An invitation only your guests can open.
We build your wedding invitation in Amharic and English, give every guest a private link of their own, and hand you a scanner that admits each one exactly once.
Built and run in Addis Ababa.
One shared link. Fifty extra plates.
On every other digital invitation in Ethiopia, the RSVP form sits on a public address. Anyone who receives the link can put their own name on your list — and at an Ethiopian wedding you pay for every plate at every table.
Tegabezu never puts that form on a public page. Every guest gets a link that belongs to them alone. Someone arriving without one sees your invitation, and nothing else.
- 12looks, light and dark
- 2languages, properly set
- 1scan admits a guest
- 0forwarded links get in
Open a real invitation.
Not a picture of one. These are live invitations we built, exactly as their guests received them — scroll them, switch the language, change the look.
Getabalew & Mahlet
Hawassa · Meskerem 2019
The full invitation — twelve looks, both languages, the entry pass, the lot.
Four steps, and we do three of them.
You will not be handed a builder and left alone with it. Tell us about your day and we build the invitation for you — then it is yours to run.
- 01
Tell us about your day
Your names, your date in the Ethiopian calendar, where it is happening, and your photographs. One short form, then we call you.
- 02
We build your invitation
You choose a look; we write it into both languages, set your photographs, your programme, your places and your music, and show it to you before anyone else sees it.
- 03
Send every guest their link
Paste your list in and each name gets a link of its own. Send them on WhatsApp, Telegram or SMS — and the list remembers who has already been sent, even when three of you are sending at once.
- 04
Scan them in at the door
Each guest arrives with a pass. Your staff scan it, the screen goes green with their name and their table, and that pass can never be used a second time.
Everything a guest needs, and nothing they don't.
It opens with a sealed envelope and ends with a pass in their hand. In between is your day, told properly, in the language they read it in.
Ethiopian time first, standard time under it 
Your photographs, sized for the phone reading them 
Every place on a map, directions one tap away
Amharic and English
Every word exists in both, and your guest reads the one they chose. Amharic is set in a real Ethiopic face — inside a single line, each character picks the right font by itself.
The Ethiopian calendar
Your date is entered as መስከረም 10 ቀን 2019 ዓ.ም, not converted from something else. The countdown, the programme and the calendar file all follow from it.
A sealed envelope
It does not open as a web page. It opens as an invitation — a wax seal, a tap, and the card rises. The first three seconds are the ones your guests remember.
Your photographs
As many as you like, in a gallery that moves on its own, sized for the phone it is being read on so it opens fast on mobile data.
The day's programme
Every part of the day with its time in the way people actually say it — 4:30 በጠዋቱ — drawn down the page as your guest scrolls.
Places and directions
The church, the hall, wherever else the day goes — each one on a map, each one a tap away from directions on their phone.
Gift ideas
What you would actually like, and a guest can claim one so nobody buys the same thing twice. No payment passes through us and we take nothing.
Music
A song behind the invitation, and a different one for each language — because the song that fits the Amharic is rarely the song that fits the English.
Your film
A save-the-date or a pre-wedding film, held in the page and loaded only when someone presses play, so it never slows the invitation down.
After the day
One switch turns the invitation into a thank-you and an album. The countdown stops counting down and starts counting up — since we said I do.
Pick one. Watch it change.
Each look is a full palette — a light one and a dark one — and every part of the invitation follows it, down to the entry pass your guests download.
Warm cream, soft olive, a blush garnish.
Nine English type pairings and seven Ethiopic faces, chosen separately — so your Amharic is set in a real Amharic face, not a Latin one stretched to fit.
Eight hundred invitations, and you never lose your place.
Sending an Ethiopian guest list is a week of work spread across a family. The dashboard holds that work — who has been sent, who opened, who has not answered — and it holds it for everyone helping, at the same time.
Your list, pasted in once
Paste eight hundred names and it tells you, row by row, what it read: ready, already on the list, or a line it could not understand and why. Nothing is dropped quietly.
The send queue
One guest, one tap, straight into WhatsApp, Telegram or SMS with the message written. The tick is shared, so your sister sending from her phone and you sending from yours never send the same person twice.
Who opened and never replied
The most useful list you will have. Not everyone who goes quiet is saying no — most of them just forgot, and this is the list you send one more message to.
What they wrote to you
Every message left with an RSVP, in one place, kept. Most couples read these the week after more than the week before.
Change anything, any time
Every word, picture, place and time is yours to edit side by side in both languages, with the live invitation beside you as you type.
Exports that survive Amharic
Guests, replies, headcount — downloaded and opened in Excel with the Amharic still readable, which is not a given and took deliberate work.
Admitted once. Guaranteed by the database, not by a promise.
Two doors can scan the same pass in the same second and only one of them will open. That is not careful code — it is a constraint inside the database, tested with twenty-five simultaneous scans of one pass. Exactly one gets in.
And the guests without phones?
Your elders get a printed card — A6, four to a page, carrying the same code. For the hundred who will never open a link, one shared card works too, and the screen counts down as they come in: card 12 of 100, 88 left.
And if the network drops?
You get the printed roster the morning of — every attending guest, their party size and their table, with a tick box. It is the answer that has never failed at any door, and it is included.
A pass for every guest
It appears the moment they reply yes, and it is theirs from any phone, forever. The code on it is not their invite link — knowing one tells you nothing about the other.
Scan after scan, no tapping
The camera stays open and reads pass after pass. Green with a name and a table number, or red with the reason — and a sound, because nobody at a door is looking at a screen.
