How to make an online wedding card, step by step
By the eInvite team · Updated · 6 min read
To make an online wedding card: collect the dates, venues and wording for each function, choose a template, add the functions and your photos, set up personal links for families if not everyone is invited to everything, preview it on your phone, then publish and share the link on WhatsApp. It takes about 20 minutes.
Before you start: what you need
- Both families' names, written the way you want them shown
- Each function: day, date, time and venue (with the address)
- Dress colours or notes for each function, if any
- Three to six photos, or pick from our library
- Your Urdu or Hindi wording, if you want the card in those languages
- An RSVP deadline
The steps
Choose a template
Browse the templates and open one full screen to try it. Eastern is made for Pakistani and Indian weddings, with Bismillah, both families and Urdu and Hindi. What goes wrong: choosing on a laptop. Your guests will see it on a phone, so judge it there.
Add the names and the opening wording
Start with the couple's names and the line under them, such as "Request the pleasure of your company at their wedding". What goes wrong: long sentences. The opening screen is small; keep it to one line.
Add every function
Add the dholki, mehndi, baraat, nikah and walima as separate events, each with its own time, place, note and dress colours. What goes wrong: one event for the whole week. Guests can only reply per function if each function is its own event.
Write the Urdu or Hindi version
On Eastern, add your wording in Urdu or Hindi. Guests switch language with one tap. What goes wrong: running English through a translator. Ask a family elder to check the Urdu.
Add photos and music
Upload from your phone or choose from the library of venues, flowers, mithai and doors. Add your own song if you want one. What goes wrong: dark or blurry photos. Use bright photos taken in daylight; we resize them for you before they upload.
Set up the RSVP
Choose the reply-by date and how many people one reply can include. What goes wrong: no limit. A sensible maximum (four or six) keeps headcounts honest.
Make personal links for families
If some functions are only for close family, make a link for each family or group and choose which functions it shows. What goes wrong: sending the main link to everyone, then explaining who's invited to what.
Preview it on your phone
Open the preview and read it as a guest: tap the map, add it to your calendar, try the RSVP. Making and previewing is free. What goes wrong: a pin in the wrong place. Check every venue on the map.
Publish and share on WhatsApp
Pay once for your account (Rs 3,500 for Standard or Rs 5,500 for Premium in Pakistan), publish, and paste the link into WhatsApp. Our WhatsApp invitation messages give you wording to send with it.
After you send it
Replies arrive in your guest list as they come, with how many people are coming to each function. Download the list for the caterer whenever you need it. If a time or venue changes, edit the card and the same link shows the update.
Your card is hidden from search engines and only opens with your link. It goes offline by itself seven days after the last function.
Make one card per function, or one for everything?
One for everything, in most cases. One link is easier for guests to find later, and personal links handle the different guest lists. If you'd rather send them separately, see the pages for a mehndi card, barat card and walima card.
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