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Saraswati Puja invitations
4 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
Alpana
Bengali rice-flour lines in red and white, travelling inward from a doorway.
About this design
Bengali rice-flour drawing — white floral lines that begin at a doorway and travel inward, here rendered as red-and-white because that is the Durga Puja and Poila Boishakh pairing rather than a colour scheme somebody liked. Alpana is Bengali specifically; it is not a synonym for rangoli and the family will not be relabelled as one.
Kolam
Dot-grid geometry from Tamil and Telugu doorsteps, drawn at dawn.
About this design
White dot-grid geometry on a warm ground, the way a Tamil or Telugu doorstep is drawn at dawn. Named kolam and not rangoli on purpose: alpana in Bengal and aripan in Bihar are cousins with their own names, and this family draws only the South Indian one.
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.
Marked by Hindu families. Usually at home, a temple and a school, for family, the children and the wider community. Late January to February. 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 Saraswati Puja
- When it falls
- Late January to February
- Who is usually asked
- family, the children and the wider community
- Where it usually happens
- at home, a temple, a school and a hired hall
- How the invitation speaks
- Warm — first names, and it sounds like the person sending it
- Customary opening line
- “Join us for Saraswati Puja”
- Colours it is associated with
- Yellow
- What people wear
- Yellow, if you have it
- Marked by
- Hindu
Wording that works
Saraswati Puja and hate khori
Anjali at 10.30. The children's first letters after. Khichuri at one.
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.