Sanne & Daan · Utrecht
A canal house you reach on foot, guests from four provinces, and a budget that kept quietly climbing.
An illustrative story — representative of how couples plan with bridecard, not a specific customer.
Three questions, on a loop
They'd fallen for a canal house just outside Utrecht — wonderful in photos, and, it turned out, with no road to its door; you arrive on foot, along the water. Charming, right up until forty guests need to know exactly how. Half were coming from around the Netherlands, the rest flying into Schiphol from London and Lisbon, and all of them had the same three questions, on repeat: where do we sleep, where do we park, how do we actually get there. The answers were buried in a chat from March. And the budget had been creeping up five euros at a time since autumn, until neither of them could have told you, off the top of their head, what the wedding now cost.
"Nobody got lost, and the number never once surprised us."
Everything on one page
So they put the lot on a single page. The venue came with a pin and a written-out route — train to Utrecht, then the tram, then the last stretch on foot. The nearest hotels sat right beside it, with a parking note for the ones driving in. The questions just… stopped; people checked the page instead of messaging. They watched the replies arrive, nudged the four names that had gone quiet, and let the budget tracker do the unglamorous part — every booking logged, the total always there in black and white. The slow creep had nowhere left to hide.
Nobody got lost
On the morning of, no one was lost. The Londoners found the right tram, the drivers parked on the right side of the canal, and Sanne and Daan knew their final number because the list had done the counting for them. The budget landed more or less where they'd meant it to — not from being strict, just from being able to see it the whole way through. Sanne spent that morning by the water with a coffee, instead of answering 'where are we staying again?' for the tenth time.
- Venue location with directions guests could open
- Hotel & parking info next to the date
- Online RSVPs you can see at a glance
- A budget tracker that kept the number honest
FAQ
Put it on the invitation itself. bridecard has a locations section where you add the venue pin, nearby hotels and a parking note, so guests find directions and somewhere to sleep in one place. Sanne and Daan added a train-and-tram route too, and the 'how do we get there?' messages stopped.
bridecard has a budget tracker where you log each cost as it's booked and see a running total. Because the number stays visible, the slow creep that catches a lot of couples doesn't sneak up — Daan and Sanne knew where they stood the whole way through.
No. The invitation is a web link — guests open it in whatever browser they already have, on a phone or a laptop, and RSVP right there. Nothing to install, which matters when half your guests are travelling in.
Yes. Your RSVP list shows who's said yes, who's said no, and who's gone quiet, so you can nudge just the names that need it. That's how Sanne and Daan chased exactly four people instead of re-messaging everyone.
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