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Buddha Purnima invitations
4 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
Modern
A clean sans, a two-column split, one accent rule, no ornament.
About this design
A clean sans, a two-column split, one accent rule and no ornament. Built for the invitations where a cultural motif would be wrong rather than merely unnecessary — a networking mixer, a product launch, a team lunch — and for the American holidays this community celebrates without wanting them decorated as Indian.
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.
Indigo Block Print
One small block printed edge to edge in indigo, as in Rajasthan.
About this design
Block print: one small repeating unit, printed edge to edge, in a single indigo on undyed cloth. The calmest family here and the one that suits an event nobody wants to look festive — a study circle, a professional meetup, a farewell. Its restraint is a different restraint from kasavu's: kasavu removes ornament, indigo repeats one piece of it until it becomes texture.
Kalamkari
Pen-work from Andhra: uneven vegetal borders in madder, iron black and indigo.
About this design
Andhra pen-work: flowing vegetal borders in madder red, iron black and indigo. The research records two sub-styles — Srikalahasti's freehand pen and Machilipatnam's block print — and this family draws the freehand one, which is why its line is uneven and its borders never tile exactly. Deities are the tradition's most famous subject and are deliberately not drawn: a template that puts a deity on a party invitation makes a religious claim the host did not.
Marked by Buddhist families. Usually a temple, a hired hall and a park, for family and the wider community. April to June. 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 Buddha Purnima
- When it falls
- April to June
- Who is usually asked
- family and the wider community
- Where it usually happens
- a temple, a hired hall, a park and at home
- How the invitation speaks
- Formal — full names, and the invitation does the asking
- Customary opening line
- “Join us for Buddha Purnima”
- Colours it is associated with
- White
- Marked by
- Buddhist
Wording that works
Buddha Purnima
Vandana at 10, talks at 11, lunch at one.
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.