Quick Answer
Can I put each wedding guest's name on the invitation image, PDF, or video?
Yes — Weddingkart renders each guest's name into the actual image, PDF, or video before it goes out on WhatsApp. Hindi or English (or 11 Indian scripts), any font, any colour, any size. For video, set a start–end timestamp window when the name appears. A 1,000-guest dispatch produces 1,000 distinct files, each addressed to one person. As of April 2026, no other Indian wedding tool ships this across all three formats.
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11 scripts
Devanagari, Gujarati, Tamil, Bengali + 7 more
≤12 min
1,000-guest video dispatch render time
Their name, on their invite — burned into the image, PDF, or video
Ahmedabad and Indore families have a tradition: handwrite the recipient's name in pen on the front of every paper invitation card. "Naam likhe huve". It's a Gujarati and Marwari respect signal — the host took time for you specifically.
When weddings moved to WhatsApp, the name went away. We built this feature because they asked. Every image, PDF, and video that leaves Weddingkart has the guest's name rendered into the file — not pasted in the message body, not tagged in a caption, but baked into the asset itself. Forward it to a family group, screenshot it, save it — the name persists.
Save the Date
Sharma · Mehta · 14 March 2026
Welcome
Krunal भाई
Aanya Behen
See you, Krunal भाई
See you, Aanya Behen
“Welcome, [name]”
“See you, [name]”
Image, PDF, and video — every format weddings use
Most personalisation tools handle a single format, usually images. Indian weddings send all three. Designer-rendered Garba JPGs, multi-page schedule PDFs, and reel-style save-the-date videos are all standard. Weddingkart treats them as one workflow — same template upload, same guest binding, same dispatch.
Image (JPG / PNG)
The Garba invite, the Mehendi card, the haldi save-the-date. Render the guest's name on the artwork in any font, colour, position, and size — 1,000 guests, 1,000 unique JPGs.
Sample
Most common: Garba, Mehendi, Haldi, Sangeet invites.
Multi-page wedding programmes, schedule booklets, hotel-block briefs. The guest's name renders into the cover plus any additional positions you mark across pages.
Sample
Used for: itineraries, hotel brief, day-of guides.
Video (MP4)
Welcome video, save-the-date reel, behind-the-scenes from the haldi. Set a start–end timestamp window and the guest's name overlays the frame for that exact range — typically 3–7 seconds during a quiet "welcome" beat.
Sample
Best for: save-the-date reels, welcome videos.
Five steps from template to a thousand named files
No design skill needed beyond the original template. Weddingkart handles rendering, validation, and dispatch.
Upload your template
Drop in the JPG, PDF, or MP4 your designer prepared. Weddingkart accepts up to 200 MB per file.
Mark the name slot
On the live preview, drag a text box to the exact spot. For video, scrub the timeline and set start + end timestamps.
Pick font, colour, size
Choose from 60+ shipped fonts or upload your own TTF/OTF. Set hex colour, pick px size, preview against three sample names of varying length.
Map to the guest field
Bind the text to the guest's display name, salutation field, or any custom column from your guest list.
Bulk render and send
Pick the segment (Bride's side, Garba invitees, NRIs only). Hit dispatch. Each file renders, each WhatsApp goes out via the verified Business API.
The full set of design controls
Match the existing wedding stationery exactly. The point isn't a generic personalisation overlay — the point is that the rendered name looks like it was always part of the design.
60+ wedding fonts
Modak, Yatra One, Hind, Mukta, Tiro Devanagari Hindi, Noto Sans Gujarati, Lohit Tamil, custom calligraphy. Upload your own TTF or OTF for matched-template work.
Any colour, any size
Pick the exact hex from your invitation palette — maroon #5C1020, gold #C99B49, ivory. Adjust size in pixels until the longest expected name fits without overflow.
11 Indian scripts
Devanagari, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gurmukhi, Nastaliq, Latin. Mixed-script names ("Mr Sharma जी") render in one pass.
Video timestamp control
For each video, define the start–end window when the name appears. Layer it over a "Welcome" beat near the start, or hold across the whole clip. Up to 4 text layers per video.
Position-perfect placement
Drag the text box on a live preview, snap to grid, lock to centre. Auto-shrink kicks in if a name (Vishwesh Vyankatesh Kulkarni) would otherwise overflow the box.
