Birthday invitation

Cherry on Top

The one-year-old eats the whipped cream and hands back the cherry.

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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This birthday invitation imagines a first birthday held outdoors in the afternoon, on a red gingham cloth with a bowl of cherries at the center of it. The grandparents arrive early. The two older cousins work through the cherries before anyone has sat down, and the stems collect in a saucer nobody put out on purpose.

Then the small cake comes out and goes onto the high chair tray. It is handled more than eaten. The red gets on the bib, the tray, the cloth and one grandfather's sleeve, and the photographs everyone keeps are from those four minutes. The guest of honor is asleep within the hour. Everyone else stays for coffee.

What goes on it

Every line replaceable

The wording on this card

Please join us for
ROSIE'S FIRST BIRTHDAY
Saturday, June 19, 2027 · 3 PM
THE PARRISH HOME · 9 Orchard Lane, Aiken, SC
Sticky fingers expected.

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

Pit the cherries before anyone arrives Whole cherries are not for guests under four, and the pits end up in the grass otherwise. Halve and pit a bowl for the small table, and leave the rest whole for the adults.
Set the cake at the start of the nap window A one-year-old has about ninety good minutes in them. Put the cake out early rather than saving it for late arrivals, and let the afternoon wind down after.
Plan for the red Red frosting travels. Keep the smash cake off the good cloth, have a stack of damp towels within reach of the high chair, and dress the birthday child in something you are willing to lose.
Give the grandparents chairs in the shade They will stay longest and they came for the photographs. Set two real chairs near the high chair tray rather than folding ones at the far end of the yard.

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.