Event website

Build the site guests see: its address, its theme, its pages, the guest menu, and the RSVP window.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab. Only you, your co-hosts and a planner or coordinator admin can open it. Guests get the site itself, never these controls.
2. "Preview as guest" at the top right shows the whole thing the way an invitee gets it, at any point while you build.
3. Site address is first: claim a short link like bazaar.events/ude-and-love for save-the-dates. Your original event link keeps working alongside it.
4. Theme sets one palette for everything guest-facing, including the RSVP page, the invitation and the card guests keep in their wallet.
5. Front page holds the note from the hosts and the quick facts guests read the moment they open your link.
6. Pages is where you add travel details, FAQs, your story, and anything else, starting from a template you then edit.
7. Guest menu is every destination a guest can reach, in the order they read it. Reorder, rename for guests, hide, schedule a reveal, or keep one for the guests who have accepted.
8. RSVP window sets when replies open, when they close, what the deadline does, and the two messages guests read on the RSVP page.
9. Everything on this tab saves as you go, so there is no Save button.

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Keep the gifts you would love in one list, so guests can see what is left and nobody buys the same thing twice.

1. Open the event, go to the Website tab, and scroll to Registry. It sits under Pages, with everything else your guests see. You, your co-hosts and a planner or coordinator admin can curate it.
2. Click "Add gift" and paste a link from any shop. Bazaar reads the page and fills in the name, price, shop and picture, and you can edit any of it before saving.
3. You can also type an item with nothing but a name, if you know what you want but not where it is from yet.
4. Switch the same form to "Cash" to add a Venmo, PayPal, Cash App or Zelle handle, or bank details, as a way for guests to send money instead.
5. Guests see cash options first, then the gifts, in the order you arranged them. A guest can mark a gift as theirs, which holds it for 48 hours and hides it from everyone else until they confirm or the hold lapses.
6. The line above your list counts how many have been bought. Who bought what stays hidden unless you turn on "Show who bought what" at the foot of the list.
7. Use the menu on any row to edit it, mark it bought yourself when a gift arrives in person, or put it back on the list when a hold was abandoned.
8. Guests get a Registry tab once there is something on it, so nothing goes public while you are still building the list. That holds on the website and in the Bazaar app, so a guest browsing on their phone sees the same list and the same holds. To see what they see, use "Preview as guest" at the top of the Website tab, or open the Registry page on your own site.

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Say that a day does not collect RSVPs at all: no reply form, no deadline, no reminders.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab, then find RSVP window.
2. "Collect RSVPs" is the first control in that section. Switch it off and the day stops asking anyone to reply.
3. There is then no RSVP page for guests, no deadline, and no reminders, so the rest of the section folds away: there is no window left to set.
4. Your guest list stays exactly as it is. You just gather it yourself.
5. Switch it back on and your window, deadline and reminders return exactly as you left them.

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Upload and position the event cover photo, under Front page on the Website tab.

1. Open the event.
2. Go to the Website tab.
3. Under Front page, use the Cover photo box to add or replace the image.
4. Use "Set focal point" to choose which part of the photo stays visible when it crops.
5. It saves as soon as it uploads. You can also change it from Edit Event.

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Write the welcome note and quick facts guests see, under Front page on the Website tab.

1. Open the event.
2. Go to the Website tab.
3. Under Front page, write the note from the hosts or add up to six quick facts.
4. Changes save as you type. Use Preview as guest to check the guest view.
5. To change the hosts line itself, click Edit Event instead.

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Temporarily stop accepting new RSVPs.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab.
2. Scroll to RSVP window and find "Accepting replies", below the deadline controls.
3. Turn it off to stop new replies straight away, whatever your dates say. Turn it back on to reopen.
4. It saves on the switch. While it is off, guests are told RSVPs are closed.

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Open your event site the way a guest sees it, so you can check it before you send the link.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab.
2. Click "Preview as guest" under the heading, or reach the same preview from the event actions.
3. The page loads as a guest sees it. Pages you have not published, and anything not yet revealed, are hidden here the same way they are for them.
4. The preview is a guest who has NOT replied yet, so anything you set to "Only guests who have accepted" is hidden here too. That is what an invitee sees before they say yes; a guest who accepts sees more than this.
5. You are not signed out and nothing is changed. Close the preview to go back to editing.

