Wedding e-invite for every function, on one link

What is a wedding e-invite?

A wedding e-invite is a wedding card you send as a link instead of on paper. On Kehdoo it opens as a small web page in your guest's phone browser: your names and photo at the top, then every function in order, each with its date, time, venue, a map button and a way to reply. It goes out on WhatsApp the way a photo of a shaadi card would, but it does things a photo can't. It shows each relative only the functions they're invited to, it counts who's coming, and it changes when the venue does.

Many families now send both: a printed card to elders and close family, and the e-invite to everyone else. The printed card is the keepsake. The e-invite is the one people actually open on the day to find the hall.

How to make a wedding invitation online, step by step

You need your names, the dates of the functions and the venues. Everything else can wait, and you can change any of it after you've sent the link. You sign in once, when you make the invite.

1. Add your names and the first dayType both names and the date of the first function. The invite starts on the North Indian set: haldi, mehendi, sangeet, the wedding and the reception.
2. Pick your functionsChoose the set closest to your family's: Marathi, South Indian, Bengali, Nikah, Sikh or Church wedding. Then rename, move, delete or add functions, up to eight.
3. Fill in each functionThe date, the time to the minute, the venue and its address. Add a Google Maps link, a dress code and a short note if you want them.
4. Choose the lookPick Marigold, Paithani, Kolam or another theme, change the colours, add a photo of the two of you, and add your names in Hindi or another script.
5. Decide who repliesTurn RSVP on for the functions where you need numbers, write a line of welcome and who it's from, then tap Make the invite.
6. Share itYou get one link for the whole invite and one for each function, ready for WhatsApp, and a private hosts' page to see who's coming.

Your hosts' page opens on the phone you made the invite on. Sign in later with Google or an email link to open it anywhere.

Every function on one invite

One invite holds the whole wedding. Each function gets its own card in the same design, its own date and time, venue, map button and add-to-calendar button, and its own link. So the whole invite can go to family while the sangeet link goes to the college friends group.

1. Day 1, morning
   Haldi

   At home, in shades of yellow. Often just family and close friends.

2. Day 1, afternoon
   Mehendi

   Henna and songs. Put "ladies only" or anything else in the note.

3. Day 2, evening
   Sangeet

   The big night in many families, and the one the friends group wants.

4. Day 3, at the muhurat
   Wedding

   Pheras, lavan, nikah or the church service, at the time your family gives you.

5. Day 4, evening
   Reception

   The largest party, and usually the longest guest list.

Not every family uses these names, so name each function the way yours does: Tilak, Mayra, Grah Shanti, Chooda, Nalangu. The starter sets cover a North Indian wedding, a Marathi lagna (Sakharpuda, Haldi, Lagna, reception), a South Indian wedding (Nichayathartham, Nalangu, Muhurtham, reception), a Bengali biye (Aiburobhat, Gaye Holud, Biye, Bou Bhaat), a nikah with mehndi and walima, a Sikh wedding with the Anand Karaj, and a church wedding.

Muhurat times, to the minute

Put the time your pandit or family elders give you, exactly. If the pheras are at 11:47 pm, the invite says 11:47 pm IST, not "around midnight". Kehdoo doesn't choose a muhurat or suggest dates. It shows what you type, in the venue's time zone. If the muhurat falls after midnight, put the next day's date, so calendars and the countdown get it right.

RSVP for each function

Guests reply to each function separately: yes or no, and how many people are coming. You see the numbers per function on your hosts' page, so the caterer for the sangeet and the one for the reception each get a real count, not a guess from phone calls.

• Families reply together. Add "Sharma family (4)" to your guest list, and their link answers for up to four people.
• Each guest sees only their functions. If the mehendi is only for family, the friends on your list never see it.
• Sides and notes. Guests say whether they're from the bride's side, the groom's side or both, and can leave a note such as when they arrive.
• A reply-by date. Set one, and a limit on how many people one reply can bring. Guests can change their answer from the same link until then.
• The open link still works. Anyone you didn't put on the list can reply from the invite itself.

Guest list and WhatsApp reminders

Paste your guest list the way it's written in your phone's notes, one name per line, and Kehdoo turns it into a list with a personal invite link for each name. Then you send each invite, and each reminder, from your own WhatsApp with one tap. The words are written in for you.

