The Digital Envelope

Terms of Service

Last updated 18 August 2026

These terms cover your use of thedigitalenvelope.com, run by AIDP Corp (“we”, “us”). By buying or using an invitation, you agree to them.

What you are buying

A digital wedding invitation: a private web page with your details, a link you share with your guests, and a dashboard that collects their replies. It is a license to use the design for your own wedding. You do not acquire the design itself, and you may not resell it or use it for another couple’s event.

A draft you build before paying is not a purchase. It has no guest link, nothing is sent to anyone, and it is kept for fourteen days after the last change (sixty days at most) before it is deleted. Buying keeps it, gives it a link, and turns on replies. Classic and Save the Date do not include the Signature features you may have tried in the draft (your own photograph on the first screen, your own song, switching sections off, more than four gallery photographs); those stay saved for you and appear if you upgrade later.

You need to be eighteen

You have to be eighteen or older to buy from us, and the person paying has to be the one agreeing to these terms. If you are planning a wedding and you are not eighteen yet, a parent or anyone else over eighteen can buy it for you, in their name.

Choosing a design

With Signature you can pour your details into any of our designs and see how they sit there, as many times as you like — before you publish and after. Everything you wrote comes along when you switch: your names, your words, your dates, your venue, your photograph, your guest list and their replies. Nothing is ever settled, and nothing is lost.

Classic and Save the Date pick their design before buying, and that is the one they keep. Moving between designs is a Signature thing.

Your license covers one wedding. Switching designs is for finding the one that suits you, not for reusing the invitation for another event or another couple.

What you may put on your invitation

Your invitation is yours to write, with four limits. Nothing against the law. Nothing meant to harass or frighten anyone. Nothing that pretends to come from a person or a company it does not come from. And nothing you do not have the right to use.

That last one catches more couples than the other three together, and it is almost always a photograph. If a professional took your engagement pictures, the copyright usually stays with the photographer even though you paid for the shoot and you are the two people in the frame. Most photographers say yes in one line of email. Ask before you upload, and keep the reply. The same goes for a song, a poem, a drawing or a piece of calligraphy somebody else made.

Your photographs stay yours

Everything you put on your invitation stays yours. Uploading it gives us permission to do one thing: keep it and show it on your invitation, to the people you send the link to. Nothing wider than that.

We will not put your photographs, your names or your invitation in our advertising, on our own site, or anywhere else in public without asking you first and getting a yes in writing. If we ever want to show your invitation as an example of our work, we will write and ask, and no is a perfectly good answer. When your invitation comes down, our copies come down with it.

The guest photo album

The album costs $29.99 on its own and comes with Signature. Your guests open your album link, or the card on the table, and add pictures straight from their phones. They make no account and we never ask them who they are.

It is open for three days: the morning of your wedding and the two days after it. Before that it will not take a picture, and once it closes it will not take one either. If somebody misses the window, write to us and we can hold it open a few days longer by hand.

One thing is worth knowing before you put that link on the tables. Your guests never see the album. They add their pictures, they are thanked, and that is the whole of it. What arrives is yours to look through, alone, on your dashboard, and yours to hide. If you want a picture gone for good, tell us and we delete the file.

We keep the album as long as we keep the rest of your invitation, and we do nothing else with the pictures. What guests upload lives under the same four limits as the rest of your invitation, and we can take a picture down if it breaks them.

If someone else’s work ends up on an invitation

If you believe something on one of our invitations is yours and was used without your permission, write to hello@thedigitalenvelope.com. Send us the link to the page, what the work is and where your own copy of it can be seen, a line saying you own it or act for the owner, and a way to reach you. A person reads every one of these.

We can hide the material while we look into it, and usually will. An invitation is a small private page, and nobody is harmed by a photograph being out of sight for a few days. We tell the couple what happened and why, so they can answer. If it turns out to be a misunderstanding, the material goes back up.

Gifts, registries and money

If you add a registry link or a payment handle, we show it on your invitation as a button. That is all we do. We never receive, hold, or pass on any money your guests send you. A guest who taps that button leaves your invitation and pays inside their own app or on the shop’s own website, under that company’s terms, not ours.

