For the family gathering to name the child
The chosen name deserves better than a message lost between stickers. One page holds the order of ceremony, the venue and the livestream link, and relatives on two continents find the same answers.
Naming ceremonies pull together a scattered family. Parents, grandparents, godparents or close friends, and usually some people joining from another country entirely. The invitation goes out into a family group chat, and within days the venue question is asked again by someone who was surely there for the last one.
A page instead of a message solves this quietly. It sits at the same link forever, so when an uncle asks on Wednesday where the ceremony is, someone forwards the page rather than retyping from memory. What he reads is identical to what everyone else was sent, right down to the time the blessings begin.
Ceremonies have an order, and a page can mirror it:
The livestream link sits on the page beside the ceremony order, so a grandmother in another time zone knows when to open it and needs no software except a browser.
Hotel notes and directions live on the venue section, which is where travelling family look anyway. No one telephones to ask what is near the church.
Every reply lands on one guest list, whoever sent it and whenever. Whether your cousin answered at breakfast in Nairobi or midnight in Oslo, the count is the same count.
The moderated wishes section lets relatives write something before they come, and you decide what appears, so the page stays warm and nothing awkward surfaces.
Naming ceremony is not one of the dedicated template types on the platform — those are wedding, birthday, baby shower and graduation. What you get instead is the full event-page toolkit applied to your day: multi-section design, RSVPs with plus-ones, a live guest list, reminders, directions, a countdown. Families hosting a naming use it the way they use the baby shower setup for a sprinkle: real sections, reworded for the occasion, holding everything the ceremony needs.
We are naming our daughter Elin on the 28th at St. Henrik's. Everything — the order of the service, directions, and a link for those joining from abroad — is on this page. Please reply there so nobody is missed.
You are part of the ceremony itself. The page has your reading details and the timings for arriving early.
How it works
Tell Jitabi the name, the date, the venue and that some family joins remotely. The assistant drafts the ceremony page from your plain description, with sections already laid out.
Edit the draft into the shape of the day: readings, naming, blessings, refreshments. Put the livestream link slot where the remote branch will find it without asking.
The same link travels to the local group, the abroad cousins and the godparents' own thread. Drafts are invisible until publish, so nothing half-written leaks.
Confirms gather on one list with plus-ones and meal notes for the refreshments. Anyone silent as the week begins gets a reminder by WhatsApp or email.
Questions
Remote relatives can open the same page everyone else got and join through the livestream link slot on it. They can also reply to confirm attendance in spirit, leave wishes beforehand, and read the order of ceremony in their own time, at their own hour.
You can have both. The live link can be printed as a QR code on paper cards, so the grandmother who prefers post gets a square to scan rather than a web address to type. Everyone ends on the same page and the same list.
Guests write their notes into a guestbook section, and you moderate: what appears is what you approve. The message wall then stays on the page after the ceremony, which is a keepsake in itself for a naming day.
The reply is a short form: name, whether they come, and anything you asked in advance. No account, no app, nothing to install. For relatives who find even that much, a family member can fill in their answer from the same page.
Get Started
Start free, build the ceremony page in a single sitting, and send one link the whole scattered family can return to. Plan options for larger gatherings are on the pricing page.
