Supper Template — Complete Guide

Supper turns your invitation into a fine restaurant's printed menu. The page is a linen tablecloth; on it lies a tall menu card where your event name is set like the restaurant's name, with "Menu" in small capitals over the date, the time and the place. Further down, your schedule is served course by course, your message becomes the host's note, your photos are laid out like plates, and the reply form is a folded place card.

Supper is one of Fotify's simpler designs: its look comes from one ink colour you choose — any colour at all — a choice of card stock, where the cover photo goes and a small ornament.

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

Supper 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 Supper different

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

Signature design elements

• One printing ink — pick it from the suggested swatches or from the colour picker. Supper uses it for your event name, the titles, the rules, the ornament and the buttons, and adjusts it only as far as each of them needs to stay readable
• A menu card on a linen tablecloth — a tall card with a fine printed frame, laid on a cloth with a faint woven texture
• Three card stocks — ivory, white, or charcoal for a dark page by candlelight
• Your cover photo, your way — a small framed still life on the menu card, a wide band across the top of the page with the card laid over it, or no photo at all
• A small ornament — a rosemary sprig, the ring a wine glass leaves on the card, or a citrus slice
• Restaurant typography — Cormorant Garamond for the name, the titles and the courses, Cormorant SC for the menu's small capitals, and Jost for everything guests read and fill in
• Always readable — whatever ink you pick, even a pale yellow or a near-black on charcoal, the text and buttons are adjusted until they read clearly on the card and the cloth

When to choose Supper

Supper suits any gathering where the table is the heart of the evening:

• Dinner parties — the schedule becomes the menu: drinks, the first course, the main, dessert
• Rehearsal dinners — the evening before the wedding, in the wedding's colour, with the dress code in the details section
• Anniversary dinners — your story told milestone by milestone as "Our story, in courses"
• Intimate birthday dinners — a small, elegant page for a close group of friends
• Corporate and client dinners — a calm, typographic page in your brand colour, with a reply card that collects dietary needs through your custom RSVP fields

Guests can share their photos from the evening through the photo upload section, and see the event through Fotify's live gallery. See how Fotify works for parties, weddings and corporate events.

If your evening is a 1920s cocktail party rather than a modern dinner, try Speakeasy. For a black-and-white page on cream paper, try Linen.

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

Supper 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 Supper options are kept in case you switch back.

Supper options

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

1. Ink

The colour the menu is printed in. Pick it two ways:

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

Any colour works. Supper never paints your pick as it is where it would hurt legibility: the rules and the ornament keep your colour as far as they can, while the titles, the times and the buttons are deepened (or, on charcoal, lightened) just enough to read clearly.

2. Card stock

• Ivory (default) — a warm card on an oat linen cloth
• White — a bright card on a pale grey linen cloth
• Charcoal — a dark card on a dark cloth: the whole page turns dark, and your ink is lightened so it stays readable

3. Cover photo

• Framed still life (default) — your cover photo as a small framed print at the top of the menu card
• Band across the top — your cover photo as a wide band across the top of the page, with the menu card laid over its lower edge
• No photo — the menu card alone, even when your invitation has a cover photo

Both photo layouts keep the horizontal crop you set for your cover photo.

4. Ornament

The small drawing on the menu card, above the host's note and on the closing card: Herb sprig (default, a sprig of rosemary), Wine ring (the ring a glass leaves on the card) or Citrus slice.

5. Cover line

The small line above your event name on the menu card (up to 80 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("An evening at the table"). Try "A rehearsal dinner", "Join us for dinner" or "Ten years, one table".

6. Closing line

The line on the closing card at the end of the page (up to 80 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("We'll keep a seat for you"). Try "See you at the table" or "Bring your appetite".

Every piece of text Supper prints on the invitation — the cover line, "Menu", the Kindly reply buttons, the section labels and titles, the countdown line, 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

Cover

A tall menu card replaces the standard header:

• Your cover photo as a small framed still life at the top of the card, or as a band across the top of the page (option 3)
• Cover line (option 5) in small, spaced capitals
• Your event name, large in Cormorant Garamond in your ink, set like the restaurant's name. Long names step down a size so they never break mid-word
• A thin rule and Menu in small capitals
• The date, the time and the place, one under the other — each follows the Show date, Show time and Show location settings of your invitation's cover, and every guest sees the date you picked, whatever their time zone
• The ornament (option 4)
• Kindly reply — a button that scrolls to the RSVP form. It only appears when your RSVP section is visible, and never on a save-the-date page

Section heads

Each section opens centred, like a heading on a printed menu: the section's label in small spaced capitals, its title in the serif in your ink, and a short rule with a dot at its centre. For the story and gifts, your subtitle or gift message follows.

