Digital invitation cost for a wedding with open bar

You've got 140 confirmations for the wedding and the bar tab is still open. Someone at table four needs another drink, the venue wants a final number for the drinks package, and you're doing sums on the back of a napkin. The digital invitation is the one line in that budget that doesn't move when the guest list does: 29.99 EUR, paid once. You can pick a design, try the cover for free and send it today from the catalogue.

That's the point of this article. The bar is elastic and the invitation isn't. Below is what you get for the money, why those two costs pull in opposite directions as the list grows, and what to check before you hit buy.

How much does a digital invitation cost? 29.99 EUR

One price, one payment. No subscription, no monthly fee, and nothing that switches on at the end and costs extra. It's the same whether 90 people open the link or 180. What you're buying is a web page for your event — not a PDF, not an image — with every scene unlocked, up to 6 of your own photos, music and the confirmation form. You can open a design in test mode and edit the cover for free before you pay.

• One payment of 29.99 EUR. No subscription, no monthly fee, no charge per guest.
• Edit after sending and the link stays the same: time, venue, map, dress code or a line of text.
• Confirmations arrive inside the invitation in one ordered list, with the questions you set yourself.
• Up to 6 of your own photos, music and chained scenes you can personalise, with a live preview in the browser.

The open bar grows with every guest. Digital invitations don't.

Every drink poured at the bar has a name attached to it: someone who said yes. Move from 90 to 140 guests and the drinks package jumps. The invitation stays at 29.99 EUR whatever the headcount, because it's one link, not one card per envelope. So it makes sense to hold the line on the fixed costs — the invitation, the sending, the changes — and not on the part that grows by itself.

Inside those 29.99 EUR you get chained scenes, each with its own text and photos. Change the wording, the time or the place without touching the rest. The link doesn't change after you publish, so if you move the map or change the dress code, guests see the new version without you resending anything. And the confirmations land in the same invitation, in a list you can read straight through when the venue asks how many people are drinking.

The open bar gets decided glass by glass on the night. The invitation gets decided once, today, and paid once.

Paper, only for the people who'll keep it

Some guests will want something for the fridge or the frame. The sensible option there is a mix: a link for everyone and a handful of printed copies for the people who'll actually keep them. Nobody has to install an app, either. Guests open the link in the browser on their phone — at the table, in the taxi home — and answer from there.

Where it's worth spending and where it isn't

Cutting the invitation saves pennies. Getting the bar wrong shows up in the last hour of the party. The real saving is on envelopes, stamps and reprints: no printing, no posting, no chasing replies across WhatsApp. A link gets forwarded in a message and reaches the whole group chat in under a minute.

If the bar is already the big number in your budget, the invitation doesn't have to join it. Pick a design, try the cover free, and publish your digital invitation for 29.99 EUR in a single payment.