Locket Template — Complete Guide

Locket is a romantic, storybook invitation for a wedding. A heart locket hangs on a fine chain at the top of the page, swinging gently over your names, and opens to show your photo inside. The rest of the page is cream paper in one deep colour, with keepsakes along the way: white calla lilies, a little retro television telling your story, a strip of film with your photos and velvet curtains drawn across the close.

Locket's whole look comes from two choices: one colour — any colour at all — and the metal of the locket.

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

Locket 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 Locket different

Standard templates change colours and fonts over the same shared layout. Locket replaces the layout itself: its own cover and closing, its own section heads, and its own treatment of the message, countdown, gallery, story, itinerary, venue and reply card.

Signature design elements

• A heart locket — gold, silver or rose gold, with an enamel lid in your colour, hanging on a fine chain from the top of the cover. It swings gently, opens on its own a moment after the page loads to show your cover photo inside, and opens or closes again whenever a guest taps it
• Calla lilies and petals — sprays of white calla lilies grow in from the top corners of the cover, and a handful of blush petals drift slowly down it
• A retro television — your story plays on a little television standing on a walnut console, with your milestones listed beside it like a programme guide
• Torn-paper photos — your cover photo and your gallery photos are torn out with a margin of cream paper, each with its own ragged edge
• An ornate frame — your venue sits inside a frame of scrollwork with a small heart at its crest
• Velvet curtains — the page closes behind deep velvet curtains, tied back with tasselled cords in the locket's metal
• Typography — Imbue, a tall high-contrast serif, for your names, the titles and the numbers; Newsreader, a refined reading serif, for the text, the small spaced capitals and the italic lines
• Always readable — whatever colour you pick, even a pale yellow or a near-black, the text and the buttons are adjusted until they read clearly

When to choose Locket

Locket suits romantic celebrations with a story to tell:

• Weddings — your names under the locket, your story on the television and the day along a line of leaves
• Engagement parties — your photo kept in the locket and your story told milestone by milestone
• Vow renewals and anniversaries — a strip of film with your favourite photos and a closing line between the curtains

Whatever the occasion, the photos your guests take matter as much as the invitation. Guests can scan the event QR code and add their photos to the shared gallery. See how Fotify works for weddings.

For a garden wedding pinned with wax seals, try Sealed. For an engraved black-tie wedding suite, try Heirloom.

Applying Locket 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 Locket under Designs (it is listed under the Wedding filter, and under Elegant too)
3. Optional: press Try it on to see Locket with your own invitation details in the live preview — nothing is saved until you press Use this design
4. Or click the Locket card to apply it straight away
5. Open Locket options below the gallery to pick your colour and the other options described below. Changes save automatically

Locket 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 Locket options are kept in case you switch back.

Locket options

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

1. Colour

The ink of the page: your names, every title, the buttons, the small labels and the leaves along the order of the day. As a deep velvet, the same colour is the enamel on the locket's lid, the television's cabinet and the curtains at the close. Pick it two ways:

• A suggested swatch — Forest green (default), Navy, Burgundy, Chocolate or Plum
• Pick any color — the last chip opens your device's colour picker, so you can match your wedding colour exactly. The colour's code is shown beside the chips

Any colour works: a light or bright colour is deepened wherever text sits on it so every label stays readable, and a grey stays grey.

2. Locket metal

The metal of the locket, its chain, the dials on the television and the tassels that tie back the curtains:

• Gold (default)
• Silver
• Rose gold

3. Falling petals

A handful of blush petals drifting slowly down the cover. On by default; turn it off for a still cover.

4. Calla lilies

The sprays of white calla lilies in the top corners of the cover and the two lilies lying under the frame around your venue. On by default.

5. Closing line

The line on the card between the curtains at the end of the page, above your names (up to 80 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("And they lived happily ever after").

Every piece of text Locket prints on the invitation — the line above your names, the RSVP buttons, the greeting over your message, the section labels and titles, the countdown units, the closing line — 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, where to stay, getting there, FAQs) are edited in place the same way.

How each section is treated

Cover

Locket replaces the standard header with a storybook cover:

• The locket hanging on its chain from the top of the page, with your cover photo inside. It opens on its own once the page has loaded, and a tap opens or closes it again
• A small line above your names ("Our wedding day", which you can rewrite in edit mode)
• Your event name, set tall in Imbue. Long names step down a size so they never break mid-word
• The date and the time in spaced capitals, then the place — the time follows the Show time setting of your invitation's cover, the date and the place follow Show date and Show location, and every guest sees the date you picked, whatever their time zone
• RSVP — a small button that scrolls to the RSVP form. It only appears when your RSVP section is visible, and never on a save-the-date page
• Your cover photo again, large, torn out with a margin of cream paper, so it is on the cover even while the locket is closed

Both photos keep the horizontal crop you set. Without a cover photo, the locket opens onto a small engraved heart and the large print is left out.

Section heads

Each section opens centred: its label in small spaced capitals, its title in Imbue, and a pair of leafy sprigs meeting at a small open heart.

