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Holi invitations
Holi Hai
5 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
Gulal
Editor’s pick
Thrown Holi colour: powder clouds over a bright ground, the words cut through.
About this design
Thrown colour: clouds of pigment hanging over a saturated midday ground, a burst of powder set large between the headline and the facts, and the words cut clean through the middle of it. Built for Holi and nothing else — gulal is powder thrown at people, which is one morning of the year and not a decorative style. The restraint is in the type and the stillness: one heavy sans, one pop on entry, and then a page that holds still while the colour does the work.
Playful
Balloons, paper and a diagonal; the age as a sticker.
About this design
Confetti, balloons and a very heavy display face set tight. The children's family, and the only one whose type is allowed to be this loud. It carries five palettes rather than three because a child's birthday is the one occasion where the host has a colour in mind before they have anything else.
Usually a park, a clubhouse and at home, for family, friends, the wider community and the children. March. 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 Holi
- When it falls
- March
- Who is usually asked
- family, friends, the wider community and the children
- Where it usually happens
- a park, a clubhouse, at home and a hired hall
- How the invitation speaks
- Casual — short, direct, the way you would text a friend
- Customary opening line
- “Holi Hai” or, in English, “Come play Holi with us”
- Colours it is associated with
- Bright multicolour — gulal pinks, greens and yellows
- What people wear
- White, or anything you will not mind losing
- What guests bring
- Colours if you have them
- Marked by
- Hindu and anyone else
Wording that works
Holi in the backyard
Gulal, thandai and a hose. Old clothes, please.
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.