Spring wedding invitations: send them before the blossom

It's the last Saturday in April. Your cousin is asking about train times, the florist wants final numbers, and the group chat has two different versions of the start time. Meanwhile your spring wedding invitations are still sitting in a saved design, half finished.

Spring packs the calendar and keeps the weather open. Both problems have the same fix: get the invitation onto your guests' phones early, and keep it editable until the day itself.

Spring wedding invitations: the calendar comes first

Easter, first communions and May bank holidays all land on the same few Saturdays. If your wedding is Saturday 25 April, the link should be on your guests' phones by early March. Count back eight to ten weeks from your RSVP deadline, and add one more if people are coming from another city or country and need to look at trains and flights.

• Date and time with the plan B attached: “Saturday 25 April, 7.30 pm, ceremony outdoors, covered if it rains.”
• A map or a parking note next to the venue — in spring the ground is soft and the last field is the awkward bit.
• A dress code written for grass and a cool night: “block heels or wedges, and bring a wrap.”
• The RSVP questions you'll actually read, with the deadline written into the text instead of sent as a second message.

Pick the color before the typeface

Start with what is actually flowering where you're getting married, not with a folder of screenshots. If the venue's garden turns lilac in May, that lilac already exists and the invitation can answer it. New-leaf greens and off-whites hold better than pure white, which disappears on a phone screen in direct sun.

In test mode you can edit the cover before you pay and see how the color sits with your names, the date and your line. Next to the type, the photo does a lot of the work: up to six of your own go in, and you decide which one leads. If the third version still doesn't convince you, change the design.

Spring doesn't need a theme. It needs a date, a color that already exists outside, and a link you can still fix on Friday.

Rain, pollen and the plan B line

If the ceremony is in the garden, write the alternative into the invitation itself: “if it rains, the vows move under the cloister.” Guests read it and stop asking on WhatsApp on the morning of the wedding. Say something about the ground and the evening temperature too — “block heels or wedges” and “bring a wrap” save borrowed jackets at eleven at night, once the temperature has dropped.

Change the hour and the link stays the same

Moving dinner from the patio to the porch is a two-minute edit: you change the place, the time and the map, and the link you already sent shows the corrected version. Nothing gets reprinted, no envelope goes out again. Guests who opened it three weeks ago see the new detail when they open it next — same link, same QR code, no app to install.

Your wedding already has its season. The invitation just has to keep up with it. Open test mode, put your names and the date on the color you picked, and publish when you're ready for people to see it.