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Touch the Water: a proposal invitation template
A silver baptismal shell resting in the font, under water too bright to read through: they touch the water, the ripples clear it, and the engraving in the shell asks the question with their name.
The design
At many christenings the water is poured from a silver scallop shell. This invitation is that shell, lying in the basin of a stone font, seen from above. The light on the water hides what is engraved inside it. One touch and a ripple runs out from their fingertip, the glare parts, the water stills, and the engraving reads: their name, cut in script, and the question in fine capitals. Your note for them is carved into the rim. Below, the font itself becomes the page, face by carved face: your letter beside an arched niche with the baby's photo, why you in silver numerals, what the promise involves (touch each one and a drop falls into its carved basin), the day cut into the stone, a few photographs in niches, and a line that makes no as easy to say as yes. They answer with one of two identical silver shells. Yes pours: the shell tips, water splashes up and the promise is engraved. No is met with still water and a single ring of calm. Either way, the water settles.
Colours and type
Touch the Water comes in 3 colourways: Limestone & silver, White marble & pewter and Sandstone & sea glass, with 2 type pairings: Engraver's script and Carved inscription. 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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