Save the Dates, invitations and cards¶
Each wedding has four cards: an engagement announcement (Verlobungsanzeige), a Save the Date, an invitation (Einladung) and a thank-you card (Dankeskarte), each with one or more versions for different audiences (see Weddings, the timeline and versions). They open like a letter: a sealed envelope addressed to the household, and the card slides out. Couples send them by link, WhatsApp or email, and can export every card as PDF and PNG to print at home.
For couples¶
Opening. Every card is generated with the wedding. Its step on the wedding's timeline opens the first version; the chips open the others, and + Version adds one. The card editor shows the wedding's names and date with Angaben ändern, then one row of buttons: the version menu (named after the version you edit; it switches versions and has Neue Version, Umbenennen and Version löschen), Vorschau mit Umschlag, Exportieren, and for the engagement announcement Teilen.
Designing. The editor (/hochzeiten/<id>/karten/<version>) shows the card on the right exactly as guests see
it, updated as you type. Each card version picks its own theme, colours, fonts and layout; by default it takes the
first website version's. Then the photo and texts:
| Card | Content |
|---|---|
| Save the Date | photo, the line above the names (default "Haltet euch den Tag frei", editable), names, date ("Datum folgt" while there is none), place, a short text ("Einladung folgt"). Guests get Zum Kalender hinzufügen (.ics, all-day) and Zur Website (the household's website version, once it is online). |
| Einladung | "Wir heiraten" (editable), names, date, time and venue of a schedule event (each overridable), the reply-by date, a text. The response form follows below the card under a small Eure Antwort heading (the card already greets the household), and Zur Website links the household's website version once it is online. |
| Dankeskarte | photo, a text for everyone, and an optional personal line per household, which you enter in the guest list. |
| Verlobungsanzeige | photo, names, a text. No date and no website link: it usually comes before anything is planned. |
Mit Umschlag öffnen switches the envelope on or off per card. Vorschau mit Umschlag shows the whole page as a household sees it; the preview never counts as opened.
One link per household¶
Each household has one personal link, the one from Guests and RSVP. It is the household's page and shows what you have sent it, newest first: first the Save the Date; once the invitation is sent, the invitation with the response form, with the Save the Date below; after the wedding the thank-you card on top. Links already sent keep working. A website with only the RSVP package keeps the plain response page.
Until you send a household a card, its page is the response page from v3. A page that shows only a Save the Date has no response form; the invitation brings it.
The engagement announcement goes to households through their link like the other cards, and each version also
has one public link for everyone else, /<adresse>/verlobung (further versions /<adresse>/verlobung/<version>). Its share dialog has the QR code, Per WhatsApp teilen and
Text und Link kopieren; both use the card's Text für WhatsApp und E-Mail before the link.
Sending¶
On the Gäste page, Versand picks the card. Every household then shows how it was sent and whether it was opened, with these buttons:
- WhatsApp opens WhatsApp with your text and the household's link (a
wa.melink in your own app). - Link kopieren copies the link.
- E-Mail senden emails the card to the household's address, if it has one.
- Als gesendet markieren records a card you sent yourself outside the app (WhatsApp from your phone, in person, by post); Alle als gesendet markieren does it for every household that has not had it yet. Marked cards count as sent and show on the household's page. Doch nicht gesendet undoes a mark (not a real send).
- Auslassen leaves a household out of this card (by default every household gets every card).
Per E-Mail an alle senden sends the card to every household with an address that has not had it yet, after a confirmation with the count. Households without an address keep link and WhatsApp; the list shows each household's channel. Filters show for example "Einladung nicht geöffnet".
The text for WhatsApp and email is per card ({name} becomes the household's name).
Reminders¶
- Automatic: on the invitation, set days before the reply-by date (default 14 and 3). On those days every household that got the invitation, has an email address and has not answered gets a reminder email. Each reminder goes out once; if several are due at once, only the latest is sent; none goes out for an invitation sent after that day. Reminders, automatic or by button, stop when the household answers or the reply-by date has passed.
- Erinnerung senden per open household or Erinnerung an alle offenen: an email where there is an address, otherwise a WhatsApp link with the reminder text.
Opened¶
A card counts as opened the first time the household's own page shows it, that is, when the envelope is opened (or straight away without the envelope). The page reports this to Traureise itself. No tracking pixels, no read receipts, no wrapped links; emails cannot tell whether they were read. Link previews and email scanners do not count, because they do not open the envelope. A couple opening a household's real link does count. See ADR 0022.
Export¶
Exportieren downloads the card as PDF in A6 or A5 portrait (for printing at home) or as a PNG 1748 px wide (for messengers). The instance renders them itself; no external service is involved (ADR 0020).
Packages¶
Designing and the preview are free. On instances with billing:
| Package | Unlocks |
|---|---|
| RSVP | the Save the Date (links, export), which goes out months before the invitation |
| Einladungen | also the invitation (links, export), email sending, email reminders |
| Komplett | also the thank-you card and the engagement announcement |
The WhatsApp reminder button belongs to RSVP. Locked buttons lead to /preise. Without billing everything
is available.
Data and deletion¶
Guest email addresses, personal lines, and the sent and opened status are guest data: they are in the account export and are deleted with the guest list (12 months after the wedding or at the end of the package, see Guests and RSVP), with the website and with the account. The cards' designs and texts stay with the website until it is deleted.
For operators¶
Card emails go through your SMTP server on the couple's behalf; read Email. Your privacy policy and terms should cover guest email addresses, emails sent on the couple's behalf, the opened status and unsubscribing (What to write).