Open a real Indian wedding template, type your shaadi card wording in Devanagari, and export it for the printer or for WhatsApp.
These open in the studio with Devanagari fonts like Martel, Eczar, Laila and Yatra One ready to use. Type with any Hindi keyboard or paste wording you already have.
Most online wedding card makers either have no Hindi fonts at all, or they set Devanagari in a font that breaks the matras. Bitgrain ships real Devanagari typefaces inside the studio, so a card that reads शुभ विवाह looks the way it should, and you edit every line yourself.
There is no single correct format, and every family has its own habits, but most Hindi shaadi cards follow a familiar order. It helps to write the wording out before you open a template, so you know how much space each part needs.
At the top sits a blessing such as ॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः ॥ with a small Ganesh or kalash motif. Then a line like शुभ विवाह or मंगल परिणय, followed by the invitation itself: who is inviting, and whose wedding it is. Grooms are usually written as चि. (चिरंजीव) and brides as सौ. कां. or आयुष्मती, with the parents' names under each.
After that comes the main ceremony, often called पाणिग्रहण संस्कार or simply विवाह, with the date, the muhurat and the venue. Many cards then list the smaller functions: तिलक, हल्दी, मेहंदी, संगीत, बारात प्रस्थान and प्रीतिभोज, each with its own date and time.
The closing block names the family members sending their regards, under words like दर्शनाभिलाषी or स्वागतोत्सुक. Plenty of cards also carry a playful बाल मनुहार line from the children of the house, something like मेरे चाचू की शादी में ज़रूर आना.
Guests read the date and time more than anything else on the card, so give them room. Write the date both ways if your family uses the Hindu calendar, for example मार्गशीर्ष शुक्ल पंचमी next to the English date, and give the time in words people use: सायं 7 बजे से or रात्रि 11:45 बजे शुभ मुहूर्त.
If the wedding runs across two or three days, put each function on its own line with the day name. It saves a dozen phone calls from relatives asking whether the haldi is on Friday or Saturday.
For a printed card, the common sizes in India are 5 by 7 inches, 6 by 8 inches and square cards around 6 or 7 inches. Ask your printer which paper they stock before you finalise, and keep names and dates well away from the edges, because cards are trimmed after printing. Export a PDF for the press.
For a WhatsApp e-invite, a tall 1080 by 1920 image fills a phone screen and works as a status too. A 1080 by 1350 portrait is better if you want it to look like a card inside the chat. WhatsApp compresses photos, so if the small Hindi text looks soft, send the PNG as a document instead of as a photo.
Many families make both. Build the printed card first, then use Resize in the studio to make a phone sized copy and move the blocks so they breathe.
Bitgrain does not convert English letters into Hindi for you. Type with a Hindi keyboard, such as Gboard on your phone or the Hindi input built into Windows and macOS, or write the wording in a document and paste it in. Conjuncts like क्ष, त्र and श्र, and the reph in शर्मा, render correctly in the bundled fonts.
Mixing scripts is normal. Many cards put the blessing and the couple's names in Hindi and the venue address in English so drivers and out of town guests can find it. Use one Devanagari font for headings and a quieter one for body text and the card will hold together.
Yes. Every template opens and edits on the free plan. Free exports carry a small watermark and are capped at 1080 pixels, which is fine for WhatsApp. Pro exports at full resolution for printing.
The studio ships Devanagari fonts including Martel, Eczar, Laila, Sura, Gotu, Khand, Anek Devanagari, Amita, Yatra One and Modak, from formal serif to decorative.
No. There is no generative AI in Bitgrain. You start from a layered template and change the words, colours and photos yourself.
Yes. Drop a photo onto any image frame in the template, then crop and position it inside the frame.