This means two things. We cannot see whether a gift arrived, so we cannot help you track one down. And the handle on your invitation is the one you typed: check it before you publish, because payment apps do not verify that an account exists, and money sent to a mistyped handle is gone. There is a button beside the field that opens your link so you can see for yourself where it leads.

Anything that goes wrong with a payment is between the guest, you, and the company that moved the money. If a payment app has rules about what its accounts may be used for, those are between you and them.

How long it stays online

Your invitation and dashboard stay online through your wedding day and for twelve months afterward. If you need longer, write to us before that year is out and we will keep it up. The photographs your guests shared follow the same twelve months; you can download them from your dashboard at any time, and from there you can also keep them online for another year for $19.99. If you bought before September 1, 2026, write to us instead and we will keep them up at no charge.

What you are responsible for

Everything reaches you by email

We do not send letters on paper. Your receipt, the link that signs you into your dashboard, a note that a guest has replied, a reminder that your invitation is still half built, and any notice we owe you under these terms all arrive as email, at the address you gave us when you bought. By buying, you agree to hear from us that way, and you agree that an email to that address counts as having been given the notice.

So keep that address working and tell us if it changes. There is no password to lose here, which is the good news, but there is also no way back into your dashboard without the address. If our letters stop arriving, look in the folder your mail program hides things in before you decide we went quiet.

These are the letters your invitation needs and nothing else. We do not put you on a mailing list for having bought one.

What we are responsible for

Keeping your invitation online and your guests’ replies safe. We take backups and use encrypted connections. We cannot promise the internet never fails, but if something breaks on our side we will fix it as quickly as we can. Write to hello@thedigitalenvelope.com and a person answers.

What we cannot promise

We give you the service as it is. We do not promise it will never go down, never have a bug, or look right on every device anyone will ever build. Nobody honest promises that. Browsers change, phones change, and the companies we rely on occasionally stop for an hour.

What we do promise is what happens next. You tell us, we fix it, and if we cannot fix it we give your money back. That is written down in the refund policy and we mean it.

How far our responsibility goes

If something goes wrong on our side, what we owe you is the money you paid us, and we will pay it. That is the ceiling. We are a small company selling an invitation for a hundred dollars or two, and we cannot carry the cost of a wedding.

That ceiling covers everything you bought from us: the invitation, the dashboard, the replies, the gallery, the lot. And it is the total for everything added together, not a fresh limit for each thing that goes wrong.

What sits outside it is the knock-on cost. If your page is down for a day, we owe you the price of the invitation. We do not owe you the caterer, the deposit, the flowers, or the day itself. Nobody selling a hundred dollar invitation can insure a wedding, and if we tried to, it would not cost a hundred dollars.

Three things this limit does not touch, because it should not. We do not limit what we owe you if we harm you deliberately, if we lie to you, or if the law where you live does not allow a limit like this. Some states do not allow it at all, and some do not allow it for everything.

If you live in New Jersey: the ceiling in this section does not apply to any claim of fraud, of deliberate harm, or of gross negligence, and nothing here takes away a right the law of New Jersey gives you. Everything else in this section, and the rest of these terms, still holds.

Talk to us first

Before either of us files anything anywhere, write to hello@thedigitalenvelope.com. Put your name, the email you bought with, what went wrong, and what you would like us to do about it. A person reads it.

Give us sixty days. Most things end here, usually with a refund, because that is almost always quicker and cheaper for both of us than anything else. Either of us can ask for a call instead, and we will take it.

Any deadline that applies to your claim, including the one below, stops running while this is going on. You do not lose anything by talking to us first.

How long you have

If you think we owe you something, tell us within one year of the day you first knew about it. After that it is too late, unless the law where you live gives you longer, in which case the law wins and this paragraph does not.

One year is not us being clever. Weddings end, invitations come down, and after a year the logs, the backups and the memory of what actually happened are gone. If neither of us can check, neither of us can be fair about it.

Guests’ details

Names, meal choices and notes your guests submit belong to you. We do not sell them, mail them, or use them for anything except showing them to you. See our privacy policy.

