Try it freely — you need neither an account nor a password. The draft stays in this browser until you are happy and want to create the event for real.
Tell us about the partyA few sentences in your own words is enough.
Pick the experienceThe run-up, a wedding, the screen alone — or something in between.
See it as a guestThe whole evening, exactly as your guests will meet it.
Release it when it feels rightNothing is created and nothing is paid for until then.
Takes a couple of minutes. You can pause and come back.
Personal guest direction for events
Anna & Erik
14days to go
The light part is the tool. The dark part is your party.
Draft — not created yet
How Ouvertyr works
Every guest gets theirown link— it is their whole login, no accounts and no apps. A computer by the projector showsthe screenwith the guests' photos and the evening's scenes, and you control it all fromthe remoteon your phone. The guide below takes you through the setup step by step — everything saves as you go, so you can pause and continue whenever you like.
Your events
A message to every guestChanged time, new to know
Appears immediately in the Shortway of guests who accepted. Guests who allowed notifications also get a push. After RSVP, no text message is sent.
Start a game now
No timeline, no run-up. Pick a game, deal it out, and the guests get their own link on their phone.
Does this look right?
This is what we read out of your description. Correct anything that is wrong — and leave what you have not decided yet.
This is what we assume in the walkthrough
Nothing is left out of the walkthrough — we fill the gaps so you can see the whole flow. These are our guesses, not your decisions. Use one if it is right, or write your own above.
Your party, in order
From the first invitation to the screen on the night. Each step says what it still needs.
Sent to the product team
Ouvertyr has no finished flow for this yet. Your wish has been passed on, and the rest of the plan works in the meantime.
Your setup
This is what we will switch on. Turn something off if you do not want it — everything can be changed later too.
Live through your party
From the first text message to the dance floor. Play forward — and see it from the guest's phone, the party screen and the remote.
REHEARSAL — nothing reaches real guests
Test-run your party
Play the whole party through in a quarter of an hour, together with one other person. Real texts go out — but only to the numbers you list here.
These are the only numbers that can be reached
Act 1 · Set the tone
Tell us about the evening. We build the rest.
Only the name and the date are needed to get going. The rest can be filled in when you know — and changed right up until the invitations go out.
Describe the event in your own wordsAI director
Write it the way you would tell a friend — where you gather, what happens, what should stay secret. We suggest a setup, ask where we are unsure, and you decide.
Suggestions are free while you set up. Once the event is created they never run out.
Shown first when the guest opens their link, before anything else. Write it the way you would tell a friend what the evening is.
Without a time we assume 6 pm. You can change it once you have decided.
Do you know already?
Nothing here is required now. What you fill in follows through to the guests' information in step 4.
It does not have to be you. At a wedding it is usually the toastmaster or a best man — the couple should be spared calls about parking on their wedding day.
Choose how to run it
Pick one or more — we set the rest up. A wedding can perfectly well have secrets to work out in the run-up. Everything can be fine-tuned in advanced mode.
Which theme?
Pick one and we fill in a starting point — the look, games that suit it, two secrets to work out and the practical lines the guests need. Everything can be changed afterwards.
Simpler options
How the event looks
The guests' pages and the screen get this look. The tool you are sitting in stays neutral — the event's colours are content, not interface.
Mixing colours and measuring the contrast …
Off: the guests' photos appear straight away — the liveliest, and right for most events. On: every photo lands in your remote first and reaches the screen when you let it through. Recommended for weddings and corporate events.
Who is coming?
One name per line — add a mobile number after a comma, so you can send the invitations as texts straight from your phone in the last step. Write, hostafter whoever will run the screen.
CSV or a copied spreadsheet. We only read the shape of the columns — names and numbers never leave your browser.
NameW/MPartyMobile
Reminders
A text to those who have not replied, or who said yes but have not added the Shortcut. Nobody gets the same reminder twice.
The secret stylist is switched off for this party.
Your secret stylist
Drawing …
Who sits where
Make the tables, then put a name in every seat. Only guests who have said yes can be seated. Nothing is shown to anyone until you publish it.
Set W/M in The guests and the suggestion alternates: every other along the table, and the opposite across.
Everyone who has said yes then sees their own table and who is next to them — nothing else, and never the whole list.
What the guests get to know
Fill in what is relevant — empty blocks are never shown, and what you wrote in step 1 is already filled in.
Why every block has a date
Not everything arrives at once. Each piece appears for the guest on the day it becomes useful — travel and accommodation in good time, the dress code while there is still time to shop, the seating just before. That is what turns the wait into part of the event instead of an email that is forgotten. Pick the dates yourself, or let us spread them out for you.
