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Pongal invitations
Pongalo Pongal
5 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
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.
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 hired hall and a temple, for family, the wider community and friends. 14–15 January. 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 Pongal
- When it falls
- 14–15 January
- Who is usually asked
- family, the wider community and friends
- Where it usually happens
- at home, a hired hall, a temple and a clubhouse
- How the invitation speaks
- Warm — first names, and it sounds like the person sending it
- Customary opening line
- “Pongalo Pongal” or, in English, “Iniya Pongal Nalvazhthukkal”
- Colours it is associated with
- Yellow and gold
- Marked by
- Hindu
Wording that works
Pongal at the Tamil Sangam
Pongal on the boil at 10, lunch at 12.30, kolam competition for the children.
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.