Invitation design · Wedding
The Family Archive a letter-style wedding invitation
The invitation opens as a period letter: a cancelled stamp bearing the couple's initials, postal marks, sepia ink and a closing lit by candlelight.
- Included in every plan
- 3 palettes, one click away
- Free preview, with your names
The opening plays on tap, as it does on a guest's phone.
The design's card
What goes into The Family Archive.
A vintage letter with stamps and keepsake photographs
- The opening
Beyond the letters
One short word on the page's paper, your first Gallery photo inside its letters (or the invitation itself, with no photos): the camera dives into the letters, and beyond them is the invitation.
- The type
EB Garamond · Crimson Pro
EB Garamond for the names, Crimson Pro for the text.
- The colours
Ink navy · Forest
3 palettes: base, ink navy, forest. Switch in one click, in the editor.
- The RSVP
Will you come?
A button in the invitation: who is coming, with how many, which menu. The answers come to you.
About the design
The first screen is a sheet of letter paper laid on aged stock, with the fold lines of decades spent in an envelope. A typewritten postal rail runs along the top, carrying a cancelled stamp — the couple's initials, the year, a round postmark and the wavy cancellation inked across it. The date arrives as a rubber date stamp, set askew. Below, the countdown sits on punched archive tags, portraits are held with tape, the text runs in ruled ledger panels, and the RSVP is a reply postcard. EB Garamond and Crimson Pro, sepia on cream, sealing-wax red for accent.
Which events it suits
It fits a wedding that keeps the traditional order: a church ceremony, parents and godparents named on the page, a reception in a manor or a family house. The whole staging is one long correspondence between two people, which is why no baptism or birthday edition was ever cut. Couples who want the invitation to look found in an old box, not printed this year, land here.
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From the first thought to “can't wait!”
One lovely message. Three simple steps.
Fewer things to sort out. More room for the moment.
Give it your voice.
You pick a design, add the details and the words that sound like the two of you.
Pass it on.
You send the link on WhatsApp, by email or however you talk to your people.
Gather with joy.
See who is coming, without hunting for the answers across every conversation.
Complete €49
What comes after you pick a design
- Wedding invitation wording — 26 examples you can copyWedding invitation wording for every part of the page — the host line, the request, church or register office, the reception, dress code and the sign-off.
- Wedding and christening invitation wording — 27 examplesWedding and christening invitation wording for one day: how to name your child beside you, order the two ceremonies, and invite someone to just one part.
- Online RSVPGuests answer from the invitation, and your list stays current without counting messages.
- The guest listWho is invited, who confirmed, who is missing — one list, not three files.
- The seating planSeat the people who confirmed, move whoever needs moving, print the boards.
From the heart, to your people
You have the reason. We have the invitation.
The first “can't wait!” starts with a message from you.
