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Cricket watch party invitations
4 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
Bandhani
Tie-dye dots and mirror discs from Gujarat and Rajasthan, made to carry far.
About this design
Tie-dye dot fields and mirror-work discs, Gujarati and Rajasthani, at the loudest end of this file. It is the one family designed to be seen from across a school gymnasium, which is where the research found garba actually happens in the United States. Motion is festive here and on only two other families.
Usually at home, a clubhouse and a restaurant, for friends, family and the wider community. March to May for the IPL; October to November and June for the World Cups. 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 Cricket watch party
- When it falls
- March to May for the IPL; October to November and June for the World Cups
- Who is usually asked
- friends, family and the wider community
- Where it usually happens
- at home, a clubhouse, a restaurant and a hired hall
- How the invitation speaks
- Casual — short, direct, the way you would text a friend
- Customary opening line
- “Come and watch the match”
- Colours it is associated with
- Team colours; the tricolour for an India match
- What guests bring
- Snacks. There will already be too much chai.
- Marked by
- Everyone
Wording that works
The final — 4.30am, at ours
Toss at 4.30. Chai from four. Sleeping bags in the basement for anyone who cannot face the drive.
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.