Bilingual wedding invitations, every guest in their own language.
Write your invitation once, in your own words. Add any of 29 languages, and each guest reads it in theirs with one tap on the globe. Your names and venue stay exactly as you typed them, and you can rewrite the schedule, the dress code and your FAQ in each language yourself.
Every language comes with Essential, €175 once. Design and preview free.
How a bilingual invitation works
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Add your languages
In the studio, open Languages and pick from 29. The first one on the list is what guests see first, and the one everything else is translated from.
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Write once
Write in your first language. Each time you save, your words are translated into every other language. Names, venue, addresses and times are left exactly as you typed them.
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Rewrite what matters
The schedule, your questions and answers, the dress code, the gift note and the area map each have a tab per language. Type your own version, or leave it blank to keep the automatic one.
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Guests choose
Every guest opens the invitation in your first language and switches with the globe. Section titles, the date and the RSVP form switch with them.
What is translated, and what you write
A multilingual wedding invitation is part ready-made and part yours. It helps to know which is which before you start writing, because it decides where your own words are worth the effort.
Already translated for you
- Section titles, buttons and the countdown
- The RSVP form: its labels, buttons and messages
- The wedding date, written the way each language writes dates
Translated automatically from your words
- The day’s schedule
- Your questions and answers
- The dress code and the gift note
- The note under the area map
- Event names, and the questions you add to the RSVP form
- Any heading or line you rewrite
Never translated
- Your names and your parents’ names
- Venue names and addresses, and map links
- Bank details for a gift fund
- Times, web addresses and email addresses
Yours to rewrite in each language
- The schedule
- Questions and answers
- The dress code
- The gift note
- The area-map note
The honest limits
The automatic version is machine translation, made when you save. It carries practical details across well enough to be understood, but it can flatten tone, miss a joke or pick the wrong level of formality. Read every language in the preview before you send, ideally with someone who speaks it.
Your own version per language exists for the five sections with language tabs. Headings you rewrite, event names and the questions you add to the RSVP form use the automatic translation only, so keep those short and plain.
The invitation does not guess a guest’s language from their phone. Everyone opens it in your first language and switches with the globe. And on Starter the invitation is published in one language only, the first on your list, without the switch.
A practical guide for bilingual couples
Most of what makes a wedding invitation in two languages read well happens before anything is translated. Six habits do most of the work.
- Put first the language most guests read. It is the language everyone sees on opening and the one every other version is translated from, so it should also be the one you write best. If those are not the same language, write in yours and rewrite the important sections in theirs.
- Write each line in one language. On paper a bilingual card stacks both languages. Here the globe does that job: a line that already mixes two languages is translated as a whole and comes out doubled. Keep each field in your first language and let guests switch.
- Spell names and places the way they will be read. Names, venues and addresses are never translated or transliterated, so pick one spelling and use it everywhere. A name typed in Latin letters stays in Latin letters in Greek, Arabic or Armenian.
- Keep sentences short and plain. Short sentences survive translation; idioms, puns and long formal formulas do not. Save the poetry for your own version in each language tab, where you decide every word.
- Rewrite what guests act on. The schedule, the dress code and the gift note are where a mistranslation costs something. Write those yourself in each language, or ask a parent or cousin who speaks it to read them in the preview.
- Tell guests about the globe. When you send the link, add one line in each language saying the invitation can be read in theirs. Guests who know to look for the switch will use it.
One link for everyone, or one per guest
Starter publishes the invitation with one shareable link and a QR code, in one language. Essential adds the other languages and a personal link for every guest, carrying their name and their own RSVP, alongside the link for everyone.
Every link opens the same invitation in your first language, and every guest can switch. The language lives in the invitation, not in the link: there is no separate Turkish link or French link to manage, and a reply comes back to the same guest list whichever language it was written in.
For a mixed guest list, send one message written in both languages with the link underneath, by WhatsApp, text or email. A printed card with the QR code works the same way, which is useful when older relatives prefer paper.
The 29 invitation languages
Any of these can be the first language of your invitation, and on Essential and Premium up to 20 of them can sit on one invitation. This is the list for the invitation your guests read; it is separate from the languages this website is published in.