If we have to stop

We may remove an invitation that breaks the law, impersonates someone, or is used to harass. If that ever happens we will tell you why and refund what you paid.

Ending it

You can stop whenever you like. Write to us and we will take your invitation down and delete what we hold for you. If you are still inside the refund window, the refund policy says what comes back.

We can close an account for the reasons above: breaking the law, impersonating someone, harassment, or using work that is not yours. If we do, we will tell you which one it was and give you the chance to answer. And if we close your invitation and it was nothing you did, you get every dollar back.

The partner program

Wedding planners, venues, photographers and others can ask for a partner code on our partners page. A code gives their couples a discount and earns the partner a share of the full price, as written on that page when they join. The share is counted on sales that were paid and not refunded, and is paid on the 1st of each month for sales at least 30 days old. A refund after a payout comes off the next one.

A code runs for a year from the day we set it up. Before it ends we write to the partner and, if both of us want to go on, we renew it.

Either side can end the partnership at any time, for any reason, by email or, on our side, by turning the code off. We will do that without notice if a code is put on coupon or deal sites, used in paid ads on our name, sent to people who did not ask for it, used on the partner’s own order for commission, or used in any way that we think harms our couples or our name. When a partnership ends, sales that were already paid, not refunded and at least 30 days old are still paid out on the next 1st; nothing else is owed.

Partners must say that they earn from the code wherever they share it. Partners are not our employees or agents, and cannot make promises on our behalf.

Payments and refunds

Payments are handled by Stripe; we never see your card. See our refund policy.

If we change these terms

When we change something on this page, we change the date at the top of it. If the change is one that actually affects you, we send you an email as well. We do not expect anybody to reread this page on a Sunday.

The terms that apply to your invitation are the ones in force on the day you bought it. A later change does not reach back and alter the deal you made with us.

The law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, USA.

If talking does not settle it

If the sixty days of talking further up this page go by and we are still stuck, what comes next is arbitration and not a courtroom. Almost nothing gets this far. This is the one section on this page that takes something away from you, so we would rather say it plainly than bury it in capital letters.

By agreeing to these terms, you and we both give up the right to sue each other in court, and the right to have a jury decide. A dispute between us goes instead to one neutral arbitrator, who hears both sides and decides it. That decision is final, and a court will enforce it. It binds us exactly as it binds you: we cannot take you to court either.

Each of us also brings a claim only for ourselves. No class action, no group claim, nobody standing in for other couples, in arbitration or anywhere else. The arbitrator can give you everything the law allows for your own claim, and nothing for anybody else’s.

Small claims court stays open to both of us. If your claim fits there, take it there instead, as long as it stays individual. For an invitation costing a hundred dollars or two that is usually the quickest road, and we would think no worse of you for it.

How arbitration works, and who pays for it

It is run by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, which are published on their own site and were not written by us. It can be done on paper, by phone, by video, or in person somewhere near where you live. You may bring a lawyer, and so may we. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

We pay the arbitrator and every fee the arbitration itself costs, whoever started it and however it ends. We sell an invitation for a hundred dollars or two. If bringing a claim cost you more than the invitation did, this whole section would be a way of saying no, and we do not want it to be one.

Each of us pays for our own lawyer, unless the law that covers your claim says otherwise. We will never ask an arbitrator or a court to make you pay ours.

You can say no to this, within thirty days

You do not have to accept any of it. Write to hello@thedigitalenvelope.com within thirty days of your first purchase, say you are opting out of arbitration, and give us your name and the email you bought with. That is the whole procedure. There is no form and no fee.

Opting out changes nothing else. Your invitation, your price and every other promise on this page stay exactly as they were, and we will not treat you differently for having done it. If you opt out, anything between us goes to court in the ordinary way.

Where this section does not reach

Some things cannot be signed away, and we are not going to write as though they can.

This section outlives the rest. If you stop using us, or we close your invitation, what is written here still applies to anything that happened while it was live.

Who we are

The Digital Envelope is run by AIDP Corp. Everything promised on this page is promised by that company, and one address reaches a person who can do something about it.

AIDP Corp
Chicago, IL 60618
United States
hello@thedigitalenvelope.com

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