Designs & the studio
Why does the form ask only for some details?
By Nimanto 1 min read
In short
Text in a design is bound to details such as the groom's name, the venue or the dress code. The create form asks only for the details your design prints: required ones first, because the design's sample would print otherwise, then optional lines that simply leave the invitation when blank.
A design is drawn with sample words: a sample couple, a sample venue, a sample dress code. Each of those lines is tied to a detail, so when you type your own, it takes the sample's place everywhere it appears.
Required and optional
- Required details would otherwise print the design's sample, so the form asks for them before the invitation is created: the names, the age on a birthday, the guest of honour, the venue and address, and the invitation message. The message offers Use the suggested wording while it is empty.
- Optional lines leave the invitation when blank: hosts, sign-off, dress code, tagline, muhurtam, reply by, gifts, travel and parking, what to bring, a note for parents, a hashtag, speakers, who to contact, your story and a note from the hosts. Their labels and hairlines leave with them.
A detail used on several pages is asked once. Some lines are built for you and never typed: both names together, the couple's initials, "Leo's", the date line, the time and the venue on one or two lines.
Which details each occasion asks for
The event type sets the profile. A wedding asks for the groom, the bride and their parents; a birthday for who it is for and their age; a baby occasion for the guest of honour; parties and festivals for who is hosting; corporate occasions for who is organising, speakers and a register-by line. A design asks only for the ones it actually prints.
The name boxes
The name inputs always read "Groom's first name" and "Bride's first name", never the design's sample couple. The first partner is always the groom and the second the bride, and the families page pairs them with "Son of" and "Daughter of".
If you leave a required line empty
Create invitation checks everything first. A missing line shows "Fill this in: left blank, the design's sample text is printed in its place.", with a list that jumps to each one. See Use this design for the steps of the form.
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