Wedding invitation private details: what stays off the link

It's 11pm and you're about to paste your wedding link into the family group chat. The same link will sit behind the QR code on a card at the bar. Your cousin forwards it to her work chat before you've put your phone down, and someone you've never met is reading your page. That's the moment wedding invitation private details stop being private.

A digital invitation is a web page, not an envelope. Anyone with the link opens it in a browser, no app, no password. So build it as if a stranger will read it, because one probably will.

A wedding link has no front door

There's no lock and no doorman. You can't see who opens the page, and you can't take back a copy that's already out there. The link works exactly the same on the fifth share as it did on the first.

• A QR code on the bar or the table points to the same page as the link. Anyone who scans it is in.
• One forward is enough. Your cousin drops it in the office group chat and you no longer decide who reads your schedule, your venue and your names.
• A screenshot outlives your edits. You can change the page, not someone's camera roll.
• A page saved to a phone is a frozen copy with whatever you'd written that day.

Wedding invitation private details that never travel

For directions, the venue name, the town and a map link do the job. The street where you live stays off the page, even when the after-party is at your flat. Whoever needs the exact door gets it in a message.

Your mobile number doesn't need to be published either. RSVPs arrive inside the invitation, in one ordered list, so nobody has to text you to confirm. And anything about money, an account number or an IBAN, goes one-to-one, privately, to whoever asks about a gift.

Keep the page for what anyone could read, and move everything else to a private message.

What stays off the page

Five things that never belong in an invitation that travels by link and by QR code:

• Your exact home address, when the venue name and the town are enough.
• Your personal mobile and your partner's, published for confirmations.
• Account numbers, IBAN or anything for transfers.
• ID documents, door codes or portal passwords.
• Lists with other guests' names and phone numbers.

Ask the RSVP form for the bare minimum

Are you coming, how many of you, and a name: that's enough to plan tables and count plates. Anything more personal, an allergy or a high chair, you ask that guest directly instead of putting it on a page anyone can open. Leave on the invitation only what you'd be happy for a stranger to read, and move the rest to a private message. If the time, the map pin or the dress code changes, you edit the page and the link stays the same, so nobody has to be sent anything twice. You can try a design for free in preview mode and publish for €29.99, a single payment, once you know what to show and what to keep back.