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Dastar Bandi 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.
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.
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.
Marked by Sikh families. Usually a gurdwara, at home and a hired hall, for family and the wider community. Coming of age. 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 Dastar Bandi
- When it falls
- Coming of age
- Who is usually asked
- family and the wider community
- Where it usually happens
- a gurdwara, at home and a hired hall
- How the invitation speaks
- Formal — full names, and the invitation does the asking
- Customary opening line
- “Join us for a Dastar Bandi”
- Colours it is associated with
- Saffron and blue
- Marked by
- Sikh
Wording that works
Jasleen's Dastar Bandi
Ardas at 11, then langar. Please join us for our son's first dastar.
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.