# Authoring an invitation card
**Audience:** the designer building the card. **Deliverable:** one `.html` file plus every
image it references, handed over together.
The card is the artwork a guest sees when they open their invitation. It is uploaded through
the admin, rendered inside the invitation page, and fixed for the event — the names, date and
venue are typed into it as ordinary text by you, not filled in by the system.
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## The file
One HTML file with **one root element**. Everything the card is lives inside it.
```html
Nazifa & Abdullah
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Grand Ballroom, Dhaka
```
No ``, no ``, no ``, no `` — they are stripped, because the file
is injected into a page that already has them.
## The rules
**Styles live in the file.** A `
