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Dussehra invitations
4 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
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.
Madhubani
Mithila painting from Bihar: every space filled, hard outlines, sun and fish.
About this design
Mithila painting from Bihar: every space filled, hard outlines, sun and moon and fish and lotus. A living craft with named practitioners, not an ethnic pattern — the family draws its geometry and never claims to reproduce a specific artist's work. Its density is the point and it is the reason it is offered for Chhath and Saraswati Puja before anything pan-Indian.
Marked by Hindu families. Usually at home, a temple and a hired hall, for family, friends and the wider community. Tenth day of Navratri, September or October. 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 Dussehra
- When it falls
- Tenth day of Navratri, September or October
- Who is usually asked
- family, friends and the wider community
- Where it usually happens
- at home, a temple, a hired hall and a park
- How the invitation speaks
- Warm — first names, and it sounds like the person sending it
- Customary opening line
- “Join us for Dussehra”
- Colours it is associated with
- Gold and red
- Marked by
- Hindu
Wording that works
Dussehra evening
Puja at 6, dinner after. The children have prepared something.
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.