Square One
The cake lands at three, and the crocheted blanket is in the wash by four.
This birthday invitation is for a first birthday that happens entirely at floor level. The crocheted blanket goes down in the living room, the coffee table goes out to the hall, and everyone sits in a loose ring around a baby who is mainly interested in the stack of wooden rings. Grandparents arrive early. An aunt starts washing things that are already clean.
Cake comes out at three. There is a small plain one for the guest of honor and a larger one for the adults, who came for cake. The smash lasts about ninety seconds and produces forty photographs, three of which are usable. By four the blanket is folded, the baby is in the bath, and the rings are back on the dowel in the wrong order.
What goes on it
Every line replaceableThe wording on this card
Please join us for
MAYA'S FIRST BIRTHDAY
Saturday, December 12, 2026 · 2 PM
THE HAYES HOME · 58 Bay Street, Beaufort, SC
Cake at 3. Smash included.
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
- Lay the blanket first Move the coffee table out and put the blanket down before anyone arrives. It decides where people sit, and it keeps the whole afternoon at one height.
- Build the two hours around the nap Start after she wakes, not before. A first birthday that runs past the second nap is a first birthday nobody remembers fondly.
- Two cakes, one towel A small unfrosted one for the high chair and a proper one for the adults. Keep a towel, a packet of wipes and a change of clothes within arm's reach of the chair.
- Give the camera to one person Pick somebody who is not a parent and ask them to hold the phone from the first bite to the last. The parents should be in the photographs, not behind them.
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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.
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