For the friend who offered to host
You volunteered to throw the reveal and the logistics are now yours. Build the invitation on the shower setup, schedule the moment, count the plates, and send one link to the group.
You said you would organise the reveal, and suddenly the scan appointment, the guest list, and the cake are your problem. There is no dedicated reveal product to reach for — the honest path is to build on the baby shower setup, the closest supported event type, and shape it around the moment.
A hosted page is worth it for a reveal because so much hangs on timing and secrecy. The invitation must reach the right people, the dress colours must be read correctly, and the headcount for catering needs to be real before the caterer calls. Building it in one sitting, then letting replies gather themselves, is what keeps a friend-hosted reveal from becoming a second job.
Wait until the scan gives you the answer to send the reveal invites, then publish once the colour note and the password are ready. A page that updates keeps the schedule honest if the reveal slips.
Switch on replies so you have a real number for food and seating, with meal and allergy notes attached to names rather than a vague text.
Write the games and the reveal moment into the run of day. Guests who know the pace arrive on time and stay for the gasp.
Send each guest their colour privately and put the shared instruction on the page, so nobody turns up in the wrong shade.
The sequence that keeps it manageable on one evening:
Once published, the page does the repetitive work. A guest asks the time and finds it on the schedule; a family adds a plus-one inside your limit; someone with a nut allergy notes it as they reply. You are reading one live list, not assembling answers from a dozen chats.
If the reveal moves a week because the weather turned, you change one field and everyone who opens the link next reads the new plan. Nothing needs re-sending, and the secret stays behind the password until you decide who gets it.
How it works
Sign up and pick a shower design, or send Jitabi the gist of the reveal and let it draft the page for you.
Lay out welcome, games, the reveal moment, and cake in the schedule so the afternoon builds toward the gasp.
Enable RSVPs with plus-one and meal choices for the catering count, then protect the page so only invited guests read it.
Publish once you know the answer, distribute the link with the password, and let replies gather against names on your shared list.
Questions
Yes. The page is yours to build, and you can add the parents' chosen helper as a collaborator with their own access if you want to share the load — without either of you working from separate guest lists.
Usually after the scan, when you know the answer and have settled the colour note and the schedule. A draft link does nothing for guests until you publish, so the reveal can stay genuinely secret before then.
No, and we would not pretend there is. You build on the baby shower setup, the closest supported type, and shape the page around the reveal with the schedule, colours, and password. That is enough to run a great one.
Whatever your real reply total is — the point of turning on RSVPs is that you stop guessing. Plus-ones come through inside your limits and meal notes attach to names, so the number you give the caterer is the one that arrives.
Whatever the reveal circle enjoys: prediction cards, a guesses board, a small prize round. Write them into the games block of the run of day so guests arrive knowing the rhythm, and place the reveal slot after them.
Get Started
Build on the shower setup, schedule the moment, collect real replies, and send one protected link so the friend-hosted reveal stays on schedule.
