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Kerala wedding card (വിവാഹ ക്ഷണക്കത്ത്), online

By Nimantran · Updated 26 October 2026

A Kerala wedding card (വിവാഹ ക്ഷണക്കത്ത്) online, built as a nalukettu tharavad. The padippura gate opens, and guests walk through a cut-away model of the old house room by room, from the poomukham to the nadumuttam, where the thalikettu waits, while the day turns to lamplit dusk. You send it as one link with your names in it.

The Nalukettu invitation open on its first page
Open the live Nalukettu sample → Also fits: Kalyanam Kolam

A Kerala wedding card you walk through

The Nalukettu design opens in the lane outside the tharavad: a laterite wall, a tiled gatehouse with a carved gable, two lit nilavilakku and studded wooden doors. The guest taps "Open the padippura", the doors swing in, and the view moves through the gate into a model of the whole house with its walls cut away: terracotta roofs, lime-white walls, red-oxide floors, a courtyard with rain falling round the tulsi thara, a granary, a well and coconut palms, with small figures in kasavu and mundu in every room.

  • Each room is a page. Guests drag to look around, pinch to zoom, and tap a room: the view flies in, its roof lifts off, and the rest of the house falls into shadow. A small map in the corner shows where they are.
  • Day to dusk. The deeper they go, the more the light turns to sunset and lamplight.
  • Maps and calendar for each ceremony.
  • A live countdown to the subhamuhurtham, in the courtyard.
  • Photos and a film: the first four photos also hang framed on the wall of the south hall.
  • RSVP on WhatsApp to the number you choose.

The rooms and the ceremonies, in order

The sample is a Kerala Hindu wedding: Meenakshi Menon of Mundakkal Tharavad, Thrissur, and Gautham Krishnan Nair of Poonkunnam, with the thalikettu at Guruvayur. The rooms follow the walk through the house:

  1. Padippura (gatehouse): Swagatham, the Vishnu mangalam shloka, the invitation, the names and dates.
  2. Poomukham (front veranda): the bride and groom, with their parents and elders.
  3. Vadakkini (north wing): before the thali, with the Nischayam, Mailanchi & Haldi and the Ayaniyoonu.
  4. Nadumuttam (courtyard): the Thalikettu, with the kanyadanam, the thali, the pudavakoda and three rounds of the nilavilakku.
  5. Adukkala (kitchen): after the thali, the Kalyana Sadhya and the Reception.
  6. Thekkini (south hall): photos. Pathayappura (granary): stay and travel for guests.
  7. Kizhakkini (east wing): the RSVP and Nanni.

Rename, remove or add ceremonies, to follow your own family's order of rites.

Kerala wedding card wording to copy

Use these on the invitation or in the WhatsApp message you send with the link. Change the highlighted names, dates and places.

In Malayalam, from the bride's parents
മംഗളം ഭഗവാൻ വിഷ്ണുഃ മംഗളം ഗരുഡധ്വജഃ മംഗളം പുണ്ഡരീകാക്ഷഃ മംഗളായതനം ഹരിഃ ഞങ്ങളുടെ മകൾ മീനാക്ഷിയും പൂങ്കുന്നം പുത്തൻമഠത്തിൽ ശ്രീ കൃഷ്ണൻ നായരുടെയും ശ്രീമതി ലക്ഷ്മി ദേവിയുടെയും മകൻ ഗൗതം കൃഷ്ണൻ നായരും തമ്മിലുള്ള വിവാഹം 2027 ഫെബ്രുവരി 14 ഞായറാഴ്ച രാവിലെ 9.15-നും 9.40-നും മദ്ധ്യേയുള്ള ശുഭമുഹൂർത്തത്തിൽ ഗുരുവായൂർ ശ്രീകൃഷ്ണ ക്ഷേത്രസന്നിധിയിൽ വെച്ച് നടത്തുവാൻ ഗുരുജനങ്ങളുടെ അനുഗ്രഹത്താൽ തീരുമാനിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു. ഈ മംഗളകർമ്മത്തിൽ കുടുംബസമേതം പങ്കെടുത്ത് വധൂവരന്മാരെ അനുഗ്രഹിക്കണമെന്ന് സ്നേഹപൂർവ്വം അഭ്യർത്ഥിക്കുന്നു. ശ്രീദേവി & ഉണ്ണികൃഷ്ണ മേനോൻ മുണ്ടക്കൽ തറവാട്, തൃശ്ശൂർ
In English
Mangalam Bhagavan Vishnuh, Mangalam Garudadhwajah, Mangalam Pundarikakshah, Mangalayatanam Harih. With the blessings of Guruvayurappan and of our elders, the Mundakkal and Puthenmadom families invite you, with your family, to the thalikettu of Meenakshi and Gautham on Sunday, 14 February 2027, at the muhurtham of 9.15 am, at the kalyana mandapam, Sri Krishna Temple, Guruvayur, and to the sadhya that follows.

For the message you send with the link, see WhatsApp wedding invitation messages. For a Tamil family, see the Tamil wedding card, drawn as a kolam.

Get Nalukettu made for your wedding

Nalukettu is made to order: our studio builds it for you, with your names, your families, every ceremony and venue, your photos and the languages you want. You check it and ask for changes before you send it.

  1. Message us on WhatsApp with the design's name and your wedding dates.
  2. Send the names, families and each ceremony with its date, time and venue, in Malayalam and English if you have them.
  3. We send you your invitation link to check. Then you share it on WhatsApp.

Before you write, walk through the live Nalukettu sample, or open it in Malayalam.

Questions

How much does the Kerala wedding card cost?

Nalukettu is made to order by our studio, with your names, ceremonies and venues. Message us on WhatsApp with your dates for a quote.

Is the Kerala wedding card in Malayalam?

Yes. It can show up to three languages, like Malayalam, English and Hindi, and guests switch with one tap. The Malayalam ceremony names, like താലികെട്ട് and സദ്യ, can show above the English ones.

Can we add Ayaniyoonu or Mailanchi as separate ceremonies?

Yes. Every ceremony gets its own date, time, venue, Google Maps link and dress code, like "Kasavu set-mundu & pastel silk". The ones before the thalikettu sit together in one room, the ones after it in the kitchen.

Is there music?

Yes. A mangal shehnai track in Raag Desh plays after the gate opens, and you can pick another track from our list. Guests can mute it.

When should we send it on WhatsApp?

Many families send the link four to six weeks before the muhurtham, and a reminder the week before. It opens in the phone browser, with nothing to download.