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Karva Chauth invitations
4 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
Jali & Paisley
Mughal and Rajasthani lattice with a wide-tracked serif; geometry, never a figure.
About this design
Buta and jali — the Mughal and Rajasthani lattice, set in a serif with wide tracking. The research's caution is written into the drawing rather than left as a note: jali carries both Hindu/Jain and Islamic associations, so the family draws the geometry and never a figure, which is what lets one design serve a nikah and a shashtipoorthi without either borrowing the other's iconography.
Cinematic
Near-black, one light, condensed capitals and a great deal of nothing.
About this design
Near-black with one light, a condensed display face set in capitals, and a great deal of nothing. The premium end of the range for a sangeet, a reception or an anniversary — a stage rather than a pattern, which is why it takes the occasion's own emblem and draws nothing of its own. The title pushes in slowly and everything else simply arrives; there is no ornament to animate.
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.
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.
Marked by Hindu and Sikh families. Usually at home, a hired hall and a clubhouse, for the women of the family, family and the two of you. October to 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 Karva Chauth
- When it falls
- October to November
- Who is usually asked
- the women of the family, family and the two of you
- Where it usually happens
- at home, a hired hall and a clubhouse
- How the invitation speaks
- Warm — first names, and it sounds like the person sending it
- Customary opening line
- “Join us for Karva Chauth”
- Colours it is associated with
- Red, gold and pink
- Marked by
- Hindu and Sikh
Wording that works
Karva Chauth evening
Mehndi from 4, thali at 6, and we watch for the moon together.
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.