A designed card for the first big milestone, sent by private link, with RSVP tracking and a shared photo album for the grandparents who can't be there.
A first birthday is really a party for the grown-ups, a whole year of firsts, survived and celebrated. HeyVite makes the invitation feel like the milestone it marks: a designed card, not a form, delivered to each guest's own private link, with the RSVPs, the photos and the head count gathered in one calm place.
Everything a first birthday needs, from the first invitation to the final head count.
The invitation opens as a designed card with your baby's name set in real typography, something worth a screenshot for the baby book, not a sign-up sheet with a date field. Personalize a design in minutes and it still looks composed, because it was.
Their invitation opens anywhere in the world, and after the cake smash the shared photo album brings the day to them: guests upload what they captured, you curate what stays, and faraway family scrolls the whole morning as if they'd had a seat.
Every yes, plus-one and dietary note lands on one live dashboard: no thread to scroll at 2 a.m. One click nudges the families who haven't replied, and only them.
First birthdays run on nap time, so the invitation should carry the plan: a start, an end, and "cake at 11:30" if the smash is the main event. Guests add it to their calendars in a tap, and if the plan shifts, you update the details after sending.
First-birthday favorites lean soft and sunny: balloon and streamer artwork, confetti, and gentle painted florals like Monet's poppy field for a card the baby book will be glad of.
With HeyVite, each guest opens an invitation of their own, addressed to them alone. Who said yes, who sent regrets, who else is invited: only you, the host, hold the full picture.
See how guest privacy worksEverything you need to host a first birthday with ease.
Guests upload their own photos to one shared album afterwards.
Every reply, meal and headcount on one live dashboard as it arrives.
No shared list and no name lookup. No one sees who else was invited.
Guests add the event to their calendar and get directions in a tap.
Answers about first birthday invitations and online RSVP on HeyVite.
Schedule around the birthday child's nap (late morning or early afternoon are the classic windows) and keep it to about two hours. Put both the start and the end time on the invitation, and name the moment that matters ("cake at 11:30") so guests who can only stop by still catch it.
Send them their own invitation. The private link opens anywhere in the world, and they can reply with a note even when the answer is a sad no. After the party, the shared photo album gathers everyone's pictures of the day in one place they can browse from anywhere, so they see the cake smash from every angle.
No. Each guest taps their private link and replies right there: no app, no download, no sign-up. That matters for a first birthday, where the guest list runs from college friends to great-grandparents; the link works the same on every phone and laptop.
The people you want in the photos: family, close friends, and the little ones your child actually knows. The baby will not remember the day. The grown-ups will, so build the list for them and keep it small enough that you get to enjoy it too.
Yes. Every design and every feature, the photo album included, comes free on every plan. The free plan covers up to 75 guests, which fits most first birthdays; if yours runs bigger, one payment for this one event raises the cap ($15 for up to 150 guests, $45 for up to 300 and $110 for up to 900). No subscription.
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