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Raksha Bandhan invitations

5 designs

Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.

  • Come for Rakhi

    Rakhi lunch

    Mon 26 Oct

    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.

  • Come for Rakhi

    Rakhi lunch

    Mon 26 Oct

    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.

Usually at home, a restaurant and a park, for family, friends and the children. August. 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 Raksha Bandhan

When it falls
August
Who is usually asked
family, friends and the children
Where it usually happens
at home, a restaurant and a park
How the invitation speaks
Warm — first names, and it sounds like the person sending it
Customary opening line
“Come for Rakhi”
Colours it is associated with
Red and gold
Marked by
Hindu, Jain, Sikh and anyone else

Wording that works

Rakhi lunch

Everyone at ours by noon. Cousins included, as always.

Written by us as an example. Every word of it is yours to change.

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.