Tiki Template — Complete Guide

Tiki is a luau at sunset. The cover is a beach scene: a sunset sky built from the colour you pick, a striped retro sun sinking into a lagoon, palm fronds, monstera leaves or hibiscus flowers cut out at the corners, and your cover photo standing on the sand inside a surfboard, a carved wooden tiki plank or a bamboo porthole. Under it, your event name is written in a retro surf script below a little carved wooden sign.

Tiki is one of Fotify's simpler designs: its look comes from one colour you choose — any colour at all — and two choices: the foliage and the photo frame.

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

Tiki 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 Tiki different

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

Signature design elements

• A sunset in your colour — pick it from the suggested colours or from the colour picker. Tiki builds the sky from it (a deeper shade at the top, your colour in the middle, a glow at the horizon), along with the sun, the hibiscus flowers and the buttons
• Cut-out foliage — layered palm fronds, monstera leaves or hibiscus flowers framing the corners of the cover, swaying gently
• Your photo on the beach — inside a surfboard planted in the sand, set into a carved wooden tiki plank hung from two ropes, or behind a round bamboo porthole
• Carved wood and bamboo — a carved teak sign for your cover line, carved tiles for the countdown and a bamboo-framed board for your programme
• A retro surf script — Pacifico for the event name and the titles, and the rounded Nunito for everything else
• Always readable — whatever colour you pick, even a pale yellow or a near-black, the text and the buttons are deepened or lightened until they read clearly. No text is ever set on the sunset itself

When to choose Tiki

Tiki suits celebrations with sand, sun or a pool nearby:

• Beach weddings — your photo in the surfboard or the bamboo porthole, your story as islands along a sea route, and a postcard RSVP
• Luau birthdays — a sunset in a bright coral or mango, hibiscus flowers and "Aloha!" on the cover sign
• Pool parties and summer parties — turquoise or lagoon for a daytime feel, palm fronds at the corners and the programme on a beach-bar board

At a beach celebration, the photos everyone takes 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 and parties.

For a summer festival feel, try Lineup. For a Mediterranean wedding, try Amalfi.

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

Tiki 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 Tiki options are kept in case you switch back.

Tiki options

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

1. Sunset colour

The colour of your sunset. Pick it two ways:

• A suggested swatch — Coral (default), Mango, Hibiscus pink, Turquoise or Lagoon
• Pick any color — the last chip opens your device's colour picker, so you can match the flowers, the dresses or the decorations exactly. The colour's code is shown beside the chips

Any colour works. Tiki never paints your pick as it is where it would hurt legibility: the buttons and the coloured text use the shade of your colour that reads clearly on the sand-coloured page, and the sky is lifted just enough for the dark foliage to stand out against it. Warm colours (coral, mango, pink) give an evening sunset; cool colours (turquoise, lagoon) give a bright lagoon sky.

2. Foliage

The cut-out greenery at the four corners of the cover, above every section title and at the end of the page:

• Palm fronds (default)
• Monstera leaves
• Hibiscus flowers — the flowers take your colour, among their leaves

3. Photo frame

How your cover photo stands on the beach:

• Surfboard (default) — a surfboard planted in the sand, leaning slightly, with rail stripes in your colour and the lagoon
• Carved plank — set into a carved wooden tiki plank with zigzag carvings, hanging from two ropes
• Bamboo porthole — a round window in a ring of bamboo, lashed with rope at four points

4. Cover sign

The words carved on the little wooden sign above your event name (up to 60 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("You're invited"). Try "Aloha!", "Luau at the beach house" or "Join us by the pool".

5. Closing line

The big line at the end of the page (up to 80 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("See you on the beach").

