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Hold the Light: a proposal invitation template
The baby's baptismal candle on a linen cloth, in a dark room: they tap the wick, and the candle's light reveals the question written on the cloth.
The design
At a christening the godparents are handed a small lit candle to hold for the child. This invitation is that candle: tall white wax with the baby's name and the date in gilt, standing on a linen christening cloth in a dark room. The question is already written on the cloth, too dim to read. One tap on the wick and the flame catches, the light spreads across the linen and the question appears, then their name is written above it and your note for them follows. The rest is the same cloth in the same light: your letter in ink, why you chose them in gilt numerals, what the promise involves stitched in thread (tap each one and it is embroidered in gold), the day embroidered on the hem, a few photographs laid on the linen, and a line that makes no as easy to say as yes. The flame leans when the page moves and gutters when you breathe on it. They answer with one of two equal linen tags; yes is a gilt flame stitched into the cloth, no is an olive sprig: the light stays on either way.
Colours and type
Hold the Light comes in 3 colourways: Ivory linen & gilt, Chapel white & silver thread and Blush linen & rose gold, with 2 type pairings: Vestry gilt and Chapel capitals. The colours and type change in the editor at any time; the layout stays its own.
Who it suits
Made for godparent, 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.
- Four Flashes: 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.
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