Invitations for every kind of gathering
Pick what you are hosting. Each page has the builder at the top with the date and theme already filled in, plus wording you can lift and the logistics that usually go wrong.
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Baby shower invitation
A shower invite has to carry the date, the registry and the format in a few lines, without reading like an invoice.
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Birthday party invitation
A birthday invite has one job: tell people where to be, when it starts, and whether to eat first.
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Bridal shower invitation
Two decisions set up the whole shower: when it sits relative to the wedding, and who gets asked.
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Brunch invitation
Brunch is the easiest party to host and the easiest one to word badly.
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Christmas cookie exchange invitation
How many dozen each guest bakes, how to stop four people turning up with chocolate chip, and what the swap looks like on the table..
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Christmas party invitation
Pick the date, write six lines, send one link.
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Dinner party invitation
A seated dinner runs on two numbers: when guests arrive and when the food hits the table.
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Friendsgiving invitation
Friendsgiving lives or dies on two questions: what day, and who is bringing the potatoes.
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Game night invitation
Name the games, say how many seats you have, and give guests a link they can answer from the bus home.
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Graduation party invitation
Graduation season puts four parties on the same Saturday.
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Holiday open house invitation
A window instead of a start time, wording that tells guests they can stay twenty minutes or three hours, and a food table that survives the whole afternoon..
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Holiday potluck sign up sheet
Named slots instead of "bring a dish", amounts per person you can hand to a guest, and a way to end up with two desserts rather than seven..
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Housewarming party invitation
Nobody has been to your new place before.
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Kids birthday party invitation
Parents need four facts before they can say yes: start time, end time, drop-off or stay, and your phone number.
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Leftovers party invitation
Everyone has four containers of turkey and nobody wants to cook.
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30th birthday party invitation
A milestone party pulls in people who have flights to book and sitters to find.
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New Year's Day brunch invitation
A late start, food people can eat with a headache, and a link that tells you how many are coming..
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New Year's Eve party invitation
Set up the party, send one link, and know your head count before you buy the fizz..
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Office holiday party invitation
Wording for a work party that a mixed team can read without wincing: optional attendance, clear rules on partners and the bar, and the access details people are too polite to ask about..
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Potluck invitation
A potluck goes wrong when seven people bring dessert.
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Thanksgiving dinner invitation
Set the date, write the arrival time, send one link to the family group chat.
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Thanksgiving potluck sign up sheet
A good sign-up sheet names the dish, the number of servings and the person.
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Tree trimming party invitation
An invite your guests can answer with one tap, and a plan for the hour when twelve people are holding glass baubles at the same time..
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Ugly sweater party invitation
Wording you can paste, a judging format that takes ten minutes, and the five places a guest can still get a sweater the night before..
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Watch party invitation
Two times go in the invitation: when the broadcast starts and when you want people in the room.
Pick the occasion, not the template
Every page below opens with the builder already set for that kind of event: a real date for the holiday, a start time people actually turn up at, the theme that suits it, and a bring list seeded with the things that usually get forgotten. You change what you want and ignore the rest.
The reason this matters is that the fields you skip are the fields guests ask about later. A Thanksgiving invitation without a time zone generates four messages from people driving in. A kids party without an allergy line generates a phone call from every parent. The occasion pages fill those in so you do not have to remember them at eight in the evening.
When to send it
Send a casual weeknight thing three to five days out and you will get a better reply rate than sending it three weeks out, because nobody plans a Tuesday in advance and nobody remembers an invitation they read a fortnight ago. Anything that needs a babysitter, a drive or a day off needs more notice.
- Weeknight dinner or game night: 4 to 7 days.
- Weekend party or birthday: 2 to 3 weeks.
- Thanksgiving or Friendsgiving: 3 to 4 weeks, because people are choosing between two tables.
- Christmas or office party in December: 4 to 6 weeks. December fills up by the middle of November.
- New Year's Eve: 4 weeks, and expect a third of replies in the last three days.
- Baby or bridal shower: 4 to 6 weeks, longer if guests are flying.
What to do with the two links
The guest link goes in the group chat, the family thread, the team channel, or on a printed card as a QR code. The organiser link is the one that edits the event, reads the dietary notes and exports the replies, so keep it somewhere you will find it: pinned note, saved message to yourself, downloaded text file.
If the headcount matters for food, check the organiser page the day before and export the CSV. It counts heads rather than replies, so a yes with two plus-ones shows as three.