Digital invitation: the wedding timeline nobody misses

It's 18:20 and your aunt is standing in a car park in a dress she doesn't want to ruin, looking at a screenshot that says 18:30 and nothing else. Ceremony here? Cocktail where? She won't message you — you're getting married in ten minutes. That gap is what a wedding timeline fixes, and it's the reason yours belongs on a digital invitation you can build and send from the catalogue today.

This isn't about printing a schedule. It's about telling people where to be, when, and who to follow, in the order the day actually happens. Here's how we'd do it.

How to build a wedding timeline nobody gets lost in

Start with the three hours people genuinely can't miss: ceremony at 17:30, toast at 19:00, first dance at 23:30. Everything else goes underneath in a smaller line. And leave real gaps between blocks — if the ceremony ends at 18:15, put the cocktail at 18:45, not 18:20, because family photos happen in between.

• Name the spaces the way your guests will say them: 'the orange courtyard', 'the marquee', 'the low hall'. Not 'zone A' and 'area 2'.
• Write the transfer time next to the block: '20 minutes from the town hall to the venue' stops half your list arriving in one queue.
• If there are two locations, write the full address once and point back to it: 'same venue as the ceremony, a 10-minute walk'.
• Put a name on each moment — who calls people for the toast, who walks them to the courtyard — so nobody has to hunt for it in a group chat.

Write each time twice: in numbers and in words

'18:30 · late afternoon' in the same block answers the question for whoever is parking the car and doesn't want to do mental arithmetic. It costs a few characters and saves you a handful of messages.

Do the same with the address and the dress code: one line each, in the place people look first. When something changes, change it there — not in a comment nobody scrolls back to.

A timeline isn't a schedule. It's the promise that nobody spends the day guessing.

How much does a digital invitation cost?

29.99 EUR per invitation, paid once, no subscription. You test it free by editing the cover, and buying unlocks every scene: up to 6 of your own photos, music and the RSVP questions you want to ask. It's digital, so there's no paper included — if someone wants to keep something, print two or three copies for the grandparents or the witnesses and give the link to everyone else.

How a digital invitation keeps the timeline current

Scenes work better than a table. Turn the day into a sequence — the whitewashed threshold for arrivals and the yes, the courtyard for photos, the long table for dinner and the toast, the last dance to close. One line of timeline and one photo per scene: '19:15 · cocktails in the courtyard'. Guests read the day without scanning a list, and each scene carries the name of whoever guides that moment.

If the cocktail moves from 19:15 to 19:45, you edit the scene and the link stays exactly the same. No new envelopes, no one-by-one messages. Confirmations arrive in an ordered list inside the invitation itself, and you set the questions on the form yourself instead of chasing replies.

Pick a design, edit the cover for free and lay out the scenes in the order your day really happens. If the timing shifts two weeks before the wedding, you change it in a minute and the same link shows the new time. It opens in any phone browser — no app to install, no printing. Send it tonight.