Bridal showers
A live photo wall, photo challenges, shower games of its own (trivia about the bride, Would she rather, Who’s the baby?), and a video advice guestbook that guests open by scanning a code on the table. No app to download, no shared-album invites to chase, nothing for your aunt to install. And the same event carries you through the bachelorette, the rehearsal dinner, and the wedding itself.
Here is the quiet truth about wedding-day software: the wedding is the worst possible day to try anything for the first time. The bridal shower is the opposite. Lower stakes, a smaller guest list, and the exact same behaviors you want on the big day: guests scanning a QR code, photos landing on a shared wall, your grandmother finding the camera button with weeks to spare instead of minutes.
By the time the wedding arrives, half your guests have already used it once. You are not trusting an unfamiliar platform on the one day with no retakes. You already watched it work at the shower, and so did they.
Seven things to run at the shower. Six run on Partake out of the box, one needs nothing but a jar and the great-aunts.
Give one job to whoever is sitting next to the bride: photograph every gift as it is opened, with the card or the giver in the frame, and put the giver’s name in the caption. When the shower ends, the photo wall doubles as the thank-you-note list. No more matching a mystery gravy boat to a name two weeks later, and every guest at the shower watches the gifts land on the wall in real time.
The live photo wall ships in every Partake package.
Paper advice cards get read once and boxed forever. Set a prompt like "What is your best marriage advice?" or "Tell the bride something she does not know about her mother" and let guests record a 30-second video answer from their own phone. The answers land in the couple’s private memory portal next to the question, and the mother-of-the-bride ones are the keepsake nobody saw coming.
The video guestbook is part of Partake Experience and is open at every celebration, showers included.
A shower guest list is usually two families and three friend groups who have never met. Photo challenges like "Get a photo with the person who has known the bride the longest" or "Snap a photo with someone you just met" give strangers a reason to talk that is not the weather. Every completed challenge lands on the live wall highlighted in gold, so the host can watch the room actually mixing.
Photo Challenges ship in every Partake package.
Write ten questions about the bride: her coffee order, the first movie they watched together, who said "I love you" first. Guests answer on their phones from their seats, then the host reveals the real answer one question at a time while the room argues. The gap between the guesses and the truth is the game, and nobody hands out pencils.
Shower trivia lives on the Bridal Shower tab of every Partake Experience event, kept separate from the wedding trivia.
Cake or steak? Sleep in or watch the sunrise? Go out dancing or stay in with a movie? The bride picks her answers ahead of time, guests guess on their phones, and the reveal tells everyone how well they actually know her. Ten questions come ready to play, and every one can be swapped for your own.
Would she rather is built into the Bridal Shower tab, with the same live reveal as trivia.
Collect baby photos of both partners and load them in before the shower. Guests see one photo at a time and tap a name. It works for any couple, because guests choose between the two names rather than "bride or groom", and the reveal after each photo is reliably the loudest moment of the afternoon.
Up to ten photos per shower, uploaded from the dashboard and shown to guests through short-lived links.
Guests write a date idea on a card and drop it in a jar for the couple’s first year of marriage. The upgrade: have each guest also photograph their card for the shared wall, so the couple keeps a browsable version after the physical jar runs out. The best ideas always come from the great-aunts.
Your Partake event goes live the day you pay and works at every celebration between now and the last dance. Same QR code at the shower, the bachelorette, the rehearsal dinner, and the wedding. The shower also has its own tab on the dashboard, with its own trivia, Would she rather, Who’s the baby?, and guestbook prompts, and the guest page switches to the wedding games on the wedding day. Every photo lands in the same gallery, and when it spans more than one day, it groups itself by celebration so the shower and the wedding each keep their own chapter. Everything is saved in your memory portal for 12 months after the wedding date.
One honest limit, so you are not surprised at the shower: photos at every celebration, videos unlock on your wedding day. Guest videos on the shared wall are reserved for the wedding itself. The video guestbook is the deliberate exception. Recorded advice and messages to the couple are open from the first celebration, because a shower full of advice videos is half the reason to start early.
One package, $199, one payment covering every celebration through the wedding. Build your event free, then pay once when you go live for the first party on the calendar. The first 25 couples to book lock in Founding Couple pricing at $99, all-in.