Amalfi Template — Complete Guide

Amalfi is a sun-drenched Mediterranean invitation template for destination and summer weddings. Think of a Positano terrace: a striped canvas awning swaying over an arched window framed in hand-painted tiles, lemon branches tucked around it, postcards, luggage tags and a reply that arrives by airmail. It is joyful and abundant, but every name, date, place and the reply form stay clear and easy to read.

This guide covers how Amalfi looks, the options unique to it, how to apply it to your event, and how it lays out each section of your invitation.

Amalfi is available on every plan, Free included.

For an overview of the template gallery and the picker, see How to Customize Your RSVP Invitation.

What makes Amalfi different

Standard templates change colours and fonts over the same shared layout. Amalfi replaces the layout itself: its own cover, its own closing, and a hand-made treatment for each section.

Signature design elements

• A striped awning — the cover opens under a beach awning with a scalloped edge that gently sways in the breeze (it stays still for guests who have reduced motion turned on)
• An arched villa window — your cover photo sits in an arch framed by hand-painted tiles, on a plaster sill, with lemon branches tucked around it. Without a cover photo, the window shows a painted view of the sea
• Hand-painted tiles everywhere, tastefully — a single row of tiles separates the sections, and the same tile frames the countdown, the map and the gift cards. You choose the pattern
• Postcards — your save-the-date is the back of a picture postcard, with a stamp, a round postmark with your town and date, and the calendar links as little stamps. Your story is a scatter of postcards
• Travel desk details — hotels as vintage luggage tags, transport as ferry ticket stubs, the dress code as a note pinned with a tile
• An airmail RSVP — the reply form sits inside an envelope with the red-and-blue airmail border and a "Par avion" label
• Three typefaces, three jobs — a flowing script (Parisienne) for names and titles only, a classic serif (Cormorant Garamond) for everything guests read, and small tracked capitals (Josefin Sans) for labels and buttons

When to choose Amalfi

Amalfi suits celebrations with sunshine in them:

• Destination weddings — the Amalfi Coast, Capri, Sicily, the Greek islands, Provence or anywhere by the sea
• Summer and garden weddings — long lunches, lemon groves, terraces and outdoor dinners
• Welcome dinners and weekend programmes — the itinerary, hotels and transport sections are built for multi-day events
• Engagement parties and anniversaries with a Mediterranean theme

If you want something quieter and more formal, try Atelier. For soft, romantic florals, try Vesper. For a modern, typographic look, try Folio.

Applying Amalfi to your event

1. Open your event, click Invitation in the sidebar, then the Invitation tab
2. In Design Template, click Change template if the gallery is collapsed, and find Amalfi
3. Optional: press Try it on to see Amalfi with your own invitation details in the live preview — nothing is saved until you press Use this design
4. Or click the Amalfi card to apply it straight away
5. Open Amalfi options to adjust the template-specific settings described below. Changes save automatically

Amalfi works on every plan. On free events a small "Made with Fotify" badge appears in the bottom corner of the invitation; any paid plan or an active subscription removes it.

Switching to another template later is non-destructive: your event content stays exactly as you entered it, and your Amalfi options are kept in case you switch back.

Amalfi options

Amalfi has seven options of its own. They take the place of the standard colour and font controls, which Amalfi doesn't use.

1. Palette

The coastline the invitation is painted in. Every palette is tuned so text stays easy to read.

• Positano (default) — cobalt blue, lemon yellow and white
• Capri — turquoise, coral and sand
• Sicily — terracotta, olive and ochre
• Santorini — white-wash with a deep Aegean blue

2. Tiles

The hand-painted tile used for the section dividers, the arch around the cover photo, the countdown tiles, the map frame, the itinerary timeline and the gift cards.

• Majolica (default) — painted florals with corner rosettes
• Lemons — a lemon on every tile, inside a painted frame
• Geometric — Sicilian eight-point stars
• No tiles — simple painted lines instead, for a calmer page

3. Awning

The striped beach awning across the top of the cover and above the closing note.

• Stripes in the palette colour (default)
• Lemon stripes — yellow and white, whatever the palette
• Plain canvas — a single colour with a white piping
• No awning — the cover starts straight with the window

4. Lemons

On by default: lemon branches around the cover photo, lemons as the bullets on the itinerary timeline, a lemon on the map frame and a faint lemon watermark on the letter. Turn it off for tiles and sea only.

5. Cover line

The small line above the names on the cover — for example "Together with their families" or "Two families, one long table". Leave it blank to use the default ("Join us by the sea").

6. Postmark town

The town stamped on the save-the-date postcard and written after "Greetings from" — for example "Ravello". Leave it blank to use the town from your event location.

7. Closing title

The script line under the closing awning. Leave it blank to use the default ("See you by the sea"). Try "A presto!", "Until June, by the water" or "Bring your sunglasses".

Every piece of text Amalfi prints on the invitation — section titles, "Par avion", "Greetings from", the stamp buttons and the closing title — can also be rewritten directly on the page: switch the live preview into edit mode and double-click the text. Section titles you have already set in their own settings (story, countdown, gifts, where to stay, getting there, FAQs) are edited in place the same way.

