Six ways to open an invitation
Each design begins with its own moment from a Sri Lankan wedding and moves through your day in its own way. Every phone below is live: tap it, swipe it, hold it. Then open the full sample website.
Your names appear on all six designs as you type.
Nekath
The whole invitation is built around the auspicious time an astrologer chose. The moment the Poruwa begins is the headline, not an afterthought.
- The dialTurns to the auspicious minute and counts down to it.
- The day as an orbitEvery event sits around the dial at its real time.
- Constellation galleryPhotographs appear as stars, joined into a shape.
- Light a starReplying adds a star with the guest's name.
Bulath Athak
The oldest Sri Lankan way to invite someone who matters: a sheaf of betel leaves, offered with both hands. The guest swipes up, the sheaf fans open, and the invitation rises from its heart.
- Receive the sheafA swipe fans the leaves open. Elders can be sent a fuller sheaf than friends.
- A leaf for each partTap a leaf for the story, the day, the place or what to wear.
- Memories on the trayPhotographs are laid out on the brass tray.
- Accept with both handsHold with two thumbs to accept, the way a sheaf is received. One tap works too.
Pahana
Every Sri Lankan celebration begins by lighting the oil lamp. The guest presses and holds, the wicks catch one by one, and the warm light brings the invitation out of the dark. Every guest who replies lights a lamp of their own in a shared field the whole family watches grow.
- Light the lampPress and hold until the wicks catch.
- A wick for each chapterEvery section lights the next wick of the lamp.
- Photographs in lamplightWarm light reveals each photograph in turn.
- Your lamp joins the fieldReplying adds your lamp to a shared field shown at the venue and kept by the couple.
Batik
Hand-drawn wax on indigo cloth. Wherever the guest touches, saffron dye blooms through the fabric, and the names sit in a panel the wax kept clean, with the fine crackle only real batik has.
- The dye bathTouch spreads colour through the pattern.
- A new colour per chapterStory in saffron, the day in madder red, the place in indigo.
- Cloth panelsPhotographs hang like lengths of fabric.
- Block-print replyThe answer is pressed on like a carved stamp.
Hill Country Line
A one-way ticket on the most beautiful train ride in the country. Playful for couples who met travelling, with the day laid out as stations along the line.
- Your ticketPersonal seat, departure at the Poruwa time.
- The day as stationsArrival, Poruwa, lunch and the first dance along the line.
- Window viewsPhotographs pass like scenery through the carriage window.
- Stamped replyAccepting stamps the ticket; declining keeps it as a keepsake.
Kolam
A kolam drawn at the doorstep to welcome guests. The invitation starts as a grid of rice-flour dots, then a single unbroken line loops around them before the welcome appears.
- The kolam drawsDots, then the line, then the welcome.
- A threshold per chapterEach section opens with its own small kolam.
- Framed memoriesPhotographs sit inside kolam borders.
- Add your dotEvery reply adds a dot to a shared pattern.