- Englishالإنجليزية
- Españolالإسبانية
- Françaisالفرنسية
- Deutschالألمانية
- Italianoالإيطالية
- Portuguêsالبرتغالية
- Nederlandsالهولندية
- Polskiالبولندية
- Русскийالروسية
- Românăالرومانية
- Norskالنرويجية
- Filipinoالفلبينية
- Afrikaansالأفريقانية
- Українськаالأوكرانية
- Türkçeالتركية
- العربية
- हिन्दीالهندية
- ไทยالتايلاندية
- Tiếng Việtالفيتنامية
- Ελληνικάاليونانية
- עבריתالعبرية
- Češtinaالتشيكية
- Bahasa Indonesiaالإندونيسية
- 简体中文الصينية المبسطة
- 日本語اليابانية
- 한국어الكورية
- Българскиالبلغارية
- Shqipالألبانية
- Հայերենالأرمنية
Right-to-left languages: العربية والعبرية. When a guest switches to one of them, the whole invitation turns around, and in the studio the fields for those languages are typed right to left too.
Example pairings
Any two of the languages above can share an invitation, and so can three or four. A few pairings, and what is worth thinking about for each.
DeutschTürkçe
Write in the language most of your guests read first. Turkish-speaking relatives switch with one tap, and names with ç, ğ or ş are kept exactly as you typed them.
EnglishItaliano
For a wedding in Italy with guests flying in, put Italian first if the local family is the larger group, or English first if most guests are travelling. Either way, write the schedule yourself in both.
Françaisالعربية
When a guest switches to Arabic the invitation turns right to left. The dress code and your questions are worth writing yourself in Arabic, in the language tab.
EspañolEnglish
For families split between two continents. Dates are written the Spanish way for you, so only your own sentences need checking.
ShqipItaliano
For Albanian families with relatives in Italy. Both languages’ built-in wording, from section titles to the RSVP form, is ready-made.
ΕλληνικάEnglish
The two languages use different alphabets, and names are never transliterated. Decide whether the names appear in Greek or Latin letters, and use that spelling on every line.
Which plan includes every language
Languages are part of Essential. Pricing is one payment, with no subscription.
- Starter€49
One language: the first on your list. Guests see no language switch.
- Essential€175
Every language you add, the globe switch for guests, personal guest links, RSVP tracking and the seating chart.
- Premium€395
Everything in Essential, made for you by our team: every section in every language, with a painting of your venue, your monogram and the whole suite in one design.
While you design, you can add languages and preview each of them; the plan is chosen when you publish. Full details on pricing.
Every design speaks every language
The language switch belongs to the invitation, not to the template, so all 26 designs carry it. Here are four that suit a wedding abroad; there are more in destination wedding invitations.
Bilingual invitation questions
Can each guest read our wedding invitation in their own language?
Yes, on Essential and Premium. You choose the languages from 29, up to 20 on one invitation, and each guest switches with the globe on the invitation. Section titles, the date and the RSVP form switch with them, and your own text shows in its translated version or in the version you wrote yourself.
Is the translation automatic, or do we write each language ourselves?
Both. You write once in your first language, and each time you save, your text is translated automatically into the other languages. For the schedule, your questions and answers, the dress code, the gift note and the area-map note, you can type your own version in each language; a blank field keeps the automatic one. Names, venues, addresses and times are never translated.
Is automatic translation good enough for a wedding invitation?
For practical details it usually gets the meaning across, but it is machine translation: it can miss tone, humour or the right level of formality. Read each language in the preview, ideally with a native speaker, and rewrite the lines that matter in the language tabs.
Which language do guests see first?
The first language on your list, for every guest. The invitation does not switch by itself according to the guest’s phone settings; the guest chooses with the globe. You can change the order in the studio at any time.
Do personal guest links open in each guest’s language?
No. A personal link carries the guest’s name and their own RSVP, not a language. Every link opens in your first language, and the guest switches with one tap. It helps to mention the globe in the message you send with the link.
Does the RSVP form work in every language?
Yes. The form’s labels, buttons and messages appear in the language the guest has chosen, and the questions you add are translated automatically. Every reply arrives in the same guest list, whichever language it was sent in.
Do Arabic and Hebrew invitations read right to left?
Yes. When a guest switches to Arabic or Hebrew, the invitation turns right to left. In the studio, the fields where you write your own Arabic or Hebrew version are typed right to left as well.
Which plan do we need for a bilingual wedding invitation?
Essential (€175, once) or Premium (€395, once). Starter (€49) publishes the invitation in one language, the first on your list, without the switch. While you design you can add languages and preview them before choosing a plan.