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The Candles: a proposal invitation template
Two tall candles on a sunlit altar, one tied with your name and one with theirs. Light them with the taper and the question rises in their glow.
The design
Candle sponsors light the candles: at a wedding, at a christening, at the start of anything that matters. The invitation is the altar on the morning of the day: whitewashed plaster in window light, a linen cloth with a drawn-thread hem, two tall ivory candles on turned brass candlesticks, each tied with a silk band and a card, your names on one, theirs on the other. The guest touches each wick and a taper comes to light it; with both alight the question rises in their glow, and their own note beneath. Down the cloth, every part of the invitation has its own votive glass that lights as it comes into view: your letter, why them, what candle sponsors do, the day, the photographs, a line that makes no easy. At the foot stands the third candle, the one lit from the two. A yes lights it; a no leaves it for another day, and a votive is lit for them all the same.
Colours and type
The Candles comes in 3 colourways: Ivory & gold, Sage silk and Christening blue, with 2 type pairings: Altar card and Chapel serif. The colours and type change in the editor at any time; the layout stays its own.
Who it suits
Made for sponsor and wedding party, 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.
More proposal templates
- Player Two: An arcade cabinet waiting in attract mode: "Player 2, press start". They press it, a little pixel scene plays, and the screen asks the question.
- 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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