Wedding Invitations in Lyon: The Map Your Guests Need

Your guests step off the TGV at Part-Dieu, wheel a suitcase past the taxi rank and open their phones. They have the name of the venue and a time. That is all. This is where most wedding invitations in Lyon quietly fail: two people end up in the wrong arrondissement, one rings you while you are greeting the caterer, and the welcome drink starts with a third of the table missing.

None of that calls for a printed map in an envelope. It calls for one link that opens in the browser on the phone your guests already have, with the route, the time and the reply in the same place. That is what a digital wedding invitation in Lyon does. Two rivers, a hill and nine arrondissements later, the directions carry as much weight as the design.

The first map your guests see is the invitation

Put a Google Maps link with the exact address, not just the name of the bouchon. Add something visible next to it: the corner of Place des Terreaux, opposite the Bartholdi fountain. If your guests arrive at Part-Dieu on a TGV, give them the route: tram T1 or metro B to Charpennes, then metro A to Hôtel de Ville, five minutes on foot. A photo of the front door prevents more phone calls than a paragraph about parking.

• A Google Maps link with the exact address, plus a landmark: opposite the Bartholdi fountain, Place des Terreaux.
• The route from Part-Dieu: tram T1 or metro B to Charpennes, then metro A to Hôtel de Ville, with the walking time.
• The time the cocktail hour starts, and a buffer for guests arriving on the 17:00 TGV.
• Two RSVP questions: are you coming, and how many of you.

Cocktail hour in Lyon, in bigger letters

If the welcome drink starts at 18:00, write 18:00 on the invitation and repeat it next to the map. Guests who are not from Lyon read the time twice; guests from Lyon read it once and then check the route.

People arriving from outside the city appreciate a margin: if your train gets in at 17:00, you have time for a coffee on the way. And if you move the time two days before the wedding, you edit the invitation. Same link, updated version, no second round of messages.

A wedding invitation in Lyon should answer three questions before anyone has to ask them: where, when, and how do I get there.

An RSVP that does not get lost in WhatsApp

Set the questions you actually need (are you coming, and how many of you) and the answers arrive as one list inside the invitation. You stop chasing messages across four chats, and you can open the list whenever you want to check the numbers. Guests do not need an app: they tap the link, confirm and close the page.

Where paper still makes sense

If your grandmother is going to keep the invitation in a drawer, print a few copies for the people who will hold on to them and send the link to everyone else. The invitation itself is a page on the web, shared by link, QR code or message, and it costs €29.99 once with no subscription. Try a design free, edit the cover before you pay, and once you unlock the full invitation you can add up to six photos; the editor lives in the browser and frames them for you.