How to create an online wedding invitation

Open chungdoi.com and tap the create button at the top of the page. No card and no payment yet: you build the whole invitation first and decide about upgrading afterwards.

If you already have an account, sign in before you start. The invitation is saved to My Invitations, so you can come back and keep editing later.

Once created, the invitation opens in the editor. The Change template button is at the top, and it opens the full list of designs so you can find one that suits your wedding.

Every template already has the parts a wedding needs: the couple's names, both families, ceremony and reception times, a photo gallery, RSVP, wishes, a map and gift details.

Changing template does not erase anything you have typed, so try a few before deciding.

The Basic info section is where you enter the couple's names, both sets of parents, and the message guests read first.

Type names and addresses carefully from the start. They are reused in several places: on the card itself, in the link preview when you send it through Zalo or Messenger, and in each guest's personal link.

Scroll down to the Ceremony and Reception sections to enter the date, time and address. The more complete the address, the more accurately the map points at the right place.

If the ceremony and the reception are in different places, fill in both. Guests then see each time clearly instead of messaging you to ask.

Upload photos after the text is done. That way you see the real layout and can tell straight away which photo suits which frame.

Use the originals from your camera or phone. Photos re-downloaded from social media are already compressed, so they break up when the card enlarges them. Background music is chosen in the Music section and plays when a guest opens the card.

Count addresses, not events. Several ceremony and reception times on different days still fit on one invitation, as long as guests all come to the same address. Use Add ceremony in the ceremony section to add as many entries as you need, free of charge.

Each ceremony entry holds a name, a date and a time. It has no address field and no map of its own, and that is by design: one invitation carries one address and one map, and both live in the reception section. If a ceremony happens somewhere else, write the place into the entry name, for example Ceremony at St Mary's Church.

You need a second invitation only when two receptions are held at two different addresses and each one needs its own map. Each invitation also has its own link and its own guest list, so each side gets exactly the guests it invited.

To make the second one, finish the invitation you already have first (publishing is free), and the button to create a new invitation appears. Duplicate copies everything you have typed into the new card, so you never retype it; only the guest list starts empty. A second invitation has its own price, shown on the pricing page for your country.

Almost every guest will open the invitation on a phone. On a phone the Form and Preview toggle sits in the bar at the bottom of the screen; on a computer it is in the middle of the top bar. Switch to Preview to see exactly what they will see.

Check that long names do not break awkwardly, that the dates and times are right, and that the map points at the real venue.

While an invitation is unpublished, the link will not open for guests. Tap Publish once you are happy with it.

You can still edit after publishing, and guests see the latest version the next time they open the link. There is no unpublish switch, so tap Publish when you are ready for the link to work.

Tap Share to copy the public link, get a QR code, or send it straight through Zalo and Messenger.

The free trial has a view limit. Upgrade before you send it to your real guest list so the card is not locked partway through.