How each section is treated

Cover

The cover replaces the standard header:

• The awning across the top (option 3)
• The window — your cover photo in a tiled arch on a sill, with lemon branches (option 4). Without a photo, a painted sea view
• Cover line (option 5) in small capitals, then your event name in large script
• Date — the weekday, then the date in italic serif, with the time when the time is shown on the cover
• Place — your event location in capitals
• Reply — "Kindly reply by" with your RSVP deadline, and a Send your reply stamp that jumps to the RSVP section

The time follows the Show time setting of your invitation's cover.

Message

Your invitation message becomes a letter on textured paper, with a faint lemon watermark. A long enough first paragraph opens with an illuminated initial painted on a small tile.

Countdown

A deep sea-coloured band edged with tiles, and each unit — days, hours, minutes and (optionally) seconds — as a square glazed tile with a painted border and a hand-painted italic number. When the countdown ends, your completion message is shown on a tile instead.

Gallery (Carousel)

Your photos in a row of arched villa windows, each framed in tiles. Swipe or scroll sideways and the windows snap into place; on wider screens, arrow buttons appear when there are more photos than fit.

Story

A scatter of postcards, each slightly turned. Every milestone is laid out the same way: the photo mounted like a print when there is one, the date, the title, the description in a handwritten-style italic, and a stamp in the corner printed with the year. Your story subtitle appears under the section title.

Location

The map in a hand-painted tile frame with a little boat (or a lemon) on its edge, then your address painted on a ceramic street plaque, your directions and a Directions stamp that opens the map. If the location has no map, the plaque stands on its own.

Itinerary

"The day": each day opens with a painted date label, then a vertical timeline made of small tiles with a lemon at every stop, showing the time, the event, the place and any note.

Gifts

Every registry, monetary option, charity and wishlist item is a glazed card topped with a strip of tiles. Payment details sit in a chip that wraps cleanly, even for long wallet addresses, with a Copy stamp beside them. Group labels only appear when you offer more than one kind of gift.

Event Details

• Dress code as a note pinned with a tile: your dress code title in script, your description, suggested and avoided colour swatches, and notes
• Where to stay as vintage luggage tags, with an eyelet and string: hotel name, address, distance from the venue, price range, promo code, notes, a Book stamp and a tap-to-call phone number
• Getting there as ferry ticket stubs: the details on the ticket, and an icon for the kind of transport plus the cost on the tear-off stub
• FAQs as an elegant two-column list of questions and answers

Save the Date (Calendar)

The back of a picture postcard: "Greetings from" your town (option 6) and your calendar note on the message side; a lemon stamp franked with a round postmark showing the town and date, and the event written on the address lines. Google, Apple (downloads the calendar file) and Outlook are little stamps along the bottom.

RSVP

An airmail envelope with the red-and-blue diagonal border, a "Par avion" label and a stamp. Inside, on the letter paper: ruled fields, the attend / decline choices as tick-box cards, and a painted send button. Your RSVP deadline appears under the section title. On a save-the-date, the envelope holds the save-the-date note instead of the form.

Closing

A second awning, your closing title in large script, the event name, date and place, a Back to top link, and a tiled floor to finish.

Sections without a bespoke layout

These sections use Fotify's standard layout, restyled to match Amalfi:

• Photo upload, QR code, Table assignment, Playlist, Sub-events, Special treatments and custom sections

They get the same row of tiles above them, script titles, glazed cards and stamp-style buttons in your palette colour. Photos in custom sections are shown in an arched frame, and seat badges in table assignment use the palette colour.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is Amalfi only for weddings in Italy? A: No. Pick the palette that fits your place — Capri, Sicily or Santorini — set the postmark town, and rewrite the cover line and closing title. Amalfi works for any celebration by the sea or in the sun, and for engagement parties and anniversaries too.

Q: Where does the town on the postcard come from? A: From the Postmark town option. If you leave it blank, Amalfi uses the town from your event location — for example "Ravello" from "Villa Cimbrone, Ravello, Italy". If the result isn't what you want, type the town into the option.

Q: Is the script font hard to read? A: The script is only used for short display text: names, section titles, the dress code title and the closing line. Dates, places, your message, every detail and the reply form are set in a classic serif.

Q: Will the swaying awning bother guests who are sensitive to motion? A: No. The awning and the lemon branches only move for guests whose device allows animations; with reduced motion turned on, everything stays still.

Q: I don't have a cover photo. Will the cover look empty? A: No. Without a photo, the window shows a painted view of the sea with a sun, a headland of houses and a little boat.

Q: Does Amalfi work in right-to-left languages? A: Yes. In Hebrew and Arabic the layout mirrors: the itinerary timeline, the drop cap, the stamps and the lemon branches all move to the other side.

Q: Can I use custom RSVP fields with Amalfi? A: Yes. Custom fields (dropdowns, dates, checkboxes, file uploads and so on) pick up Amalfi's ruled fields and small capital labels automatically.

Next steps

• See How to Customize Your RSVP Invitation for the template gallery and how to try a design on before applying it
• Compare the other designs: Vesper for soft romance, Atelier for letterpress formality, Linen for quiet editorial photography, Folio for a modern typographic look, or Studio to compose your own design with the AI Design Studio
• Planning a wedding? Read about Fotify's digital invitations with RSVP and the wedding photo sharing app

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