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Anand Karaj invitations
4 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
Phulkari
Punjabi darning embroidery as a stitch grid; uppercase and unafraid.
About this design
Punjabi darning embroidery: dense geometric fill worked from the back of the cloth, drawn here as a repeating stitch grid rather than as a border. Specifically Punjabi, which is why it carries the khanda and the Lohri bonfire and why it is offered on Vaisakhi and Gurpurab before any pan-Indian family is.
Editorial
A serif at size, one hairline above the date, generous margins.
About this design
Type and rules and nothing else: a serif at a large size, a hairline above the date, generous margins. It is the formal end of the range — a fiftieth anniversary, a convention, a wedding whose hosts want no ornament at all — and it is the family that ages best, because there is nothing in it to date.
Jali & Paisley
Mughal and Rajasthani lattice with a wide-tracked serif; geometry, never a figure.
About this design
Buta and jali — the Mughal and Rajasthani lattice, set in a serif with wide tracking. The research's caution is written into the drawing rather than left as a note: jali carries both Hindu/Jain and Islamic associations, so the family draws the geometry and never a figure, which is what lets one design serve a nikah and a shashtipoorthi without either borrowing the other's iconography.
Marigold
A garland and toran at the head of the page, drawn as geometry.
About this design
A garland across the top and a toran hung at the head of the page, drawn as botanical geometry rather than as photographs of flowers. Warm by construction: the marigold is what a doorway wears on the morning of almost every occasion in this taxonomy, which is also why the family suits so many groups and leads none of them.
Marked by Sikh families. Usually a gurdwara, for family, the wider community and friends. On the chosen date. Free invitation designs with RSVP and calendar, and no account for your guests.
Each one is a different visual tradition rather than a recolour of the same card. Tap a colour underneath to change the palette; every design carries your own wording, date and place.
About Anand Karaj
- When it falls
- On the chosen date
- Who is usually asked
- family, the wider community and friends
- Where it usually happens
- a gurdwara
- How the invitation speaks
- Formal — full names, and the invitation does the asking
- Customary opening line
- “With the blessings of Waheguru, we invite you”
- Colours it is associated with
- Saffron with red and gold
- What people wear
- Heads covered, please
- Marked by
- Sikh
Wording that works
The Anand Karaj of Simran and Arjun
Kirtan from 9, lavan at 10.30, langar after. Heads covered in the darbar sahib.
Questions people ask
- Do my guests need an account?
- No, and they never will. A guest opens the link, types their name and taps Going, Maybe or Can't go. No password, no phone number, no app. If a page ever asks your guests for a password, it is not us.
- Can I text my guests?
- Only the ones who asked to be texted. A guest gives a number on their own — on our page, never yours — and confirms it with a six-digit code before we will send anything. You never see the number. Texts are limited to three per event so an invitation cannot become a mailing list, and cancelling or moving an event is never counted against that.
- Does it work in WhatsApp?
- That is what it is built for. Pasting the link shows a picture of the invitation with the date and who is hosting, before anybody taps — and the page opens in whatever browser your guest has, on any phone, including the ones that are not iPhones.
- Can guests add it to Google Calendar?
- Google, Apple, Outlook and anything else that reads a calendar file. There is a button on the invitation itself, and it works before anybody answers. If you change the time or the place afterwards, their existing entry updates — it does not add a second one — and cancelling removes it.