Birthday invitation

All Access Rhinestones

The encore is decided by whoever is still holding the microphone at eleven.

Black glitter backstage pass on a hot-pink glitter lanyard, edged in rhinestones, on blush pink. ALL ACCESS in gem letters, Mia's 17th birthday, Saturday May 22, 7:00 PM.

Part of the TinselLux™ collection: invitations in stitched leather, tufted velvet, linen and satin.

The material is the card: linen with a visible weave, velvet with a nap, leather with its grain. It costs the same as every other invitation.

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A birthday invitation for a night run like a venue booking. Guests get a laminate at the door with their name on it, and the room is arranged around one microphone. There is a queue on the fridge, a speaker borrowed from someone's brother, and lyrics on the television with the subtitles lagging half a line behind. The birthday guest sings first, because the first song is the hardest and it is her night.

By the second hour the queue has stopped being a queue. Duets form without warning. Somebody attempts a key she cannot reach and is applauded for it anyway. The earplugs sit in a bowl by the door and three people take them seriously. Nobody has removed their pass, including the two guests who left at ten and came back.

What goes on it

Every line replaceable

The wording on this card

Please join us to celebrate
Mia's seventeenth birthday
Saturday, May 22, 2027 · 7 PM
THE ENCORE ROOM · 700 Encore Way, Soundcheck Springs, TN
Earplugs provided. Voices optional.

Every line of the wording is an example, and yours to replace. The title is painted into the artwork. Type your own and it is drawn again with your words.

What to actually tell people

Hand out the passes at the door Write each name on the laminate before anyone arrives. It settles who is next on the microphone without anyone having to ask.
Keep a written queue A list on the fridge, one song each before anybody gets a second. The people who sing last are the ones who need the room to be loud first.
Test the speaker while the room is empty Find the extension cord, pair the phone, and play the loudest track on the list once. Set the ceiling then, not at ten when the neighbors are awake.
Decide the encore in advance Pick the final song and the hour it happens, and tell one person other than yourself. A night like this does not end on its own.

Start from this one

The artwork
Keep this one, or describe your own party and get artwork drawn for it.
The wording
Every line on this card is an example, the painted title included. Change all of it; the design holds.
Sending
By text, from your own number. Guests open a link. Nothing to download.
The price
One credit for the invitation. Six guests or sixty, the number does not move.