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Kasavu Kalyanam
An airy watercolour Kerala wedding invite: a backwater sketch is painted in, then the day unfolds along the water in jasmine white and kasavu gold.
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What you’ll fill in
Couple
Groom’s name · Bride’s name
Wedding
Wedding date · Muhurtham time · Pick the date (for the countdown clock)
Venue
Venue name · Address
Sadya
Sadya time
Reception
Reception day and time
Message & details
Dress code
Music
Music
Collects RSVPs on the invitation
About this design
Kasavu Kalyanam is a Malayali Hindu wedding invitation painted like a Kerala morning: jasmine white paper, the flat woven gold of a kasavu border, banana-leaf green and the blue-green of the backwaters.
Guests first see a pencil sketch of the backwater. One tap and the water, the palms and a soft gold sun are washed in, a country boat glides across leaving ripples, strings of jasmine drop from above, and the sheet lifts away like a page of a sketchbook.
Inside, the families' note rests on a folded kasavu cloth. The day is a journey down a winding channel, with the muhurtham and thalikettu, the sadya and the reception each moored at its own jetty. The date, time, venue and dress code are served on a banana leaf, a countdown hangs on a string of jasmine buds, and guests reply and see who is coming before the far shore of palms and a houseboat.