The second scan never works
Scan a pass twice and the screen turns red and tells you who was admitted on it, and at what time. A photograph of someone's QR in a group chat gets nobody in.
Printed passes
A6 cards, four to an A4 sheet, cut on the dashed line — name, table, date in both calendars, and the same code as the phone pass.
Seating that keeps itself
A table is assigned the moment a guest replies, and a table can never be overfilled — not even when four families reply in the same second. Move anyone afterwards.
The arrivals board
A laptop on the screen at the venue welcomes each party by name as they walk in, shows the last eight, and counts the room against what you expected.
Three packages. One price, paid once.
No monthly fee, no charge per guest, no cut of your gifts. Talk to us first — we will tell you which package actually fits your day before you pay anything.
ጥሪ
Tiri · The Invitation
one-off
Your invitation, built for you, in both languages — and a private link for every guest.
- We build the whole invitation for you
- Amharic and English, on every word
- One of twelve looks, light or dark
- Countdown in the Ethiopian calendar
- Photo gallery
- The day's programme
- Places, with maps and directions
- Your film, if you have one
- Gift ideas guests can claim
- Music, different in each language
- A private link for every guest
- RSVP, and their messages to you
- It becomes your album after the day
እንግዳ
Engida · The Guest List
one-off
Everything above, and the dashboard that gets eight hundred invitations sent without losing your place.
Everything in ጥሪ, plus:
- Your own dashboard, on any phone
- Paste your whole guest list in at once
- Send by WhatsApp, Telegram or SMS — with a tick so two people sharing the list never send twice
- See who opened their link and never replied
- Plus-ones — one link admits a whole party
- Guest and RSVP exports that open in Excel with Amharic intact
- Change any word, picture or date yourself
በዓል
Be'al · The Whole Day
one-off
Everything above, and the door: a pass for every guest, a scanner that admits each one exactly once.
Everything in እንግዳ, plus:
- A QR entry pass for every guest who says yes
- The door scanner — each pass admits exactly once, and says who came in and when
- Printed A6 passes, four to a page
- A shared card batch for elders who will not use a phone
- Seating — tables assigned as guests reply
- Walk-ins and manual check-in, for the phone that died
- An arrivals board for a screen at the venue
- The printed roster, as the fallback that always works
- Headcount and no-show reports, the morning after
ልዩ
Liyu · Bespoke
from ETB 75,000
A design made only for you, more than one event, and us beside you on the day.
- A design drawn for you alone, not a look off the shelf
- Melse and telosh as events of their own
- Guests abroad, in their own time zone
- Our team at your door on the day
In their words.
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We had four people sending invitations from four different phones and not one guest got the message twice. That alone was worth it.
Example Couple, Addis Ababa640Example · Meskerem 2019My grandmother got a printed card with the same code on it as everyone else's phone. She walked in, they scanned the card, and it said her name and her table.
Example Couple, Hawassa420Example · Tir 2019The Amharic actually looked like Amharic. Every other invitation we were sent looked like English with Amharic pasted into it.
Example Couple, Bahir Dar310Example · Ginbot 2019
Questions we get.
What if a guest doesn't have a smartphone?
They get a printed card — A6, four to a page, carrying the same QR as the phone pass plus a short code your door staff can type. For a large group of elders there is a single shared card you can print a hundred of; the scanner counts them down as they arrive and stops at the number you set, so a photographed card cannot let in a hundred and one.
What if there's no internet at the venue?
The scanner needs mobile data — one phone with a working SIM is enough, and we test it with you before the day. If the network goes down anyway, you have the printed roster: every attending guest, their party size and their table, with a tick box beside each one. We print it the morning of and it has never failed anybody.
Can we change things after it's built?
Yes — words, photographs, places, the programme, the look, even the date, all from your dashboard, in both languages side by side with the live invitation next to you. Changes appear for your guests on their next visit.
Who can see our photographs?
Only someone holding a link. There is no directory of weddings, nothing is indexed by Google, and the invitation carries a no-referrer rule so opening a map or a video from inside it never tells that site where the guest came from.
What happens to the site after the wedding?
One switch turns it into a thank-you and an album. The RSVP and the programme come off, your photographs lead, and the countdown reverses — it starts counting how long it has been since you said I do.
Can we invite people we forgot?
Any time, right up to the day. Add the name, a link appears, send it. Someone who turns up without ever being invited can still be registered and seated at the door in about fifteen seconds.
Is it really in Amharic, or translated?
Really in Amharic. Your date is entered in the Ethiopian calendar and stays there. The Amharic is set in an Ethiopic typeface chosen separately from the English one, so a line like “Getabalew · ጌታባለው” renders each script in its own face — within the same word, not with one stretched to cover both.
How do we pay?
Talk to us first. We will go through your day, tell you honestly which package fits it, and only then agree a price — by Telebirr, CBE Birr or bank transfer. One payment, no monthly fee, no charge per guest, and nothing taken from your gifts.
How long does it take to build?
We agree a date with you when we speak, and you see the invitation before anyone else does. Tell us how close your wedding is — we have built one in a week before.
Do you run the door on the day?
The scanner is built for your own people — it works on any phone and takes a minute to learn, and we rehearse it with you beforehand. If you would rather we stood at the door ourselves, that is part of a bespoke arrangement.
Tell us about your day.
Five short answers. We will call you back on the number you leave, usually the same day.