> Publish your Luna Invitations invitation, copy its link and paste it into WhatsApp or a text. Guests tap it and it opens in the browser, with no app to install. URL: https://lunainvitations.com/send-wedding-invitations-whatsapp-text/ Updated: 2026-11-12 By: Luna Invitations (lunainvitations.com) Guide # How to send your wedding invitation on WhatsApp or via text Updated 12 November 2026 · By Luna Invitations (lunainvitations.com) To send a wedding invitation on WhatsApp or via text with Luna Invitations (lunainvitations.com), you publish your invitation, copy its link and paste it into a chat or a text message. Guests tap the link and the invitation opens in their phone browser with a short opening animation. They install nothing and need no account. The same link works in WhatsApp, Messages, email or as a printed QR code. You send it yourself. ## How to send a wedding invitation on WhatsApp With Luna Invitations, sending on WhatsApp takes four steps. Publish your invitation in the editor, press Copy link in the Share window, open the guest's chat in WhatsApp and paste the link with a short message, then send. The address looks like lunainvitations.com/your-names/. Every guest gets the same link, and the invitation opens in their phone browser when they tap it. - **Publish.** In your private editor, press Publish at the top, choose your address and press Publish again. The Share window then says "Your invitation is online". - **Copy the link.** Press Copy link under your address. - **Paste it into WhatsApp.** Open the chat with your guest, write a line or two (three wordings are below) and paste the link on its own line. WhatsApp may add a preview card; how it looks is up to the app. - **Send.** Send it to each guest, or to a broadcast list (see below). Open the link yourself first, from your own phone, to see what guests will see. Luna Invitations does not send messages for you. You send the link from your own WhatsApp, so it arrives from a number your guests already know. ## What do guests see when the link arrives? Every Luna Invitations invitation gives chat apps a title and a picture for the link preview. By default the title is your names and wedding date. The picture is the photo you uploaded, or the design's cover image if you have not added one. How the preview card looks is up to each chat app. When a guest taps the link, the invitation opens in the phone browser and plays the design's opening scene, with a Skip button. By default the title follows your names and date in the date style you chose, for example "Elena & Daniel · 12 June 2027". If you fill in Browser tab title under Names and date in the editor, that text is used instead. We have not yet tested how WhatsApp, Messages and other apps draw a Luna Invitations preview card, and we will not show a made-up one. A screenshot of a real Luna Invitations link arriving in a chat will be added to this page. Music plays only if the invitation has a song: Gilded Lily comes with a sample song, and the other four designs have none until you add one. Guests can turn the music on or off. If no preview appears when you paste the link, check your own WhatsApp settings. WhatsApp has a Disable link previews setting under Settings, Privacy, Advanced. It is off by default, and when it is on, the links you send do not show a preview ([WhatsApp Help Center, How to disable link previews](https://faq.whatsapp.com/445453537819972/?locale=en_US), read 11 Nov 2026). The link still opens normally. Luna Invitations sample (Paper Moon) on a phone, screenshot 11 Nov 2026: the first screen a guest sees after tapping the link, with Tap to open. Luna Invitations sample (Paper Moon), screenshot 11 Nov 2026: the opening scene, with Skip in the corner. ## Can you send wedding invitations via text? Yes. A Luna Invitations invitation is a web address, so you can send it via text message, iMessage, email or any chat app, not only WhatsApp. Paste the same link you would send on WhatsApp. For guests who prefer paper, download the QR code from the Share window and print it on a card yourself: scanning it opens the same invitation. Some practical points for text messages: - Send the full address (it starts with lunainvitations.com/), not a shortened link, so guests can see where it goes before they tap. - Put your names in the first line, so the message is easy to recognise in a busy inbox. - If you also email it, write the names and the date in the subject line. ## Is it OK to send electronic wedding invitations? For most guests today, yes, but etiquette sources still disagree. In 2017 Lizzie Post of the Emily Post Institute told Refinery29 that paperless invitations were not appropriate for a wedding. In November 2026 Greenvelope, which sells digital invitations, said digital wedding invitations are not tacky if each one is sent individually. With a Luna Invitations link, send it to most guests one by one, and call, visit or post a card to the few who want paper. Three views, each with the date we read it: - In December 2017 Lizzie Post of the Emily Post Institute told Refinery29 that going paperless was still not appropriate for a wedding, even a small one: a mailed invitation carries weight, and the invitation's formality reflects the event's. She called digital save-the-dates fine. That advice is now nearly nine years old ([Refinery29, Should You Ever Go Paperless For Your Wedding Invite?](https://www.refinery29.com/digital-wedding-invitations), 19 Dec 2017, read 11 Nov 2026). - In 2021 Anne Chertoff, a wedding etiquette specialist in New York, told Insider she would never recommend texting a wedding invitation unless every guest gets one by text, so that no guest feels like an afterthought ([Insider via Yahoo News, I broke etiquette and text-invited 'B list' guests to our wedding last-minute](https://www.yahoo.com/news/broke-etiquette-text-invited-b-132350557.html), updated 15 Oct 2021, read 12 Nov 2026). - Greenvelope, which sells digital invitations, says in November 2026 that digital wedding invitations are not tacky, that each invitation should be sent individually rather than forwarded to a group, and suggests printing a small run for guests who need paper ([Greenvelope, Are Digital Wedding Invitations Tacky?](https://card.greenvelope.com/resources/are-digital-wedding-invitations-tacky), updated 7 Nov 2026, read 