• "Mausi, 98765 43210" works as it is. On kehdoo.in a 10-digit mobile number gets +91 added.
• "(4)" after a name makes it a household with one link for four people. "#office" adds a tag.
• Repeats are flagged before anything is saved, and you can filter by side, tag, function, or who hasn't replied.
• The messages come in English and Hindi, and in your invite's second script if it has one. You can change them before each send.

Remind next walks through everyone who hasn't replied, one chat at a time: WhatsApp opens with the message ready, you press send, come back and tap Sent. Reminders cost nothing extra, and they come from a number your relatives already know. The guest list holds 25 names. More names are kept and wait for a bigger list, which is coming soon, so nobody is dropped.

A countdown for the family group

Every invite has a countdown page: the days, hours and minutes to the next function, counted in the venue's time, so the cousins in New Jersey and the family in Jaipur see the same number. It moves on to each function in turn, says "Happening now" during one, and after the last function it thanks everyone and shows the wishes.

You can post it on your WhatsApp status as a tall picture with the days left, and send a countdown reminder ("Just 10 days to go to the Haldi…") from the same WhatsApp queue as your invites.

A wish wall and the screen at the venue

Guests scan a QR code at the venue, type a wish and add a photo, and the wishes show one at a time on a TV or projector at the reception. Think of it as a digital guestbook that everyone can see. Nobody needs an app or an account.

• Each wish waits for your OK before it reaches the screen. Switch to "show straight away" once you trust the room.
• The screen keeps showing the wishes it has if the venue Wi-Fi drops, with a small "Reconnecting" dot and nothing else.
• Print table cards: an A5 card with your names, "Scan to leave a wish" and the QR, ready for the print shop.
• Up to 200 wishes, with one photo each. A keepsake book of every wish and voice notes are coming soon.

Friends who can't come can still send their love together: a group card goes round the college group as one link, everyone writes a line, and the couple opens it all at once.

Thank-you cards after the wedding

Make one thank-you card, and Kehdoo makes a copy for every guest with their own name on it. Add up to three photos from the wish wall, a line for one particular guest, and a "we missed you" version for anyone who couldn't come. Send each one on WhatsApp and see when it's been opened. It works for up to 25 guests. Stuck for words? These thank-you messages help.

Sending your e-invite on WhatsApp

Copy the invite's link or tap Share and pick a chat. WhatsApp shows a preview with your names, the theme and the dates, so it arrives looking like a card, not a bare link. Each function has its own link and preview. Pin the invite in the family group, so nobody scrolls for the venue on the day.

Looking for a wedding invitation video? Kehdoo doesn't make video files. The invite is a page that opens from the link, so there's no large file to download before anyone can read it. For your status, post the countdown picture.

For relatives abroad

Every time on the invite is the venue's time, labelled IST. A guest whose phone is set to another time zone also sees the same moment in their own time, such as "That's 8:30 am in London", under the function. The add-to-calendar button puts it in their calendar at the right hour, and the countdown counts the venue's days.

If one function happens abroad, such as a reception in Dubai, set that function's venue to the UAE and it shows in Dubai time, labelled GST. Relatives abroad reply the same way as everyone else, and you see their answers with the rest.

Who can see your invite

Only the people you send the link to. Wedding pages on Kehdoo are kept out of Google and other search engines and are never listed anywhere on the site. Anyone who has the link can open it, so share it the way you'd hand out a card.

• Your guest list, phone numbers and replies are only on the hosts' page, never on the invite.
• A guest's personal link, and the venue screen's link, each carry a private key.
• If the hosts' link is forwarded too far, the person who made the invite can change it.
• Up to ten co-hosts, such as the other family, can help run it. Only the person who made it can delete it.

E-invite, PDF, video or printed card?

Each one has a place. A printed card is the one elders keep. A PDF or a photo is easy to forward but goes out of date the moment a venue changes. A video looks good on a status but doesn't tell you who's coming. An e-invite is the one that does the work.

Wedding invitation wording ideas

Short messages to send with the link, in the order you'll need them. Copy one, change the names, and send it with your invite.

Going to a wedding rather than hosting one? Read what to write in an Indian wedding card, with how shagun works, or what to say at an engagement. For the couple's first anniversary, there are anniversary wishes, and for the news itself, congratulations messages.