How to create an online wedding invitation

A Tạo Thiệp Online invitation is a small web page with its own link, not a file to print. You build it yourself in the editor, and when it is ready you send that link to your guests by WhatsApp, Messenger, email, text message or a QR code.

Guests only tap the link. The invitation opens in their phone's browser: no app to install, no account to create, nothing to type in. When you edit the invitation later, the same link shows the newest version, so you never have to send it again.

After you pay, you keep the same link: paying removes the trial limits, it does not send you a new file. A paid invitation can also be downloaded as an image or an MP4 video, for when you want a copy to post or print.

Open taothieponline.app 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.

Basic information has a Family title box, where you write the birth order your family uses: eldest son, youngest daughter, and so on.

On some designs that title prints right under your two names, in the announcement. The words beside your photos are something else: the role in the wedding, Groom and Bride. The two lines say two different things on purpose, and that is how a wedding invitation usually reads.

So editing the Family title box does not change the words beside the photos, and that is correct. If you would like different words there as well, message us and we will set both sides at once, so one side never ends up different from the other.

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.

Whether you make one invitation or two, you choose which family comes first. The Basic Information section of the editor has a Display Order setting with two choices, Groom's family first and Bride's family first. Switching it reorders the couple's names, both sets of parents' names and the gift box entries. The bride's side card usually uses Bride's family first, and the groom's side card the other one.

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. Each invitation is paid for separately, so paying for one does not unlock the other. Once your first invitation is paid for, though, every later one is charged at the returning price, which is lower than the first. The amount depends on your country, so check the pricing page.

One of you creates the invitation, and you can still work on it together. In the editor, open Settings at the top of the page and choose Members. From there, enter your partner's email and press Send invite, or copy the invite link and send it over Messenger, Zalo or WhatsApp.

Whoever joins has the same full access you do: edit the wording, change the template, upload photos and manage the guest list. You each sign in with your own account, on two different devices if you like, and every change is saved to the one invitation.

Reload the editor page before you start editing again, especially if your partner has just been working on it. A tab left open for a while still holds the older version, and saving from it writes over what they typed.

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.