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Thread ceremony invitations
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.
Marked by Hindu families. Usually at home, a temple and a hired hall, for family, the wider community and friends. Traditionally around age eight. 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 Thread ceremony
- When it falls
- Traditionally around age eight
- Who is usually asked
- family, the wider community and friends
- Where it usually happens
- at home, a temple and a hired hall
- How the invitation speaks
- Formal — full names, and the invitation does the asking
- Customary opening line
- “Join us for the thread ceremony”
- Colours it is associated with
- Not confirmed by the research
- Marked by
- Hindu
Wording that works
Aditya's upanayanam
Ceremony from 7am, brunch at 11, reception in the evening from 6.
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.