For whoever ends up holding the speaker
A request section on the invitation gathers tracks while guests are still replying, so the playlist comes from the people who will actually dance, and the answers arrive with the yeses.
Every party discovers it has one person controlling the music, and that person has two jobs: play enough of what people like, and stop feeling guilty about what they themselves like. Both get easier when the titles arrive before the event does. Guests know what they want to dance to while they are still excited about being invited, and by the time plates are cleared there is already a list of what the room asked for.
A song request section on the invitation page handles this quietly. Guests add an artist and a title as part of the reply flow, and the requests collect in the same place the confirmations do: no separate form to send people to, no chat thread to re-read on the night.
Turn the section on when the page goes out. Guests who are warm will answer while they are still confirming, so requests trickle in early and then stack up across the last fortnight.
Leave it open until the run-up, then edit the page and take it down; the deadline is yours. Nothing guests already sent disappears from your list when you do.
Each request sits beside the guest who sent it, the same way a meal note does. When the room sings along to something, you will know exactly who to credit for it.
Ask well, and guests answer well:
The section suits any event where dancing happens or nearly does: a 40th, a wedding after dinner, a graduation party in a back garden, a birthday where Marta and Tom have already promised the dance floor will fill. It works best when guests treat it as part of the invitation, which happens naturally when it lives on the same page as the reply button.
There is a second effect worth noticing. A guest who has added a song has committed slightly: they spent thirty seconds on the party, and thirty seconds makes an evening feel like a plan rather than a possibility. The request is the first thing about the day they get to look forward to.
How it works
Create a birthday, wedding or graduation page in the app, or describe the party to Jitabi on WhatsApp and ask for the request section to be switched on while it is drafting.
One line at the top of the section does the steering: artist and title, one per guest, guilty pleasures welcome. The wording decides whether you get a shortlist or a flood.
Replies and requests land together on your guest list, arriving in the same quiet trickle as the yeses, so nothing needs chasing separately.
Edit the page when you have enough, then work through what came in. Two requests for the same track is a signal; the odd lonely classic is worth a chance anyway.
Questions
Yes. Edit the page and publish, and the section goes when you want it to. Requests already sent stay with their replies, so the deadline is about fresh submissions rather than lost ones. A week out is a comfortable point to start building the list.
Requests come to you with the reply, not to a public board. You see who asked for what and choose what gets played, which keeps the list honest and spares everyone a debate about the saxophone.
As many as your wording allows; the field sits beside the reply and takes what they type. If you want one per guest, say so plainly, because guests follow an explicit request far more readily than an implied one.
It is the same machinery, and weddings use it well, from the first dance down to the songs only your own families know. Dedicated wedding pages carry the section inside the full guest site; other occasions get it on whichever page you build.
It usually means the section went unnoticed, so a line in the WhatsApp message pointing at it fixes most of that. If requests still stay quiet, you own the music regardless: few parties were saved by a full request list, and many were saved by a host who knew the room.
Get Started
Add the request section while replies are still coming in, and by the last week you have the titles to build the evening around. Start free, and upgrade only as your guest list grows.
