Haldi invitation, on its own link

What a haldi invitation says

The haldi is usually the smallest and most informal function of the wedding, so its invite can be short and warm. Guests need six things from it, and they need them on the morning itself, which is why a link works better than a photo of a card:

• Whose haldi it is. The bride's and the groom's families often hold their own, at the same hour in different homes. Say which one this is.
• The day and the time, with an end time. A haldi morning is short, and guests plan the rest of the day around it.
• The venue and the full address. "At home" means nothing to a cousin arriving from Delhi. Give the flat number, the society name and a landmark.
• The dress code. Yellow, and clothes that can take a stain.
• What to expect. Turmeric paste, water, music, lunch after. One line is enough.
• Who it's from. "With love, the Sharma family" tells guests how formal to be.

When the haldi is, and how long it lasts

Most families hold the haldi a day or two before the wedding, usually in the morning, so the bride or groom has time to bathe and rest before the evening. Some hold it on the wedding morning itself. In the starter sets on Kehdoo, the North Indian wedding puts the haldi at 10 am on the first day, before a mehendi at 4 pm; the Marathi set has the haldi the day before the lagna; the South Indian set calls it Nalangu; the Bengali set has the Gaye Holud on the wedding morning. Each is only a starting point: rename it, move it or change the time.

If your pandit has given a muhurat for the haldi, put that exact time. Add an end time too. The invite then shows "10:00 am – 1:00 pm IST", and the calendar button blocks out those hours for the guest.

What to wear to a haldi

Yellow is the usual dress code: yellow, mustard, marigold orange, or white with a yellow dupatta. Turmeric stains cotton and silk alike, so tell guests plainly to wear something they won't mind ruining. Some families ask for white so the yellow shows in the photos; some ask for florals. Whatever you choose, put it in the function's dress code field, up to 80 characters: "Shades of yellow", "Yellow, and old clothes", "White, and we'll add the colour". It shows on the haldi's card and again under its details, so nobody has to scroll back through the family group to find it.

Haldi invitation wording in English and Hindi

Short lines to send with the haldi's link. Change the names, the day and the time, and the rest of the details travel with the link.

On kehdoo.in the WhatsApp messages Kehdoo writes for your invites and reminders come in English and Hindi, and in your invite's second script if it has one. You can change the words before every send.

How to make a haldi invitation, step by step

The haldi lives on your wedding e-invite as one function, next to the mehendi, the sangeet and the rest. You can also make an invite with the haldi alone.

1. Start the inviteAt /e/new, type both names and the date of the first function. The North Indian set starts with the haldi; if the haldi is all you're inviting people to, pick "Just one function" and make it the haldi.
2. Set the haldi's time and placePick its date and start time, and type the venue. Under "More for the Haldi", add an end time, the full address and a Google Maps link. Without a link, guests get a map search for the venue.
3. Add the dress code and a note"Shades of yellow" in the dress code, and anything else in the notes: lunch after, parking at the back gate, bring a change of clothes.
4. Decide who repliesKeep RSVP on for the haldi if you need a count for lunch. Turn it off if it's only the household and you don't need numbers.
5. Make the invite and share the haldiOn your hosts' page, the Share tab has the whole invite and each function with its own link, preview and WhatsApp button, with the words written in.

Sending the haldi invite on WhatsApp

The haldi's own link opens a page with the haldi's card large, its day and time in IST, the venue, the dress code, a map button, an add-to-calendar button and "RSVP for Haldi". WhatsApp shows a preview in your invite's theme with the haldi's day, time and venue, so it arrives looking like an invitation, not a bare link. The message written for you reads "You're invited to the Haldi for Riya & Sam", then the time, the venue and the link.

A guest abroad also sees the time in their own zone under the IST time, so a cousin in Toronto who wants to join on a video call knows when to wake up.

Keeping the haldi to family

Many families keep the haldi to the household and close relatives. Paste your guest list, then choose which functions each name is asked to. Each guest's personal link shows only their functions, and their reply form asks only about those. A friend who isn't asked to the haldi never sees it on their link.

For the open link, mark the haldi "Only for invited guests". It then never shows on the open link, its calendar file or its preview picture, so the friends group can have the open link safely. The guest list holds 25 names, and "Sharma family (4)" counts as one name.

After the haldi

Guests can leave a wish and one photo each on your invite's wish wall, which is how the haldi pictures end up in one place instead of forty chats. Read how the digital guestbook works at the reception. If the mehendi is the same afternoon or the sangeet is the next night, each has its own link on the same invite, and the countdown moves on to the next function by itself. For everything else, start from wedding invitations.