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Give your site a short, readable address for save-the-dates, without breaking your original event link.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab.
2. Find Site address near the top. If the event is one day of a multi-day celebration it is called "This day’s address" and sits under Celebration address instead, because the celebration has its own link.
3. Type the address you want after bazaar.events/, using lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens.
4. If you have never claimed one, Bazaar proposes an address from your event name. Click the "Use ..." button to take it in one click.
5. The address saves when you click away from the box, not as you type, so a half-typed address is never checked against everyone else.
6. If it is already taken you are told so straight away. Try another.
7. Once it is saved, "Copy link" puts the full address on your clipboard for a save-the-date.
8. Your original event link keeps working. Clearing the address asks you to confirm first, because anything already printed stops working.

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Choose whether people who search your names can find your site. Off by default, and your exact address and start time stay hidden even when it is on.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab.
2. Find "Search engines", directly under Site address.
3. Turn on "List this site in search". Bazaar asks you to confirm first, because this is the direction that is slow to undo.
4. Your names, your town and your date can then appear in search results for anyone who looks them up.
5. Your exact street address and start time stay hidden from anyone who has not opened an invitation, even while the site is listed. Guests who arrive on their own invite link still see everything.
6. Turning it back off is a single tap with no confirmation. Search engines usually take about a month to drop a page after that, so it is worth being sure before turning it on.
7. If the event is private the switch is greyed out and says so: a private event is never listed. Make it public in Edit event first.
8. If this day is part of a celebration, the celebration’s own site is only listed once every day of it is.

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One short address that opens every day of a celebration, with the pages you share across all of them.

1. Open any day of the celebration. In the sidebar, under "Whole celebration", choose "Website · all days".
2. Celebration address is the first section. It moved here from the day’s Website tab, which now owns only that day’s own address.
3. Type the address you want after bazaar.events/, using lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, or click the "Use ..." button to take the one Bazaar proposes from the celebration name.
4. It saves when you click away from the box, not as you type.
5. Events and celebrations share one set of addresses, so if the one you want already belongs to something else you are told straight away. Try another.
6. Once it is saved, "Copy link" gives you the full address. That is the link for save-the-dates and invitations: it opens a site listing every day, with the pages you have shared across all of them.
7. Each day keeps its own address underneath, for when you mean one evening rather than the whole celebration.

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Choose the palette and font the celebration address opens in. Each day keeps its own.

1. Open any day of the celebration. In the sidebar, under "Whole celebration", choose "Website · all days".
2. Scroll to Celebration theme. It sits directly under This day’s theme and only appears once the event is part of a multi-day celebration.
3. Pick a palette. It starts on whatever the first day was using when you made the celebration, so nothing changes until you change it.
4. Turn on "Use your own accent" if you want one colour of your own on top of the palette, and pick a font underneath.
5. The preview shows what the celebration address opens in. Each day keeps its own theme, so changing this does not restyle any day.

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Say which days of a celebration appear on the address you share. A hidden day keeps its own page for the people invited to it.

1. Open any day of the celebration. In the sidebar, under "Whole celebration", choose "Website · all days".
2. Scroll to The days. Every day of the celebration is listed, with a switch on the right.
3. Turn a day off to keep it off the celebration site. Its card stops appearing on the address you share, and the dates in the heading close up around the days that are left.
4. The day keeps everything else. Its own address still works, so the people invited to it can still open it, RSVP and see its pages.
5. This is not the same as making a day private. Private hides the day's own page from everyone; this only decides what the celebration's landing page lists.
6. Search follows what is shown. A day you have hidden no longer affects whether the celebration can be listed by search engines.
7. Turn it back on any time. Nothing is deleted and nothing is re-created.

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Set how tall the top of your site is, what appears in it, where that sits, and which way the type reads.

1. Open the Website tab and scroll to Front page. The Hero controls sit directly under your cover photo, because the two work together.
2. Height: pick Short, Standard, Tall or Full screen. These are proportions rather than screen heights, so your hero is the same composition on a laptop, a wide monitor and a phone.
3. A taller hero also shows MORE of your photograph. To choose which part of it shows, drag the focal point on the cover photo above.
4. What appears: switch off anything you do not want up there. Every item can go, including your names and the Share button, and a hero with nothing in it is simply your photograph.
5. Where it sits: pick a square in the grid to place your names. Top and bottom only make a difference once your hero is taller than what is in it.
6. Type over your photograph: choose Light or Dark. Each one moves the shading behind your type with it, so both stay readable. It only appears once you have a cover photo.

