Toast Template — Complete Guide

Toast is an invitation to raise a glass. Your cover photo stands in a tall gilt arch with a tower of crystal champagne coupes at its foot, which fills glass by glass when the page opens while bubbles rise over it. The name of your event is set in gilt Art Deco lettering, and the countdown is a clock whose hands close in on midnight as your evening approaches.

Toast is one of Fotify's simpler designs: its look comes from one metal colour you choose — any colour at all — and the evening it is set on.

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

Toast 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 Toast different

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

Signature design elements

• A champagne tower — ten crystal coupes stacked in a pyramid in front of your cover photo. The top glass fills first and the champagne runs down row by row
• Rising bubbles — bubbles drift up over the cover and the close of the page
• Gilt in your colour — pick the metal from the suggested colours or from the colour picker. It becomes the gilt frames and lines, the lettering, the clock hands and the buttons
• Three evenings — a midnight navy, a black-tie black, or a light blush for a daytime or garden toast
• A clock striking midnight — the countdown's hands show the time left as minutes to midnight, and meet at twelve when your event begins
• Art Deco type — Italiana for the name, the titles and the numbers, spaced Josefin Sans capitals for the labels and Jost for everything you read
• Always readable — whatever colour you pick, even a pale yellow or a dark navy, Toast lightens or deepens it in its own shade so every word stands out, and a grey stays silver

When to choose Toast

Toast suits any celebration where glasses are raised:

• New Year's Eve parties — on midnight navy or black tie, with the clock counting down to your party
• Engagement parties — in champagne or rose gold, with your story as a toast to each milestone
• Anniversaries — a toast to the years together, in gold, silver or emerald
• Company celebrations — an office year-end party, a launch toast or a milestone dinner, in your brand colour if you like

Toast never writes a year, a greeting or an occasion for you: its default lines ("Please join us to raise a glass", "We'll save you a glass") suit every toast, and you can type your own as the cover line and the closing line.

When the glasses go up, everyone takes photos. Guests can scan the event QR code and add theirs to the shared gallery. See how Fotify works for parties and corporate events.

For a disco night, try Glitterball. For a 1920s party, try Speakeasy. For a black-tie gala with a crest, try Gala.

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

Toast 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 Toast options are kept in case you switch back.

Toast options

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

1. Gilt

The metal of the whole page: the gilt frames and lines, the lettering, the clock hands and the buttons. Pick it two ways:

• A suggested swatch — Champagne gold (default), Rose gold, Silver, Emerald or Midnight blue
• Pick any color — the last chip opens your device's colour picker, so you can use your brand colour exactly. The colour's code is shown beside the chips

Any colour works. Where a colour would be hard to read on your evening, Toast lightens it (on navy and black) or deepens it (on blush) in its own shade; a grey stays silver. A rose-gold colour pours rosé into the glasses.

2. Evening

The ground of the page:

• Midnight navy (default) — a deep blue night
• Black tie — near black, for a formal evening
• Blush — a light, warm pink, for a daytime, garden or brunch toast

3. Champagne tower

On by default: the tower of ten coupes stands at the foot of your cover photo. Turn it off to show the photo alone in its gilt arch.

4. Pour & bubbles

On by default: the tower fills glass by glass when the page opens and bubbles rise over the cover and the closing. Turn it off for full, still glasses. Guests whose device asks for reduced motion always see the glasses full and still.

5. Cover line

The small line above the event name on the cover (up to 60 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("Please join us to raise a glass"). This is the place for your own words — for example "Ring in the new year with us", "Ten years together" or "We're engaged!".

6. Closing line

The big line at the end of the page (up to 80 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("We'll save you a glass").

Every piece of text Toast prints on the invitation — the cover line, the 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

Cover

A lit cover replaces the standard header: your evening with a soft glow and faint Art Deco sunburst rays of your metal.

• Cover line (option 5) in spaced gilt capitals
• Your event name in gilt Italiana, under a gilt Deco rule. Long names step down a size so they never break mid-word
• Your cover photo in a tall, round-topped gilt arch with a fine outline around it, keeping the horizontal crop you set. Without a cover photo the arch holds a gilt sunburst, so the cover never looks empty
• The champagne tower (option 3) at the foot of the arch, filling glass by glass, with bubbles rising over it (option 4)
• 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
• Reply — a gilt button that scrolls to the RSVP form. It only appears when your RSVP section is visible, and never on a save-the-date page

On a wide screen the words sit on one side and the arch with its tower on the other; on a phone the arch sits between your event name and the date.

