Publishing & sending
Can I edit an invitation after publishing?
By Nimanto 2 min read
In short
Yes. Changes to the guest list, RSVP settings and the album reach guests at once. Words, photos, pages and the design reach them when you publish again, which is free and sends nothing twice. Once the event has taken place, the date, title and design lock.
Publishing is not the end of editing. A live invitation keeps a draft behind it: you change the draft, and publish again when it is ready. Guests see the published version until then.
What reaches guests at once
- RSVP settings: deadline, plus-ones, approval, capacity, Maybe, questions.
- Guests, personal links, messages and reminders.
- Album settings and photos.
- The title, date, time zone, venue and alert settings saved under Update details are used at once in e-mails, calendar links and the preview card. The words printed inside the design follow when you publish again.
What needs publishing again
Words, photos, pages, the schedule, places to stay, the registry, studio changes, the envelope, the effect, the music and the share message printed in the design.
- 1Open the invitation from your dashboard and make your changes under Update details or in the invitation studio.
- 2Choose Save. On a live invitation it asks Publish your changes?
- 3Choose Publish changes. Or choose Not now and press Publish on the Overview later.
Each publish saves a new version. Publishing again is free, keeps the same link, does not e-mail guests who were already e-mailed, and does not use another place among your active invitations.
Open the invitation's link afterwards and you see the new version; the Overview's phone shows the current draft, which may be ahead of it.
The lock after the event
Once a published invitation's date is about a week in the past, its date, title and design lock, and the Overview says "This event has taken place, so its date, title and design are locked." Everything else still works: the album stays open, replies still arrive and you can still message guests. To reuse the design for a new occasion, choose Duplicate under More; the copy is a new invitation with no date yet. See unpublish, duplicate and delete.
A full day after its date, the invitation reads Completed. It stays online and stops counting among your active invitations. See the invitation life cycle.
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