One-click bulk render
Select audience segment → pick template → fire. The render fleet processes ~80 images / sec, ~12 PDFs / sec, ~70 videos / min. A 1,000-guest dispatch is on guests' phones in minutes.
Same template. 1,247 different files. Each addressed to one person.
Drop in your designer's Garba invite (or Mehendi, Haldi, Sangeet — whichever ceremony you're sending). Drag the text box to the exact spot, lock font, colour, and size. Bind it to the guest's name field from your guest list. That's the whole setup.
The two cards on the right are the same image template — same date, same venue, same Garba branding — rendered for two different guests: Krunal Bhai and Priya Aunty. Multiply by 1,247. The render fleet handles ~80 images per second; a 1,000-guest dispatch is queued in WhatsApp within minutes.
Auto-shrink kicks in for long names like Vishwesh Vyankatesh Kulkarni, so nothing overflows the box. Mixed scripts — "Mr Sharma जी", "Krunal भाई", "Priya આંટી" — render in one pass with the correct vertical metrics for each glyph.
Sharma · Mehta
Garba Night · 14 March
Welcome, dear
Krunal Bhai
श्री क्रुणाल भाई जी
Karnavati Club · Ahmedabad
7:00 PM onwards
Sharma · Mehta
Garba Night · 14 March
Welcome, dear
Priya Aunty
श्रीमती प्रिया जी
Karnavati Club · Ahmedabad
7:00 PM onwards
Wedding Schedule
Sharma · Mehta
14–16 March 2026 · Ahmedabad
For
Krunal Bhai
श्री क्रुणाल भाई जी
Wedding Schedule
Sharma · Mehta
14–16 March 2026 · Ahmedabad
For
Priya Aunty
श्रीमती प्रिया जी
Multi-page schedule booklets, hotel briefs, day-of guides
A 400-guest wedding spread over four days produces a real document — schedule, dress codes per ceremony, hotel-block allocations, airport-pickup windows, contact numbers for the planner's on-ground team. Most planners hand this out as a multi-page PDF.
Weddingkart renders the recipient's name onto the coverand as a header on each interior page if you want it. The two booklets on the left are the same 4-page template — addressed to Krunal Bhai and Priya Aunty respectively. On a 1,247-guest dispatch the render fleet processes ~12 PDFs per second; the whole batch is queued in WhatsApp inside two minutes.
Slot-mapping works across pages: bind "cover.name" to the guest field once, and Weddingkart renders the same name on the cover, the schedule's "Dear" line, and the hotel-allocation footer in a single pass. Long names auto-shrink; Devanagari, Gujarati, Tamil, and Latin scripts coexist on the same page.
For video: pick exactly when the name appears
The animated demo at the top of this page is the actual workflow — a save-the-date reel where the guest's name fades in over a quiet welcome beat at 0:02–0:06, then a closing "See you, [name]" layer at 0:24–0:28. Same clip, two different guests cycling through. The point is to notcover the entire video with a name overlay — that breaks the cinematic shot.
Up to four independent text layers per video. Each layer gets its own font, colour, size, and start–end timestamp range. Drop the welcome name at the start, the "See you on 14 March" farewell at the end, optionally a city tag in the middle for destination guests, and a fourth layer for the venue name.
Layers per video
Up to 4
Independent font, colour, size, timestamp range each.
Render throughput
~70 / min
~12 minutes for 1,000 guests on a 30-second clip.
Output format
MP4 · H.264
Inline-playable in WhatsApp on every device.
Layer anatomy · 30-second save-the-date
See the playhead and the first two layers in motion at the top of this page — the same animation, the same per-guest name swap.
What every other Indian wedding tool ships
We benchmark this honestly because it matters. WedMeGood, ShaadiSaga, MeraEvents, Zola, The Knot, Joy, Withjoy — every wedding-software platform we've audited ships invitations as a single shared image with the guest's name pasted in the WhatsApp message body or a webpage URL. Some let you mail-merge a generic certificate-style PDF. None render text into video for each guest, and none handle Devanagari + Gujarati + Tamil scripts at the asset level.
