Velvet wedding anniversary invitations for 35 years

You're at the kitchen table with a coffee going cold, phone in hand, hunting a name to put on your velvet wedding anniversary invitations. Silver was 25. Gold was 50. Thirty-five gets you a shrug and two guesses, coral or jade, and neither sounds like the two of you. So you close the tab and pick a word yourself.

Velvet. Thirty-five years is soft, heavy and hard to wear out, which is also what velvet is. A velvet wedding anniversary isn't something anyone handed down: it's a name you decide on and then write down. Written on the cover of your invitation, guests will use it too.

Velvet wedding anniversary invitations: the name for your 35 years

Anniversary lists thin out after silver and gold. For a 35th wedding anniversary, most of them offer coral or jade, and plenty of couples ignore both. Velvet is a personal choice, and that's the good part: it's your word, not a list's. Put it on the cover and in the first line guests read, and the party has a title. If coral never fitted, this is the year you stop pretending.

• A burgundy velvet background with a subtle weave, and a black-and-white photo of the two of you on top.
• "35 years of velvet" set in a serif with rounded terminals.
• Music: a classic waltz, or whatever was playing at your first dance.
• A countdown to the party, visible from the cover, so the date stays present.

Velvet on a screen: colour first, then type

You can't glue fabric to a link, so colour does most of the work: burgundy, emerald green, navy blue, deep purple. Pick a design with a texture that reads like cloth, or upload a photo of real velvet as the backdrop. Black-and-white photographs sit on it better than colour ones. One fabric, four possible moods.

Type finishes the job. A serif with rounded terminals keeps the softness; thin, sharp lettering loses it in a single line. Keep the wording plain, too. "Still here, still us" lands better than three lines of poetry nobody reads twice.

Thirty-five years don't need a tradition behind them. They need a name, a date and a link that always says the right thing.

Your 35 years in scenes, not one flat page

The invitation is built from chained scenes, and you name them: "The velvet toast", "The dance we still argue about". Add up to six photos — one from the wedding itself, one from last summer, a few from the years between — and they're framed automatically as you go.

Each text has its own field: eyebrow label, names, date, phrase, place, with a character counter so nothing spills. Mark which photo is the cover, swap any of them later, and set the music to the song from your first dance.

Confirmations without the WhatsApp chase

Guests open the link in the browser on their phone — no app, nothing to install — and confirm inside the invitation. Answers arrive in one ordered list, and you decide what the form asks.

Move the time, change the venue, fix the map or drop the dress code and the same link shows the new version. Nobody gets a second message asking them to ignore the first one.

Pick a design from the collection and try the cover free before you pay anything. The invitation costs €29.99 as a one-time payment; you publish it with a button and share it as a link or a QR code. Guests only need a phone, a tablet or a laptop with a connection.