Invitations

Paper

Seventeen papers — classic, modern, botanical, luxe, playful, minimal, vellum, noir, terracotta, midnight foil, and pressed flower, plus a correspondence set: airmail (red and blue par-avion stripes), parchment, kraft, gilded, linen, and postcard. Each one is a whole material, not just a color: its own grain and weave, liner piping, wrap and flap silhouette, border art, ink, lettering, sheen, and shadow depth. Recolor the paper, liner, and seal on top of any of them.

Postage & address

The envelope & letter construction can carry a postage stamp — drawn to match your paper and seal, with the event day as its denomination — and an inky postmark dated to your event. The address block reads “Deliver to” plus each guest's own name from their personal link, with an optional second line (a city, an inside joke, a “par avion”) that you set once for everyone.

Seals, monograms, and your own emblem

Hold it closed with molded wax (each seal gets its own hand-poured shape with a pressed, letterpress monogram), a metallic foil medallion, a monogram, a pinked sticker, a ribbon that unties, or nothing at all. A monogram can be drawn seven ways (plain, serif, ampersand, stacked, crest, script, or deco), fills itself in from the host names you already typed, and now sizes itself to fit — one initial, three initials, or a ringed frame all sit correctly in the seal.

Emblemis the bring-your-own option: pick a sticker you've already made in the Sticker Lab, upload a mark, or ask Theo to generate one. Then choose what it sits on — bare, pressed into wax, in a metal ring, on a foil disc, or over ribbon tails.

A living backdrop behind it

Set the mood before your guest opens anything. A library of more than sixty real rendered films loops softly behind the envelope, organized the way you browse: skies (sunrise mist, storm light, moonrise, the Milky Way), warm golden light (fireside, string lights, honey fields), places in Europe (Venice, Santorini, Paris, the Amalfi coast, a Scottish glen), places faraway (Kyoto, Marrakech, the Sahara, a tropical lagoon, the Himalaya), gardens and nature (cherry blossom, autumn lanes, ocean waves), and celebration (fireworks, gold glitter, rose petals, a chandelier). Every film ships inside the product, so it always plays and can never break. The classic moods (candlelit bokeh, garden fireflies, a starfield with shooting stars, embers, aurora, confetti, snow, a handmade glow, neon dusk) are drawn live from light and particles. Guests who prefer reduced motion get a beautiful still. You can also render your own clip from a description or upload footage or a still.

This one plays while the invitation is still sealed. Your scenesget their own — pick it in the Mood step below, or reuse this one.

Opening it

On a sealed cover, choose how the wrap lets go — fold away, lift out, slide out, or dissolve — and it plays as a sequence: the seal pops and falls, the wrap parts, and your cover settles into place as the first scene. On an envelope & letter, the same choice shapes the flap and how the envelope leaves — the flap folds back, the letter rises and steps forward, and the envelope sinks, drops, or dissolves behind it. Guests who've asked their device to reduce motion get straight to the finished frame instead.

The arrival is a setting, not a page — so it never eats a scene, never needs its own export, and always looks consistent.

Three choices, and that's all

None keeps the plain, quiet backdrop your invitations have always had. Same as the envelope carries the arrival's film or mood straight through, which is usually the right answer and takes one tap. Or pick your own — the full set of films and live moods, plus rendering a clip from a description or uploading your own footage or still.

Dim and blur are yours to set, because a backdrop should sit behind the writing, never compete with it.

Your scenes become cards

The moment there is something behind them, your scenes lift off it: rounded corners, a soft shadow, and a little air between each one, so the backdrop reads down both sides and underneath the last scene instead of being hidden by a seamless column. Everything on the page — the RSVP form, your credit line — sits in the same room.

Light backdrops are handled too: pick a morning sky and the page around your scenes warms up to match rather than staying near-black, and the reply form gets just enough shade behind it to stay readable.

A library, or your own track

Browse instrumentals by feel — ceremony and processional, romantic, solo piano, acoustic and folk, bright and joyful, cinematic, party, or calm and ambient. Tap any one to hear it before you choose it. Every track ships inside the product, so it always plays.

Or upload your own — MP3, WAV, M4A, and the MP4 files music often arrives as. Picking a library track doesn't throw your upload away, so you can audition the library and go back to your own song.

How it plays

It never cuts in at full volume: it fades up, and by default it swellsacross the opening scene so the music arrives underneath a guest who is still looking at your cover. If you'd rather it just hold one level, choose steady.

Either way it gets out of the way of a scene that has its own sound — a video that plays itself, or ambient music on one scene — and comes back up afterwards. Nothing to configure; it reads your scenes.

Set a volume ceiling, and decide whether it tries to start on its own once the envelope opens. Phones refuse to play sound until someone taps, which is normal and not an error — the player simply waits with a play button.

What your guest sees

A small pill that stays with them as they scroll. Tapping it opens play/pause, mute, the track name, and — for library tracks — a scrub bar with the time. It's in the preview too, with autoplay off, so you can hear exactly what you picked while you design without music starting every time you open it.