Bilingual and multilingual wedding invitations on one link
Occavia lets you create bilingual and multilingual wedding invitations: one shareable link that shows the invitation and the RSVP form in up to three languages, so every guest reads it in their own. When one family speaks Spanish and the other German, or guests are flying in from three countries, a single-language invitation always leaves someone out.
Guests open the link and a language switcher shows them everything in theirs — text, buttons, dates and the reply form. Choose any three of 72 languages for your wording, let auto-translate draft the other versions, and edit until it sounds like you.
Create your invitation
What a multilingual invitation is
A multilingual invitation is one page, not three. The same link carries every language version; a guest picks theirs from a small globe menu and the whole invitation switches — your names and story, the schedule, the dress code, the map and the RSVP form. Nothing is duplicated: one guest list, one set of replies, one photo album, whichever language a guest chose.
Two layers make it work. Your own wording — the words you wrote — exists in each language you add, up to three per invitation, chosen from 72. The interface around it — reply buttons, form labels, dates, the guestbook and the photo pages — is translated by Occavia itself in thirteen languages, nine of them completely, and shows in English for any other. Right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew flip the whole layout. All of it is included with every wedding and birthday invitation, never sold as an add-on.
How it works
Choose your languages
Pick a design, then add up to three languages in the builder's Add-ons & languages step. The list holds 72 — from Spanish, German and Dutch to Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese and Japanese — each shown by its own native name.
Write once, auto-translate, then edit
Write your invitation in your first language. One Auto-translate button drafts every section — names, story, schedule, dress code, questions and answers — into the other languages; you review and correct each line, so every version sounds like you and not like a machine.
Share one link with everyone
Send the same link to every guest, whatever their language. They open it, switch language if they need to, then read and reply entirely in their own — no app, no account.
Replies arrive in one place
Every reply lands in the same dashboard and the same guest list, whichever language the guest replied in. The questions you add to the reply form are written per language too, so the answers line up in one export.
What guests see
A guest opens the invitation and sees it in its first language, with a small globe pill in the corner showing that language's native name. One tap opens the others; choosing one switches the entire page and writes the choice into the link, so a guest can forward the invitation to a relative already in their language. Dates are written the way that language writes them — the German day-month order, the Spanish de, the 24-hour clock outside English — and Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu render right-to-left from the first pixel.
The reply form, the thank-you card, the calendar buttons, the photo upload page and the guestbook follow the same choice in the thirteen interface languages. In any other of the 72, your own wording shows in that language and the buttons stay in English.
What you see
In the builder, each language is a tab. Fill in the first, press Auto-translate, and the others fill with a draft you can edit field by field — the translation is a starting point that is never saved without you. Every section you switched on is covered, including custom blocks and the FAQ; the questions on your reply form are written per language in the dashboard. In the dashboard there is nothing extra to manage: one guest list, one set of replies, one export. You edit the invitation later in the same builder, in the same tabs, and the published link and every reply stay exactly where they are.
Key capabilities
Up to 3 languages on one link
Bilingual or trilingual, one page. Guests switch in a tap and nothing is duplicated — one guest list, one album, one set of replies.
72 languages for your wording
Choose from 72 languages, each listed by its native name, for your names, story, schedule and every section — from Spanish and German to Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Chinese and Japanese.
Auto-translate, then edit
One button drafts every section into your other languages; you correct each line before it goes anywhere. Machine draft, human final.
Guest interface in 13 languages
Reply buttons, form labels, dates, the guestbook and the photo pages are translated by Occavia in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Georgian, French, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese — the last four with a few labels still in English.
Right-to-left, handled
Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu flip the whole layout, not just the text, so nothing sits on the wrong side.
Included, not an add-on
Languages come with every invitation at the same one-time price. Only the Save the Date, a single-language announcement, stays in one language.
Which language a guest sees, and what falls back
The invitation opens in its first language; a guest picks another from the globe menu and the choice travels in the link, so a forwarded link keeps its language. For your wording, each field shows the version you wrote in the chosen language and falls back to your first language if you left one field empty, so a page is never blank. For the interface, thirteen languages are translated by Occavia — nine of them down to the last label, with French, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese covering the reply form and the main pages and showing a few English labels beyond that. Any other language shows your wording in that language and the buttons in English. Confirmation emails to guests who leave an address are sent in English, or in Georgian for invitations created in Georgian.
Auto-translate, quality and control
The Auto-translate button sends the exact text you wrote, section by section, to a professional machine-translation service and returns drafts into the builder — nothing is published until you save. Names, places and dates are the fields to check first; a family joke or a line of poetry is worth rewriting by hand. You can translate again after editing, or write a language entirely yourself. Because every language sits on the same link, a correction you make later reaches every guest at once: there is no second version to resend. If you want a starting point for the words themselves, the wedding invitation wording examples cover the classic phrasings.
In their words
Stories worth remembering.
Real moments. Beautiful experiences.
Our families are split between Milan and London. Everyone opened the same page in their own language.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to translate everything myself?
No. The interface — reply form, buttons, dates — is already translated in thirteen languages. Your own wording you write once, then Auto-translate drafts the other languages and you edit the result. Writing a language fully by hand is possible too.
How many languages can one invitation have?
Up to three, chosen from 72. Most couples use two: the language they share and the one their other family or their guests abroad read best.
My family's language isn't among the thirteen. Can I still use it?
Yes, if it is among the 72: your wording — names, story, schedule, every section — shows in that language, and the reply form and buttons stay in English. Right-to-left scripts render correctly. The thirteen cover the guest experience, reply form included; nine of them completely.
Do guests see the invitation in their language automatically?
The invitation opens in its first language and offers the others in a globe menu; one tap switches everything, and the link then carries that choice, so a link a guest forwards opens in their language. The choice is not stored on the guest's phone.
Is multilingual support a paid extra?
No. It comes with every invitation: up to three languages on one link, the switcher, the translated interface and the Auto-translate button, at the same one-time price.
In which language do guests get the confirmation email?
In English, or in Georgian for invitations created in Georgian. Everything on the page itself — form, thank-you card, calendar buttons — follows the language the guest chose.
Can I fix a translation after publishing?
Yes. Open the builder from your dashboard, edit the language tab and save; the invitation updates for everyone on the same link, with all replies kept.