Birthday invitation

Girl Dinner

Dinner is three cornichons, a wedge of brie, and whatever the last guest brought.

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 supper where nobody cooks. Everyone is assigned one snack and arrives with it: a tub of olives, a box of crackers, grapes still in the bag, the good butter. It all goes on one board in the middle of the table and becomes dinner by consensus.

The order of operations matters. People graze standing up, then sit down, then graze again. The birthday candle goes into the brie because nothing else will hold it upright, and the singing happens over a cheese board at an angle. By eleven the board is three cornichons and a cracker, and nobody has left.

What goes on it

Every line replaceable

The wording on this card

A birthday supper for
Emma's Twenty-Second
Saturday, January 23, 2027 · 7 PM
LE PETIT PLATEAU · 8 Cornichon Court, Brie Hollow, WI
Everyone brings one snack.

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

Assign the snacks in writing One item per guest, claimed in the thread before anyone leaves the house. Otherwise four people bring hummus and no one brings bread.
Take the brie out early An hour on the counter is the difference between a wedge and a chalk slab. Put it out before the first guest knocks.
Small plates, and more than you think Side plates and a few cocktail forks keep the cornichon jar from becoming communal. Stack them next to the board, not in the kitchen.
Plan where the candle goes A birthday candle will not stand in a cracker. The brie holds it upright, and the photograph works better than a cake anyway.

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.