Two-Ceremony Wedding Invitations: One Clear Link

It's 1:15 pm on a Saturday and your phone won't stop. The civil ceremony ended forty minutes ago. One cousin is sitting in his car outside the church, two hours early, because 6:30 pm was the only time he remembered from the invitation. He scrolled past the rest.

Two ceremonies aren't two weddings. They're one guest list with two times and two addresses, and the invitation has to say that in the first three seconds someone looks at it. This isn't an etiquette problem. It's an editing problem.

Two-ceremony wedding invitations: two times, two places, one list

The civil ceremony usually takes the middle of the day — noon at the town hall — and the religious one takes the evening, 6:30 at the church. Put both times at the top, together, at the same size. Don't tuck the second one into a footnote or save it for a message you'll send later. And if four hours pass in between, write what fills them: 'from 1:30 to 6:00 pm, drinks in the courtyard.' Without that line, someone calls at one o'clock asking where everyone went.

• Exact time and address for both ceremonies, side by side near the top.
• What happens in the gap between the town hall and the church.
• The dress code, if it changes: dark suit at the church, something you can dance in afterwards.
• Whether the invitation covers both ceremonies or each one has its own guests.

Let the order of the day carry the invitation

A digital invitation is built as scenes, one after another — Threshold of Lime, Memory of the Courtyard, Arch of Promises, Long Dinner, Last Dance. Give the town hall its own scene, the church its own, and dinner its own. Each one holds its own text and its own photo, so nobody has to reread a paragraph to find a time.

You can add up to six photos of your own — cover plus decorative ones — and swap any of them later. If the getting-ready pictures aren't ready yet, add them next week: the link doesn't change. Same with the words, one field per detail and a character counter, so the cover line doesn't run off the edge.

Two ceremonies, one link: change the time and nobody has to open an envelope again.

Changing a time doesn't mean resending anything

The judge is running late, or the church moves the mass. You edit the time in the editor and the link stays exactly the same. Nobody gets a new message, nobody has to check which version they saved. The map updates the same way: if dinner moves from the country house to a restaurant in town, the guest who opens the link on Friday sees the right address.

Dress code follows the same rule. 'Dark suit at the church, comfortable for the dancing' stops being a group-chat rumour and sits written down where everyone reads it.

The RSVP when there are two ceremonies

Write the questions in the form yourself. 'Are you coming to the civil ceremony, the church, or both?' removes the classic 'I thought it was only dinner.' Confirmations land in one ordered list inside the invitation instead of being spread across calls, single texts and the family group chat. No app to install: guests open the link in their phone browser and answer in two taps.

If someone wants paper, combine. The link goes to everybody, and a handful of printed copies go to the people who'll keep them — grandparents, witnesses, parents. One live link and five sheets, not fifty envelopes. Guests abroad? The site runs in seven languages and you can set the invitation content per language.

Pick a design, try it free by editing the cover, and publish once both times are settled. One payment of €29.99 unlocks every scene, there's no subscription, and the same link stays with you until the last dance.