Message

"Dear friends and family," in italic, then your message set large and centred, closed with the leafy sprigs. A long message switches to reading size and aligns to the start of the line.

Countdown — cameo frames

Every unit sits in a small oval cameo frame with a fine double rim in the locket's metal, its number in Imbue and its name underneath. It counts down to your event's date and time in the venue's time zone, and shows your completed message once the moment arrives.

Gallery (Carousel) — a strip of film

Your photos on a strip of dark film laid across the page a few degrees off level, with sprocket holes along both edges. Every photo is torn out with a margin of cream paper and the edges vary from frame to frame. Guests scroll the strip sideways to see them all.

Story — the retro television

Your story plays on a little television in your colour, standing on a walnut console, with its dials and speaker grille beside a rounded screen. The screen shows one milestone's photo at a time, under a faint scanline; a milestone without a photo shows its title on the screen instead. Beside the television every milestone is listed the same way — its date, its title and its text — and tapping a title tunes the television to it. The large dial switches to the next milestone. Your story's subtitle appears under the section title.

Itinerary — a line of leaves

Your day runs down a fine line in your colour with a small leaf at every moment, alternating sides on wider screens (on a phone the line runs down the side): the time, the title, the place and any note. A day heading appears only when the day has a date or a label. Entry icons are not shown.

Location — the ornate frame

Your venue inside a frame of scrollwork — a crest of scrolls rising to a small heart, scrolled corners, a fine double line and a swagged foot — with two calla lilies lying under it when the lilies are on. Inside: the section's label and title, your event's location set large, your address (when it says more than the location), your directions and a View on map button. When a map can be shown, it appears under the frame.

RSVP — the keepsake card

"Will you be joining us?" with your RSVP deadline under it, and the reply form on a cream card with a fine double line inside its edge and a small heart charm hanging over its top. On a save-the-date page the card holds the save-the-date note instead of the form.

Gifts, Event Details and Save the Date

These three sections share their structure with Fotify's other picker-coloured designs (Meridian, Thread, Prism and Duotone), dressed in Locket's paper and colour: cream cards, small spaced-capital labels, Imbue titles and buttons in your colour.

• Gifts — every registry, payment option, charity and wishlist item is its own card in a grid, grouped under small labels when you offer more than one kind. Payment details sit in an inset box with a Copy button. Pay links, scan-to-pay QR codes and wishlist reservations appear as buttons on each card
• Event Details — a list of quiet rows divided by fine lines, each opening with a small outlined icon: dress code with your suggested and avoided colours as swatches, where to stay with each hotel (distance, price range, promo code, notes and a Book button), getting there with an icon for each kind of transport, and the FAQ, where each question opens on tap
• Save the Date (Calendar) — one card with the title and the event date, and Google, Apple (downloads the calendar file) and Outlook buttons

Closing — the curtains

The page closes behind deep velvet curtains in your colour, hanging from a swagged pelmet and tied back halfway down with tasselled cords in the locket's metal. Between them sits a cream card with your closing line (option 5), your event name, the date and place and a Send your reply button.

Sections that use the shared layout

These sections keep Fotify's shared layout and are dressed in Locket's style:

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

Each sits in the same column as the rest of the page on a cream card, with titles in Imbue and buttons in your colour. Photos in custom sections are capped in height so a tall portrait never takes over the page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why does my cover photo appear twice on the cover? A: Locket keeps your cover photo inside the locket and shows it again as a large torn-paper print further down the cover, so it is always on the page even while the locket is closed. Both keep the horizontal crop you set. Change or remove your cover photo in the invitation's cover settings and both change with it.

Q: Does the locket open by itself? A: Yes, once, a moment after the page loads. After that it opens or closes whenever a guest taps it, and it works from the keyboard too.

Q: Where does the venue's name in the frame come from? A: It is your event's location — the same place shown on the cover — set large inside the frame, with your full address under it when the address says more.

Q: My milestone has no photo. What does the television show? A: The milestone's title, on a screen in your colour. Every milestone is listed beside the television the same way, photo or not.

Q: I picked a very light colour. Why does the page look darker? A: A pale colour would make your names and buttons hard to read on cream paper, so Locket deepens it — keeping its hue — wherever text sits on it. The curtains, the television and the enamel use a deep velvet shade of the same colour.

Q: Does Locket work in right-to-left languages? A: Yes. In Hebrew and Arabic the layout mirrors: the television and the list of milestones swap sides, and the itinerary's line runs down the right side on a phone. The lilies, the frame and the curtains are symmetrical, and the photos keep the crop you set.

Q: Does the page move? A: Only gently: the locket swings on its chain and opens once, the petals drift down the cover, and the television's screen fades between milestones. Guests whose device asks for reduced motion see a still locket, no petals and instant changes.

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 romantic designs: Sealed, a garden wedding pinned with wax seals, or Heirloom, an engraved black-tie wedding suite
• Let guests share their photos with a QR code: read about Fotify for weddings and digital invitations with RSVP

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