East Asian tea ceremony, red and gold

Red Thread

Chinese American, Korean American and Vietnamese American weddings, and couples where one side holds a tea ceremony or a paebaek alongside a Western ceremony.

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

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The opening: “Pull the thread”

A sheet of rice paper with a slack red thread lying across it. Guests pull the thread (one swipe): it draws taut, a knot ties in the middle and your names land on either side. 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

Chamber music for a tea ceremony: a rolling harp figure under a piano tune, with flute, celesta and cello, 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

One continuous red thread runs from your names down the page: it loops round the countdown, ties each event to the schedule and hangs a closing knot over the RSVP. A Chinese line can stand vertically beside your names, closed by a double-happiness seal.

Color modes

Rice paper

Lantern

Hanbok

Type

Libre Caslon Display, IBM Plex Sans. All open-source (SIL Open Font License) and served from our own site, so nothing loads from a third party.

The sample couple

Mei Chen & Daniel Park, The Jade Court Pavilion, San Francisco, California. It shows a tea ceremony, the ceremony, a paebaek and a banquet over three days. The couple and the venue are fictional.

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