Kannada wedding invitation
Your names, dealt from a box of Ganjifa cards
A painted card box on green Mysore silk opens to your names — and every ceremony is dealt onto the silk as a round card.
Ganjifa is a digital Kannada wedding invitation, a lagna patrike sent as a link on WhatsApp: a box of round Mysore Ganjifa-style cards opens to your names, guests draw a card to find the date, and every ceremony is dealt onto green silk. Each family is greeted by name, with every ceremony's time, place and map. Free to try; ₹1,999 once to send.
Free to try · ₹1,999 when you’re ready to send
Everything inside Ganjifa
What your guests see on their phones, part by part.
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Opens like a real card
A tap to open. No app, just a WhatsApp link.
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Names and blessings
The two of you and the elders who bless you.
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Your story
How you met, with your own photos.
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Every ceremony
Day, time, venue, dress code and a map.
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A live countdown
Days, hours and minutes to the wedding.
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Good to know
Stay, parking, weather, who to call.
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Wishes from guests
Blessings written right inside the invitation.
Your invitation video and cards
Every Ganjifa invitation comes with its own video and a card for each ceremony. These are real, made by Invitetale for our sample couple, Pranav & Sahana. Yours carry your own names, dates and venues.
A card for every ceremonyDownload them from My Invitations, and send or post each one on its own. Tap a card to see it full size.
A digital lagna patrike
Lagna patrike is the Kannada name for the wedding invitation: the card that carries both families' names, the muhurta and every ceremony, from the nischitartha to the reception.
A digital lagna patrike is the same invitation sent as a link. It reaches the family in Mysuru, Mangaluru and Bengaluru — and the cousins in California — the same evening, and opens on any phone.
Ganjifa is drawn in the style of the round painted playing cards of the old Mysore court, with suits of its own — jasmine, parrot, elephant and mango — and no people or gods on them.
How Ganjifa opens
A painted box of Mysore Ganjifa cards opens to your names; the date is a card your guests draw, and every ceremony is dealt onto green silk as a painted card.
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The box on green silk
A painted card box on green Mysore silk, with the family's name on its lid. Guests slide the lid off, and your names card rises out of the deck.
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The families' words
As guests scroll, the names card turns over to the words of both families.
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Draw a card
A fan of face-down cards: guests draw any one, and it turns over to the date.
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Every ceremony, dealt
The engagement, the haldi, the mehendi, the sangeet, the wedding with its muhurta and the reception — each a round card dealt onto the silk with its time, place and map, the earlier ones gathering into a hand.
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Your photos, dealt
Your photos as round painted cards with their captions, each dealt face down onto the silk and turning over as it lands — tap one to see it large. Before them, the days left beside a spinning Channapatna top; after, good to know under a thambula plate.
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Back into the box
Every wish a card on the table — and at the end the cards go back into the box, and its lid slides shut over your closing words.
Lagna patrike wording, in English
How a Kannada wedding card often reads in English — yours starts with words like these, ready to change.
With the blessings of our elders
Mrs. Shobha & Mr. Suresh Hegde
invite you to the wedding of their son
Pranav
with
Sahana
daughter of Mrs. Vani & Mr. Mohan Rao
Saturday, 6 March 2027 · muhurta 10:41 am
Mallige Kalyana Mantapa, Vijayanagar, Mysuru
Lunch on banana leaves follows
The engagement, the haldi, the mehendi, the sangeet and the reception are each a card dealt onto the silk, with their time and place.
More wordings to copy, and every word explainedTo every family, by name
Send the Gowdas their link and the card box arrives with their name on its lid. Each family gets its own link on WhatsApp, and your guest list shows who has opened it.
₹1,999once, for your whole wedding · Includes 18% GST
- Free to try and change
- Every ceremony in one invitation
- Every family by name, no limit
- Your invitation video and a card for every ceremony
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Questions families ask
Can we call it the Nischitartha or the Arishina?
Yes. Choose from Engagement, Haldi, Mehendi, Sangeet, Wedding and Reception, rename any of them the way your family says it — Nischitartha, Arishina, Kashi Yatre — or add your own.
Is the invitation in Kannada?
It is written in English, so every guest can read it — family in other states and abroad too — and the names are written in English as well.
Are these real Ganjifa cards?
They are drawn in the style of Mysore Ganjifa — round, painted cards on green silk — with suits made for Invitetale: jasmine, parrot, elephant and mango. There are no people or gods on them.
Can we show the muhurta?
Yes. Give the wedding its time and a note — "The muhurta is at 10:41 am; please be seated by 10:15" — and the day's programme, from the nadaswaram at the gate to lunch on banana leaves.
What does it cost?
Free to make and free to try. ₹1,999 once, when the cards go out to your families.
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