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What families usually ask

Before an invitation goes to three hundred people, there is usually a list. This is ours.

Do our guests need to download an app?

No. The invitation is a link — it opens straight from WhatsApp, SMS or email in the phone’s browser, on any Android or iPhone. Dadi and Nani included.

Can we make it ours, or is it a template?

Yours. Your names, your words, your celebrations called whatever your family calls them, and the blessing your family opens with — Shree Ganeshaya Namah, Ik Onkar, Jai Jinendra, Bismillah, a line from Corinthians, or nothing at all. Fourteen card styles and twelve palettes to choose between, and every guest greeted by their own name.

How do we send it to everybody?

On WhatsApp, from your own phone, one family at a time. Each message is written for you with that family’s own link inside it — you read it, and tap send. Tick them off as you go, so you always know who is still waiting for theirs.

What if a date or venue changes after we send it?

Change it once in your dashboard. Every guest’s link always shows the latest details, so nobody is holding an out-of-date card.

Do we make it ourselves, or do you make it for us?

You make it — in your own dashboard, in an evening, and free until you are ready to send it. If you would rather we wrote it and set it up with you, word for word, that is the Shahi plan.

Do we have to wait for you to change anything?

No. Everything is in your dashboard: change a time, a venue, a name or a whole celebration yourself, whenever you like — before or after it is sent — and every guest’s link shows it straight away.

Can we see how many are coming to each celebration?

Yes. Guests reply for each celebration they are invited to, with how many are coming and a meal choice if you offer one. Your dashboard counts each celebration separately — the Mehendi’s number, the Sangeet’s, the Reception’s — with the meals beside it, ready for the caterer.

Can someone forward the invitation to people we didn’t invite?

Invitations are invite-only by default. The plain link shows only your names — no dates, no venue. Each personal link belongs to one guest, and any reply through it comes back tagged with their name.

Is our guest list private?

Only you can see your guests, their phone numbers and their replies. Guests never see who else is invited, and invitations are not listed on search engines.

Does it work for a destination wedding or guests abroad?

Yes. Links work anywhere in the world, times are shown in the wedding’s local time, and “Add to calendar” converts them to each guest’s own timezone.

Our families follow different traditions. Is that supported?

Your invitation can open with Shree Ganeshaya Namah, Ik Onkar, Jai Jinendra, Bismillah, a line from Corinthians, or nothing at all — and every celebration can be renamed to what your family calls it.

Why not just send a PDF on the family group?

Because one PDF is one invitation. Everybody gets the same card, so the cousin invited to the reception reads about the Haldi too, and a change of venue means sending it again and hoping nobody keeps the old one. You would still be ringing three hundred people to ask who is coming.

We were going to print cards. What do we lose?

Nothing a card does — the blessing, the names, the ceremonies, something to keep. What you gain is relatives abroad reading it the same evening instead of three weeks later, one place to change the venue if it moves, and replies that arrive as headcounts and meal counts rather than as phone calls. Many families do both: cards for the elders, this for everyone else.

What else is on the invitation?

Directions to each venue, a countdown, a calendar entry, travel timings where guests need them, a guestbook for blessings, and soft music if you want it. Rather than list it here, open a sample and scroll through one. Open a sample →

How long does it take to set up?

About five minutes to create the invitation. Adding guests is a paste from your phone’s contacts or a spreadsheet — one per line.

Do we pay once, or every month?

Once, for that invitation. No subscription, no renewal, and no charge per guest — building it is free for as long as you like, and you pay when you are ready for your guests to open it. Two weddings means two invitations, each with its own plan.

Can we get a refund?

Utsav, in full, any time before the first guest opens your invitation — up to fourteen days after you pay. Shahi is our time rather than a product, so it is refundable until the day we begin work, and we tell you which day that is. Read the refund policy →

What happens to our invitation if we are refunded?

It goes offline, and the links you have already sent stop working. So if your guests are holding them, talk to us before asking for a refund — there is almost always something better we can do than leaving three hundred relatives with a page that no longer opens.

What if the wedding is postponed, or called off?

Tell us. If we have not started work yet, you get your money back in full. If we have, we move your plan and our work to the new date instead — nobody should pay twice because a date moved.

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