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Guestbook, music requests and the gift registry

Three of the smaller features share a pattern: a section on your page where guests take part, and a workspace in the studio where everything they send arrives. This guide covers all three. Adding the sections themselves works the same as any other section and is covered in Build and design your page.

Guestbook

Guests leave written messages through the guestbook section, and they collect in the Guestbook workspace. You can read them as a Book, which flips through pages like a paper guestbook, or as a List for skimming. Delete any message you’d rather not keep. A counter shows how close you are to capacity, reading, for example, 34 / 200 messages.

The Guestbook workspace in Book view, showing guest messages laid out across two facing pages
The Guestbook workspace in Book view. Switch to List for quick skimming.

On the page side, selecting the guestbook section opens its inspector. An Invitation message (optional) field lets you set the prompt guests see above the form. A Show messages on your page toggle controls whether messages appear publicly at all, and if they do, you choose how: Carousel, Cards, Ticker or Book. Leave the toggle off and messages stay private, readable only by you in the dashboard, which suits couples who’d rather open them together after the day.

The guestbook is available on Starter and above.

Music requests

The music section asks guests for the song that gets them on the dance floor, and the Music workspace gathers the answers. Requests are grouped by song, with a count badge when several guests ask for the same one, and each entry shows who requested it. Delete anything you’d rather the DJ never saw. The toolbar keeps a running tally, for example 48 requests · 31 unique songs · 22 guests, so you can tell at a glance how the list is filling up.

The Music workspace, with requested songs grouped and counted, and the guests who asked for each one
Music requests, grouped by song with a count for repeats.

When the list is ready, the Export button produces a CSV with the song, artist, who requested it and when. Send it straight to your DJ or band; it’s a far better brief than “play something everyone likes”.

In the section inspector, the Message to guests (optional) field sets the prompt above the request form, if you want something more specific than the default.

Music requests are available on Plus and above.

Gift registry

The registry is a simple list of gifts rather than a shop. For each item you add a Gift name, a Qty, a Guide price (£) and a Buy link (optional) pointing to wherever the item can be bought. Guests browse the list on your page and claim what they’re buying, which removes the item from circulation so nothing is bought twice. In the Registry workspace you see exactly who claimed what, which makes the thank-you cards considerably easier to write.

The Registry workspace before any items are added, with an Add item button in the toolbar
The Registry workspace. Add items with the button in the top right.
The registry is available on every plan, including Free, but the number of items you can add depends on your tier. The workspace tells you when you’ve hit the limit.

None of the three needs day-to-day attention. Set the prompts, share your link, and check back now and then to skim the messages, prune the song list and watch the gifts get claimed.

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