Y2K Template — Complete Guide

Y2K is a party page straight out of the early 2000s. Your event name is set in chrome bubble letters on a holographic page, your cover photo glows on the screen of a glossy flip phone with the date and place on its little LCD, and sparkles and butterflies drift around it. Further down, the countdown runs on a pixel gadget, your story plays out as an instant-messenger chat, the programme is a burned-CD tracklist, the gallery is a page of glossy stickers and the reply form waits on a "new message" screen.

Y2K is one of Fotify's simpler designs: its look comes from one candy colour you choose — any colour at all — and a finish for the lettering and the gadgets.

This guide covers how Y2K looks, the options unique to it, how to apply it to your event, and how it lays out each section of your invitation.

Y2K 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 Y2K different

Standard templates change colours and fonts over the same shared layout. Y2K 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.

Signature design elements

• Chrome bubble letters — your event name, every section title and the closing line in fat, rounded letters with a deep outline and a 3D edge, filled with polished chrome, a shifting hologram or candy jelly
• A glossy flip phone — your cover photo on its screen under signal bars and a battery, the date, time and place on a little LCD below the hinge, and a holographic navigation key
• A holographic page — a pastel wash of your colour shading into ice blue and lilac, with faint bands of light across it like a hologram sticker
• Sparkles and butterflies — twinkling four-point sparkles and fluttering butterflies around the cover, the message and the close. You can turn them off
• One candy colour — pick it from the suggested colours or from the colour picker. Y2K keeps it pastel where it is a background and deepens it where it is text, so everything stays readable
• 2000s gadget details — jelly buttons, glossy stickers for labels, pixel type on the LCD screens and the chat timestamps

When to choose Y2K

Y2K suits celebrations that want to feel playful, nostalgic and a little bit extra:

• Sweet sixteens — bubblegum or lilac with the holographic finish, and "Sweet 16" on the cover sticker
• Thirtieth birthdays — the "dirty thirty" crowd grew up with flip phones and burned CDs
• 2000s theme parties — chrome letters, butterflies and a playlist that guests will want to dance to
• Bachelorettes — a pink page, a chat full of stories and a tracklist for the weekend

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 birthdays and parties.

For a 90s cassette with a J-card tracklist, try Mixtape. For a 70s disco night under a mirror ball, try Glitterball.

Applying Y2K 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 Y2K under Designs (it is listed under the Birthday filter, and under Party too)
3. Optional: press Try it on to see Y2K with your own invitation details in the live preview — nothing is saved until you press Use this design
4. Or click the Y2K card to apply it straight away
5. Open Y2K options below the gallery to pick your colour and the other options described below. Changes save automatically

Y2K 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 Y2K options are kept in case you switch back.

Y2K options

Y2K has five options of its own. They take the place of the standard colour and font controls, which Y2K doesn't use.

1. Candy colour

The colour of the whole page. Pick it two ways:

• A suggested swatch — Bubblegum (default), Baby blue, Lime, Lilac or Silver
• Pick any color — the last chip opens your device's colour picker, so you can match your party colours exactly. The colour's code is shown beside the chips

Any colour works. Y2K uses a pastel of it for the holographic wash, the phone's keys and the chat bubbles, a deep shade for the outline of the bubble letters, and the colour itself for the jelly buttons and the butterflies' wings. Text and the LCD screens use deeper shades of the same colour so they stay readable, whatever you pick — even a pale yellow or a near-black. A grey keeps the whole page silver.

2. Finish

What the bubble letters, the flip phone, the countdown gadget and the CDs are made of:

• Chrome (default) — polished silver with a dark horizon line through the middle of every letter, touched with your colour
• Holographic — iridescent pastels shifting across the letters and the gadgets
• Frosted plastic — translucent candy plastic in your colour, like a 2000s desktop computer

3. Sparkles & butterflies

On by default: sparkles twinkle and butterflies flutter around the cover, the message card, the reply card and the close, the CDs spin, the countdown's colons blink and a typing indicator bounces at the end of the chat. Turn it off for a calmer, still page. Guests whose device asks for reduced motion always see everything still.

4. Cover sticker

The glossy sticker above your event name on the cover (up to 60 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("You're invited"). Try "Sweet 16", "Dirty thirty" or "Totally 2000s".

5. Closing line

The big bubble-letter line at the end of the page (up to 80 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("See you there!").

