How to Set Up Guest Groups for Your Wedding Website

Not every guest needs to see the same version of your wedding. Some are there for the whole day, some are joining just for the evening. Some are close family, some are your college friends who've never met your parents. Most wedding websites assume one guest list sees one identical page. Yours doesn't have to.

We built guest groups for exactly this, and it's a feature almost nothing else in this category offers.

What a "group" actually is

A group is just a label. "Evening only." "Family." "Wedding party." You create it, you name it, and you decide which guests belong to it. It's not a rigid category baked into how the system works, it's a tag you attach and can change any time.

This matters because it means you're not locked into a structure decided in advance. If your guest list changes shape after you've already set things up, the groups change with it.

Creating a group and assigning guests

From your dashboard, groups live wherever you manage your guest list. Creating one takes a name and nothing else. Once it exists, you can assign any guest to it, individually or in bulk if you're organising a longer list.

A guest can belong to more than one group if that makes sense for your event. There's no limit that forces you to pick just one label per person.

What can actually be shown or hidden per group

Once groups exist, you can use them to control what different guests see on your site:

• Programme items can be marked visible to everyone, or restricted to a specific group
• Extra pages work the same way, a page about the after-party can be hidden from anyone not in the "evening" group
• Nothing needs to be duplicated into a second site to achieve this

The visibility is genuinely per-guest, not just a visual toggle. A guest browsing your site only sees the navigation items they're actually allowed to see, based on their group.

A worked example

Say you have 150 guests for the ceremony and reception, and 40 additional guests joining just for the evening party. Without groups, you'd either build a second, separate page for the evening guests, or show everyone the full day's schedule and hope the evening-only guests figure out which parts apply to them.

With groups, you create an "Evening" group, assign those 40 guests to it, and then mark your ceremony and dinner programme items as visible only to your main guest list. The evening guests see a schedule that starts at the point they're actually joining. Everyone else sees the full day. One website, no duplication, no confusion.

One flat website doing the work of two

This is the kind of thing that would normally mean building and maintaining two separate pages, or just accepting that some guests get a confusing, irrelevant schedule. Guest groups solve it without any extra cost or extra site to manage.

If you haven't set up your extra pages yet, groups are worth thinking about at the same time, since the two work together: a page can be visible to everyone, or scoped to just one group, exactly like a programme item.