Every ceremony gets its own card.

A Direction is more than a theme. It bundles a palette, a type pair, a hero recipe, and a set of section-variant defaults into one feeling. Mehfil Nights leans into candlelit velvet and old-money Hyderabadi glamour. Haveli Courtyard borrows lime-washed Jaipur walls at noon — warm neutrals and architectural negative space. Monsoon Letterpress is slate skies and ink pressed into cotton paper, and it scans on a phone the way a real wedding invitation feels in your hands.

We ship twelve, each named for something a desi couple recognizes on sight: Qawwali Nights, Gulmohar Bloom, Coastal Tamil, Bandhani Modern, Sherbet Deco, Cartographic Voyage for a destination weekend, Lotus Unseen for couples who want the heritage in the words and nothing on the chrome. Each ships with a recommended palette and type pair — nothing is locked. Pick Mehfil Nights and swap its Ink Plum & Brass palette for Slate, Sage & Linen if you want the cooler colorway. The result looks like your wedding, not a template ten thousand other couples also picked this season.

Every ceremony in your wedding gets a rich card in the ceremony-microsite layout: its own date and time, its venue (linked to the real Google place, with a multi-venue map for weekends that cross a city), a description, and dress-code colors shown as actual swatches — so guests see the exact yellow for the haldi, not the word “yellow.” Mehndi, sangeet, haldi, ceremony, reception, welcome party: six ceremony templates ship ready to edit, each with sensible defaults you can keep or rewrite.

One canonical event record drives all of it. Edit a start time once and it updates the website, the dashboard, the per-event RSVP, the seating chart, and the guest's day-of journey — no copy-pasting the mehndi time across three places. And events stay private to the people you invite: mark the intimate haldi private and unverified visitors see nothing. A guest verifies their email to reveal the ceremonies they were invited to, so a forwarded link never exposes an event to someone who was not on it.

The visual builder ships with 16 section types, grouped by the job they do — open the wedding, tell your story, lay out the ceremonies, handle travel and stays, collect RSVPs and answers, and close on a gallery. Most types carry multiple layouts; the hero alone has ten, from full-bleed cinematic to an editorial masthead to a bilingual name stack. Drag to reorder, click in to edit content and variant, click out to commit. The panel speaks the same atelier burgundy and gold as the rest of the workspace — editorial, not enterprise.

Every change pushes onto a 50-step undo stack; redo brings it back. Auto-save runs every couple of seconds against a draft kept separate from the live site, so you can redesign the mehndi page at 11pm while guests still see the published version. When you hit Publish, the draft replaces the live state atomically — no half-loaded in-between, no broken page mid-swap. Republish as often as you like; the live URL never changes, so links your guests already saved keep working.

Most wedding builders stay inside a handful of visual controls — simpler for support, limiting for couples with a designer or frontend engineer in the family. Anvaya goes a layer deeper today: every section reads from the same design tokens, so you can retune the palette, the type pair, and the section variants and watch the whole site move together — no two-tone mismatch between the hero and the schedule cards.

For the couple who wants the very last word, a custom-CSS escape hatch is on the roadmap — raw CSS scoped to the public site and run through a strict sanitizer that strips script tags, expressions, and javascript: URLs, so it can never reach the dashboard or the builder UI. The visual builder keeps working underneath either way, so your mom can update the haldi venue without touching a stylesheet.