Guide
How to send a wedding invitation on WhatsApp
The link, the preview, the message beside it, groups versus one at a time, and when to send.
Send a link, not a file
A PDF arrives as a download. A video sent the usual way is squeezed by WhatsApp to fit its size limit, so fine print like the names can soften, and it is phone-shaped, so anyone opening it on a laptop gets black bars down the sides. A link arrives as a preview: an image, a title, and one tap to open. It weighs nothing, it never softens, and when you change the date everyone's copy changes with it.
The preview is the first impression
When you paste a link into WhatsApp it usually fetches a preview image and a title, if the page gives it one. Make sure the invitation you send does: the couple's names as the title, the card as the image. Every card here has one made for it; check yours by pasting the link into a chat with yourself before you send it to anyone.
One guest at a time
A group message is a broadcast; a message to one person is an invitation. Send each guest their own message, with their name in it, and if your invitation supports per-guest links, use them: the envelope greets them by name and you can see who has opened it. A Send button beside each guest opens WhatsApp with the message already written.
The message beside the link
Keep it to three lines: who, when, and the link. Long paragraphs above a link get skimmed and the link gets missed. The wording is below.
When to send
Four to six weeks before, for a wedding; two weeks before, for an engagement. The oldest and closest are invited in person, with the printed card in hand, and many Hindu families offer the first card to the family deity before any guest is given one; the link is for everyone else. A reminder message three days before the first function, with the link again, is welcome; anything more is not.
Wording you can copy
Dear Ramesh uncle and family,
With great joy we invite you to the wedding of Aditya and Ananya on Sunday 21 February 2027 at Shubh Vatika, Delhi. The full invitation is here:
[the link]
Bismillah.
Assalamu alaikum,
Imran and Ayesha are getting married, Inshallah, on Sunday 21 March 2027 at 7 pm, The Palace Hall, Bangalore. Invitation below:
[the link]
A gentle reminder: the sangeet is this Friday at 7 pm, Lotus Banquet Hall. Everything is in the invitation:
[the link]
Small things that matter
- Paste the link on its own line so the preview appears.
- Never put your whole guest list into one message or one group. A group shows every member to everyone else, and so does a list pasted into the text; a forwarded message does not, whatever you may have heard. Send each guest their own message, and a per-guest link keeps the names private.
- Two hundred near-identical messages sent quickly from a personal number read as spam to WhatsApp, and accounts get blocked for it. Space them out, keep each one personal, and use the Send button beside each guest rather than pasting the same block again and again.
- If an elder does not use WhatsApp, the same link works in an SMS, and it works read aloud on a phone call: "gladlyinvited dot com slash" and the name you chose for it.
The card that fits
Every one of our cards comes with a preview made for WhatsApp, per-guest links, and the Send button beside each name.
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