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Diwali party invitations
Shubh Deepavali
8 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
Lamp-lit
Lamps, a garland and gold words on an arch; a lit room at night.
About this design
A lit room rather than a dark colour: lamps and a lantern drawn in gold geometry at the head and foot, a garland along the top, and the words on an arched panel in a gold display serif. Built for Diwali and every evening celebration where the lamp is the point; the restraint is what keeps it from reading as a shop window.
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.
With your photo
These leave room for a picture of your own, added when you make the invitation.
Photo
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Your photograph on its own plate; the words beside it, never over it.
About this design
One photograph full-bleed on the split plate, the invitation set beside or beneath it in a quiet serif. The plate holds the picture and nothing else — no words ever sit on it — so the photo is framed by the palette rather than written over. It is the host's own photo, copied once with its location and camera details removed; guests' photos are never stored.
Portrait Arch
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A photo in an arch, like a doorway or mandap, with a gold hairline.
About this design
A photograph in an arch — the doorway of a house, the mandap, the temple gate — with a hairline inside the accent border, the invitation set underneath in a quiet serif. Built for a family or a couple: the framing is one tap on the face, never a face model. Without a photo the arch carries marigold and jali, so the design reads as a threshold rather than as a missing picture.
Usually at home, a clubhouse and a hired hall, for family, friends, the wider community and the children. Mid-October to mid-November. 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 Diwali party
- When it falls
- Mid-October to mid-November
- Who is usually asked
- family, friends, the wider community and the children
- Where it usually happens
- at home, a clubhouse, a hired hall, a temple and a park
- How the invitation speaks
- Warm — first names, and it sounds like the person sending it
- Customary opening line
- “Shubh Deepavali” or, in English, “Join us for Diwali”
- Colours it is associated with
- Gold, red, orange
- What people wear
- Festive — Indian wear welcome
- What guests bring
- Just yourselves. Sweets if you insist.
- Marked by
- Hindu, Sikh, Jain and anyone else
Wording that works
Diwali at the Raos'
Diyas, dinner and cards. Come hungry, stay late.
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.