Every invitation after your first is at least 20% off, on either plan. There is no code to enter and nothing to claim: it is simply the price shown when you buy another invitation, and it exists because you already own a paid one. So it is no help at all on your first purchase, and real help on every one after it.
How the returning discount works
Your first invitation is bought at the full price for your country. Every invitation after that is at least 20% off, on Essential or on Excellence, in any combination. It is not a subscription and it is not a bundle you commit to on the first day. You buy the second one when you need it, whether that is the month after the wedding or the year after it.
It is described as at least 20% because prices are pinned per currency and rounded to clean numbers, so in some currencies the reduction lands a little further below the full price rather than exactly a fifth. Your own figures, in your own currency, are on the pricing page.
One wedding is rarely one invitation
Look at the whole year rather than the one day and the pattern is obvious.
- The engagement, months ahead, usually the shortest list of the lot.
- The hen and the stag, organised by other people, with a list neither family ever sees.
- The wedding itself.
- The homecoming, where the list tilts towards the other family, the neighbours and the people from work.
- Then the ones that arrive later: a first anniversary, a first birthday, a housewarming.
These are not versions of one event. They have different dates and different people. The aunt who sat at the front at the engagement may not be on the homecoming list at all, and the neighbour who was nowhere near the ceremony will fully expect to be asked to the homecoming. Serving both from a single invitation means one of those two people receives something that was not written for them.
Why editing the invitation you already sent is a bad trade
It is a tempting shortcut. The design is chosen, the guest list is in, and the next celebration seems to need nothing more than a new date on it. Three things go wrong.
Guests keep the same link. That is exactly what you want during the wedding, when a venue detail changes at eleven at night and you can fix it without resending anything to anybody. It is exactly the problem afterwards. Rewrite the invitation for the homecoming and the wedding invitation your cousin saved in her chat quietly becomes the homecoming invitation. Anyone who opens it again sees the new event, including the people who were never invited to it.
The guest lists are not the same list. Reusing one invitation leaves you either sending the homecoming to everybody who came to the wedding, or spending an evening deleting names from a list you spent weeks building.
And you lose the record. Once an event is over, its invitation is the closest thing you have to an account of it: who was asked, who replied, who brought four people after saying two. Leave it as it is and you can still look at all of that a year later, when someone asks whether the neighbours came. Overwrite it and it is gone.
When you do not need a second invitation
Sometimes the honest answer is that one is enough.
If two events sit on the same weekend for largely the same people, they belong on one invitation. An invitation can carry more than one ceremony, and you decide which guests are invited to which, so the ceremony and the party after it do not need buying twice.
If the engagement is twelve people in your parents’ living room, send a message instead. A designed invitation starts paying for itself once the guest list outgrows the back of an envelope, or once the replies trickle in over enough weeks that you need somewhere to keep them. Twelve people you speak to every week are neither.
And if the next celebration is a year away with nothing decided about it, wait. The reduced price is a standing part of the pricing rather than an offer with a closing date, so holding off until the date is fixed costs you nothing.
Which plan for which celebration
The discount does not care about the order. Essential first and Excellence second works, the reverse works, and two of the same works. Essential is the ready-made designs. Excellence is where the design is made for you.
One sensible split is the smaller events on Essential and the wedding on Excellence. An engagement invitation goes to a short list of people who already know most of the details, and a ready-made design does that job well. The wedding invitation is the one that gets screenshotted and forwarded to relatives who are not even on your list, and that is where the extra is worth spending.
On timing, treat what follows as a planning habit to adjust against your own caterer, not a number anyone has measured: buy the next invitation once the date and the venue are settled, and leave four to six weeks between sending it and the day you have to give a headcount. That is room for one proper round of chasing the people who have not replied, and there are always people who have not replied.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to buy both invitations at the same time?
No. The discount is tied to already owning a paid invitation, not to buying two together. Buy the second one a year later if that is when the celebration is.
Does the second invitation have to be on the same plan as the first?
No. Either plan, in any combination. Essential then Excellence, Excellence then Essential, or two of the same all carry the discount on the later purchase.
Does my first invitation stop working when I make a second?
No. It stays as it is, with its own guest list and its own replies, and the links you already sent keep working. An additional invitation is an addition, not a replacement.
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