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Four Flashes: a proposal invitation template
A photo booth on a fairground at night. They press the button: the strip feeds out of the slot, the booth flashes four times, and the fourth frame is you holding up a card with the question.
The design
The whole invitation is one coin-op photo booth on a seaside fairground after dark: a marquee sign ringed with bulbs, a painted panel with a chrome delivery slot, and a ferris wheel turning its lights on behind it. They press the big chrome button and the strip feeds out of the slot, blank. Then flash, flash, flash: three frames of you burn in one by one, in black and white, pulling faces. A held beat, and the fourth flash: you, holding up a card that asks the question in marker, whatever the occasion (a first date, a gala, prom, a plus-one). Booths always print two strips, so the second one lies below, face down, with your note for them, your letter and why it had to be them written on the back. The enamel instruction plate on the booth explains what saying yes involves, a chrome plate gives the when and where, and the booth's sample board holds your other photos. They answer with one of two chrome buttons of the same size. Yes: four quick flashes and a keepsake strip that ends "It's a date." No: one soft flash and the same keepsake strip, ending with thanks.
Colours and type
Four Flashes comes in 3 colourways: Midway red, bulb gold, Seafront mint, night tide and Velvet plum, candy light, with 2 type pairings: Midway and Pier. The colours and type change in the editor at any time; the layout stays its own.
Who it suits
Made for date, in the Interactive style.
What is included
An invitation website with a page made for the one person you are asking, with your own note on why them and a reply they send with one tap. You write your own words and add your photos in the live editor, send every guest a personal link by email or any messaging app, and follow the replies as they come in. Free for up to 10 people, with the full design.
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- Tick One Box: The note passed across the classroom, folded into a tight triangle with their name on it. They unfold it, read the question, and answer by ticking a box: Yes or No.
- The Corsage Box: A wrist corsage on satin in a clear florist's box, their name on the lid. Lift the lid and the ribbon tag slides out with the question and the occasion.
- Two Across: The weekend crossword, set by you for one solver. The starred clue is your question; the shaded answers are their name and the word date, and tapping them pens them in.
- Side B, Track Six: A mixtape made by hand. They open the clear case, the J-card folds out in marker and biro, and the last track on side B, ringed twice, is your question.
- Admit Two: A pair of cinema tickets, seats side by side. They tear off the stub to keep, turn it over, and the question is printed on the back.
- Par Avion: A paper plane folded from airmail paper waits on the desk with their name on the wing. One tap throws it: it loops the room, lands, and unfolds into the question.
- Table for Two: A reserved table in a dark restaurant. They tap the candle, the light spreads across the white tablecloth and two glasses, and the reservation card reads: a table for two, if you'll say yes.
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