The venue is booked. Now comes the part nobody warns you about: helping fifty, a hundred, maybe two hundred people figure out how to get there, where to stay, what's happening when, and what to wear to the welcome dinner. The questions start the moment you send the save-the-date and don't really stop until the last guest lands home.
Joy gives you one place to answer all of it, before anyone has to ask.
Build a Weekend, Not Just a Wedding
Destination weddings aren't a single event. They're a welcome dinner, a ceremony, a morning-after brunch, maybe a group excursion in between. Joy's Schedule page lets you lay out the whole weekend so guests know exactly where to be and when and can start getting excited about all of it.
From your Event Dashboard, hover over Website, click the arrow, and select Schedule.
For each event, you can add the date, time, location, dress code, and a description. You can also choose from five layout options: Classic, Timeline, Centered, Compact, and Cards, so the weekend reads the way you want it to feel.
Not every guest is invited to every event. The Private Events feature lets you control exactly who sees what, the rehearsal dinner shows up for the wedding party, the after-party shows up only for the people who belong there, and everyone else sees a clean schedule with just their events. For details, see Using the Private Events Feature.
Ask the Right Questions to the Right Guests
A multi-event weekend means different guests have different logistics. Joy lets you ask RSVP questions only to the guests they apply to — meal preferences for the rehearsal dinner go to the wedding party, shuttle timing goes to out-of-towners, and nobody answers questions that aren't relevant to them.
Guest Tags are what make this work. You tag guests by which events they're invited to, then assign each RSVP question to the right tag. For details, see Asking RSVP Questions to Specific Guests.
Help Guests Figure Out Where to Stay
This is one of the first questions every guest asks, and it tends to come in waves, right after the save-the-date, right after the invitation, right before they procrastinate past the booking window. Joy's Where to Stay page gives them a curated list of options near your venue so they can browse, compare, and book on their own.
From your Event Dashboard, hover over Website, click the arrow, and select Where to Stay.
Add your venue, wherever in the world it is, and Joy will automatically surface nearby hotel options for your guests to browse. From there, you can shape the list: add a note about a property you love, pin your top picks, or highlight the hotel where you're staying so guests know where the group will be.
You can also add anything manually like vacation rentals, an Airbnb, a boutique property that didn't surface automatically with a booking link and a note for guests.
If your event is in the US or Canada, you can also set up a room block through Joy's free Hotel Concierge Service. Click Add, then Get Room Block, and you'll be taken to the Joy Hotels page where you enter your venue, wedding dates, and an estimated room count. A personal Joy concierge agent takes it from there, negotiating group rates on your behalf with no deposit required. Once the block is set up, the booking link goes directly on your Where to Stay page.
Guests see a clean page with photos, options, and booking links, and you stop fielding the same question fifteen times.
Stay Ahead of Every Question
Guests flying in from different cities will have questions from the moment they book their flights. Joy gives you two ways to get ahead of them.
The first is using General Messages to send email updates to your full guest list or to specific groups using Guest Tags. Airport transfer details go to out-of-towners only, dress code reminders go to everyone attending the welcome dinner. You can also send RSVP Reminder emails to nudge guests who haven't responded yet, and Hotel Reminder emails to prompt guests who still need to book accommodations. If you want to reach guests by text, Messaging Plus lets you send one-way SMS updates directly from Joy. Text delivery is available for US and Canadian phone numbers. Guests with international numbers can still be reached by email. For details, see Sending General and Reminder Emails.
The second is your Q&A page. Build it out early and it becomes the place guests go before they text you. Think of it as the thing that keeps your phone quiet the week before the wedding. For details, see Setting Up Your Q&A Page.
Still have some questions?
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