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Vaisakhi invitations
4 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
Phulkari
Punjabi darning embroidery as a stitch grid; uppercase and unafraid.
About this design
Punjabi darning embroidery: dense geometric fill worked from the back of the cloth, drawn here as a repeating stitch grid rather than as a border. Specifically Punjabi, which is why it carries the khanda and the Lohri bonfire and why it is offered on Vaisakhi and Gurpurab before any pan-Indian family is.
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.
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.
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.
Marked by Sikh and Hindu families. Usually a gurdwara, a park and a hired hall, for family, the wider community and friends. 13–14 April. 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 Vaisakhi
- When it falls
- 13–14 April
- Who is usually asked
- family, the wider community and friends
- Where it usually happens
- a gurdwara, a park, a hired hall and a clubhouse
- How the invitation speaks
- Warm — first names, and it sounds like the person sending it
- Customary opening line
- “Vaisakhi diyan lakh lakh vadhaiyan”
- Colours it is associated with
- Saffron and yellow
- Marked by
- Sikh and Hindu
Wording that works
Vaisakhi mela
Nagar kirtan sets off at 11 from the gurdwara. Langar, bhangra and stalls in the park after.
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.