Interactive invitations

How interactive invitations open on a phone

Before you pick one, watch these screen recordings of real invitations on a phone, the way your guests see them. Then tap "Try it yourself" under any of them to open the live preview and play with it. If you'd like to see more, they're on our YouTube channel.

• Ring Box Wedding · Try it yourself
• Boarding Pass Wedding · Try it yourself
• Enchanted Rose Quinceañera · Try it yourself
• Glass Slipper Quinceañera · Try it yourself

In the Ring Box, a velvet case opens to show the ring with the couple's names. The Boarding Pass sits by a plane window: your guest tears the stub, it gets stamped "BOARDED" and takes off. Meanwhile, the Enchanted Rose waits under its glass dome, while in the Glass Slipper your guest taps three times so the clock strikes twelve. The two quinceañera recordings say "My XV" on the cover, the way many Latino families write it.

What your guests can do inside the invitation

The opening gets the "wow", but what comes next is what saves you phone calls the week before the party.

• Open it like a giftThey tap the box, the envelope or the curtain and the invitation opens. It feels more like unwrapping something than reading a flyer.
• Hear your songThe design's music or a song you pick from YouTube starts when it opens.
• See how long is leftA live countdown of days, hours and minutes that reaches zero on the day of your party.
• Find the placeThe "How to get there" button opens the map with the address, so nobody ends up at the wrong hall.
• Look at your photosA cover photo and a small gallery, next to the schedule of the day and the dress code.
• RSVP with one tapThey confirm inside the invitation, and then you see it in your guest dashboard. More on that in online invitations with RSVP.

Besides, some designs have a little game of their own. In Blow the Candles your guest makes a wish and taps three times (or blows into the phone's microphone) to put out the candles. In the Secret Garden they scratch a heart to reveal the date, while in the Grand Theatre they move a spotlight across the playbill with a finger. Finally, in the Love Lock three taps engrave the couple's initials before the key flies off toward the river.

Interactive wedding invitations that open with a tap

For a wedding, the opening sets the mood before anyone reads a single line. Four designs open with a real video cover: the Grand Theatre, where a velvet curtain parts onto gilded boxes; the Secret Garden, an embossed envelope that opens onto a garden; the Doors of Cartagena, a colonial door with a lion knocker; and the Illustrated Hacienda, which draws itself on watercolor paper. Others, instead, open with an animation: the Ring Box, the Boarding Pass for a destination wedding, the Wax Seal Envelope, the Message in a Bottle for a beach ceremony and the Floating Lanterns.

Take Mariana and Felipe, for example. The ceremony is at a church in San Antonio, the reception at a ranch forty minutes away, and half the family flies in from Bogotá. Their invitation opens with the Boarding Pass, then shows both addresses, each with its own map, the dress code, a note about gifts and a deadline to RSVP. When the ranch moved dinner from 7 to 7:30, they changed it once and every guest saw the new time on the same link.

• Grand TheatreWedding · $15
• Secret GardenWedding · $15
• Doors of CartagenaWedding · $15
• Ring BoxWedding · $15
• Boarding PassWedding · $15
• Love LockWedding · $15

Also, every wedding design, with prices and questions, is on the digital wedding invitations page. If what you had in mind was a cover that plays like a short film, look at our video wedding invitations, and if the date isn't final yet, start with a digital save the date.

Why interactive invitations beat a picture or a PDF

• A picture gets looked at once and that's it, whereas interactive invitations have buttons: RSVP, directions, music.
• If the time or the venue changes, you fix it on the same link. With a picture you send a new one to everybody, and someone always keeps the old one.
• Also, a picture loses quality every time it's forwarded, while a link looks just as sharp on the fiftieth phone as on the first.
• With a picture, every guest texts you a different answer; with a button, on the other hand, the answers land in one list.

The same goes for a video file. It can be beautiful, but it plays from start to finish, it's heavy in the group chat, and nobody can confirm from inside it. So we don't make MP4s: what looks like a video at the start is the page itself opening.

Designs that open with an animation, for every party

Of course, it isn't only weddings. For a quinceañera there is Cinderella, with a video cover where the pumpkin turns into a carriage, and a Music Box that opens when you wind it up. For birthdays, a Piñata that bursts after three hits and a Cake Smash for a first birthday. All of these are Express designs, so you pay $15 once, and only after you've seen yours finished.

• CinderellaQuinceañera · $15
• Music BoxQuinceañera · $15
• Blow the CandlesBirthday · $15
• Piñata!Kids' birthday · $15
• Cake SmashFirst birthday · $15
• Cap TossGraduation · $15

See them by occasion: quinceañera invitations, digital birthday invitations and baby shower invitations.

What interactive invitations cost

You pay once per invitation, not per guest and not per month. Besides, you only pay after you've seen it finished on your own phone.

• Free. 20 basic designs with a cover photo, countdown, map and an RSVP button that opens WhatsApp with the message ready. Also, a small "Made free with InvitaciónYa" mark sits at the bottom.
• Express, $15. Every design, the opening animations, music, no mark, and the guest dashboard: a personal link for each family with their name and seats, a deadline, and a button to remind whoever hasn't answered.
• PRO, $59. Our team designs it with your photos and your song, ready in 24 business hours with two rounds of changes and a QR code. You pay only when you approve it.

If the free version only lacks one thing, there are single upgrades (Music and Guest RSVPs), at $3 each, and what you pay for them is deducted if you move up to Express later. The full list of free designs is on free digital invitations.

How to make yours, step by step

1. Pick a designFirst, open the one you like. Then we ask for your email, which is where your invitation is sent; there's no account to create.
2. Fill it in from your phoneNames, date, venue, photos, song and your WhatsApp number. The invitation updates while you type, and the draft saves itself, so you can finish another day with its code.
3. Watch it finishedOpen it, play the animation, tap every button. Before you pay or publish, you confirm your email with a 6-digit code.
4. Send the linkBy WhatsApp, text message, email or Messenger. It opens in the browser on any iPhone or Android, so nobody has to install anything.

If you'd rather not do it yourself, ask for the PRO on WhatsApp and we'll build it for you.

For families in the U.S. with guests in other countries

A lot of the parties we see have guests in two countries: the abuelos in Guadalajara, the padrinos in Bogotá, cousins in Houston and friends from work who only speak English. But a link doesn't care where it's opened, and nobody needs to install or pay for anything on their end. Also, you can build it in English or Spanish, and the RSVPs reach your phone wherever they come from.

This is the kind of message that goes with it:

For a general overview of how our digital invitations work, from design to payment, start there.

Questions about interactive invitations