Bengali wedding invitation
Lower the betel leaves, walk through the rajbari
Two betel leaves are lowered to show your names, and guests walk through an old Kolkata rajbari, gateway after gateway, down to the ghat.
Rajbari is a digital Bengali wedding invitation, a biyer card sent as a link on WhatsApp: two betel leaves are lowered to the ulu and guests walk through an old Kolkata rajbari. Each family is greeted by name, and every ceremony has its time, place and map, with the lagna. Free to try; ₹1,999 once to send.
Free to try · ₹1,999 when you’re ready to send
A walk through the rajbari
A rajbari is one of old Kolkata's family mansions: a courtyard of red floors and white alpana, green shutters, long verandahs. This invitation is a walk through one, gateway after gateway, down to the ghat.
It opens the way a Bengali bride is first seen — two betel leaves lowered, to the sound of the ulu.
A digital biyer card: sent as a link, it reaches Kolkata, Bangalore and London on the same evening.
How Rajbari opens
Two betel leaves are lowered to show your names, and guests walk through an old Kolkata rajbari, gateway after gateway, down to the ghat.
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Lower the betel leaves
Two betel leaves held up. One tap, the ulu sounds, and they are lowered to show your names over the rajbari gate.
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Through the courtyard
Guests walk in as they scroll — white alpana on a red floor, green shutters, marigolds — and your families' words appear.
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Photos along the verandah
Your story in the long corridor, and your photos hung on its walls as guests walk past.
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A room for every ceremony
Through a carved door, a room for each: turmeric and a rohu fish for the haldi, alta for the mehendi, the topor and mukut for the wedding, rosogolla and sandesh for the reception.
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Down to the ghat
Through the back gate to the ghat at dusk, Howrah Bridge far off, counting the days left.
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A diya for every wish
Night falls on the river with শুভ বিবাহ, and every wish floats as a diya.
Bengali wedding card wording, in English
How a biyer card often reads in English — yours starts with words like these, and you change them to yours.
With the blessings of our elders, we joyfully invite you
Smt. Mitali & Sri Debashis Banerjee
request your presence at the wedding of their son
Sayan
with
Rimjhim
daughter of Smt. Sharmila & Sri Pranab Chatterjee
Friday, 29 January 2027 · lagna 9:12 pm
Thakurbari Rajbari, Shobhabazar, Kolkata
Dinner follows
The haldi, the mehendi and the reception each get their own room, with their time and place.
To every family, by name
Send the Sens their link and the betel leaves are lowered for them, with their name above. Each family gets its own link on WhatsApp, and you can see who has opened it.
₹1,999once, for your whole wedding
- Free to try and change
- Every ceremony in one invitation
- Every family by name, no limit
Questions families ask
Can we name the ceremonies in Bengali?
Yes. Rename any ceremony the way you say it at home — Ashirbad, Gaye Holud, Aiburobhat, Biye, Bou Bhaat — or add one of your own.
Can it show the lagna?
Yes: "The lagna is at 9:12 pm; please be seated by 8:45", with the evening's programme — the seven circles, the first look under the betel leaves, the garlands.
Is it only for a Kolkata wedding?
No. The rajbari is Kolkata's, but the invitation suits a Bengali wedding wherever it is held.
Is the invitation in Bengali?
The words are in English so everyone can read them, and the night at the ghat closes on শুভ বিবাহ.
What does it cost?
Try it and change it for free; it's ₹1,999 once to send it to every family.
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