Mía's Quinceañera
A self-directed concept for the biggest under-served event in Daycraft's own backyard: the quinceañera. Editorial and fully bilingual, built so a Spanish-dominant abuela and an English-first teenager get the same first-class experience — and so a family spending $15–25k on the day finally sees an invitation site that matches it.
This is a concept project — a self-directed design exercise, not a commissioned client site. The family is fictional, the imagery is licensed stock chosen to show the design direction, and the copy is illustrative. The Spanish shown is a working draft pending native-speaker review.
Palette: Cream, charcoal & soft gold
The goal
The quinceañera market is huge and almost entirely served by generic pink templates. Families routinely spend $15–25k on the event — and in towns that are 64–85% Hispanic, it's the densest, most addressable market a local studio has. The site has one job: make the invitation feel as premium as the party, work flawlessly for the whole family in both languages, and actually do the work an event needs — collect RSVPs, give directions, lock the date in everyone's calendar.
The idea
Go the opposite direction from princess-pink. Treat it like a luxury wedding-magazine spread — cream, charcoal, a single soft-gold accent, big serif headlines, generous whitespace. Then make bilingual a core feature, not an afterthought: one elegant toggle flips the entire site between English and Spanish, defaulting to English but keeping the Spanish cultural soul — Mis Quince Años, Bienvenidos, Corte de Honor — alive in both. The “wow” comes from craft, motion, and real functionality, never from clutter.
What I built
A cinematic one-page experience: a showpiece hero with a drawing-in gold monogram, a live countdown to the date, the event details with a styled venue map, the Corte de Honor, and a real RSVP flow — guest count, meal choice, and song requests — that ends in a celebratory confirmation. Plus add-to-calendar and an elegant gallery lightbox. Designed mobile-first and family-first, because most of these RSVPs happen on a phone passed around a family group chat.
What it includes
- One-tap English ⇄ Spanish toggle (whole site)
- Cinematic hero + gold monogram
- Live countdown to the date
- RSVP with guests, meal & song requests
- Add to Calendar (.ics + Google)
- Venue map & directions
- Gallery lightbox
- Mobile-first, accessible (WCAG 2.2 AA)
The result
A concept that doubles as Daycraft's quinceañera acquisition engine — the landing page future ads point to, and a template that can be re-skinned per family in an afternoon. It proves the studio can build something a $15–25k family feels matches their day, in the language their whole family actually speaks.
Tech used
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Framer Motion
Want one like this?
This is concept work — but it's exactly the kind of site I build for real families and businesses. Planning a quinceañera, a wedding, or a big event? Tell me about it.