For the couple whose news is already circulating
The wedding news travels by WhatsApp whether you plan it or not. Pair that message with a page the families can open for the venues, the timeline and their own replies — and keep the parts that are not public yet behind a password.
A photograph of the ring lands in the family group and, within minutes, the same five questions come back from three different aunts. What time, which church, is there a lunch afterwards, can we bring someone, where do we park. None of that is answered well in a chat, and retyping it for the ninth person is how the fun parts of an engagement start to feel like admin.
One link is the fix. The message announces the date; the page carries everything the questions were asking, in one version everyone reads.
Two venues, a day with a shape to it, and replies you can actually count.
The ceremony address and the reception address, each with the gate or parking note, so nobody drives to the wrong one.
The order of the day in words — ceremony, drinks, meal — which you confirm against the real times.
A yes in two taps, a plus-one inside the limit you set, and meal notes for the caterer.
What to wear and what to expect, written once and answered for everyone at the same time.
Not everything about a wedding reaches the group chat. Some couples hold a small ceremony, or elope first and celebrate later, and want the announcement without the address going wide. Others have a surprise the guests should not see before the day.
A password on the page handles this. You share the password only with the people who are in on it; everyone else sees the good news without the location. The group chat still does what group chats do; the details stay where you put them.
Older relatives and the neighbours who never left their inbox still want a card they can hold. Print the card, but print the page’s QR code or short link on it. That way the paper invitation points at the same living details, and guests open a page that answers what their card cannot fit.
Because the link is live, a change to the day reaches them too. Move a time, correct an address, add a parking note — update it once on the page, and the printed card that already went out still reads correctly on the day.
How it works
With Jitabi or Clara, add the names, the date, both venues and the order of the day. Read the drafted schedule and correct any time it guessed.
Turn on guest replies with a plus-one limit, and add a password if part of the day should stay quiet for now.
Paste it into the family WhatsApp, and print its QR or short link on the cards for relatives who prefer paper.
Yeses, plus-ones and meal notes gather on a single guest list, and quiet guests can be reminded without another message.
Questions
Yes. Protect the page with a password and share it only with the people who are in on it. The announcement itself need not name the venue, so the news travels while the address stays held back.
Print the page’s QR code or short link on their card. They open the same live page as everyone else and reply there, so paper guests sit on the same list as the group-chat guests.
The cards point at the live link, so you update the plan once on the page and every guest who opens it — today or on the day — sees the corrected version. Nothing needs reprinting.
No. It drafts the page; you review the date, venues and names, publish when it is right, and send the message yourself. The wedding news should still come from the two of you.
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Pair the WhatsApp announcement with a wedding page for the venues, the timeline and replies — and a password for the parts that stay secret.
