For a weekend, not an afternoon
Commencement on Friday, a celebratory dinner that evening, the send-off party on Sunday. A college graduation website keeps each part on one page with travel notes for visiting family, replies you can finally trust, and a countdown as the weekend nears.
A college graduation rarely fits in an afternoon. There is the commencement itself at the university, at least one meal with the family, and a send-off for the graduate's friends before everyone drives home. Relatives arrive from other cities, sometimes other countries, and each has a slightly different version of the weekend in their head.
One page holds the whole weekend as a timeline. Each event sits in its own part with its venue and time, so a travelling aunt can see the order of things without texting you to reconstruct it.
Break the trip into parts guests can follow, each with what they need to know.
The ceremony on campus: the hall or the quad, the gate to enter by, the seat rules, and the start time, so nobody queues at the wrong gate an hour early.
The family meal afterward, with the venue, the booking, and the timing, kept separate from the ceremony so the two are not mixed up.
The friends' party later in the weekend, with its own address and a reply, so the graduate's crowd is counted apart from the family.
Where to stay near campus, roughly how far, and the directions, so visiting family plan the trip without you fielding every question.
Put the practicalities where the schedule is, and the thirty phone calls on the day never happen.
As the weekend nears, a countdown on the page keeps everyone anchored to the same date, and the timeline lets a guest answer their own questions. Instead of messaging you on Thursday, they read the order of events and know the difference between the ceremony and the send-off.
Replies for each part land on the guest list, so you can see the family count and the friends' headcount separately before you book the dinner or the send-off venue.
How it works
Start a graduation page in the app or through Jitabi, and set commencement, dinner, and the send-off as parts of one multi-day timeline.
Give each event its venue and map pin, and add hotel suggestions and directions so arriving family can plan the trip themselves.
Publish to get a live link, then send it to the family group. Add a countdown so everyone tracks the same date.
Use RSVP to see who is coming to each event, so the dinner booking and the send-off count are settled against real numbers.
Questions
Yes. Graduation pages support a multi-day timeline, so the three events live in their own parts on one link. Guests follow the order of the weekend instead of piecing it together from separate messages.
Each event on the page carries its venue, a map pin, and a note about the gate or entrance and seat rules. A travelling guest reads it before they set out, which is what stops the wrong-gate scramble on ceremony morning.
Yes. Add the livestream link to the ceremony section and it shows the start time, so a relative in another country knows when to sit down. The wishes wall stays open to them for messages too.
Yes, if you have a couple you like. A short accommodation note with rough distance and directions saves you fielding the same question from every arriving family, and it sits right next to the weekend schedule.
Set replies per event. The dinner confirmation and the send-off confirmation land as their own numbers on the guest list, so you book each one against the people actually coming to it.
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Hold commencement, the dinner, and the send-off on one college graduation website, with travel notes and replies your family can rely on. Start free, and upgrade as your guest list grows.
