AR wedding invitations
A wedding invitation that speaks for you.
The formal invitation arrives a few weeks before the day, with the time, the place and the dress code. Make it say all that in your own voices: a guest aims their phone at the card, the two of you appear on it, and an RSVP button sits right beside the video.
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Invitation or save the date?
Two cards, two different jobs.
A save the date goes out months ahead and only asks guests to keep the day free, so it tends to play the proposal or the engagement shoot and then live on the fridge. If that early card is what you're planning, video save the dates covers it.
The invitation comes later and has work to do. It names the venue, asks for a reply, and gets people to the right place at the right time. This page is about that card: what the video on it can carry, and how the reply works.
On one card
What an invitation that plays can hold.
An invitation in your words
The two of you on camera, asking them to come. A short welcome fits the trial's 30 seconds, and Business gives you up to 3 minutes. Relatives who would never open a wedding website can watch it, because it's on the card in their hand.
A first look at the venue
Walk the camera from the gate to where the ceremony will be. Guests who are travelling get a sense of the place before they book.
A reply button beside it
Under the video, a Website button can open your RSVP form or wedding site. Add Call or Email for guests who would rather answer you directly.
The details stay in ink
Date, time, address and dress code are still printed on the card. The video adds a voice to them; nobody has to scan anything to learn where to be.
Before and after the day
One printed code, three seasons.
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When the invitations go out
The card plays your invitation, with the RSVP button below it. Every guest's copy is the same design, so the whole list costs one credit.
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Once the replies are in
Change the buttons in the Studio. The RSVP link can give way to the schedule, the hotel block or the registry, and the cards already on mantelpieces follow along.
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After the wedding
Replace the invitation video with a clip from your wedding film. The code printed on every card stays exactly as it is, so the invitation guests kept turns into a keepsake that plays the day itself.
For stationers and photographers
An invitation suite with a film in it.
A stationer can offer the moving invitation as an upgrade on a suite they already design: the same press, the same paper, one more file. A wedding photographer or videographer can fold the invitation film, and the swap to the wedding film afterwards, into a package.
Make it in your own business account and hand the couple the finished card. The dashboard shows how many guests opened it, without saying who, and the reply itself goes to whatever RSVP page, phone number or inbox the couple chose.
Design notes
Getting the card right.
Put a photo on the front
A card that is mostly cream paper and script lettering gives the camera too little to recognize. A photo of the two of you, or of the venue, works far better.
Tell guests to scan
A line by the QR sticker on the back, such as "Scan, then point your phone at the front", saves the confused text messages.
Choose matte stock
Shiny card catches the light, and those bright spots hide the photo from the camera. Matte or lustre reads better.
Invitation questions
Can guests RSVP inside the video?
Not inside it. The buttons beside the video open your RSVP page, start a call or start an email. Ember22 doesn't collect the replies; they land wherever you already keep them.
Could we record a different message for each family?
Only with a different picture for each one. The camera recognizes a card by its picture, so all copies of one design share a video. A personal photo on each invitation, each made as its own live print at one credit each, gets you a personal video.
Will our grandparents manage it?
If they can open a QR code with the camera, yes: there's no app and nothing to sign up for. If their phone can't track the card, the message still plays as a regular full-screen video. And everything they need to know is printed on the card anyway.
What if the venue or time changes after we mail them?
You can update the video and the buttons at any time, and every card plays the new version. The printed text can't change, so send a note too.
Can our stationer or photographer set it up for us?
Yes. They can make it in their own account and send you the finished design, ready to print.
Does the video have to be short?
On the free trial it can run for 30 seconds; on Business, up to 3 minutes, which is room for a proper invitation now and a real stretch of the wedding film afterwards. For the full film, add a Website button that opens it.
Send an invitation they'll want to keep.
Make yours on the free trial: 5 credits, 14 days, nothing to pay up front.
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