Friendsgiving 2025
A cocktail party invitation and RSVP site built for a casual gathering with friends.
The Concept
The idea was simple: throw a Friendsgiving, but skip the full dinner. Instead, make it a cocktail party with hors d'oeuvres. The site needed to communicate that energy — laid-back but put-together — while handling the logistics of who's coming and what they're bringing.
Design
The visual identity leans on cyanotype-style photography as parallax background imagery. Bold, condensed uppercase type sets the tone immediately. The color palette is just deep navy and white, keeping things clean and letting the imagery do the heavy lifting.
The dress code — "Think Going Out to a NYC Jazz Club" — set the aesthetic direction for the whole site.
Features
- Parallax backgrounds — Cyanotype photographs (a swirl, a rose, a bird in flight) scroll at different rates behind the content
- Live menu board — A three-column layout showing Drinks, Hors d'Oeuvres, and Desserts that updates as guests RSVP with what they're bringing
- Multi-step RSVP form — Collects name, what category they're contributing to, and whether they're bringing a guest
- Spotify playlist link — Curated background music for the evening
Stack
HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. No framework needed — the site is a single page with a form that writes to a backend. The parallax effect is pure CSS with background-attachment: fixed.