No date = visible right away
Games as an add-on
One game a week up to the event. We suggest the ones that suit your choice — the rest are still there if you want to see them.
Photo missions
Everyone buys a garment for someone else, in secret, and brings it wrapped to the party — where it is revealed who chose what. The guests give their size when they reply to the invitation, and you draw the names once the replies are in.
Empty = as soon as you publish the draw
The secrets
How it works
A secret is something about the event that the guests work out instead of being handed —where you are going,
what the theme is, who is coming. You write the question and the real answer. The guest sees only empty boxes, one per letter, and earns boxes by playing and answering questions. Word by word the answer grows.
Every secret has its own release date, spread out up to the event. That turns the invitation into something the guestscome back toinstead of a message that is read once and forgotten.
Nobody misses anything.Every secret also has a fallback release — by the day before the event at the latest, the answer is shown to everyone, however much they have played. Practical information must never depend on being good at games.
Two or three secrets is plenty. More becomes work for you and noise for the guests.
Examples — tap to add one, then fill in the answer yourself:
Questions about the host— optional
Questions about the host — "What was the host's first car?" — are what the guests earn letters from. Those who know the host well get a small head start, and those who do not learn something. Skip it and our ready-made riddle bank is used instead, and the secrets still work.
The countdown— optional
Short notices in the last few days, in your own words. They go out as notifications to those who said yes and have them switched on — never as texts, and never to anyone who declined.
The wish list— optional
Write what you would like as a gift. The guests mark what they are going to buy, so nobody arrives with the same thing.
We never show what has been marked. That is the whole point.
Not a number, not an order, not a hint. You see your list exactly as you wrote it — right up to the party. It is the only way the surprise survives.
An item is anything you want the guests to meet: a question, a guess, a mission, a piece of information. You decide when it appears, who it applies to and whether it gives points. The blocks and secrets above keep working exactly as before — this is for what they do not cover.
The evening's programme
The remote on your phone runs the evening item by item:Now → Start next. Start from our suggestion and make it yours — or skip it and control the screen entirely by hand.
This event has no screen, so scene choices and the fallback scene are hidden — they only drive a display.
The itemWhat the screen shows
Secret missions for your guests — our suggestion
Every guest gets their own mission on their phone, a person to involve and a bonus. Nobody sees anyone else's.
minutes after the party starts
Give the event a face
1–5 pictures of your own — they sit behind the greeting in the invitation and as the resting state on the screen. Optional, but it makes a real difference. The first picture is shown first.
How far we have got
An evening built from what you have told us so far. Look at it the way a guest will — it is a work in progress, not the finished party.
Nothing is created and nothing is paid for. The draft only lives in this browser.
Secrets and games are shown as upcoming — a guest earns them week by week, so nothing is solved on the first visit. Everything you have chosen is there; not all of it is open yet.
Want to change the details? The whole setup — guest list, content and secrets, pictures and the running order — opens once the event is created.
The day after takes care of itself
When the party is over, the guests' links quietly change character — no sending, no work for you.
The album opens on the party day
Every photo the guests shared is theirs to browse and download — on the same link they already have.
The pictures stay for 30 days
Time enough for everyone to save their favourites. After that they are deleted.
Everything is gone after 90 days
The guest list, the answers and the games are erased automatically — as the terms promise.
This is what your event will be like
This is what the guests meet when they open their link.
Create the event for real
Then we set it up and you get a personal link for each guest — plus the screen and the remote for the evening.
Once the event exists, the rest of the setup opens: the guest list, the content and the secrets, the pictures and the running order for the evening. Everything stays editable right up until the invitations go out.
The event is created the moment you pay. You can cancel for a full refund until the first text goes out or guest links are shared — you confirm this in the checkout.
Everything in the draft is carried over — the look, the games, the secrets and the practical information. Nothing needs filling in twice.
Ready to invite?
We check that nothing is missing. Green all the way — then it is just a matter of sending the links.
Save the date
An early text that reserves the date before the invitation is ready. It asks for no RSVP or other details.
Send as texts
The sender is the event's name, not your number. No guest gets two invitations.
Every guest has theirownlink — send the right link to the right person and ask them not to pass it on. The screen in the venue and the remote on your phone are here:
Who else should be able to control it?
The toastmaster, a sister, someone helping on the day. They get their own link to the setup and the remote. Your own link is unaffected, and you can close theirs whenever you like.
Wondering about something?
Ask a question or make a wish. The help explains — and when it can solve it you get a button with the change. Nothing changes until you press it.