Stucco Template — Complete Guide

Stucco is a calm invitation for a wedding by the sea. The whole page is soft coloured plaster with a motif pressed into it, tone on tone, and your invitation sits in cream panels set into that plaster: your cover photo in a white mat, your names in a fine high-contrast serif, a countdown on an embossed plaque, and your day as raised plaster rows down a thin gold rail.

Stucco is one of Fotify's simpler designs: its look comes from two colours you choose — any colours at all — one for the plaster and one for the small details, and the motif pressed into the plaster.

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

Stucco 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 Stucco different

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

Signature design elements

Pressed plaster — the whole page is a soft plaster in the colour you pick, with a relief pressed into it: every motif has a light edge and a shadow edge, so it reads as embossed without ever getting busy. Choose quatrefoil flowers, olive sprigs, scallop shells or plain plaster
Cream panels — every section sits in a cream panel set into the plaster, with a soft shadow inside its top edge. The relief carries on, fainter, along the top and foot of each panel
Matted photos — your cover photo, your story's photos and your gallery hang in white mats with a soft shadow; the story and gallery prints are turned by a small, fixed tilt
Embossed plaques and rows — the countdown and the closing stand proud of the plaster on plaques with a second frame pressed inside their rim; each moment of your day is its own raised box
Typography — Kalnia, a high-contrast serif with hairline strokes, for your names, the titles, the countdown and the times; Ysabeau Office, a light humanist sans, for the reading text; and a calligraphic italic ampersand (Ibarra Real Nova) wherever your event name has an "&"
Titles that come into focus — each section title sharpens out of a soft blur as it scrolls into view
Always readable — whatever colours you pick, even a pale yellow or a near-black, the text and the buttons are adjusted until they read clearly

When to choose Stucco

Stucco suits calm, sunlit celebrations:

Weddings by the sea — on an island, a coast or a terrace over the water, with scallop shells or olive sprigs pressed into the plaster
Destination weddings — your day as clear rows with times, notes and places, and the details guests need to travel
Engagement parties — your story as chapters beside your photos
Vow renewals and anniversaries — a quiet page in your own colours

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 a sunny Riviera look with lemons and majolica tiles, try Amalfi.

Applying Stucco to your event

Open your event, click Invitation in the sidebar, then the Invitation tab
In Design Template, click Change template if the gallery is collapsed, and find Stucco under Designs (it is listed under the Wedding filter, and under Elegant too)
Optional: press Try it on to see Stucco with your own invitation details in the live preview — nothing is saved until you press Use this design
Or click the Stucco card to apply it straight away
Open Stucco options below the gallery to pick your colours and the other options described below. Changes save automatically

Stucco 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 Stucco options are kept in case you switch back.

Stucco options

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

1. Plaster

The colour of the plaster the whole page is pressed into, around the cream panels. Pick it two ways:

A suggested swatch — Dusty blue (default), Sage, Sand, Terracotta or Dove grey
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: the plaster is kept soft and dusty, as real plaster is, so a bright red becomes a brick red and a bright yellow an ochre, and a colour as pale as the cream panels is taken a little deeper so the panels still stand out. The text inside the panels is a deep shade of your plaster colour (a navy on dusty blue, a deep olive on sage), and the text on the plaster itself is cream or dark, whichever reads better.

2. Relief

The motif pressed tone on tone into the plaster and along the edges of the cream panels:

Quatrefoil (default) — four-petal flowers with curling tendrils
Olive sprigs
Scallop shells
Plain plaster — no motif

3. Accent

The small details: the dots and the rail of your day, the fine rules beside each section label, the small labels themselves, the ampersand in your names and the buttons.

A suggested swatch — Antique gold (default), Terracotta, Navy or Olive
Pick any color — any colour you like. Where text sits on it or in it, the shade is adjusted so every label stays readable: a light gold becomes a deeper bronze on the buttons, for example

4. Invitation line

The line under your names on the cover (up to 90 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("Joyfully invite you to celebrate with them"). Try "We are so happy to invite you to our wedding" or "Together with their families".

5. Closing line

The line on the plaque at the foot of the page, above your names (up to 80 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("With love, see you by the sea").

Every piece of text Stucco prints on the invitation — the invitation line, the Kindly reply buttons, 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, gifts, where to stay, getting there, FAQs) are edited in place the same way.

How each section is treated

Top bar and cover

A slim band of smooth plaster runs across the top of the page with your event name on one side and a Kindly reply button on the other. The button scrolls to the RSVP form; it only appears when your RSVP section is visible, and never on a save-the-date page.

Under it, the cover is a cream panel with the relief pressed faintly all over it:

Your cover photo in a white mat with a soft shadow, keeping the horizontal crop you set
Your event name, large, in Kalnia. Every "&" in it is set in a calligraphic italic in your accent colour; nothing else about your name changes. Long names step down a size so they never break mid-word
The invitation line (option 4)
The date, the time and the place on one line — 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

Without a cover photo, the panel holds your names and the lines under them on their own.

