Roast my startup: We’re trying to make Indian wedding invitations not look like they were made in Canva in 7 minutes
We built Shehnai Stories — https://shehnaistories.com
The idea is pretty simple:
Indian weddings spend an absurd amount of money on venues, clothes, photography, decor, etc.
Then the actual invitation that introduces the wedding is often… a generic PDF with floral borders, or a slideshow with floating Ganesh PNGs and random transitions.
So we’re building a studio specifically for high-end wedding invitation films and designed digital/PDF invites/digital websites.
Not “choose template → change names → export.”
The goal is for the invite itself to feel like a piece of the wedding — custom art direction, caricatures/illustration, animation, storytelling, music, culturally specific design, etc.
We’re mainly targeting Indian weddings, where there are also 4-7 different events apparently requiring their own identity.
Site is here:
Please roast:
- Does the website immediately explain what the hell we sell?
- Does this actually feel premium or just like another wedding-template business wearing expensive clothes?
- Which part of the site looks amateur?
- Would you trust us with an important wedding invite?
- Is the positioning too broad?
- Is there anything that makes you think “why would I pay for this?”
- And most importantly: is this a real business, or have we successfully invented a solution to a problem nobody gives a shit about?
Don’t be nice. I’m posting here because friends and family are professionally useless at giving negative feedback.