11 Nov 2026). Luna Invitations sells no printed cards. If a grandparent does not use WhatsApp, print the QR code onto a card you make yourself, or simply phone them with the details. ## Wedding invitation WhatsApp message: what should you write? Keep the message short and personal, and let the Luna Invitations invitation carry the details. Greet the guest by name, say you are getting married, give the date, paste the link on its own line and say what you need from them, such as a reply by a certain date. Three wordings to copy follow; replace the names, date and address with yours. - "Dear Sarah, we are getting married on 12 June 2027 and we would love you to be there. Your invitation is here (tap to open): lunainvitations.com/elena-and-daniel/ Please reply on the invitation by 1 May. With love, Elena and Daniel" - "Hi Tom, it is official: Elena and Daniel, 12 June 2027. Here is your invitation: lunainvitations.com/elena-and-daniel/ Everything you need is inside: time, place and dress code." - "Dear Aunt Maria, with great joy we invite you to our wedding on Saturday 12 June 2027. The invitation opens in your phone's browser, with nothing to install: lunainvitations.com/elena-and-daniel/ We will call you this week too. Elena and Daniel" Only ask guests to "reply on the invitation" if you chose guest replies ($70 in total). Without them, ask guests to reply to your message instead. ## How to send wedding invitations on WhatsApp in bulk For many guests, a WhatsApp broadcast list sends your Luna Invitations link to each person as a private message, and replies come back to you alone. A broadcast list reaches only guests who have saved your number, so send to the others one by one. Avoid posting the invitation in a large group chat, where everyone sees everyone else and the replies. What WhatsApp's own help says about broadcast lists ([WhatsApp Help Center, How to use broadcast lists](https://faq.whatsapp.com/861663048350950/?locale=en_US), read 11 Nov 2026): - Each broadcast list can hold up to 256 contacts. - Only contacts who have saved your number in their address book receive the message. - Each recipient sees it as an individual message from you, and their reply is not sent to the others on the list. - Broadcast lists are not available on WhatsApp for Windows, Mac or Web, so use your phone. - People in some countries may see a monthly broadcast limit. For close family and friends, a message sent one by one, with their name in the first line, reads as more personal than a broadcast. The link is the same either way. ## Wedding invitation WhatsApp scam: how do guests know the link is safe? A Luna Invitations invitation is a web page at lunainvitations.com/your-names/, opened in the phone browser. Guests never install an app or sign in; the only file on offer is an optional calendar entry (.ics) they can choose to save. The fake wedding invitations that police in Himachal Pradesh, India, warned about in November 2025 arrive as an APK file or a phishing link. Tell guests to expect your link, and send it from your own number. On 28 November 2025 The Tribune reported that the cybercrime police in Himachal Pradesh, India (Superintendent of Police Rohit Malpani), warned that scammers send what looks like a wedding invitation containing a malicious APK file or a phishing link; opening the file installs malware that can reach photos, contacts and banking details, and then sends the same fake invitation on to the victim's contacts ([The Tribune, Invited to wedding? Police say check the link before you click](https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/invited-to-wedding-police-say-check-the-link-before-you-click), read 11 Nov 2026). WhatsApp's help lists, among the warning signs of a suspicious message, one that asks you to tap on a link, activate a new feature through a link, or download an app, and advises looking closely at any link or file before opening it ([WhatsApp Help Center, About suspicious messages and scams](https://faq.whatsapp.com/2286952358121083/?locale=en_US), read 12 Nov 2026). A link invitation is exactly a message that asks guests to tap a link. So tell guests in advance that your invitation is coming as a link, and send it from your own number. What guests can check with a Luna Invitations invitation: - The address starts with **lunainvitations.com/** followed by the name you chose, such as lunainvitations.com/elena-and-daniel/. - Nothing is installed. The only file a guest can save is an optional calendar entry (.ics) for the wedding date. If a "wedding invitation" ever asks to install something, or arrives as a file ending in .apk, it is not from Luna Invitations. - There is no sign-in and no payment for guests. A guest who replies types a name and answers a few questions. - The message comes from your own number. A short line such as "We are sending our invitations as a link this week" in a family chat helps. ## What Luna Invitations can't do - Luna Invitations does not send messages for you: you paste the link into WhatsApp, Messages or email yourself. One link for every guest: there is no separate link per guest, and you do not see who opened it; with guest replies ($70) you see who answered. - English only for now. You can choose how dates are written. - No printed cards and no video file to send. The invitation is a web page, so guests need a data or Wi-Fi connection to open it. - The guest link closes 30 days after the event, and the invitation and replies are deleted 90 days after it. - Luna Invitations costs $50, paid once. Other sellers charge less: a [Jovela](https://jovela.app/pricing) wedding invitation costs less, [Greenvelope](https://card.greenvelope.com/resources/best-text-message-invitation-platforms) starts lower for a guest list of up to 20, and [Joy](https://withjoy.com/wedding-invitations/) offers free digital invitations (prices checked 12 Nov 2026). ## See the designs Each Luna Invitations design has a live demo you can open on your phone, and costs $50, paid once ($70 with guest replies). [Gilded Lily](https://lunainvitations.com/designs/gilded-lily/) [Belvedere](https://lunainvitations.com/designs/belvedere/) [Keepsake](https://lunainvitations.com/designs/keepsake/) [Velvet Hour](https://lunainvitations.com/designs/velvet-hour/) [Paper Moon](https://lunainvitations.com/designs/paper-moon/)