Nikah Emerald invitation video

What does the Nikah Emerald design look like in motion?

The background is emerald, a lighter jade in the centre that deepens to almost black-green at the edges, with a faint gold geometric pattern of interlaced stars across the whole screen. Above the arch the pattern is denser and brighter, like the carved panels around an old doorway. A thin gold border and a tall ogee arch, the pointed S-curved arch of Mughal and Lucknowi buildings, draw themselves on in the first two seconds.

Then the details come in: a slim finial rising from the arch with a crescent at its tip, two small gold stars near the top, and a star divider near the base. Three lanterns of different sizes hang from the top of the frame. They sway slowly and the light in their windows flickers, the way a diya flickers inside a fanoos. Small stars twinkle on and off where they are instead of falling, and gold sparks drift upwards.

The opening shows بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ in a classical naskh typeface with "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" beneath. If you skip the photo, an eight-pointed gold star sits behind the couple names. Names are in a gold script, headings in spaced Roman capitals. If you add a photo, the first one sits in an ogee-arch window to match the frame. The default music is Bach's Air for strings.

Some families prefer an invite without music. Choose "No music" and the video plays silently, with everything else the same.

Which functions can go on a Nikah invite?

Muslim weddings in India vary a lot by region and family, from Lucknow to Hyderabad to Kozhikode, so add only what your family does. Up to eight functions fit, each with its own scene:

• Nikah: built in, with the line "Please join us for the Nikah".
• Walima: built in, with "A dinner to celebrate the new couple".
• Mehendi: built in, with "Henna, music and some masti".
• Mangni: rename the Engagement function.
• Manjha or Ubtan: rename the Haldi function, or add it with "Something else".
• Rukhsati, Chauthi or a dinner: add with "Something else" and type the name.

Our Nikah invitation video page has more on the order of functions and how families phrase them. For a separate mehendi invite, see the mehendi invitation video page.

Who sends the Walima invite, and should it be separate?

In many families the bride's side hosts the Nikah and the groom's side hosts the Walima, so the guest lists are not the same. There are three common ways to handle it:

Two invites mean two ₹499 purchases, one per family, which is often how the cost is split anyway. With the ₹999 invite website, guests RSVP per function, so the groom's side gets a separate headcount for the Walima dinner. The Walima works much like a reception; our reception invitation video page has more wording for dinners.

How should a Nikah invite show prayer times?

Many families fix the Nikah after a namaz, usually Zuhr, Asr or Maghrib, rather than at a clock time. The video shows one clock time per function, so:

• Put a realistic clock time in the video, for example 1:30 PM for a Nikah after Zuhr in winter.
• Write "after Zuhr namaz" in the message you send with the video, so guests who pray at the venue know when to arrive.
• If the Nikah is at a masjid and the meal is elsewhere, add them as two functions with separate venues and addresses.

Nikah and Walima wording ideas

Closing lines that suit this design: "Your presence and duas will mean the world to us", "आपकी दुआओं के मुंतज़िर", or "Insha'Allah, see you there". More message ideas are in our WhatsApp wedding invitation guide.

What can you change, and what stays fixed?

• Names and family lines, in English, and in Devanagari if you pick Hindi or bilingual.
• Opening: Bismillah by default. No blessing (your initials) is also an option.
• Language: English, Hindi or both. Urdu script is not available yet; the Bismillah is the only Arabic text. Hindi in Devanagari carries Urdu words well: the Walima's Hindi line is "दावत-ए-वलीमा".
• Functions, photos, music, hashtag, closing line and up to three RSVP contacts. Photos are optional.

The emerald and gold, the arch, the crescent, the lanterns and the fonts are fixed. Making and previewing is free; the ₹499 video has no watermark and comes with an e-card image of all the functions, handy for the WhatsApp invitation that goes to elders who prefer a picture to a video.

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