Sakura is our take on a Japanese garden wedding: warm cream paper, one loose branch of cherry blossoms bleeding off a corner, and two names set large enough to carry the page on their own. If you have not seen it yet, scroll the full demo first; this post reads better with the page in mind. Here is what is in it, who it is for, and the thinking behind the design.
Who Sakura is for
Some couples want one thing on the page to be dramatic and everything else to stay quiet around it. Their taste runs toward pressed flowers, letterpress cards, a single good photograph rather than a wall of them. Sakura is built for them. It assumes a garden ceremony, or at least a wedding that leans toward spring, and a couple who would rather their names do the talking than a dozen competing sections.
Paper and restraint
The page sits on warm cream, never white, with a faint gold ink carrying almost all of the colour. Names are set in a dramatic script, the one place on the page allowed to be big; everything else, the date, the story, the schedule, sits in a small, even serif. Nothing is boxed or shadowed. The restraint is the point: with one loud element already spent on the names, the rest of the page does not need to compete for it.
The branch
If Sakura has one signature, it is the branch. A single loose cherry blossom bough bleeds off one corner of the hero, and thinner versions of it frame the corners of every section that follows, so the page reads as one garden rather than a stack of unrelated blocks. On a live invitation the branch is not just decoration: petals drift down as a guest scrolls, and the branch itself responds when touched.
What your guests get
After the names and the date, the page walks through the wedding in order, each section opened by a small kanji character and a faint seigaiha wave ring behind it. A countdown ticks down inside that ring. The story runs as a short passage under the heading The Two of Us, introducing both partners side by side. The schedule lists each event with its venue and a directions link. A gallery of photographs follows, then the practical answers guests actually need: where to stay, how to get there, and what to do about gifts.
The page ends with a small hanko seal marking the reply section. Guests answer right there: name, yes or no, party size, a note if they want one. No app, no account, no third-party form. Answers reach the couple the moment they arrive.
Why it works on a phone
Most guests open Sakura from a chat link, one-handed, on a narrow screen. Below tablet width the page runs edge to edge as a single scroll, the branch bleeding off the actual edge of the phone rather than a card; from tablet up it becomes one card set on a warm table, with the same branches now framing the card’s corners instead. Either way, the names stay the one large element on the screen, and the RSVP controls are sized to tap without zooming in.
See it with your names in it
The fastest way to judge a theme is to put your own wedding in it. Open the Sakura demo to scroll the full page on sample content, or browse the other themes if a Japanese garden is not quite your wedding.
Building and previewing are free. Publishing costs US$19, once, and every guest RSVPs for free.