For hosts doing it themselves tonight
No design software, no mailing-list tools. Write the details, choose a look, and create online invitations with replies attached; your guest list updates itself as each yes comes in.
Creating an online invitation feels like a project right up until you do it, and then it is a short session at the kitchen table. You already know the substance: who you are inviting, the day, the place. The tooling question that used to stall people, needing graphics software and a way to track who replied, is simply solved by building the invitation and its replies in one place.
Tonight's job is small and concrete: write the details you know, choose a look you like, attach the reply, publish, and send. None of those steps needs a designer or a spreadsheet, and most of them take a couple of minutes each.
If the page has these, a guest has everything they need to decide and to arrive.
A few starting lines, in the voice you would use yourself. Swap the names and details for yours.
You're invited to a birthday dinner for Marta, at the Lindqvist table on Fri 14 June from 7pm. Come hungry, leave room for cake.
Marta and Tom are getting married on Saturday, with the ceremony at four and dinner and dancing to follow. We would love you there.
Please join us for a baby shower in honour of Elena, this Sunday afternoon at the Vermeer house. Games, tea, and far too many small sandwiches.
Tap to let us know you can come, and add anyone you're bringing. A note about food is welcome if there's anything we should know.
Wording done, you choose a design and let the reply button be part of the page from the start, so guests confirm in a tap and their yes updates your guest list rather than landing as a message to tally. Then you publish. Nothing is visible to guests until that moment, so you can draft, revise the details, and fix the tone tonight without anyone reading a half-finished invitation.
Once it is live you share the link wherever your people are, and the list fills itself as each reply comes in. The whole thing, from an empty evening to an invitation that answers back, is honestly a night's work.
How it works
Open the app, or tell Jitabi the who, when and where. Getting those four details in place is most of the invitation before you worry about anything else.
Set start and end times, the full venue address with a short arrival note, the dress expectation, and a reply-by date.
Adapt a line from the samples, pick a design you like, and turn on the reply so a yes captures a name, any plus-ones, and a meal note.
Make the page live only when it reads right, then send the link to your guests. Each confirmation updates the list on its own.
Questions
Name the person or occasion, give the date with both a start and an end time, state the venue and its full address with a line about arrival or parking, note the dress expectation, and set a reply-by date. A page carrying all of those lets a guest decide whether to come and then actually reach you, without sending a message to check.
No. The invitation and its replies are made in the same place. You write the details, pick a ready design, and switch on the reply button, so there is nothing to export from one tool and wire into another. The guest list updates itself as confirmations arrive.
Not until you publish. A saved draft stays private to you, so you can draft this evening, revise the wording, and correct a time without anyone opening a half-finished invitation. What you share is exactly what you chose to make live.
Keep it short and tell them what the button does: ask them to tap to confirm, add anyone they are bringing, and leave a note about food if needed. A clear reply-by date helps too. The samples on this page are safe phrasings to adapt rather than start cold.
Yes, because the heavy lifting is knowing the event, which you already do. Writing the details, choosing a look and attaching the reply are each a couple of minutes, and you can start from a draft that Jitabi or the app builds for you. By the end of the night you have a live invitation that answers back.
Get Started
Write the details, borrow a line of wording, and create an online invitation whose replies update your guest list as each yes arrives. Starting is free.
