Galentines invitations
An invented holiday with no rules, which is liberating right up until you have to design something for it.
$65
Your details set by hand, usually back the same day. $145 to rebuild it in your own colours.
Galentines has no inherited visual language, no etiquette and no expectations, which sounds like freedom and is actually the hard part. Every other occasion in this studio comes with conventions to work with or against. This one comes with a colour, pink, and a general sense that it should be funny, and that is the entire brief most people arrive with.
What works is picking a specific register and committing to it, rather than trying to be all of them. It can be genuinely elegant, which is a nice joke against the occasion. It can be deliberately over the top. It can be a straight-faced formal invitation for a night of pizza and terrible films, which is the funniest version and the one people screenshot. What does not work is a generic pink card with a heart on it, because that is a Valentine's card and this is a different occasion.
Underneath the humour, the details still have to be there. This is nearly always a hosted meal on a specific evening with a specific number of seats, so it needs a time, a place and a reply. The invitation being funny does not remove the need for it to be an invitation.
What changes for this one
Pick a register and hold it. The strongest version is usually formal type doing something silly, because the contrast is the joke. Pink is expected, so a palette that is not pink is a legitimate design decision and often the more memorable one. Digital suits it: this is a group-chat occasion end to end.
When to send
Two to three weeks out. February 13th is a Wednesday-night-energy occasion in most years and people do not plan it far ahead, but two weeks beats the four-day scramble that usually happens.
Colours that work
Either lean into it with hot pink and red, or go the other way entirely with oxblood and cream or black and gold. The middle ground of pale pink and hearts is the one that looks like everything else.
Questions people ask about galentines invitations
Does it have to be pink?
No, and not being pink is often the stronger choice. The occasion is recognisable from the word alone; the colour is not load-bearing.
Digital or printed?
Digital, almost always. It is a group chat occasion from start to finish and the invitation should live where the conversation already is.
Can it be a formal invitation as a joke?
That is the best version. Full formal wording, spelled-out date, and then the details are a night of takeaway and bad television. The contrast is what makes people keep it.
What about a Galentines brunch?
Same thing, earlier. Brunch versions need a firm start time because the whole point is everybody arriving at once, not drifting in over two hours.
3,600
US searches a month for galentines invitations, measured rather than guessed. Nearly every page here targets a term almost nobody is defending properly.
- valentines day invitation — 1,300/mo
- brunch invitation — 1,000/mo
How to have this made
Digital and paperless invitations
Designed to be texted, emailed or posted. Not an Evite template.
From $225
Custom invitation design
Designed from nothing for one event. No template underneath.
From $285
Party printables and extras
Favour tags, envelope liners, stickers, banners, water bottle labels.
From $75
Start with a First Look
$45 for one finished concept designed for your event, back in three days. It comes off whatever you book, and if you do not love it you keep the file and owe nothing.