To the Moon
The rocket pin goes on every collar at the door, and the countdown starts from ten.
A birthday invitation for a night that runs on moonrise. Guests arrive while there is still light in the sky, get a rocket pin pressed onto a collar, and stand around a tripod that somebody leveled on the grass an hour earlier. There is a thermos. There is a folding table with the cake on it, untouched. The sky does the work.
The turn comes at seven, when someone reads a countdown off a phone and the moon comes up over the treeline bigger than anyone expected. The line at the eyepiece forms immediately and stays for twenty minutes, and the youngest guest describes the craters to people who are standing right there. The cake gets cut afterwards, in the dark, by red flashlight. Everyone keeps the pin.
What goes on it
Every line replaceableThe wording on this card
Join us to celebrate
JUDE ALVAREZ
Saturday, March 20, 2027 · 7 PM
STAR OBSERVATORY · 5 Orbit Way, Cape Dune, AZ
Liftoff at seven.
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
- Set the hour by the moon, not the clock Look up the moonrise time for your date and start the party forty minutes before it. A full moon low over the treeline is the whole event, and it does not wait.
- Level the tripod while it is still light Set the telescope on grass well before guests arrive and find one target you can return to all night. Focusing in the dark with eleven people watching is a different task entirely.
- Red light only Tape red cellophane over a few phone flashlights and keep the porch light off. One burst of white light costs everyone twenty minutes of night vision, including whoever is at the eyepiece.
- Hand out the pins at the door Enamel rocket pins, one per guest, pressed on as people arrive. They sort out who has been welcomed, they photograph well, and they go home on jacket collars.
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.
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