Who we are
We make the tool,
not the occasion.
Farahna is an Arabic-first platform for building an interactive digital invitation. We build it so that the host can build their own invitation — in minutes, with no designer and no waiting.
The celebration comes out of your invitation, not ours. We stay silent behind it: the invitation is the artwork, and the tool is the gallery wall.
The problem
A wedding nightcan’t survive a lost sheet of paper.
Four familiar scenes from preparing any occasion. Each one is the reason a feature exists — not the other way round.
A spreadsheet travelling through WhatsApp
One copy with the mother, one with the bride’s sister, a third with the planner. And when somebody asks which is the latest — nobody knows.
What we put in its place
One list you open from any device, and whoever opens it sees its latest state. Exporting to a spreadsheet stays available for the venue.
The same name, twice
“Abu Mahmoud” in one row and “Mahmoud Al-Ali” in another — one person. He gets two cards, or the venue counts him twice.
What we put in its place
When you upload a spreadsheet, a guest whose name and number already exist isn’t added again, and a column-matching screen shows you what will be added before it is.
The seating plan on paper
Drawn in pen, amended by crossing out, photographed on a phone — then the headcount changes and it’s redrawn from scratch.
What we put in its place
A plan you drag names onto and change whenever you like, downloadable as a PDF ready for the venue, with Arabic letters properly joined.
A guest with no chair, discovered on the night
He arrives with three others; the table seats one. Two chairs get dragged over from the neighbours in front of everybody.
What we put in its place
The invitation carries the number of cards, the plan reserves adjacent seats, and the list tells you who is still without a table — before the night.
The reason
The invitation is half the work.The other half: who’s coming.
Most of what exists today hands you a pretty picture and then leaves you alone with the rest: who you sent it to, who replied, and who sits where.
We built Farahna so the tool runs the whole way from the invitation to the chair — not a picture you send, but a page that opens, a list that answers back, and a plan that goes to the venue.
And we built it to be used once and forgotten: your occasion is a single night, and a tool that serves it should be learnt in minutes, not studied.
Our mission
That the host of any Arab occasion walks away with an invitation worthy of their night, built by their own hand in minutes, knowing who is coming before anyone arrives.
Our vision
That the Arabic digital invitation is written in Arabic from the start, not flipped out of a Latin template — and that this becomes the normal case, not the exception.
The language
Arabic is not a translation.
Many tools are built Latin-first and then flipped. The flip leaves its marks: a line that starts on the left, letters that break apart when printed, a file that opens as garbage. Here are five places where we chose Arabic first.
- Direction is structure, not a setting
- The whole page starts from the right. The right margin is the strict one and nothing crosses it; all the breathing room is to the left and below — a rule that holds on every screen in the platform.
- Letters stay joined in print
- The seating plan is laid out by the browser’s own text engine and then we write the PDF ourselves, because off-the-shelf PDF libraries print Arabic with its letters broken apart.
- Spreadsheets open intact
- We write a byte-order mark at the head of every export. Without it, Excel on Windows opens Arabic names as mangled characters — the single most common failure in Arabic exports.
- Typefaces chosen for Arabic
- Six pairs, each with an Arabic hand and a Latin partner that follows it rather than leads: the Arabic slightly larger, its line more open, and letter-spacing always zero.
- Names are live text
- The hosts’ names are drawn as text inside the page, never as an image — so a screen reader reads them, they grow with the font size, and they can be searched.
What we don’t do.
Limits we write down because we can be held to them, not because they read nicely.
We don’t sell your guests’ data, and we don’t share it for any marketing purpose.
We don’t ask your guest for an account or an app — they open the link and reply.
We don’t put an advert or a third-party tracker inside the invitation page.
We don’t write a number we can’t prove, and we don’t show a testimonial its author didn’t write.
We don’t ask for payment before you’ve seen our standard — eight live templates you open yourself, with no account.