one reply ready

Give the time: 'We're toasting at 9:30.' Whoever isn't drinking has a glass in hand before the room stands up, instead of watching everyone else raise theirs. And ask for one tray — glasses with and without alcohol, served together — so nobody has to identify themselves as the one not drinking.

Then the WhatsApp question. Keep the answer short: 'There's a bar with and without alcohol, have whatever you fancy.' If you bill the day as an alcohol-free wedding, the people who do drink start asking too. Present options, not absences. And tell them the invitation is the current version: they open the link again and see it, instead of passing round an old screenshot.

Why a digital invitation spares you the reprint

If you move the toast to 10 or reword the bar line, you edit the invitation and the link stays the same. No reprints, no correction message. You can also add a photo of the actual bar or the glasses to the dinner scene — up to six of your own, with the cover one easy to swap later. It's 29,99 EUR per invitation, one payment. Guests open it in the browser on their phone, nothing to install, and RSVPs arrive inside the invitation.

Before you buy more bottles than you'll open, decide how you'll tell people. One well-placed line does more than any explanation at the table. Try the design for free, write that line in the browser and change it whenever you like — the link your guests already have stays the same.