For the relative who always organises
Cousins you've never met and Aunt Ruth need the same page. Hold the plan, collect replies branch by branch, count the children, and give the caterer a headcount they can trust.
A family reunion is one event and five or six separate guest lists — each household, each branch, relatives in different towns who hear the news second-hand. The page that works is the one every branch can open and reply to, so cousins you've never met see the same thing Aunt Ruth does. Everyone needs the plan, the address, and a clear way to say how many of them are coming.
There isn't a family-reunion design in the app yet, so you start from the nearest celebration setup and make it yours. What carries over is exactly what a scattered family needs: a shareable page, replies tracked against names, plus-ones and children counted on each reply, and room on the page to tell the family history.
The handful of things a household checks before anyone replies.
One person usually answers for a whole household. When guests confirm against their own name and add the people coming with them, you know which branch has replied and which has gone quiet — and a reminder can reach the silent ones without you chasing each aunt by phone.
If Aunt Ruth is bringing a dish, you need to know who else is; if the food is catered, you need the total before the deadline. Meal notes come back on each reply and children count as their own place, so the tables and the kitchen line up either way.
Stories, old photographs, the branches and how they're related — put them on the page so relatives read them before they arrive. Guest photo uploads let people add their own pictures to the same place, and the history grows as the family does.
Write so the branch two towns away feels as invited as the one next door.
The Vanderberg family, together again — this time at the farmhouse where Grandpa grew up. Saturday 2 August, from 11:00am, all six branches invited.
Please reply for your whole household — partners, children, anyone bringing a dish. Tell us names and numbers so the tables and the food match.
Before the day, read the short history we've gathered here, and add a photo or a story from your branch. By August it should read like the whole family wrote it.
How it works
Open the event in the app or describe the reunion to Jitabi on WhatsApp. There's no family-reunion design, so pick the closest celebration type and rewrite the headline and details as your family's gathering.
Put the day's running order and the address on the page, then open a section for the family story — the branches, old photographs, and whatever relatives should read before they arrive.
Let each household reply together, with partners and children added as their own places and meal notes where the kitchen needs them. Whether it's potluck or catered, the running total is what you plan around.
Send the one link to each household however they reach each other — WhatsApp, email, a printout for the members without phones — and let reminders nudge the branches that answer late.
Questions
Yes, and it's usually how families work. The person answering confirms against their name and adds the partners and children coming with them, so a single reply covers the household and the count stays accurate without every cousin repaying separately.
Each reply can add the little ones coming along, so children show up in the numbers you plan around. Whether it's setting places, ordering meals, or booking the field, the count you reach is real rather than an estimate from adults only.
There's no dedicated family-reunion design yet. You begin from the nearest celebration setup and write your own plan onto it. The shareable page, replies tracked against names, plus-ones and children counted, and photo uploads come along with it.
Ask on the page who's bringing what, and guests add the dish to their reply. Read together, the notes show you the table's covered before the day — and whether six families have all arrived at the same salad.
Yes. Keep the family history on the page and let guests upload their own pictures to the same place. Over the weeks before the reunion, relatives from different branches fill out a history no single aunt could write alone.
Get Started
Set out the plan, collect each household's reply, and count the head for the caterer. Start free, and add room for the family history as it comes together.
