Sweet 16 Announcement Suite

Sixteen years — and a room full of people who helped raise them.

A Sweet 16 is a threshold birthday: bigger than a party, planned like an event, and remembered like a milestone. This suite carries the whole arc — the announcement that starts the excitement, the invitation with every detail straight, a candle ceremony card that honors the people who matter most, the thank-you after, and a keepsake that lasts longer than the cake.

For daughters, for sons, for every sixteen-year-old: nothing in this suite assumes who the birthday teen is, who is hosting, or which traditions your family keeps. Every tradition here is a field you can fill, move, or delete — never a script you have to follow.

Your traditions, your call. The heart of many Sweet 16s is the candle ceremony: sixteen candles, each one lit for a person who made a difference — parents and grandparents first, then family, then friends, in whatever order your family chooses. The suite's candle card holds all sixteen names in order, written once on the details sheet so nobody's name is misspelled on the night. If your family adds a seventeenth candle — for luck, or in memory of someone who couldn't be there — there is a line for that too, only if you want it. A first dance with a parent or someone who matters, a shoe or tiara moment, an heirloom passed down: each appears as an optional, bracketed field, presented by whoever your family chooses. None of them are printed as if they already happened.

Planned together. These celebrations are usually planned by a parent and a teen together, and the cards respect both hands: the teen's photo is the teen's to help choose, the guest list is the family's to set, and the wording is nobody's but yours.

What you receive

• Announcement card — the birthday teen's name, the big day, one great photo. Phone size (1080×1920) + print 5×7.
• Party invitation card — date, time, address, RSVP wording, in the same design.
• Candle ceremony card — the sixteen names in order (plus an optional seventeenth line), for the host, the DJ, and the program table — and, printed, the keepsake of who stood where in their life at sixteen.
• Thank-you card — matching design for after the party, ready when they are.
• Keepsake card — the photo everyone sends around, the date, and a line in your family's own words.
• Details sheet — the teen's name in letter boxes, the party weekday checked against the date, and all sixteen candle names written once, in order, before you build a single card.
• Video announcement (MP4, ~14 seconds) — a bright, proud vertical video of the announcement card, made for family chats and Stories.
• Layered source files (SVG) — every word editable in free tools.
• Simple edit guide — short numbered steps, written to do in sittings, with the photo-consent and address-privacy notes and the full before-you-send check.

This is a digital product — no physical item is shipped.