Setting Up the Guest Guide
Configuring the guest-facing Guest Guide and the couple's Planning Hub.
There are two public pages per wedding, and they have different audiences. The Guest Guide tells guests what they need on the day. The Planning Hub gives the couple a window into the planning. They are configured in different places and shared separately.
| Guest Guide | Planning Hub | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | Wedding guests | The couple |
| What's on it | Parking, schedule, seating, WiFi, accommodations | Tasks, vendors, invoices, contracts, mood board, music |
| How it's shared | A link or a QR code | A link, or an emailed invitation |
| Where you set it up | The wedding's Guest Guide tab | The wedding's share dialog |
Setting up the Guest Guide
Open a wedding and go to the Guest Guide tab. Two cards: QR Code and Guest Guide Settings.
The look of it
Four things are per-wedding and have no venue-wide equivalent:
- A cover image for the top of the page. A new wedding starts with your venue's Default Cover Image if you've set one.
- An accent color, defaulting to
#8B6AAE. It's used for buttons and highlights throughout the guide. - A welcome message, written in a rich text editor.
- A pretty link, so the URL reads as words rather than an ID.
Use Venue Defaults
Use Venue Defaults is on to begin with, and it means this wedding inherits everything you've configured venue-wide. Turn it off and per-wedding override fields appear — parking instructions, WiFi network name and password, emergency contact name and phone, and more.
Each override says "Leave empty to use venue defaults...", which is the useful part: you can override one field and keep inheriting the rest.
Section Visibility
Ten toggles decide what a guest sees:
Parking & Arrivals, Practical Tips, Day-of Schedule, Venue Facilities, Guest WiFi, Backup Plans, Accommodations, Seating Finder, Assistance, Venue Map.
Two things worth knowing, because together they explain almost every "why isn't my section showing?" question:
- Sections are on by default. A wedding you've never configured shows everything it has data for.
- A section still needs its data. Switch on Day-of Schedule with no timeline events and nothing renders.
The settings screen helps with the second one. When a toggle is on but the data behind it is missing, it tells you exactly what to add — "Add events to this wedding's Day-of Timeline", "Add a partner hotel in Settings", "Add guests to this wedding". It only warns when the toggle is on, because a section switched off is off on purpose.
The QR code
The QR Code card shows the guide's link with a Copy button, and Download QR Code saves it as a PNG for print.
If you've connected a custom domain and it's live, the QR code and the link use it automatically — you don't regenerate anything.
Venue-wide defaults
Most of the guide's content is set once for the venue and inherited by every wedding. That lives in Settings, on the Guest Guide tab: default cover image, parking instructions, shuttle routes with departure and return times, venue rules and notices, accessibility and restroom information, WiFi, partner hotels, and your coordinator and emergency contact details.
Custom domains are configured separately, under the domains tab — the Guest Guide settings link across to it.
Tip: Fill in the venue-wide defaults properly once. Every wedding you create afterwards inherits them, and the per-wedding tab is then just a cover image, a welcome message and any exceptions.
What guests see
A hero image with the couple's and venue's names, a navigation bar for jumping between sections, then each enabled section as a card, in a fixed order that you can't rearrange.
The page is built for phones, which is where guests will open it — typically in a car park, looking for the WiFi password or their table number.
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