Bridal showers
A live photo wall, ice-breaker games, 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.
Five things to run at the shower. Three run on Partake out of the box, two need nothing but a phone and a willing host.
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. Gamified prompts like "Find the person who has known the bride the longest" or "Find someone who was at the proposal" give strangers a reason to talk that is not the weather. Guests log who they met, and the host gets a quiet map of the room actually mixing.
Social challenges ship in every Partake package.
Before the shower, record the partner answering ten questions on video: her coffee order, the first movie they watched together, who said "I love you" first. At the shower, the bride answers live, then the room watches the recording. The gap between the two answers is the game. Works with nothing more than a phone and a host willing to press play.
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. 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.
Two packages, $149 and $299, 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 or $199, all-in.