Through the Ishtar Gate: your photo in a glazed lapis arch with lions and bulls in relief, a golden lion walking in along the frieze, and your names in gold on lapis, in Syriac (Assyrian) or Arabic script too if you wish.
Babylonian Splendor opens at the Ishtar Gate. A short film of the gate in lapis and gold plays when your guests tap, and the gate swings them into the invitation. There, your own photo stands inside a glazed-brick arch with lions and bulls in relief; a golden lion walks in along the lapis frieze beneath it and stops, and your names appear in gold on a lapis plaque, with the date and your town.
Below, the whole page is glazed lapis brick: the countdown and calendar in brick frames with your day on a gold rosette, your photos edged in gold, the venues, and a programme with a glazed relief for each event (the lion, the sirrush dragon, the bull of Adad). RSVP and add-to-calendar sit on the same link, which never needs reprinting.
Babylonian Splendor speaks to Assyrian, Chaldean, Syriac and Iraqi families. Add your names in Syriac script and they are shown large in Eastern (Madnhaya) letters with your Latin names underneath, in every language; add them in Arabic instead and they are set in Ruqaa calligraphy. The invitation itself opens in English, Swedish, Arabic (right-to-left), Spanish or French.
Yes. Type your names in Syriac script and the invitation shows them large in gold, in the Eastern style, with your names in Latin letters underneath, whichever language a guest reads in. You can also add a short blessing above the names and a line under them.
Yes. The film is part of the template; you don't need to film or supply anything. Your own photo goes inside the arch on the first page.
Not at all. The grandeur is in the design, not the scale: it works beautifully for intimate celebrations that still want a sense of occasion.