Make a namkaran, barsa or naming ceremony invitation in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil or English, for WhatsApp or print.
Write the invite in the family's language. The studio carries Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gurmukhi and Urdu fonts alongside Latin ones.
Naming ceremonies are small, warm and usually planned in a hurry, in the first weeks after a baby arrives. The invite does not need to be elaborate. It needs the right date, the right time, the address, and a little joy. Here is what to include and some wording you can use.
Families across India call it different things. Namkaran in much of the north, बारसे or barsa in Maharashtra, namakaranam in Tamil and Telugu homes, noolukettu in Kerala. Many families hold it around the eleventh or twelfth day after birth, others wait a few weeks or combine it with the cradle ceremony, called पाळणा in Marathi homes.
Use the name your family uses on the invite. It tells relatives exactly what kind of morning to expect.
The occasion and whose ceremony it is. Some families keep the name a secret until the day, so the invite says join us as we name our daughter, son of Priya and Rahul. Others put the chosen name in large type. Both are lovely, so decide before you design.
The date, the muhurat for the puja, and the time guests should arrive. Then the meal, if there is one, and the address with a landmark.
The hosts. Often this is the grandparents, writing with love, with the parents named below. A line from an older sibling, such as Come meet my little sister, makes everyone smile.
Keep the photo optional. A newborn photo is sweet, but many families prefer a simple motif, a moon, a cradle, a few stars, until the baby is a little older.
English: With joy in our hearts, we invite you to the naming ceremony of our baby girl. Please come and bless her.
Hindi: हमारे घर नन्ही परी के आगमन की खुशी में नामकरण संस्कार का आयोजन किया गया है। आप सपरिवार आकर आशीर्वाद दें।
Marathi: आमच्या बाळाच्या बारशाच्या कार्यक्रमास आपण सहकुटुंब उपस्थित राहून बाळाला आशीर्वाद द्यावेत, ही विनंती.
For WhatsApp, a 1080 by 1350 portrait image reads like a card in the chat, and a 1080 by 1920 image fills the screen as a status. If the text looks soft after sending, send the image as a document instead of a photo.
If you print a few for elders, 5 by 7 inches is the common size. Keep text inside the edges because cards are trimmed, and export a PDF.
The full moon namkaran invitation above is made for this, in Hindi with English touches. The baby and christening invitations next to it have the same soft, airy layout, so change the wording, the script and the colours and they work well too.
Yes. Editing is free on every template. Free exports carry a small watermark and are capped at 1080 pixels, which suits WhatsApp. Pro exports at full resolution.
Yes. The studio includes fonts for Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gurmukhi and Urdu. Type with your phone or computer keyboard in that language, or paste your wording.
Of course. Leave the name line out, or replace it with a phrase like join us as we name our son, and reveal it on the day.
No. Bitgrain has no generative AI. You edit a layered template yourself.