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Separate pages or one scrolling page, and whether a phone gets the pill row or a menu button.

1. Open the Website tab and scroll to Guest menu. The two choices sit above the list of pages.
2. How your pages open: Separate pages gives each page its own address and opens it when a guest picks it. One scrolling page stacks every page into one long page and scrolls to the section instead.
3. Links you have already shared keep working either way. A link to one page still lands guests at that page, and anything hidden or scheduled for later stays out of the page until its date.
4. The menu on a phone: Scrolling row keeps the row of pills, one tap per page. Menu button replaces it with a single button that opens the whole list and keeps the top of your page clear.
5. On a laptop the full row always shows. There is room for it, so nothing is hidden behind a button.

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Frame your pages with corner artwork, drawn in the palette you already chose.

1. Open the Website tab and scroll to Decoration. It sits under the theme sections, because the artwork is drawn in the colours you pick there.
2. Choose a style. There are seven, grouped by family: florals, foliage, geometric, celestial, coastal and minimal.
3. Each thumbnail is drawn in your own palette, so what you see is what your guests get. Changing your palette re-colours whichever one you choose, so you never have to pick again.
4. Pick None if you would rather your photos and type carry the page. It is the default and a real choice.
5. The artwork frames your pages and stays off your cover photo. It scales down on a phone rather than crowding it.

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One public site listing every day of the celebration, with the pages you share across all of them.

1. The celebration address opens a site for the whole celebration, not for one day.
2. It leads with the celebration name and the dates it spans, worked out from the days themselves, so it stays right when you move one.
3. Under that is a card for each day: its name, when it is, where it is, and whether it is taking replies. Tapping a card opens that day’s own site.
4. Along the top is a link to each page you have shared across the celebration. Pages that belong to a single day are not shown here, they are on that day’s site.
5. A page still in Draft does not appear, and its link does not work for guests, exactly as on a single event.
6. Guests do not need an account and are not asked to sign in.
7. If you mark any day private, the celebration stops being listed in search results, though the link still works for anyone you send it to.

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Move a page from one day to the whole celebration so every day shows it, or take it back.

1. Open any day of the celebration, go to the Website tab and find Pages.
2. On the page you want on every day, click the three-dot menu between the pencil and the bin. It only appears when the event is part of a celebration.
3. Choose "Share across the celebration". The page moves from this day to the whole celebration and picks up an "All days" badge.
4. Shared pages show in every day’s Pages list and in every day’s guest menu, and they appear on the celebration site itself.
5. If another day already has a page at the same address, the one you just shared gets a number added so both keep working. The address is shown under the page name.
6. To undo it, use the same menu and choose "Keep to this day". You are asked to confirm, because the other days stop showing the page.

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Pick one palette, accent and font, and every guest-facing surface wears it at once.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab.
2. In Theme, pick one of the five palettes. It dresses everything guest-facing at once: your site, the RSVP page, the invitation, and the card guests keep in their wallet.
3. Turn on "Use your own accent" if you want a specific colour for the seal, the rules and the small labels. Everything else stays with the palette.
4. If your accent disappears against that palette you are told so, and guests keep seeing the palette accent until you pick something lighter or darker.
5. Choose a Font for the guest-facing text.
6. The preview underneath is what guests get. Your own view of the event stays in Bazaar colours.
7. Every change saves on the click, so there is nothing to submit.

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Start a guest page from a template, build it from sections, and publish it now or on a date.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab and find Pages.
2. Click "Add page" and pick a template: Travel and stay, Things to do, FAQ, Our story, Wedding party, Gallery, Registry, or a blank New page. You can change everything after.
3. The page opens in the editor. Set its Nav label and icon, then the page heading and intro line guests read at the top.
4. Build the body from sections: Text, FAQ, Places, Quick facts, People, or Gallery. Each section can be moved up or down, or removed.
5. A People section with more than one person offers Columns, 2 or 3, for how wide the row runs on a computer. Pick 2 when the roles are long, like "Grandmother of the groom". Phones always show two.
6. Set Visibility to Draft while you write, Published when it is ready, or Scheduled with a date and time to have it appear on its own.
7. Click Save. The page shows Draft, Live or Scheduled in the list, and the pencil and bin icons on its row edit or delete it.
8. Where the page sits in the guest menu, and what guests call it, is the Guest menu section below, not the editor.