Every piece of text Tiki prints on the invitation — the cover sign, the Count me in 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

Cover

A beach scene replaces the standard header:

• The sunset — a sky in three shades of your colour, a striped retro sun sinking into the lagoon and gentle wave lines on the water
• The foliage (option 2) at the four corners, swaying slowly
• Your cover photo in the frame you chose (option 3), keeping the horizontal crop you set. Without a cover photo the frame shows a little sunset over the sea, so the cover never looks empty

Under the scene, on the sand:

• The cover sign (option 4), carved into a little wooden plank at the waterline
• Your event name in the retro surf script. Long names step down a size so they never break mid-word
• The date, the time and the place — the time follows the Show time setting of your invitation's cover, and every guest sees the date you picked, whatever their time zone
• Count me in — 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: a small sprig of your foliage, the section's label in rounded capitals, then its title in the surf script with a wave line under it and, for the story and gifts, your subtitle or gift message.

Message — a beach letter

Your message sits on a card with a sprig of your foliage tucked into its top corner and a hem of lagoon waves along the bottom. A long letter steps down a size, which is easier to read over many lines.

Countdown — carved tiki tiles

One carved wooden tile per unit, hanging on two cords from a bamboo pole: a zigzag carving across its top, the number in large cream figures and the unit name carved 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) — a surfboard rack

Every photo is a surfboard leaning in a row, with the same rail stripe and a small fin: two across on a phone and four on wider screens (three for three photos, and a single centred board for one). Every photo is framed the same way.

Story — island hopping

An outrigger canoe sets off at the top of a dotted sea route, and every milestone is a little island on it, beside a card with its date in your colour, its title in the surf script, its text and its photo. Every milestone is laid out the same way.

Itinerary — the beach bar's board

The schedule on one card in a frame of bamboo stalks lashed with rope at the corners: under each day's date, every entry shows its time on a pill in your colour, the event, the place and any note, with a dashed line between two entries. The entries are exactly the ones you write, in your own words. Entry icons are not shown.

Location, Gifts, Event Details and Save the Date

These four sections share their structure with Fotify's other picker-coloured designs (Meridian, Thread, Prism and Duotone), dressed in Tiki's colours: soft rounded cards on the sand-coloured page, rounded buttons in your colour, and titles in the surf script.

• 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 — a postcard

"Will you join us?" with your RSVP deadline under it, and the reply form on a postcard: an airmail border striped in your colour and the lagoon, a stamp with a little sunset in one top corner and a postmark beside it. The form shares its structure with the other picker-coloured designs: the attend / decline choices as two selectable boxes and a rounded send button. On a save-the-date page, the postcard holds the save-the-date note instead of the form.

Closing

The page ends on the lagoon at dusk: the sand meets the water in a wavy shoreline, your foliage grows from the two bottom corners, and your closing line (option 5) is written in the surf script above the date and place and the same Count me in button as on the cover.

Sections that use the shared layout

These sections keep Fotify's shared layout and are dressed in Tiki'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 soft rounded card, with titles in the surf script and rounded 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: Is Tiki only for luau parties? A: No. It suits beach weddings, birthdays, pool parties and any summer party. Pick a cool colour such as turquoise or lagoon for a daytime feel, or coral and mango for an evening sunset.

Q: Where does "Aloha!" come from? A: Only from the Cover sign option. Leave it blank and the sign shows the default ("You're invited"), which you can also rewrite by double-clicking it in the live preview.

Q: I picked a pale colour. Why are the buttons darker than my colour? A: Tiki keeps every label readable: the buttons and coloured text use a deeper shade of the same hue so they read clearly on the sand-coloured page.

Q: Can text end up on top of the sunset or the leaves? A: No. The cover scene holds only the sky, the sea, the foliage and your photo; your cover sign, event name, date and place sit on the sand underneath it.

Q: I don't have a cover photo. Will the cover look empty? A: No. Without a photo, the surfboard, plank or porthole shows a little sunset over the sea, and the rest of the beach scene stays the same.

Q: Does Tiki work in right-to-left languages? A: Yes. In Hebrew and Arabic the layout mirrors: the surfboard and the sign lean the other way, the story's sea route runs down the right side and the canoe faces the other way. The cover photo's crop stays as you set it.

Q: Does the page move? A: Only gently: the foliage sways, the waves drift and the photo frame rises into place as the page opens. 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 other summery designs: Lineup for a festival poster, or Amalfi for a Mediterranean wedding
• Let guests share their photos of the day with a QR code: read about Fotify for weddings, parties and digital invitations with RSVP

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