Generic design tools (Canva Pro, Adobe Express, Stencil) handle bulk image personalisation, but they don't connect to a wedding guest list, can't do video, and require a separate WhatsApp dispatch tool to deliver. The handoff breaks at scale: a planner managing 1,247 guests across 4 hotels and 6 events isn't exporting and re-uploading.
The reason we built this is concrete. Two of our largest workspaces — both Ahmedabad-based event managers running 15+ weddings a year — kept asking for the digital version of naam likhe huve. Indore followed within months. Once we shipped the first version on images, the demand for PDF and video arrived in the same week.
If you're comparing tools and a vendor claims they have this
Ask for a video sample with two different guest names rendered into the same start–end timestamp range, in Devanagari script. That's the test.
Frequently asked questions
What does "personalised media" mean for a wedding invite?+
Each guest receives the same image, PDF, or video — but with their own name rendered into the file before it leaves Weddingkart. A 1,000-guest list produces 1,000 distinct files, each addressed to one person. The guest sees "Welcome, Krunal Bhai" or "श्री राकेश शाह जी" baked into the asset itself, not as plain text in the WhatsApp message body. The text travels with the file: forwarded to a family group, screenshotted, saved to camera roll — the personalisation persists.
Which Indian wedding tools currently offer this?+
As of April 2026, Weddingkart is the only Indian wedding platform that does per-guest text rendering across all three formats — JPG/PNG, PDF, and MP4 — with Hindi, English, and regional-script support, custom fonts, custom colours, and per-video timestamp ranges. Generic design tools (Canva, Adobe Express) can mail-merge an image but break on multi-event Indian guest lists, can't do video timestamp control, and don't deliver via WhatsApp. Wedding-specific tools we benchmark against (Zola, The Knot, MeraEvents, WedMeGood) ship plain-text WhatsApp invites with a single shared image.
Why is this popular in Ahmedabad and Indore specifically?+
Both cities have a long-running tradition of "naam likhe huve" — the recipient's name handwritten in pen on the front of the paper invitation card. It's a Gujarati and Marwari respect signal: the host took time for you specifically. When weddings shifted to WhatsApp during 2020–22, families in Ahmedabad and Indore explicitly asked for the digital equivalent. We built this feature for them and it now ships with every wedding workspace.
Which scripts and languages are supported?+
Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit), Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Urdu (Nastaliq), and standard Latin (English). Mixed-script names — "Krunal भाई", "Mr Sharma जी" — render correctly in one pass. Right-to-left scripts (Urdu, Arabic) are positioned correctly without flipping the rest of the design.
How does video personalisation work — does the whole video get re-rendered per guest?+
Yes. Each guest's video is rendered server-side with their name overlaid for the start-to-end timestamp range you set (typically 3–7 seconds, often during a "welcome" beat near the start). Render time averages 8–15 seconds per 30-second clip; a 1,000-guest dispatch finishes in 8–12 minutes on our render fleet. The output is a normal MP4 that plays inline in WhatsApp on every device — no special viewer required.
Can I control where the name appears?+
Yes. For images and PDFs you upload the template, drag the text box to the exact position, set font (we ship 60+ Indian-wedding-friendly fonts plus any TTF/OTF you upload), pick colour (any hex), pick size (any px), and preview against three sample names of varying length to make sure long names like "Vishwesh Vyankatesh Kulkarni" don't overflow. For video, you set the same parameters plus the start-end timestamp window when the text appears.
What happens if a guest's name is missing or has unusual characters?+
You set a fallback — "Dear Guest", "नमस्ते जी", or any default. Names containing emoji, parentheses, or unusual diacritics render correctly; names exceeding the box width auto-shrink to fit. The dispatch dashboard flags any guest whose rendered file failed validation so you can fix the source row before sending.
Is the personalised file watermarked or branded as Weddingkart?+
No. The output file is exactly your template plus the guest's name. There is no Weddingkart watermark, no branded sender chrome, no "sent via" footer in the file itself. The WhatsApp message that delivers it is sent through our verified Business API sender (a separate, compliance-required signal) but the media file itself is yours to design end-to-end.
Their name on their invite. 1,000 guests. One dispatch.
Upload your image, PDF, or video template, mark the name slot, fire to your guest list. Each file renders, each WhatsApp goes out via the verified Business API. The whole job is done in minutes, not afternoons.
By Weddingkart TeamLast updated Reviewed by Mayank Jaiswal