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A new home deserves five chapters of celebration
Achievement reveal → journey steps carousel → party item taps → toast contributions → Celebration Champion badge.
Free plan · No app download · Delivered via WhatsApp
What makes this experience special
Achievement reveal
Chapter 1: their new home address appears in a cinematic gold reveal — the keys are theirs, now the world knows.
Journey steps carousel
The steps to this moment play out — the searching, the paperwork, the moment they got the keys.
Party item taps
Chapter 3: house-warming party items fill the screen — diyas, flowers, mithai — each one tappable and animated.
Toast contributions wall
Friends and family add their house-warming blessings to a shared wall — a collective griha pravesh wish.
Celebration Champion badge
Completing all five chapters unlocks the Celebration Champion badge — a digital record of the milestone.
Google Maps link
The new address is embedded as a live Maps link — tap to get directions directly from the card.
How it works
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Choose the House Warming experience and enter the new address.
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Add a photo of the home and your wishes.
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Share the contribution link so friends can add their blessings.
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Send via WhatsApp — five chapters of welcome to the new home.
“A new home is a new beginning. Greet it with something that feels like it.”
— The Wowzey team
Planning a Career moment
Griha Pravesh and a housewarming party aren't quite the same event, even though they often get treated as one. Griha Pravesh is the religious ceremony performed before or right as a family moves into a new home, timed to an auspicious muhurat determined by a priest or panchang, usually involving a puja, boiling milk on the stove for the first time, and inviting a deity's presence into the space. The housewarming party — the gathering with food, guests, and gifts — often happens separately, sometime after the family has actually settled in, since hosting a full party on moving day itself is rarely practical.
Gifting at an Indian housewarming has its own set of quiet rules worth knowing before guests arrive. Sharp objects like knives or scissors are traditionally avoided as gifts since they're associated with cutting ties or bad luck; leather items are avoided by some communities for religious reasons; and empty-handed visits are generally considered inauspicious even if just bringing something small and symbolic, like a coconut, sweets, or a plant.
Because the puja timing is tied to an auspicious muhurat and can fall on a weekday or an inconvenient hour, it's common for the smaller family ceremony to happen at the correct time and the larger friends-and-extended-family party to be scheduled for a more convenient weekend afterward — worth being explicit in the invitation about which of the two events a guest is actually being invited to.
Gift ideas by recipient
Friends who just moved in
- Ask before buying decor — a plant, a good doormat, or a voucher for the hardware run beats an ornament they now have to display
- A board the friend group fills with a memory from the old place
- Something consumable for the first night: a meal delivered, since the kitchen is still in boxes
Family (griha pravesh)
- A greeting timed to the puja, with the traditional items handled separately
- A photo experience from the old home to the new one
What to actually write
Adapt these — they work because they name something specific. A line that could be sent to anyone reads like it was.
“Congratulations on the new place. Food is on its way because your kitchen is a stack of boxes right now. Housewarming drinks whenever the sofa arrives.”
“Wishing you peace, room, and a full kitchen in the new home. Sorry to miss the puja — thinking of you all as you do the first round of the house.”
Common mistakes
- Decorative gifts that force the recipient to find a place for something not to their taste
- Arriving empty-handed to a griha pravesh, or over-formal to a casual flat-warming
Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between Griha Pravesh and a housewarming party?+
Griha Pravesh is the religious ceremony performed at an auspicious muhurat when a family first enters a new home, typically involving a priest, a puja, and rituals like boiling milk on the stove. The housewarming party — food, guests, gifts — is a separate, more social gathering that often happens later, once the family has actually settled in.
What gifts should be avoided at an Indian housewarming?+
Sharp objects like knives and scissors are traditionally avoided since they're associated with severing ties, and some communities avoid leather items for religious reasons. Arriving completely empty-handed is also generally considered inauspicious, even if the gift itself is small and symbolic, like a coconut, sweets, or a plant.
How long after moving in should a housewarming party be held?+
There's no fixed rule, but many families wait a few weeks to a couple of months after the actual move — and after the Griha Pravesh ceremony, if one is being performed — to give themselves time to settle in before hosting a larger gathering.
Can the invitation include the new address with directions?+
Yes — you can embed a live Google Maps link in the experience so guests can tap through for directions directly, which matters especially for a new address guests haven't visited before.