Bento Template — Complete Guide

Bento turns your invitation into a modular grid of rounded tiles, the way polished product websites present their features. Where Linen reads like a fashion magazine and Atelier like letterpress stationery, Bento is crisp, bright and modern: white tiles on a warm porcelain canvas, oversized headlines with tight letter-spacing, tiny monospace labels and a single bold accent colour.

This guide covers how Bento looks, the options unique to it, how to apply it, and the treatment it gives each section of your invitation.

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

What makes Bento different

Standard templates restyle one shared layout with colours and fonts. Bento replaces the layout itself: the cover, the countdown, the gallery, the story, the schedule, the gifts, the details, the calendar buttons and the RSVP form are all rebuilt as tiles on a grid.

Signature design elements

• A cover made of tiles — instead of a hero banner, the cover is a cluster: a large title tile with your event name, a photo tile, a date tile with a giant day number, a time tile, a place tile with a pin, and a bright RSVP tile that takes guests straight to the form
• Floating pill navigation — a glass pill pinned to the top of the screen with your initials, a link to every visible section and an RSVP button. The link for the section being read is highlighted as guests scroll. On phones it slides in as soon as the guest starts scrolling
• Oversized display type — Inter Tight at extra-bold weights with tight tracking for names, titles and numbers; Inter for reading text; JetBrains Mono for the small uppercase labels on every tile
• One accent colour — Tangerine, Cobalt, Lime or Violet, used only where it matters: the RSVP tiles, the nav button, time chips and focus rings
• Four canvases, one of them dark — Porcelain, Graphite (dark mode), Sage and Blush
• Three corner styles — soft, extra-round or crisp squared tiles and buttons
• Tiles that respond — tiles lift slightly under the pointer on desktop. Guests who ask their device for reduced motion get a still page

When to choose Bento

Bento suits hosts who want the invitation to feel current, organised and easy to scan:

• Modern weddings — especially city weddings and couples who like clean graphic design over florals and script
• Corporate events, launches and conferences — the product-site look fits company events, offsites, product launches and meetups; see corporate events
• Birthdays and milestone parties — pick Lime or Tangerine on Graphite for an evening party, or Blush for something softer; see birthdays
• Multi-day events — the schedule tiles, the details grid and the section navigation make long weekends easy to follow
• Events with a lot of practical information — dress code, hotels, transport, FAQs and gifts each get their own tile instead of a long scroll of text

Choose Linen instead for a quiet editorial look with black-and-white photography, Atelier for formal letterpress stationery, or Vesper for soft romantic pastels.

Applying Bento 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 Bento under Designs
3. Optional: press Try it on to see Bento with your own invitation details in the live preview — nothing is saved until you press Use this design
4. Or click the Bento card to apply it straight away
5. Open Bento options below the gallery to set the canvas, accent colour, corners and the other options described below. Changes save automatically

Bento is available on every plan, Free included, and on subscription events. Switching to another template later is non-destructive: your event content stays exactly as you entered it, and your Bento options are kept in case you switch back.

Customization options

Bento has six options of its own, on top of Fotify's standard controls.

1. Canvas

The neutral colours behind every tile:

• Porcelain (default) — warm off-white canvas with crisp white tiles and near-black text
• Graphite — the dark mode: near-black canvas, charcoal tiles and light text. The closing tile and day tiles flip to light, and form controls switch to their dark versions
• Sage — a soft green-grey canvas
• Blush — a soft pink canvas

2. Accent colour

The one bright colour on the page — the RSVP tiles, the nav RSVP button, the submit button, time chips and focus rings:

• Tangerine (default) — a warm orange-red
• Cobalt — an electric blue
• Lime — a vivid yellow-green; striking on Graphite
• Violet — a saturated purple

Every accent comes with its own label colour, chosen so button text stays readable on every canvas.

3. Corners

How rounded the tiles, photos and buttons are:

• Soft (default) — rounded tiles with full pill buttons
• Round — extra-soft, bubbly tiles
• Crisp — nearly square tiles, and the pill buttons become squared buttons

4. Cover label

The small label with a coloured dot above your event name on the cover. Defaults to "You're invited". Try "Save the date", "Join us", "Launch night" or your own words.

5. Closing title

The big line on the dark closing tile at the bottom of the page. Defaults to "See you there." Try "Until June", "Let's celebrate" or "Can't wait".

6. Floating navigation

Turn the pill navigation at the top of the screen on (default) or off. With it off, the cover moves up slightly and guests scroll the page as usual.

Every text Bento prints on the invitation — the tile labels, the section titles, the RSVP tile, the button labels — can also be rewritten directly on the page: switch the live preview into edit mode and double-click the text. The cover label and closing title are edited in place the same way.

