Invitations

Guest list

Your guest list is an Excel file with one guest per row. Here is exactly how to set it out so every invitation reaches the right person.

You can also type guests in by hand on the Guests step. This guide is for importing a spreadsheet.

Save it as an .xlsx file. CSV and old .xls files can’t be read, and only the first sheet is used.

The columns

Put these headers in the first row. The order doesn’t matter, and capital letters don’t either, but the spelling does: E-Mail won’t be recognised.

Column	Required?	What it’s for
email	Email or phone	Where the invitation is emailed.
phone	Email or phone	For sending by phone. Start with + and the country code, or pick a default country when you upload.
name	Recommended	The greeting on the invitation. Left blank, the guest is called “Guest”.
role	Yes, if your invitation has roles	Which sections, fields and dress colours this guest gets. One role or several.
gender	Optional	For wording or sections that depend on gender.

Any other column is kept with the guest as an extra detail. It doesn’t appear on the invitation.

Every guest needs an email or a phone number. A row with neither can’t be sent, so it’s left out.

Roles

Roles are the groups you set up on the Roles step, such as Bridesmaids or Groom family men. Each role decides which sections of the invitation a guest sees and which dress colours they’re asked to wear.

If your invitation has roles, every guest needs at least one. You can’t continue until each row names a role you created.

Spell each role the way you named it on the Roles step. Capital letters don’t matter, but a role you didn’t create stops that row.
A guest can have several roles. Put them all in the one role cell, separated by any of these: ;,| For example Groom family men; Groom family women.
A household invited as two roles gets both. They see every section either role sees, and both sets of dress colours.
Put the main role first. The first role sets the invitation’s colours when roles are themed differently.
Dress colours aren’t a column. Set a palette for each role on the Roles step, and every guest with that role gets it.
An uploaded design has no roles. If you uploaded your own picture as the invitation, leave the role column empty or remove it.

A good example

email	phone	name	role	gender
[email protected]	+9607771234	Amira Saleem	Bridesmaids	female
[email protected]	+9607775678	Yusuf Ali	Groomsmen	male
	+9607779012	Ali and family	Groom family men; Groom family women
[email protected]		Hon. Ibrahim	VIP; Groom family men	male

Common mistakes

Saving as CSV: save as .xlsx instead.
Merged cells: the whole file is turned away. Unmerge them and keep one guest per row.
Header spelled differently: use email, phone, name, role and gender exactly.
No email and no phone: the row is left out. A completely empty row is simply skipped.
A mistyped email: it’s ignored. If the row has no phone either, the row is left out.
Phone numbers without a country code: pick a default country on the upload page, or start the number with +.
The same guest twice: a repeated email or phone number is dropped, and the first row is kept.
A missing role: when your invitation has roles, a row without one can’t be saved.
A role that doesn’t exist: check the spelling against the Roles step, or add the role there first.
A comma or semicolon inside a role name: it splits the role in two. Rename the role on the Roles step, e.g. Groom family (men).
Values in the wrong column: keep names, emails and numbers in their own columns.

Gender values

Gender accepts these, in any capitals. Blank, or anything else, counts as unspecified.

male

female

neutral

unspecified