Every piece of text Y2K prints on the invitation — the cover sticker, the RSVP now buttons, the LCD labels, the chat window's title, the "New message" bar, 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

Y2K's cover replaces the standard header. On a wide screen the words sit on one side and the phone on the other; on a phone they stack:

• The cover sticker (option 4), slightly tilted
• Your event name in bubble letters, exactly as you typed it. Long names step down a size so they never break mid-word
• An RSVP now button that scrolls to the RSVP form. It only appears when your RSVP section is visible, and never on a save-the-date page
• The flip phone — your cover photo on its screen, keeping the horizontal crop you set (without a cover photo, a holographic wallpaper with a butterfly), and below the hinge an LCD with the date, time and 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

Section heads

Each section opens centred: a small label on a glossy sticker with a sparkle, then its title in bubble letters and, for the story and gifts, your subtitle or gift message.

Message — an e-card

Your message on a card inside a holographic frame, centred at reading size, with a butterfly sticker on its corner and sparkles around it. A long message steps down a size and aligns to the start of the line.

Countdown — a pixel gadget

A pocket gadget in the finish you picked, with a pixel LCD: each unit — days, hours, minutes and, if you show them, seconds — in big pixel numerals over faint unlit digits, its name underneath and blinking colons between them. It counts down to your event's date and time in the venue's time zone, and shows your completed message on the LCD once the moment arrives.

Gallery (Carousel) — glossy stickers

Every photo as a die-cut sticker: a thick white edge, rounded corners, a sweep of gloss and a small tilt, two across on a phone and three on a wide screen. Every third sticker carries a small sparkle on its corner. A single photo stands alone in the middle.

Story — an instant-messenger chat

A chat window with a jelly title bar and three window dots. Each milestone is a message, alternating sides like a conversation: a small buddy icon, the date as a pixel timestamp, the title, the text and the photo inside the bubble. A typing indicator closes the window while the sparkles are on. Every milestone is shown the same way; the side, the bubble's tint and the icon simply alternate down the list.

Itinerary — a burned-CD tracklist

One frosted jewel case per day, with a holographic CD beside the day's heading. Each moment is a track: its number in pixel type, the moment, its place and any note, and the time on a small LCD where a song's length would be. Your entry icons are not shown — the track numbers take their place.

RSVP — a new-message screen

The reply form on a card inside a holographic frame, with a jelly "New message" bar across its top (signal bars and a battery included) and sparkles on its corners, under a small label, the title and your RSVP deadline. On a save-the-date page the card holds the save-the-date note instead of the form.

Gifts, Event Details, Location and Save the Date

These share their structure with Fotify's other picker-coloured designs, dressed in Y2K's frosted cards, candy-key icons and jelly buttons:

• Gifts — every registry, payment option, charity and wishlist item on its own card, 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 card per topic: the dress code with your suggested and avoided colours as swatches, where to stay and getting there as small cards (with a Book button where you added a link), and the FAQ as questions that open on tap
• 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
• Save the Date (Calendar) — one card with the title, the event date and Google, Apple (downloads the calendar file) and Outlook buttons

Closing

Your closing line in big bubble letters (option 5), the date and place, an RSVP now button, sparkles and a butterfly.

Sections that use the shared layout

These sections keep Fotify's shared layout and are dressed in Y2K'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 frosted card, with titles in the bubble face 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: Where does the name on the cover come from? A: From your event name, exactly as you typed it. Y2K never splits or rewrites it.

Q: Does Y2K show an age or a year on the cover? A: Only if you type it. Put "Sweet 16" or "Dirty thirty" in the Cover sticker, or in your event name; Y2K never works out an age or a year by itself.

Q: I picked a light colour. Why are the outlines and buttons darker than the colour I chose? A: The background keeps your colour pastel, but text, the letter outlines and the LCD screens use deeper shades of the same colour so they stay readable. The buttons keep your colour and pick a dark or white label that reads clearly on it.

Q: Is the chat window or the flip phone a real app or brand? A: No. They are drawn for Y2K in the spirit of the 2000s, with no logos or brand names. The phone's keys are decoration, not buttons.

Q: Does Y2K work in right-to-left languages? A: Yes. In Hebrew and Arabic the layout mirrors: the phone moves to the other side of the cover, the chat starts from the right, and the sparkles and butterflies mirror. Numbers on the countdown and the track times still read left to right, and the cover photo's crop stays as you set it.

Q: Does the page move a lot? A: Only gently, and only while Sparkles & butterflies is on: sparkles twinkle, butterflies flutter, the CDs spin and the countdown's colons blink. 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 party designs: Mixtape, a 90s cassette, or Glitterball, a 70s disco night
• Planning a birthday or a party? Read about Fotify for birthdays, parties and digital invitations with RSVP

Need help? Get in touch through the in-dashboard help widget.