Messages & reminders
Send email, SMS, and in-app broadcasts, start from an occasion in the message library, segment your audience, schedule sends, set up automatic reminders, and nudge guests who haven't responded yet.
Send email, SMS, and in-app broadcasts, start from an occasion in the message library, segment your audience, schedule sends, set up automatic reminders, and nudge guests who haven't responded yet.
Messages are how you reach your guest list — invitations, updates, last-minute logistics, and thank-yous. Open Messages for updates and broadcasts. For personal invitation links, shared request links and first invitations, use Guests → Invite.
You can send on three channels:
| Channel | What it's for | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| In-app | A note guests see inside your event page | Every plan, free |
| The everyday channel for most updates | Every plan, free | |
| SMS | Time-sensitive nudges sent to phones | Premium — uses text messages |
You don't have to face a blank composer. Expand Start with a ready-written message to browse the message library. It offers a starter for each moment in your event's life, and picking one fills in a warm subject and body, sets a sensible default audience, and turns on the right channels — all editable before you send.
| Occasion | What it's for | Lands on |
|---|---|---|
| Save-the-date | An early heads-up so guests can hold the date | Everyone on the list |
| Invitation | The formal "you're invited" | Everyone on the list |
| Reminder | A gentle nudge for guests who haven't replied | No reply yet |
| Day-of details | Timing, address, parking, what to bring | Going |
| Thank-you | A warm note after the event | Going |
| Post-event recap | Highlights and a pointer to the photo album | Going |
| Survey | Ask for feedback once it's all wrapped up | Going |
The copy adapts to your event: a wedding and a corporate event get wording that fits the occasion, so the starting draft already sounds like you. Each one lands as a normal draft — change a word, swap the audience, add SMS (on Premium), then send it, or schedule it (also Premium), like any other message.
A save-the-date and an invitation go out before anyone has been invited, so they land on Everyone on the list — every guest you've added, invited or not. Everyone is narrower: it reaches the guests you've invited and anyone who has replied, but not guests you've only added to your list.
Email is the workhorse channel — great for invitations, schedule updates, and reminders.
On the Messages page, select Write a message, then leave Email selected.
Compose your email in the rich-text editor. The formatting toolbar gives you bold, italic, underline, links, bulleted and numbered lists, and quotes — and that formatting carries all the way through: it renders in the email guests receive and on your public event feed, exactly as you styled it.
Pick your audience:
Guests you've added but haven't invited yet don't get messages sent to Everyone or No reply yet — they haven't heard about your event from you yet. The composer says how many guests that leaves out. To reach them anyway, choose Everyone on the list; it's what the save-the-date and invitation starters use, since those go out before anyone is invited. Or invite them first from Guests → Invite, and they're included in Everyone from then on.
Going means guests who hold a spot, not everyone who tapped yes. If your event has a guest limit with a waitlist, or you approve each reply, a yes that's still waiting — on the waitlist, or for your approval — isn't a spot yet, and a yes you've declined never was. Those guests don't get Going messages (the day-of details with the address and parking are for people who are coming), and they aren't in its count. They do get Everyone and Everyone on the list, since they've replied. Once a spot opens up for a waitlisted guest, or you approve a reply, they're in Going from then on.
As you choose, a live "who will receive this" count updates so you know exactly how far the message reaches — broken down by how many guests are reachable by email and by phone. It's an easy way to catch a segment that's smaller than you expected, or to see your SMS reach before you commit any text messages.
Preview how the email will look, send yourself a test if you want to see it in a real inbox, then select Send now to send it right away — or Schedule to set it for later (see Scheduling a message).
Before a message reaches real guests, you can see exactly what they'll get:
The Automatic messages section below your saved messages holds optional scheduled reminders and thank-yous. Your text message balance sits at the top of the page, with a button to buy more (below Premium it notes that your text messages are for text invitations, since messages by text come with Premium); Text message usage at the bottom expands to show what was used and the recent sends. Email stays free.
SMS is perfect for time-sensitive moments — a schedule change, a day-of reminder, or "we've moved indoors, see you at the hall." It goes straight to your guests' phones.
A broadcast can go out by SMS as well as email — pick the channels you want on the same message, and each guest is reached on the channels they have on file. Text broadcasts come with Premium, and sending one uses text messages, which you buy as you need them; email is never limited by them, so it always sends even when your text message balance is empty. Texting a guest their own invitation is different: it works on every plan, using your text messages (see Managing guests).
Every broadcast has a delivery report so you can see exactly what happened:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Pending | The message is queued for delivery |
| Sent | The message has gone out to the provider |
| Delivered | The message reached the recipient |
| Failed | Delivery didn't go through (bad address, bounce, and so on) |
| Read | The recipient opened the email (email only, via a tracking pixel) |
Select any broadcast in the list to see the per-recipient breakdown. Failed deliveries show a reason where one is available, like an invalid email or a full mailbox.
If some messages don't go through, here's what to do:
Save draft keeps your message, audience, and selected channels without sending anything. Open the draft and edit it whenever you are ready; saving updates that same draft. If sending or scheduling fails, the composer keeps your changes so you can retry.
Instead of sending right away, you can schedule a message for later. Send now is on every plan; scheduling comes with Premium. Scheduling is handy for:
To schedule, pick the date and time in the send dialog and select Schedule. Times are in your event's timezone, so "9am the morning of" means 9am where the event is, no mental math. Open a scheduled message to edit it. Schedule replaces its scheduled send with your updated message; Save draft cancels the scheduled send and keeps it as a draft. The date must be a valid future time; an invalid date never sends the message immediately.
The easiest follow-up is the one you never have to remember. Turn on the automatic reminder timeline and Rendezvous pre-schedules a short, gentle sequence around your event for you:
Because it schedules messages for you, the timeline is part of Premium. On other plans the switches stay off; any timeline message your event already scheduled still goes out, and you can turn it off.
It's opt-in — nothing sends until you switch it on — and each message is scheduled in your event's timezone, drawing its dates from your event and its words from the message library. You stay in control: review what's queued, adjust a time, or cancel any one of them before it goes. The whole point is restraint, so the timeline keeps it to a few well-placed messages rather than a drumbeat.
Prefer to follow up by hand? Reaching out to guests who haven't RSVP'd is one of the most useful things you'll do — and there are two ways to do it yourself.
The fastest approach is a targeted message:
Your event also has a dedicated RSVP reminder system, separate from broadcasts. From your Guest list, you can send a reminder email to guests who haven't responded — hand-pick a few, or send to everyone still awaiting a reply in one go. These go out right away (to schedule a nudge for later, use a scheduled broadcast instead). Reminders are de-duplicated automatically — a guest gets at most one reminder per day, so a double-click or a retried send never doubles up. Only invited, still-pending guests with an email on file receive one.
Every broadcast you send is saved. From your history you can: