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First rice invitations
4 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
Alpana
Bengali rice-flour lines in red and white, travelling inward from a doorway.
About this design
Bengali rice-flour drawing — white floral lines that begin at a doorway and travel inward, here rendered as red-and-white because that is the Durga Puja and Poila Boishakh pairing rather than a colour scheme somebody liked. Alpana is Bengali specifically; it is not a synonym for rangoli and the family will not be relabelled as one.
Kolam
Dot-grid geometry from Tamil and Telugu doorsteps, drawn at dawn.
About this design
White dot-grid geometry on a warm ground, the way a Tamil or Telugu doorstep is drawn at dawn. Named kolam and not rangoli on purpose: alpana in Bengal and aripan in Bihar are cousins with their own names, and this family draws only the South Indian one.
Marked by Hindu families. Usually at home, a temple and a hired hall, for family and friends. Five to eight months. 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 First rice
- When it falls
- Five to eight months
- Who is usually asked
- family and friends
- Where it usually happens
- at home, a temple and a hired hall
- How the invitation speaks
- Warm — first names, and it sounds like the person sending it
- Customary opening line
- “His first mouthful of rice”
- Colours it is associated with
- Not confirmed by the research
- Marked by
- Hindu
Wording that works
Mukhe bhat for Ahaan
Twelve o'clock, and then the tray of objects to see what he grabs.
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.