For hosts whose venue hides
The phone starts ringing twenty minutes before the ceremony. A directions section on the invitation page answers where-exactly-is-it once, in writing, before anyone is standing at the wrong gate.
Every venue has a trick. The church sits behind a petrol station, the hall is through a side gate, the farmhouse lane is unmarked, and the taxi app drops people at the wrong end of it. Hosts know these details so well they forget guests do not, and a paper card has no room for them. The messages arrive on the day itself, exactly when you are least able to answer them.
A venue directions page fixes this by putting the answer where guests already look on the morning of the event: the same invitation link you sent in the WhatsApp group. It carries the address, the practical notes and the small landmarks that turn a wrong turn into a right one.
The full address in one block, easy to copy into the maps app your guests already use. Something they can open straight from the invitation beats a paragraph of directions nobody reads twice.
Where to leave the car, whether the paid car park down the road is worth it, and where a taxi or a minibus carrying grandparents can safely let people out. Two honest sentences here stop twenty cars circling a one-way street.
The detail only locals know: the blue door beside the chemist, the field entrance after the second bend, the hall behind the trees. It is the difference between arriving calm and arriving late and irritated.
Directions rarely stop at the front door. Guests travelling from afar need their next questions answered as well:
Guests open the invitation link once from the WhatsApp message, then return to it in the car, on the train, or outside the wrong gate. Because the page is live, a correction you make that same morning, a changed gate or a new parking arrangement, is what the next guest reads. Nobody is working from a screenshot of an older plan.
The phone calls do not vanish entirely; some guests will always ring. But the call becomes “I can see the directions, is the side gate open?” instead of “where exactly are we?” shouted over a poor signal. That is a conversation you can finish in fifteen seconds and then forget.
How it works
Sign up and begin a wedding, birthday, baby shower or graduation page, or message Jitabi on WhatsApp with the date and venue and let it draft the site. The directions section is part of the page from the first publish.
Fill the section while the venue is fresh in your mind, or drive past it once and dictate the landmarks. In-app drafting can tidy rough notes into plain lines; you keep the local detail only you know.
Post the invitation link into the WhatsApp group as usual. The message carries the headline; the page carries the address, and guests come back to it on the day.
If parking changes the night before, edit the section once. Every guest who opens the link afterwards reads the corrected version, with nothing to repost.
Questions
No account is needed to open an invitation link, and the page runs in the browser already on their phone. Guests copy the address or tap the location into whichever maps app they use; nothing in the directions section asks them to install or register for anything.
Yes. Directions and hotel notes belong to the same part of the page, so nearby stays, station advice and arrival tips sit together. Most hosts keep it to a short list: enough for an outsider to plan the day without reading a guidebook.
Leave the section loose and update it when you know. While the site is an unpublished draft, guests cannot open it at all, so nothing wrong reaches them; once it is live, one edit corrects the answer for everyone from that moment on.
The page is built for phone screens first, with large readable type and one clear section per question. A practical extra is printing the event’s QR code on paper cards for guests who prefer paper; scanning it opens the same directions page.
A chat message is buried within a day, and versions disagree as plans move. The page holds one current answer, linked from every copy of the invitation, while replies stay counted on your guest list regardless of which chat the link travelled through.
Get Started
Build the page, fill the directions section with the landmarks only you know, and start free. When the day arrives, the address answers itself. The pricing page shows how plans grow as your guest list does.
