A Pakistani wedding is rarely one event. There may be a dholki, a mayun, the mehndi, the nikkah, the baraat and the walima, and not every guest is invited to all of them. Close family come to everything, friends to the mehndi and the baraat, and colleagues perhaps only to the walima.
With printed cards this meant separate cards, or a stack of function cards sorted into each envelope by hand. With a digital invitation it takes one link per circle.
A link for every combination
Once your invitation is published, find it in your dashboard and choose Share links. You will find a link for every combination of your functions:
- the mehndi alone;
- the baraat and the walima together;
- all of them;
- and every other mix.
When your wedding has up to six functions, every combination is listed. With more than six, you get each function on its own, each pair, and all of them together.
Each link opens the same invitation, with the same design and opening, but shows only the functions it names. A guest who replies through it can only reply for those functions.
Sending each circle its link
Next to every link are two buttons: one copies it, and one opens WhatsApp with the message already written. A simple way to work through it:
- Make a short list of your circles, such as close family, friends, the groom's colleagues and the neighbours.
- Decide which functions each circle is invited to.
- Send each circle the link for exactly those functions, in its group or to each person.
What a function link is, and is not
A function link decides what a guest sees. It is not a lock. Your invitation's own link, without any ending, always shows every function, so send that one only to the people invited to everything.
Replies stay sorted too
If you ask guests to reply, each reply is limited to the functions the guest was shown, so a colleague who was sent the walima link cannot accidentally accept the mehndi. You see the replies and the number of people coming in your dashboard as they arrive.