Message — the host's note

Your message on a card with the ornament above it, centred in the serif's italic like the note a chef prints on a menu, signed off with a short rule. A long message steps down to the reading face and aligns to the start of the line, which is easier to read over many lines.

Countdown — until we sit down

A single understated line, "Until we sit down", over the time left in the serif's elegant old-style figures, each unit named in small capitals beneath it and divided from the next by a fine line. The countdown's own title replaces the line when you set one, and your completion message is shown once the evening has begun.

Gallery (Carousel)

Your photos as a row of plates on the tablecloth: every photo is round, served on a plate of card stock with a fine rim in your ink — two plates a row on a phone and three on wider screens (two for two or four photos, and a single centred plate for one). When the last row has fewer photos, they sit centred under the others.

Story — "Our story, in courses"

Every milestone is served the same way: its photo as a framed print on a mat, then its date in small capitals, its title in the serif and its text in italics, with a dotted rule between two milestones. On wider screens the print sits beside the text.

Itinerary — the courses

The schedule on one menu card with a fine printed frame. Under each day's date, every entry is a centred course: the time in small capitals between two short dotted leaders, the moment in the serif in your ink, and the place and any note in italics beneath. Entry icons are not shown.

Location, Gifts, Event Details, Save the Date and RSVP

These five sections share their structure with Fotify's other picker-coloured designs (Meridian, Thread, Prism and the others), dressed in Supper's style: cards of the same card stock with square corners and a soft shadow, square buttons in your ink with their labels in spaced capitals, and Cormorant Garamond titles in your ink.

• Location — a map card beside an address card with your address, your directions and an Open in Maps button. When a map can't be shown, the map card draws a pin with the venue's coordinates; without coordinates the address card spans the row
• 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
• RSVP — "Will you join us at the table?" with your RSVP deadline under it, and the reply form on a folded place card: your ornament sits on the flap, a fold line runs across the top of the card under it, a fine frame in your ink runs inside its edge, and the form starts below the fold, with the attend / decline choices as two selectable boxes. On a save-the-date page, the card holds the save-the-date note instead of the form

Closing

A smaller card on the tablecloth: the ornament, your closing line (option 6) in the serif's italic, the date and place, and a final Kindly reply button.

Sections that use the shared layout

These sections keep Fotify's shared layout and are dressed in Supper'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 card, with titles in Cormorant Garamond and buttons in your ink. In Table assignment, each guest's row becomes a small seat card with a fine frame in your ink, the guest's name in the serif's italic and the table in small capitals. Photos in custom sections are capped in height so a tall portrait never takes over the page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is Supper only for dinners at a restaurant? A: No. It's styled like a restaurant's menu, but it works for any evening around a table: a dinner party at home, a rehearsal dinner, an anniversary, a birthday or a company dinner. Every line of wording can be changed to suit it.

Q: Can I list the actual menu of the dinner? A: Yes. Add each course as an entry in your itinerary — the course's name as the entry, the dishes in its note — and Supper sets them on the menu card course by course. The time is optional: an entry without one keeps its dotted leaders.

Q: Where do I put the dress code? A: In the Event Details section, under dress code. Supper shows it on its own card with your suggested and avoided colours as swatches.

Q: I picked a pale colour. Why are the titles darker than my colour? A: Supper keeps the page readable: the rules and the ornament keep your colour as far as they can, and the titles, times and buttons use a deeper shade of the same hue so they read clearly on the card. On charcoal, it uses a lighter shade instead.

Q: My cover photo doesn't show. Why? A: Check the Cover photo option: with No photo, the menu card is shown alone even when your invitation has a cover photo. Choose Framed still life or Band across the top to bring it back.

Q: Does Supper work in right-to-left languages? A: Yes. In Hebrew and Arabic the layout mirrors: on wider screens the story's prints sit on the right, and long messages align to the right. The menu card stays centred and the cover photo's crop stays as you set it.

Q: Does the page move? A: Only a gentle rise as the menu card appears. Guests whose device asks for reduced motion see a still page.

Q: Can I ask guests about dietary needs? A: Yes. Add custom RSVP fields (dropdowns, checkboxes, text and so on) to the reply form; they pick up Supper's fields and labels automatically and appear on the place card.

Next steps

• See How to Customize Your RSVP Invitation for the template gallery and how to try a design on before applying it
• Compare other elegant designs: Linen for black-and-white photos on cream paper, Terrazzo for a speckled-stone page in a colour you pick, or Speakeasy for a 1920s cocktail evening
• Let guests share their photos from the evening with a QR code: read about Fotify for parties and digital invitations with RSVP

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