A wedding website your guests open like a letter
Most wedding websites are built from the same few templates: a photo of the two of you, a script font, a countdown, and the same tabs in the same order. Guests visit once to find the address and never think of it again.
Boda starts from the invitation itself. Each guest’s link opens on an envelope lying on a linen tablecloth in window light, addressed to them by name and sealed in wax with your initials. They tap it, the seal cracks, and the card rises out towards them — your names, the date, the place and the days left. Everything else a guest needs follows underneath, in the order they’ll need it.
You make it in the browser, answering questions in plain words, and download it as a folder of files that’s yours. Put it online for free and send the links; there’s no subscription running until the anniversary.
What your site shows
The envelope
A letter on a tablecloth, the guest’s name written on it after the word you choose (“For”), and your initials pressed into the wax. A link with no name says “For you”, so the same site works for a group chat too.
The seal and the card
One tap and the wax breaks with a small sound, the flap lifts and the card slides out: “together with their families”, your names, the day, the time, the venue and a last line. Below it, the countdown to the ceremony.
Your story
Three to six instant prints laid on the same table, each a photo with the year, the place and a line: where you met, the flat with too many plants, the question and the answer.
The day and the way there
The hours of the day — ceremony, cocktail, dinner, dancing, the last bus — each with a note, and anything else guests should know (the dress code, children). Then the address with a map link, and how to arrive by car, train or coach.
Where to stay and the gifts
Up to five places nearby with their distance and any discount code. The gifts in your own words, with your account number and a button that copies it, so no one has to type an IBAN from a screenshot.
The reply
Yes or no, how many are coming, the menu, allergies, whether they’ll take the bus, a song that can’t be missed and a message for you. It arrives in your inbox, and the page thanks them differently for a yes and a no.
Have this ready
- Your first names as they go on the invitation, and the two initials for the seal.
- The date and time, the venue’s name and its town — and whether it’s in Spain or elsewhere in Europe, for the countdown.
- Three to six photos of the two of you, each with a year, a place and a line.
- The day hour by hour, the venue’s address, and how to get there by car, public transport or your own bus.
- Places to stay nearby, what you’d like to say about gifts, and an IBAN if you want one shown.
- The menus and bus options guests choose from, the reply deadline, and the email the replies go to.
- A free Web3Forms key so replies arrive by email, and up to three phone numbers guests can call.
Worth knowing
Make the links in a spreadsheet
Each guest’s link is your site’s address followed by ?for= and their name, with a + for every space — yoursite.com/?for=Anna+and+Jordi. Put the names in one column and build the links in the next with a formula, then paste each one into its own message.
Write the name as you’d say it
The envelope shows exactly what follows ?for=. “Grandma Rosa” lands warmer than a full legal name, and one envelope for a couple or a family (“Marta, Joan and the kids”) keeps the replies to one per household.
Set the reply date well before the caterer’s
Venues usually want final numbers a few weeks ahead. Put your own deadline a week or two before theirs on the card and in the reply section, so there’s time to chase the guests who haven’t answered.
Think before you publish the IBAN
An account number shown on a page can be read by anyone with the link. Send the links privately, and if you’d rather not show it at all, leave the field empty: the gifts section then shows only your words.
Questions
- Where do the RSVPs go, and is there a guest list?
- Each reply arrives as an email to the address you choose, through Web3Forms with a free key; without the key, the button opens the guest’s own email addressed to you. There’s no dashboard or list inside the site — most couples copy the replies into a spreadsheet as they arrive.
- Can we still send paper invitations?
- Of course. Many couples send paper to grandparents and a link to everyone else, or print the site’s address on the paper card so guests find the timetable, the map and the reply online.
- Can we change details after sending the links?
- Yes. Open the wizard again in the same browser — your answers are kept — change the time or the bus, download and upload the site again. The links you sent keep working, because they point to the same address.
- What does it cost in total?
- The kit is €500, paid once. Hosting on Cloudflare’s free plan costs nothing; a domain of your own, like laiaandmarc.com, is optional and usually costs around €10–15 a year.