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Welcome to America invitations
4 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
Both Homes
Navy and marigold, with the tricolour and the stars as accents, never flags.
About this design
Navy and marigold, with the tricolour and the stars and stripes used as accents rather than as flags — the design language of a household that is both, which is most of this audience. It is what a citizenship party, a Friendsgiving and a Diwaloween invitation get, and it is deliberately not a flag mashup: the two palettes meet in the type and the rule, and neither one wins.
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.
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.
Warli
From the Warli people of Maharashtra: white figures on clay, gathering and dancing.
About this design
Circles, triangles and stick figures in white on clay — the painting tradition of the Warli people of Maharashtra. It is indigenous art with a Geographical Indication, so it is named here and everywhere it renders, never described as folk art or as an Indian pattern; a family that borrows a protected tradition and declines to say whose it is has taken something. The figures are the tradition's own vocabulary of people farming, dancing and gathering, which is why it suits a community potluck better than a wedding.
Usually at home, a restaurant and a clubhouse, for friends, family and the wider community. The first weeks. 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 Welcome to America
- When it falls
- The first weeks
- Who is usually asked
- friends, family and the wider community
- Where it usually happens
- at home, a restaurant and a clubhouse
- How the invitation speaks
- Warm — first names, and it sounds like the person sending it
- Customary opening line
- “Welcome — come and meet everyone”
- Marked by
- Everyone
Wording that works
Welcome dinner for the Guptas
In the clubhouse. Bring a dish if you can; do not worry if you cannot.
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.