What formats do digital wedding invitations take?

Three tiers: a designed static card (the fastest and cheapest), an animated card with music and motion graphics, and a full video invite — anything from an illustrated story to a filmed couple's shoot with titles. The animated card is the current sweet spot for most families.

Whatever the format, it must work as a WhatsApp forward: right aspect ratio, small enough to send, and legible on a five-year-old phone in Punjab.

How do you handle RSVPs with digital invites?

A link to a simple RSVP page beats 'reply to this message' — replies scattered across forty family WhatsApp threads are how counts go wrong. Many invitation designers bundle an RSVP or wedding-info page; even a plain form works.

Be realistic about elders: many will RSVP through family regardless, so give each side one designated aunt or cousin who consolidates. The system that works is digital plus that person.

What drives the price

No published Canadian figures for digital invitations are specific enough to quote — the format spans template cards to produced films. What sets it: static versus animated versus video, custom illustration or filming, revisions included, per-event variants (mehndi, nikkah, reception), multi-language typesetting, and an RSVP page.

Multi-script typography is worth paying for: Gurmukhi, Devanagari or Urdu set badly is the digital equivalent of a typo in the family name — see the printed invitation proofing rules, which apply here unchanged.

Digital invitations — common questions

Is a digital-only invitation acceptable for a South Asian wedding?

Increasingly yes, with one caveat: many families still hand-deliver printed cards to elders and close relatives as a matter of respect. The common pattern is digital for the broad list and a small premium print run for the inner circle — which also costs far less than printing for everyone.

Can the same design work for digital and print?

If it is designed that way from the start — print needs bleed, resolution and physical proportions that a phone-first animation does not. Tell the designer you want both up front; retrofitting print from a video invite means redesigning, not exporting.

How far ahead should digital invitations go out?

The same timeline as print: two to three months before the wedding, four to six for international guests who need flights and visas. Digital removes the postage delay, not the planning one — and a save-the-date forward can go out far earlier for almost nothing.