How each section is treated

Cover

A cluster of tiles replaces the standard header:

• Title tile — your cover label above your event name, set very large. Long names automatically step down a size so they never break mid-word
• Photo tile — your cover photo, cropped to fill the tile. Without a photo, desktop shows your initials on a dotted panel; phones simply skip the tile
• Date tile — a giant day number with the month, weekday and year beside it
• Time tile — the start time, in your 12 or 24-hour format. Hide it with the Show time setting of your cover
• Place tile — your event location with a pin
• RSVP tile — an accent-coloured tile that scrolls straight to the form

On desktop the title and photo sit side by side above one row of info tiles; on phones everything stacks into a neat two-column grid.

Message

One wide tile: a small label and your initials on one side, your message set large on the other like a product page's headline statement. Emphasised words take the accent colour. Longer messages step down to a comfortable reading size.

Countdown

A title tile followed by one tile per unit — days, hours, minutes, seconds — each with a huge number. The units you switch off in the countdown settings disappear and the remaining tiles widen. When the day arrives, your completion message replaces the numbers in an accent tile.

Gallery (Carousel)

Your photos are laid out as a bento mosaic: a large feature photo, two smaller ones beside it, then a tall and a wide one, repeating. The last photos always stretch to close the grid, so any number of photos ends cleanly.

Story

A row of identical cards — photo on top, then date, title and text — that guests swipe on phones or move through with arrow buttons on desktop. A milestone without a photo shows its number on a tinted panel so every card keeps the same shape.

Location

A map tile beside an address tile with your full address, your directions and an Open in Maps button. When a map can't be shown, the map tile draws a pin with the venue's coordinates instead; without coordinates the address tile spans the full width.

Itinerary

One row per day: a dark day tile with the big day number and the full date, beside that day's events as cards. Each card starts with a time chip, then the event name, place and any note.

Gifts

Every registry, payment option, charity and wishlist item is its own tile in a grid, grouped under small labels when you offer more than one kind. Payment details sit in an inset field with a copy button; long account numbers and wallet addresses wrap inside the tile. Pay links and scan-to-pay QR codes appear as buttons beneath.

Event Details

A tile per topic: dress code with your suggested and avoided colours shown as swatches, where to stay with each hotel as a card (distance, price range, promo code, booking link), getting there with a card per option, and a full-width FAQ tile where each question opens and closes on tap.

Save the Date (Calendar)

One tile with the title and date on one side and three buttons — Google, Apple and Outlook — on the other.

RSVP

A large white tile with the title and your reply-by date on one side and the RSVP form on the other. The yes/no choice becomes two selectable tiles, fields become rounded inset inputs, and the submit button takes the accent colour. On desktop the title stays in view while guests scroll through a long form.

Closing

A dark closing tile with your initials, the closing title and the date and location, next to a second accent RSVP tile.

Sections that use the shared layout

A few sections keep Fotify's shared layout and are dressed in Bento's style — each becomes a tile in the same column, with Bento headings and buttons:

• Photo upload — accent upload button, rounded photos
• QR code — rounded plate and pill save button
• Your table — table names shown as accent chips
• Sub-events and perks — pill accept, decline and unlock buttons
• Playlist requests
• Custom sections — Bento headings; section photos are rounded and capped in height so a tall portrait never takes over the page

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is Bento only for tech or corporate events? A: No. The look is inspired by product websites, but it works for any event that likes clean, modern design — weddings included. Pick Blush or Sage with soft corners for a gentler feel, or Graphite with Lime for a bold party.

Q: Does the dark Graphite canvas follow the guest's dark-mode setting? A: No. The canvas is your choice and every guest sees the same design. Graphite is simply the dark option you can pick.

Q: Why are some sections missing from the navigation? A: The navigation only lists sections that are switched on and have content, in your section order. RSVP has its own button at the end of the pill instead of a link.

Q: My event name is long. Will it fit on the cover? A: Yes. Bento picks the headline size from the length of your name and its longest word, so long names step down a size and wrap between words.

Q: Can I change the accent colour to my own brand colour? A: Bento offers four tested accents (Tangerine, Cobalt, Lime and Violet), each paired with a label colour that keeps buttons readable on every canvas.

Q: Does Bento support all the standard features? A: Yes — cover, message, countdown, gallery, story, location, itinerary, gifts (including wishlist reservations and contributions), event details, calendar buttons and RSVP all have Bento layouts, and the remaining sections use the shared layout in Bento's style. The envelope opening and background music work as usual.

Next steps

• See How to Customize Your RSVP Invitation for the template gallery and how to try a design on before applying it
• Compare with Linen for editorial minimalism or Atelier for letterpress formality
• Learn more about digital invitations with RSVP on Fotify

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