Invitation websites
Chikankari
Lucknowi white-work. Every frame and panel is made to look like embroidered cloth — padded stitch standing off the ground, catching the light and throwing its own shadow.
Build the whole thing free. You only pay when you want guests to open it.
The site is live the moment you pay. The pictures of the two of you, made from your photographs, take two to three days and appear on it as soon as they are ready.
What's included
- ✦ Opens on an embroidery hoop — one tap and your names are stitched in gold.
- ✦ Frames and panels made to look like Lucknowi white-work, on muslin that drifts as guests scroll.
- ✦ Your story as a deck of embroidered cards, and the ceremonies hanging from a gold thread.
- ✦ Each function's dress colours shown as thread swatches.
- ✓ Your story, the day-by-day schedule, photographs, travel and directions.
- ✓ Replies per function, so you know who is coming to what.
- ✓ Unlimited edits, free, right up to the wedding.
- ✓ Your own photographs throughout — upload as many as you like.
- ✓ Gujarati, Hindi or English, in your own script.
- ✓ Opens with “Tu Hi Sukoon”, an original song made for Toran. Pick another from our library, choose the part that plays — like music on a story — or switch it off. Guests can always mute it.
- ✓ After the wedding ends, the reply form turns into a feedback form. Guests leave a star rating and a note, and you read them privately on your dashboard, beside every RSVP — downloadable as a spreadsheet.
About this design
Chikankari is Lucknow's white-work, and this page is dressed in it. Every frame, panel and border is artwork made to look like real embroidered cloth — padded satin stitch standing off the ground and throwing its own shadow — rather than a flat drawn border.
The pieces are laid on one continuous length of unbleached muslin: a scalloped panel at the opening with your names worked into its gold cartouche, an oval frame for your note, arched mounts for your story, and two lengths of cloth hung from a gold rod for both families. The cloth drifts at a different rate from the writing as you scroll, so the page reads as fabric rather than a flat picture.
Colour arrives only where it earns its place: deep maroon for your names and headings, and marigolds, brass lamps and rose petals inside the arches. The embroidery itself stays ivory throughout, so your photographs are the brightest thing on the page.
Your story stacks as a deck of embroidered cards, each sliding over the last as you scroll — on a phone you swipe through them one at a time. The ceremonies hang from a single gold thread that draws downward as you read. Your photographs are scattered across the cloth in mixed mounts, no two the same size, and tapping any one opens it large.
Everything is yours to write: both families, the muhurat, each function with its own venue and dress colours shown as thread swatches, a map button that opens directions, your photographs, how you met, an RSVP that collects replies and any question you want to ask your guests. In Gujarati, Hindi or English.