№01 · Anya
Supper, six guests
Hand-set serif · paper · botanical mark
We built our invitation tool instead of paying for one.
SaaS for things you do twice a year is overkill. The free alternatives bury you in ads. Building it yourself used to take a quarter. Now it takes an afternoon.
003 · What it does
A full-service invitation tool. Quietly complete.
Send invitations
Personal links. No account required for guests.
Upload your guest list
CSV in, addressed invites out.
Collect RSVPs
Yes, no, maybe — plus a note to the host.
Directions, built in
Google Maps embedded on every invite.
Yours to shape
Typography, palette, and copy per event. No templates.
Everything a paid invitation service does. Built in an afternoon. Yours forever.
004 · The artifacts
Five quiet ones. One loud one. Yours can be either, or neither.
№02 · Marcus
Fortieth, at the Maritime Club
Letterpress · embossed display · single knot
№03 · Iris Tan
Gallery opening, Pier Studio 4
Swiss grid · oxblood hairline · room to breathe
№04 · The Holloways
Garden lunch in June
Italic script · ochre botanical · daylight
№05 · The Okafors
Welcoming Wren
Quiet serif · single rule · restrained
№06 · Lori
Retirement, after thirty-three years
Hot pink · falling confetti · the loud one
005 · The build
One prompt. One weekend. One tool we actually wanted.
The prompt
“A quiet invitation tool. Each invite is its own small designed artifact. No themes, no templates. The host chooses the typography, the palette, the rhythm.”
A frame from the build, mid-iteration.
Total time
~4 hours
One afternoon. Start to deployable.
Stack
Lovable
React, Tailwind, Framer Motion, Lenis. The defaults, well used.
The longest part
The type
Picking five typographic moods that all still felt like one hand.
006 · Or learn it with us
We also teach people how to build things like this.