For the host who cooks
A dinner invite is sold on the menu, sealed by the time, and answered in one tap. Lead with what you are cooking, keep the message short, and let the page collect every yes and dietary note before the shopping list.
Nobody can resist being told what is cooking. Not the full order, that arrives on the page; just the sentence that makes the mouth water and the date feel special: what you are attempting, what someone else is bringing, what wine is doing the heavy lifting. A dinner invitation that opens with a time is scheduling. One that opens with lamb shoulder is an event.
Then the discipline. The joke and the menu still have to hand over to the facts. Start, finish, address, deadline. Dinner guests plan an evening around someone else's table, so the time they leave matters nearly as much as the time they arrive.
One of these is an anniversary supper; the rest are ordinary Tuesdays trying to be more.
Eight seats, one lamb shoulder that has waited all autumn for the right people. Friday the 14th, seven o'clock, our place on Kungsgatan, wine handled honestly by Henrik. The menu, the address and a reply button are here: [link]. Tell us by Wednesday so the market knows.
Twenty-five years, one long table. Marta and Tom's anniversary supper, Saturday 4 October, half past six, at home. Three courses, one toast, and a playlist that will test friendships. Reply here by the 25th, menu and dietary notes included: [link].
Sofie is turning forty and wants dinner, not a scene. Thursday the 9th, eight o'clock, the restaurant by the canal, table under her name. The menu tease and the one question that matters live here: [link]. By Monday, please.
Sunday lunch, the table does most of the work, you bring one thing. Eleven onwards, Henrik's. Choose your slot here so we are not eaten alive by seven deserts: [link]. Deadline Friday.
Nobody volunteers allergies in a group chat. Ask where the answer is private and the ask is a checkbox.
Start and rough finish, in the same clause. Dinner people organise babysitters and trains around it.
One word in the message, the whole page on the site. Kitchen dinners do not need a dress code paragraph.
Always before the real deadline. If Thursday's menu is locked Wednesday, the page should say by Tuesday.
One, on its own line, after the facts. That tap carries the menu, the directions and the dietary question with it.
How it works
The page fixes the headcount that the menu is written for. Publish a dinner event with date, place and a reply deadline before the third course is even chosen.
Put the tease in the story section, the full shape in the schedule, and turn on meal choices for each reply. If words fail you, Clara can draft the menu paragraph from a description of what you are cooking.
One tease line, three facts, the link. The same message goes to the group chat or to each guest individually; both land on the same page and the same list.
When the deadline passes, cook for the number that replied and the dietary notes attached. The quiet ones get one reminder, not four chase-ups.
Questions
No. One or two lines tease, the rest lives on the page. A full menu in chat commits you before replies are in, and menu changes then mean a resend. The message sells the dinner; the page holds it.
Put it on the reply form as an optional note. A guest types it where nobody else has to hear, and it comes back attached to their yes. Asking in the chat, even kindly, turns a small fact into a small speech.
A week for a proper evening, two or three days for casual supper. Shorter works if the message is honest about it, and a dinner page helps because the time, address and menu all sit in one place guests can check late.
With eight seats, every extra fork changes the plan, so decide before the message and let the form carry it. Each reply shows the plus-one room you actually allowed, which beats a guest guessing and asking in the group.
That is the intended path. The link opens the page in the browser, the reply is a button press plus a note field, and it lands in your guest list while the soup is still warm.
Get Started
Start free, publish the dinner page that asks the questions you dislike asking, and write the message while something is reducing.
