West African indigo cloth, two ceremonies, aso ebi

Adire Indigo

Nigerian American, Ghanaian American and other West African diaspora weddings, especially a traditional engagement and a white wedding on two days, and any couple who wants an African textile look.

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$99 launch price, once. See it with your names before you pay.

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The opening: “Unfold the cloth”

A length of indigo adire lies folded and tied with a gold ribbon. Guests swipe either way to unfold the cloth: the ribbon falls, the panels open out until the cloth fills the screen, the dye pattern blooms from the middle and your names appear in gold. Nothing flashes.

Every opening has a button and keyboard alternative and a Skip link. Guests who prefer reduced motion get a short crossfade instead.

The music

An original highlife-style piece: two interlocking guitars, a bouncing bass, bell, shaker and congas, with a trumpet tune answered by marimba, in a 90-second loop. Original, composed for Honored. It starts only after the guest opens the invitation, and can be muted on every screen.

Layout

Your invitation written on the cloth with your photo in a tied-circle medallion, a tab for each ceremony day, a countdown as a circle of resist dots, the schedule as a length of cloth per day, and an aso ebi swatch card that shows guests the colors to wear, read straight from your attire notes.

Color modes

Cotton

Owambe

Type

DM Serif Display, Outfit. All open-source (SIL Open Font License) and served from our own site, so nothing loads from a third party.

The sample couple

Tolu Adeyemi & Kwame Mensah, Magnolia Hall, Houston, Texas. It shows a traditional engagement and a white wedding under one link. The couple and the venue are fictional.

Styles that use it

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