The twelve cards, print-readyTwelve cards on six pages. Print on heavy stock and cut.
Cards2026 edition6 pages
The cards
One card a month, turned over after dessert. Each has a question, a follow-up for the brave, and a short verse.
Printed on heavy cream card stock, one set per table. Hosts keep the box.
The full set
Open any month to read the card as it's printed.
Each tells the story. The other one corrects it. Follow-up: when did you first know?
Genesis 2:18
Be specific: a coffee, a text, taking the bins out. Follow-up: what do I think I do that you don't notice?
1 John 4:19
The plans from before the kids or the mortgage. Follow-up: which one do we still want?
Proverbs 13:12
Describe one from the last year. Follow-up: when did we last have one?
Psalm 118:24
Not what about. Who goes quiet, who gets loud, who apologizes first. Follow-up: what would help?
Ephesians 4:26
Parents, exes, kids, a job, a phone. Follow-up: who needs a smaller chair?
Genesis 2:24
Saver or spender, and where each of you learned it. Follow-up: one change for this year.
Hebrews 13:5
Answer only what you're ready to. Follow-up: how can I carry it with you?
Galatians 6:2
The good and the hard. Follow-up: what are we doing differently?
Exodus 20:12
Tell one story you both agree to tell. Follow-up: is there one still waiting?
Colossians 3:13
Three things each, out loud. Follow-up: write one on the place card and swap.
1 Thessalonians 5:18
One sentence each. We collect them for next year's First-Year tables.
Titus 2:3–5
Downloads
Free for any church or couple. Please don't sell them.
The twelve cards, print-readyTwelve cards on six pages. Print on heavy stock and cut.
Cards2026 edition6 pages
Host's guide
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Design notes
A site for a marriage ministry whose whole program is a year of monthly dinners: four couples, rotating homes, one conversation card per month. It should read like an invitation to supper, while keeping the route to real counselling one click away.
Gilda Display is a high-contrast display serif with the look of an engraved place card, so every headline reads like an invitation to supper. Instrument Sans handles the practical layer (dates, addresses, childcare times) in a plain, slightly narrow grotesque that never competes with it.
A claret red taken from a glass of wine held up to a candle, a beeswax gold for small accents, and a linen background with a faint rose cast. Dark mode is a candlelit room: deep plum-brown with the claret lifted to a dusty rose so it still reads at night.
A split panel keeps the name, the one-line promise and the navigation fixed on the left like the card on a dinner menu, while the content scrolls beside it. Couples usually read this site together on one laptop, so a calm, book-like layout suits it better than a busy header.
Three photographs in a staggered row with the headline running across them, like a magazine spread about a dinner party. The first thing you see is people at a table, which is the whole program in one image.
'Join a table' is the main action because a single sign-up is the only step a couple needs to take. Hosting, giving and counselling each get their own verb: offer your dining room, sponsor a table's childcare, talk to a counselor this week.
Candlelit dinners, couples of different ages and backgrounds, and long tables. We avoided wedding imagery on purpose: this ministry is for year seven and year thirty, not the big day.
Underlined text buttons with a heavy focus ring, body text at 17px, and every date written in words. The 'When it's hard' page lists crisis and domestic-violence lines in plain text that works without JavaScript.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 14.91:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 16.53:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.88:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 9.43:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 10.74:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 6.09:1 | AA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 14.91:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.86:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 10.74:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 6.72:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.15:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 13.92:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.69:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 8.49:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 8.63:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 9.28:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 15.93:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.01:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 8.63:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.31:1 | AA |
Designed by Greater Purpose Web. Names, people and events are sample content.