Section heads

Each section opens centred: its label in small spaced capitals in your accent, between two short rules, then its title in Kalnia, which sharpens out of a soft blur as it scrolls into view.

Message

Your message, centred in Kalnia at a comfortable reading size, in a cream panel. A long message switches to the reading face and aligns to the start of the line.

Countdown — the embossed plaque

No panel here: a plaque of the plaster itself stands proud of the page, with a second frame pressed inside its rim. It holds the countdown's title, then light Kalnia numerals in cells divided by fine lines, each with its unit under it. 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)

Your photos as prints in white mats hung on a cream panel — three across on wider screens, two on a phone — each turned by a small tilt that straightens when you point at it. The mats show each photo whole within its frame; every photo is treated the same.

Story — chapters beside their photos

Every milestone is a chapter: its date in small capitals, its title in Kalnia and its text, beside its photo in a white mat at a small tilt. On wider screens the photo changes sides from one chapter to the next; on a phone it sits under the words. A milestone without a photo is words alone, centred; one without a date or a text leaves that line out.

Itinerary — embossed rows down a gold rail

On wider screens the section's title sits on one side and your day on the other. Every moment is its own raised plaster box: the time in Kalnia, a small dot in your accent on a thin vertical rail, then the title, any note, and the place in italics. A day heading appears only when the day has a date or a label. Entry icons are not shown.

RSVP — the reply card

The reply panel carries the relief all over, and on it sits the reply card: an embossed cream card with a second frame pressed inside its edge, "Are you going to be with us?" centred at its top with your RSVP deadline under it, then the reply form. On a save-the-date page the card holds the save-the-date note instead of the form.

Location, Gifts, Event Details and Save the Date

These four sections share their structure with Fotify's other picker-coloured designs, set into Stucco's cream panels: raised plaster cards with a light top edge and a soft shadow, small spaced-capital labels in your accent, Kalnia titles and buttons in your accent. Their icons sit in small medallions pressed into the plaster, and the dress-code colours become pressed plaster discs.

Location — your venue's address and directions beside a map (or a drawn pin when no map can be shown), with an Open in Maps button
Gifts — every registry, payment option, charity and wishlist item is its own card in a grid, grouped under small labels (with a count) when you offer more than one kind. Payment details sit in an inset box with a Copy button, and long account numbers wrap inside the card. Pay links, scan-to-pay QR codes and wishlist reservations appear as buttons on each card
Event Details — a card per topic: dress code with your suggested and avoided colours as swatches, where to stay with each hotel as a mini-card (distance, price range, promo code, notes and a Book button), getting there with an icon for each kind of transport, and a full-width FAQ card where each question opens on tap
Save the Date (Calendar) — one card with the title and the event date on one side, and Google, Apple (downloads the calendar file) and Outlook buttons on the other

Closing

The page closes on an embossed plaque on the plaster: your closing line (option 5), your event name in Kalnia, a Send your reply button and the date and place.

Sections that use the shared layout

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

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

Each sits in a cream panel set into the plaster like the others, with titles in Kalnia and buttons in your accent. Photos in custom sections are capped in height so a tall portrait never takes over the page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: I picked a bright colour for the plaster. Why does it look softer? A: Stucco keeps the plaster dusty, as real plaster is: it keeps your colour's hue but softens a very bright colour and holds a very pale or very dark one within a range where the cream panels and the relief still show. A grey stays grey.

Q: Why is the text on the plaster sometimes cream and sometimes dark? A: The text that sits on the plaster itself (the top bar, the countdown plaque and the closing plaque) is cream or a deep shade of your plaster colour, whichever reads better on it. A mid-tone plaster that neither reads well on is taken a touch lighter or darker.

Q: Can I use my own symbol or monogram instead of the motif? A: Not in Stucco: the relief is one of the three motifs or plain plaster. Your own words go in the invitation line and the closing line.

Q: My event name has no "&". Does the cover still work? A: Yes. The calligraphic ampersand only appears where your event name has one; any other name is set in Kalnia exactly as you typed it.

Q: Does Stucco work in right-to-left languages? A: Yes. In Hebrew and Arabic the layout mirrors: the event name and the reply button in the top bar swap sides, the story's photos swap sides, the itinerary's times move to the right of the rail, and each section title comes into focus from right to left. The relief is a texture and is not mirrored, and the cover photo's crop stays as you set it.

Q: Does the page move? A: Only gently: each section title sharpens as it scrolls into view and the tilted prints straighten when you point at them. Guests whose device asks for reduced motion see a still page.

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 wedding designs: Sealed, a garden wedding pinned with wax seals, or Amalfi, a sunny Riviera look
Let guests share their photos with a QR code: read about Fotify for weddings and digital invitations with RSVP

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