Digital invitation: how to show the wedding transport

Five in the afternoon, and four people in good shoes are standing outside a bakery that closed years ago. The coach left at 5:30 from the other side of the square. Both details were in the invitation, on the last screen, under a photo of the couple's dog — which is exactly where nobody scrolls while getting two children dressed. Wedding transport in a digital invitation isn't a separate page you add at the end. It's three lines placed where people look, and you can build one and send the link today from the catalogue.

The fix isn't more text. It's order: the coach time sitting next to the ceremony time, the pickup point described the way a taxi driver would describe it, and the trip home written as clearly as the trip there.

Where the wedding transport goes in a digital invitation

If the coach leaves at 5:30 pm and the ceremony starts at 6:00 pm, those two times belong in the same sentence. Split across two screens, half your guests read one and quietly assume the other. Keep the transport detail in the ceremony scene, or in its own scene straight after it — never on the final screen, which is the one nobody reaches with a shirt in one hand and a phone in the other.

• Both times in one line: '5:30 pm coach leaves the square · 6:00 pm ceremony.'
• The transport detail in the ceremony scene, or in its own scene right after it, never last.
• Two pickup points means two lines, each with its own hour and its own name. 'Coach at 5:30' on its own guarantees three phone calls.
• Hours with minutes: '5:30 pm', not 'late afternoon' and not 'around five'.

Wedding invitations with transport for guests: describe the stop, don't name it

'Bus stop' is not an address. Write 'the gate by the pavilion, next to the kiosk in the square', and add a reference that exists today: the pharmacy, the corner bar, the number 12 stop.

One line per option — coach there, coach back, own car — so nobody has to guess which one applies to them. If the car park is a dirt track, say so before someone turns up in a new car. The map pin helps, but the name does the work: if the pin drops on a roundabout nobody can name, your guest ends up calling the bride.

If a guest has to message you to ask when the coach leaves, the invitation didn't have the answer. You did.

The return trip is the detail that always goes missing

Nobody asks about the trip home at 3 pm. They ask at 11 pm, when no one has the invitation open. Write it as clearly as the way there: 'Midnight, last coach leaves the venue.'

If there's one coach back, use those words: 'one departure only.' If there are two, give both times, hour by hour, and skip 'and then we'll see'. Then name who to ask on the day — one person and one number. 'Questions on the day? Marta, and her number's in the invitation.' That's twenty messages the group chat never sees.

How to create digital wedding invitations that survive a change of plan

When the coach company moves the return from 11:30 pm to midnight, you open the editor in your browser, change that line and publish. The link stays the same, so there's nothing to re-send and no old PDF with the wrong time going round the group. Guests open the link in their phone browser — no app to install — and their replies land inside the invitation in one tidy list. Digital invitations are €29.99, paid once. Pick a design, put the transport in the right order, and send it tonight.