Section heads

Each section opens centred like an engraved card: the section's label in spaced gilt capitals, its title in gilt Italiana, a small Deco rule and, for the story and gifts, your subtitle or gift message.

Message — an engraved card

Your message sits on a card with a fine gilt double rule and two coupes clinking over its top edge. A long message steps down a size and aligns to the start of the line, which is easier to read over many lines.

Countdown — a clock striking midnight

A gilt Art Deco clock with Roman numerals and a sunburst face. Its hands are your countdown, not the time of day: with three hours to go the hour hand stands at nine, with fifteen minutes to go the minute hand stands at a quarter to twelve, and every hand meets at twelve when your event begins. Under the clock, the days, hours, minutes (and seconds, if you show them) are set in gilt numerals. 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)

Every photo hung in a gilt frame with a mat — two across on a phone and three on wider screens (two for two or four photos, and a single centred frame for one). Each photo keeps its own shape and is framed the same way.

Story — a toast to each milestone

A line of rising bubbles runs down the page and every milestone hangs on it from a gilt medallion holding a raised coupe: its date in gilt capitals, its title in Italiana, its text and its photo in a round-topped gilt frame. On a wide screen the milestones alternate sides of the line. Every milestone is laid out the same way.

Itinerary — the running order

Printed like a programme card: each day on its own engraved card under its date, and every entry on the same row — its time in gilt numerals, a gilt diamond, then the moment, the place and any note. The moments are exactly the entries you write — the welcome drinks, the speeches, the countdown, the first dance — in your own words. Entry icons are not shown.

RSVP — a gold-edged reply card

"Will you join the toast?" with your RSVP deadline under it, and the reply form on a card with a gilt edge, a fine double rule inside it, small Deco fans in its top corners and a champagne cork in its wire cage set in a gilt medallion on its top edge. The attend / decline choices are two selectable boxes and the send button is gilt. 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 (Meridian, Thread, Prism and Duotone), dressed in Toast's colours: cards with a fine gilt double rule, gilt-ringed icons, squared gilt buttons with spaced capitals, and Italiana titles under Toast's engraved heads.

• 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

Closing

The same lit ground as the cover with bubbles rising, two coupes clinking, your closing line (option 6) in gilt Italiana, a Deco rule, the date and place, and the same Reply button as on the cover.

Sections that use the shared layout

These sections keep Fotify's shared layout and are dressed in Toast'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 a fine gilt double rule, with titles in Italiana and squared gilt buttons. Photos in custom sections are capped in height so a tall portrait never takes over the page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does Toast write "Happy New Year" or a year on my invitation? A: No. Its default lines suit any toast. To wish your guests a happy new year, type it as the Cover line or the Closing line, or double-click any line in the live preview to change it.

Q: Does the clock show the time of day? A: No. The clock is the countdown: its hands show the time left before your event as minutes to midnight, and meet at twelve when it begins. The numbers under the clock show the same countdown.

Q: Can I use Toast for a wedding or an engagement? A: Yes. Toast is listed under Wedding as well as Party and Corporate. Rose gold on blush or champagne gold on navy both suit an engagement party or a wedding reception.

Q: I picked a dark blue. Why does it look lighter on the page? A: On the navy and black evenings, a dark colour would disappear, so Toast lightens it in its own shade until the lettering and lines read clearly. On blush, a light colour is deepened instead.

Q: Can I stop the pouring and the bubbles? A: Yes. Turn off Pour & bubbles and the glasses are shown full and still. Guests whose device asks for reduced motion always see them still.

Q: I don't have a cover photo. Will the cover look empty? A: No. Without a photo, the gilt arch holds a sunburst, with the champagne tower still standing at its foot.

Q: Does Toast work in right-to-left languages? A: Yes. In Hebrew and Arabic the layout mirrors: the story's line of bubbles runs down the right side and the words on a wide cover sit on the right. The clock, the tower and the cover photo's crop stay as they are.

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 party designs: Glitterball for a disco night, Speakeasy for a 1920s party, or Gala for a black-tie evening
• Let guests share their photos of the night with a QR code: read about Fotify for parties, corporate events and digital invitations with RSVP

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