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Put every guest destination in the order you want, rename it for guests, hide it, reveal it on a date, or keep it for the guests who have accepted.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab, then find Guest menu. It lists every destination a guest can reach, built-in tabs and your own pages together, because a guest does not know the difference.
2. Drag a row by its handle, or use the up and down arrows, to change the order guests read them in.
3. Click a row name to rename it for guests. Your own menu keeps calling it by its real name.
4. Use the switch on a row to hide it from guests. Hiding never removes it from your own tabs.
5. Open the settings button on a row for the full set: the guest label, and whether it is Visible, Hidden, or revealed on a date you pick.
6. A scheduled reveal uses the event timezone, so every guest sees it at the same moment.
7. "Only guests who have accepted" is a separate switch in the same panel, and it stacks with the rest. Guests who have not replied, or who said no, do not see that row; they see it the moment they change their answer to yes. Use it for the things only the people actually coming need, like the address or the seating.
8. A row held back by its own page (still a draft, or scheduled in the page editor) says so under its name, because the fix for that is in the page editor, not here.

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Say when replies open, when they close, and what the deadline actually does, in one place.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab, then find RSVP window. Both ends of the window live here, so they cannot contradict each other.
2. Under "When RSVPs open", leave it on "As soon as guests find the site", or pick "On a date" and set the day and time. Until then the RSVP page tells guests it is not open yet.
3. Under "When RSVPs close", click "Add a deadline" and pick the day. Replies are taken through the end of that day in the event timezone.
4. Under "What the deadline does", switch on any combination. With all of them off the date is only a nudge and the form stays open.
5. If you switch on auto-decline, a box appears for what those guests are told. It accepts the tags {{guest_name}}, {{event_name}} and {{host_name}}.
6. "Remove deadline" clears the date and its behaviours together.
7. The card at the bottom states the window in one sentence and says what a guest sees right now, using the same engine the public RSVP page answers with.

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Paste a link from any shop and the item fills itself in, or type one by hand.

1. Open the event, go to the Website tab, and scroll to Registry. It sits under Pages, with everything else your guests see.
2. Click "Add gift".
3. Paste the link to the item from any shop. Bazaar reads the page and fills in the name, the price, the shop and the picture for you.
4. Check what came back and edit anything that is wrong. Only the name is required, so a shop that gives up nothing still leaves you a usable item.
5. You can skip the link entirely and just type a name, for something you want but have not found yet.
6. Add a note if there is something a guest should know, like a colour or a size.
7. Click Save. New items land at the end of your list, in the order guests read it.

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List Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Zelle or bank details so guests can send money instead of buying something.

1. Open the event, go to the Website tab, scroll to Registry, and click "Add gift".
2. Switch the form from Gift to Cash.
3. Give it a label guests will recognise, like Venmo, Honeymoon fund, or Chase checking.
4. Add a link, a handle, or both. Venmo, PayPal and Cash App have a page you can link to. Zelle and a bank transfer do not, so put the email, phone number or account details in the handle field and guests copy them with one tap.
5. There is no amount and no target. Bazaar points guests at your payment app and never handles the money, so nothing is charged, tracked or held here.
6. Click Save. Guests see cash options above the gifts, so somebody who only ever meant to send money finds it first.

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Point guests at a registry you keep on another site, beside anything you list here. Nothing is re-entered and nothing is claimed.

1. Open the event, go to the Website tab, scroll to Registry, and click "Add gift".
2. Switch the form from A gift to Elsewhere.
3. Under Where, put the name guests will recognise: Amazon, Zola, Target, or the shop.
4. Paste the address of your registry there. This one is required, because the link is the whole entry.
5. Add a note if there is anything guests should know before they shop there.
6. Click Save. It appears at the top of the registry under "Registered elsewhere", above your cash options and your own list.
7. Nobody can claim it and it is not counted in "N of M purchased": it is a whole registry, not one gift, so there is nothing here to mark as bought.
8. Add as many as you like. Couples registered in more than one place list them all.

