A first birthday invitation, with the details that actually decide the day
A first birthday invitation has to settle three things before another parent can say yes: when it starts, when it ends, and whether brothers and sisters are welcome. This one is a link rather than a card, so those answers sit on the page instead of in a follow-up message — and guests reply on their phone, say how many are coming, without making an account.
Make your first birthday pageSee the designs
A start time and an end time
A first birthday runs on nap schedules — the birthday child's and every guest's. "Two until four" is the difference between a parent planning their afternoon and guessing at it.
Most invitations give a start and leave the rest to be worked out. There is a field for both here, and the page shows the range.
Whether brothers and sisters come
The most-argued point in toddler party etiquette, and the one nobody writes down. A one-year-old's party cannot be drop-off, so "one guest" and "one family" are a different room and a different headcount.
It is a sentence in your own words rather than a checkbox, because "Siblings very welcome, there is a garden" is a host talking and "Siblings: yes" is a form talking.
The gate code and the parking
Trivia until somebody is standing outside a building with a pushchair and a cake. There is a place to put it, and like the address it shows on every plan.
Food, asked the useful way
"Cake at three" tells a guest to feed their toddler lunch first. "Join us for lunch" tells them not to. One word decides whether a room full of one-year-olds arrives hungry, so the question asked is that one rather than a request for a menu.
Messages your child reads later
Guests can leave a message on the page. The near-universal first-birthday activity is notes the child opens years from now, and this is already that: messages kept at a permanent address attached to their own page, which is the one thing a jar of folded cards cannot promise.
Questions
Can I say when the party ends?
Yes. There is a field for the end time, and the page shows the range rather than only the start.
Can I say whether brothers and sisters are welcome?
Yes, in your own words rather than as a yes-or-no box.
Do guests need an app to reply?
No. They open the link on their phone and answer. No account, and nothing to install.
We used this for the gender reveal. Can we reuse the page?
Yes, that is what it is for. The same address becomes the first birthday, keeping the design, the photographs, the messages and the guest list.
The rest of the journey
The same address carries a family from the first guess to the first birthday. Whichever of these you are planning now, the others are the same page later.