Open House Invitation Email Template — Campus Visit
A collegiate open-house invitation with the date and address as live text, a run-of-day schedule, and an RSVP that explains why it matters (lunch numbers).
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- An email is a top-to-bottom stack of blocks — the recipe follows that order.
- A
[layout]step becomes a single image (great for heroes); everything else stays live text and links. - Theme the footer to match — the recipe's last step does exactly that.
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An open-house invitation has to answer four questions before anyone will consider the fifth: when, where, how long, and what will actually happen. This one puts the date and address in the first screen as real text, lays out the day in three time-stamped blocks, and gives a reason to RSVP that isn’t administrative convenience — we need to know how much lunch to make. Maroon and gold on warm cream, set in Palatino.
Snapshot
- Goal: fill an open house with families who will actually turn up, and give the ones who can’t a second door (a weekday tour).
- Audience & tone: prospective parents deciding whether a Saturday is worth it. Confident and specific, never boosterish — the school that oversells is the school with something to hide.
- Palette: page
#eeedec· container#ffffff· text#2b1d16/#746b66(muted) · accent#7f1d1d - Font:
Palatino, Book Antiqua, Georgia, serif - Artwork: none — fully native blocks.
Build recipe
Each step is one block in the flat stack, top to bottom.
[native]= a real email block.[layout]= a free-form layout embedded as a single image.
- [native] Logo — logo. Brand mark, center-aligned.
- [native] Kicker 1 — text. “You’re invited”, fontSize: 14, color
#7f1d1d, center, uppercase. - [native] Headline — text. “Open House at Maple Grove Academy”, fontSize: 36, color
#2b1d16, center. - [native] Story title — text. “Saturday, 18 October”, fontSize: 20, color
#7f1d1d, center. - [native] Body copy 1 — text. “10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. · 400 Grove Street”, fontSize: 14, color
#746b66, center. - [native] Rule 1 — divider. short (96px) rule, 1px, color
#e9e9e9. - [native] Body copy 2 — text. “Walk the classrooms with a student guide, talk to the teachers, and see the work on the walls.”, fontSize: 16, color
#746b66, center. - [native] Kicker 2 — text. “How the day runs”, fontSize: 14, color
#7f1d1d, center, uppercase. - [native] Body copy 3 — text. “10:00 — Student-led campus tours, leaving every fifteen minutes.”, fontSize: 16, color
#2b1d16, center. - [native] Body copy 4 — text. “11:30 — Open classrooms and the arts wing, with work on the walls.”, fontSize: 16, color
#2b1d16, center. - [native] Body copy 5 — text. “12:30 — Lunch on the lawn, with admissions questions answered alongside.”, fontSize: 16, color
#2b1d16, center. - [native] Primary CTA — button. Label “Reserve your place”, fill
#7f1d1d, color#ffffff, shapeStyle: ‘0_1’, center. - [native] Body copy 6 — text. “Reply by 10 October so we know how much lunch to make — or book a weekday tour.”, fontSize: 14, color
#746b66, center. - [native] Rule 2 — divider. short (96px) rule, 1px, color
#e9e9e9. - [native] Fine print — text. “You asked about admissions, so you are hearing from us. Preferences · Unsubscribe.”, fontSize: 12, color
#746b66, center. - [native] Footer social — social. Icon row, social.color
#7f1d1d, style circle-outline, center. - [native] Footer address — address. Postal address + unsubscribe, address.color
#746b66, address.fontFamilyPalatino, Book Antiqua, Georgia, serif, center.
Make it yours
- Swap the three time slots for your run of day. Keep them time-stamped and keep the durations — “about forty-five minutes” is what lets a family plan around it.
- Give the RSVP deadline a reason. Catering numbers, tour group sizes, parking passes; any real constraint beats “please RSVP by”.
- Keep the weekday-tour fallback in step 13. Most people who open an invitation cannot make the date, and this is the only line written for them.
About events & invitations email templates
An event email carries a deadline no other category has: the event date itself, which only gets more urgent as it approaches. Early-bird pricing, RSVP mechanics, and an escalating countdown all follow directly from that one fixed point.
See all events & invitations templates →How far in advance should an event invitation email send?
For the early-bird templates below, four to six weeks ahead with a distinct early-bird deadline works well; the last-tickets templates are built for a final push in the 48-72 hours before the event.
What has to be in an event invitation besides the date?
Date, time (with timezone if remote), location or join link, and one clear RSVP action — the templates below keep those four elements above the fold before any agenda detail.
Can I use one of these templates for a virtual event instead of an in-person one?
Yes — swap the location line for a join link and timezone. The layout and countdown mechanics work the same for webinars and workshops as for in-person galas or conferences.
Do the event templates support a countdown timer?
Yes — several below use Temway's countdown block, which renders as a live countdown in supporting email clients and a static fallback everywhere else.