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Choose whether claimed gifts name the guest who claimed them, or stay a surprise.

1. Open the event, go to the Website tab, and scroll to Registry.
2. Scroll past your list to "Show who bought what" and turn it on.
3. Every claimed gift now names the guest who claimed it, under the item, so you have your thank-you list.
4. Turn it off and you go back to seeing only how many gifts have been bought, which is how it starts, so the day stays a surprise.
5. Guests never see who claimed anything, with the switch on or off. This only changes what you see.
6. A guest can leave their name out when they claim, and a gift you mark bought yourself names nobody, so a few rows may show no name at all.

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Record a gift that arrived in person, or free one whose hold was abandoned.

1. Open the event, go to the Website tab, scroll to Registry, and open the menu at the end of the row.
2. On a gift nobody has claimed, choose "Mark as bought". Use this when somebody hands you a gift in person, so it stops being offered to other guests.
3. On a gift somebody has claimed, choose "Put back on the list" instead. Use it when a hold was abandoned or a guest changed their mind.
4. Putting it back asks you to confirm, because it ends that guest's claim: they lose the hold, and the gift becomes available to everyone again.
5. You will only ever be offered one of the two, because they are the two directions out of the state the gift is already in.
6. Most abandoned holds fix themselves. A reservation lasts 48 hours and then the gift quietly returns to the list on its own, so you only need this for one somebody marked as bought and then did not.

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A guest claims a gift, it is held for 48 hours, and everyone else sees it is taken without ever seeing who took it.

1. A guest opens your registry and taps "I will get this" on the gift they want.
2. They are asked for their name, which is optional, and told the gift is held for 48 hours.
3. The gift immediately shows as claimed to every other guest, so nobody else buys it. No guest is ever told who claimed it.
4. They go to the shop, buy it, then come back and tap "I bought it". The hold ends and the gift is bought for good.
5. If they never come back, the hold lapses after 48 hours and the gift quietly returns to the list, so an abandoned reservation does not strand it.
6. A guest who changes their mind can tap Release themselves, and does not need to ask you.
7. Two guests tapping at the same moment cannot both win. The second one is told somebody just claimed it and gets a refreshed list.
8. A guest with a Bazaar account keeps their claim wherever they sign in, phone or laptop. A guest who claimed without one has it remembered in that browser only, so clearing their history or switching device can cost them the ability to confirm their own claim, which is another thing the 48 hour lapse quietly fixes.
9. To see all of this yourself, open the Registry page on your own site, or use "Preview as guest" at the top of the Website tab. You get the guest view, not your curation list.

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Greet guests with a sealed invitation in your own colours before they reply. Off unless you turn it on.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab, then find RSVP window.
2. Turn on "Open with an invitation".
3. Guests now arrive at a sealed envelope in your theme colours, addressed to their household, and tap the wax seal to open it before they reply.
4. It is off unless you turn it on, and turning it off puts guests straight onto the reply form.
5. A guest can always skip past it to the form, so nobody is ever stuck behind the animation.

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Say something in your own words above the RSVP form, and thank guests in your own words after they reply.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab, then scroll to the bottom of RSVP window.
2. In "What guests read", "Above the form" is the note shown before a guest replies. Use it to say when you need an answer and why.
3. "After they reply" is the thank-you they see once the reply is in.
4. Both are optional, and both save when you click away from the box.
5. The colours and font these pages wear come from Theme at the top of this tab. There is no separate RSVP appearance editor any more.

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Upload your save-the-date artwork and get one link to share with guests.

1. Open the event and go to the Website tab.
2. In Save the date, upload your artwork. Portrait cards are fine, nothing is cropped.
3. We build a second copy sized for messaging apps, so the card shows properly when a guest receives the link.
4. Your guests get a page with the artwork, the date, and a button to put it in their calendar.

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Send your save the date by email or text, to everyone or to one guest, weeks before the invitation.

1. Open the event, go to the Website tab, and find Save the date.
2. Click Send to guests, choose email or text, and pick everyone or only the guests who have not had one.
3. To chase one person instead, open their row menu on the Guests tab and choose Send save the date.
4. When it has sent, we offer to schedule the RSVP invitation for a few weeks later, so the second message arrives expected.

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