Mom's night out invitation

Red Carpet Optional

Everyone keeps the wristband on, and one of them still has hers at school pickup.

Final Touch

This design has the Final Touch: the wording is stamped, stitched or foiled to match the artwork, so the card reads as one finished piece.

Start from it and your wording is painted in the same way, exactly as you type it.

What the Final Touch is

A mom's night out invitation like this one runs the evening as a premiere, and the guests commit from the car park in. Lipstick gets reapplied before anyone goes through the door. There is a list, there is a band snapped onto each wrist, and from that point the night has an admissions policy. Six names, no additions, no negotiating at the door.

The photographs happen in the first twenty minutes, against the darkest wall in the room, while everyone is still arranged. Then the wine lands and the phones go face down on the table. The talk clears the kids by the second glass and does not go back. By the end somebody is holding her wrist up to the light, and nobody is cutting hers off.

What goes on it

Every line replaceable

The wording on this card

Your presence is requested
Friday, March 12, 2027 · 7 PM
THE MARQUEE ROOM · 9 Gala Place, Velvet Rope, CA
Cameras out. Wine in.

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 the bands out at the door Buy a pack of iridescent wristbands and snap one on each guest as she arrives, yourself. A band nobody put on herself is a band nobody takes off.
Light one wall and shoot everything there Pick the darkest wall in the room, move a lamp out of frame, and take the arrivals photos in the first twenty minutes. After the second glass the group will not stand in a line again.
Choose a red that survives the first glass Blot once, set it, and keep a spare tube in the clutch. The lipstick is doing most of the dressing up, and the rim of a wine glass is its only real opponent.
Print the end time, do not discuss it The group chat will relitigate the finish for four days and still get it wrong. Put the hour on the invitation, tell the sitters that hour, and let the drive home be settled before anyone arrives.

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.