Milestones

Retirement invitations

9 designs

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

After thirty-two years — come and see him off
Thirty-two years — a send-off for Prakash
Mon 26 Oct
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.
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After thirty-two years — come and see him off
Thirty-two years — a send-off for Prakash
Mon 26 Oct
Editorial
A serif at size, one hairline above the date, generous margins.
About this design
Type and rules and nothing else: a serif at a large size, a hairline above the date, generous margins. It is the formal end of the range — a fiftieth anniversary, a convention, a wedding whose hosts want no ornament at all — and it is the family that ages best, because there is nothing in it to date.
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After thirty-two years — come and see him off
Thirty-two years — a send-off for Prakash
Mon 26 Oct
Modern
A clean sans, a two-column split, one accent rule, no ornament.
About this design
A clean sans, a two-column split, one accent rule and no ornament. Built for the invitations where a cultural motif would be wrong rather than merely unnecessary — a networking mixer, a product launch, a team lunch — and for the American holidays this community celebrates without wanting them decorated as Indian.
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After thirty-two years — come and see him off
Thirty-two years — a send-off for Prakash
Mon 26 Oct
Indigo Block Print
One small block printed edge to edge in indigo, as in Rajasthan.
About this design
Block print: one small repeating unit, printed edge to edge, in a single indigo on undyed cloth. The calmest family here and the one that suits an event nobody wants to look festive — a study circle, a professional meetup, a farewell. Its restraint is a different restraint from kasavu's: kasavu removes ornament, indigo repeats one piece of it until it becomes texture.
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After thirty-two years — come and see him off
Thirty-two years — a send-off for Prakash
Mon 26 Oct
Kasavu
Cream and one gold border: the Kerala sari's whole idea.
About this design
Cream and one gold border, nothing else — the Kerala sari, whose whole aesthetic is that restraint. Adding ornament to it would be the mistake; the family refuses motifs beyond the border and the pookalam.
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After thirty-two years — come and see him off
Thirty-two years — a send-off for Prakash
Save the Date
The day as the headline, month and weekday beside it, then the names.
About this design
The date first, set as the headline: the day of the month in a large display serif, the month and weekday beside it in small capitals, the year beneath, then one hairline and the names. Nothing else on the page — no ornament, no border — because a save-the-date has one job, which is to put a day in somebody's calendar months ahead, and every mark that is not the date competes with it.
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With your photo

These leave room for a picture of your own, added when you make the invitation.

After thirty-two years — come and see him off
Thirty-two years — a send-off for Prakash
Mon 26 Oct
Portrait Arch
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A photo in an arch, like a doorway or mandap, with a gold hairline.
About this design
A photograph in an arch — the doorway of a house, the mandap, the temple gate — with a hairline inside the accent border, the invitation set underneath in a quiet serif. Built for a family or a couple: the framing is one tap on the face, never a face model. Without a photo the arch carries marigold and jali, so the design reads as a threshold rather than as a missing picture.
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Your photo here
After thirty-two years — come and see him off
Thirty-two years — a send-off for Prakash
Mon 26 Oct
Photo
Add a photo
Your photograph on its own plate; the words beside it, never over it.
About this design
One photograph full-bleed on the split plate, the invitation set beside or beneath it in a quiet serif. The plate holds the picture and nothing else — no words ever sit on it — so the photo is framed by the palette rather than written over. It is the host's own photo, copied once with its location and camera details removed; guests' photos are never stored.
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Your photo here
After thirty-two years — come and see him off
Thirty-two years — a send-off for Prakash
Mon 26 Oct
Your Artwork
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Your own picture edge to edge; the words on a solid band below.
About this design
Your own picture edge to edge, with the invitation set beneath it on a solid band in a quiet condensed face. Made for a host who already has a card they love: the look is theirs and the words are ours, so the date can still be corrected at the same address after the picture has been forwarded. The band is the palette's own paper at full strength, never a veil over the picture, so nothing a guest reads is ever read through somebody's photograph.
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Usually a restaurant, at home and a hired hall, for colleagues, family and friends. The end of a career. 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.

When it falls: The end of a career
Who is usually asked: colleagues, family and friends
Where it usually happens: a restaurant, at home, a hired hall and an office
How the invitation speaks: Warm — first names, and it sounds like the person sending it
Customary opening line: “After thirty-two years — come and see him off”
Marked by: Everyone

Wording that works

Thirty-two years — a send-off for Prakash
Six o'clock, dinner at seven. Speeches are optional and will happen anyway.

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.

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