Your wedding story, told by the people who are part of it.

Yes, and a little more. Like a video guest book, your guests leave messages with their own voices and faces. Wend also starts before the wedding with personal invitations to the people you most want to hear from, keeps going afterward with the cards your guests take home, and keeps it all together with your own story and the photos from the day.

Wend Wedding is everything printed for your wedding: the keepsake frame, the stands, the signs, and the cards, with your page and your list. Guests use their own phones. Wend Hosted adds three tablet stations, rented for your wedding, that arrive ready to use, so guests can record on them without scanning a code or using their own phone. Before the wedding you use them to interview the people closest to you. On the day they start as stations, and then friends you choose carry them from guest to guest. They go back to us afterward. It also adds a video frame that plays everything you collected, which you keep.

No, and they go well together. Your videographer films the day: the ceremony, the speeches, the first dance. Wend keeps the people: what your family, your friends, and the ones who could not come wanted to say to you, in their own words.

We can't promise a number, and we would not trust anyone who did. What we have seen so far is that few guests stop at a sign on their own, and that more record when someone asks them. So start with the people you most want to hear from: put them on your list, or ask them yourselves. On the day, have a friend walk around inviting people, and have it announced once. The signs and the card guests take home give everyone else an easy chance.

No. They scan with the camera they already use and tap the link. They tap one button and start talking. Afterward they can add their name and email if they would like their own copy.

Yes. About thirty days after the wedding, we put what was collected into one video, in the order it was recorded: your own story first, then the messages, each with the name of the person who left it, and the photos. Nothing is cut or rearranged. You can take out anything you do not want before it is made, and we show you what would be in it first. Add your own photos from the day to your page and they are in it too.

The stations are rentals. Each rented station is a tablet with a screen of about nine inches, light enough to hold at arm's length, with a camera on the front and one on the back so a friend can record someone else. Its stand and charger are in the box. They arrive charged and set up for your wedding, and they come back to us afterward. Charge them the night before. A guest taps one button and records, and can add their name afterward. There are three things they can do: say congratulations, answer interview questions one at a time, or take a photo. On the day they start as stations where people wait. Once the reception gets going, friends you choose pick them up and take them to the guests, so nobody has to find one. The stations need Wi-Fi or a phone hotspot. After the wedding, put them in the prepaid box and drop it off within five business days. A station that does not come back is charged at its replacement cost.

Choose a person for each station you want carried, and tell them before the day. Someone outgoing who knows a good number of your guests and will enjoy it: a cousin, a sibling, a friend who is not giving a speech. The job is small. Walk up, ask "Want to say congratulations?", record the message, and go on to the next person. A short card with each station tells them what to do. A station that is nobody's job tends to stay on the table. The stations are rented, so the same person sees theirs back into the box at the end of the night.

The handful of people whose stories you most want to keep: your parents, your grandparents, a brother or sister, the friends who have known you longest, and each other. The rented stations arrive two weeks before the wedding and ask one question at a time, such as what you were like growing up, or when they knew the two of you were serious.

With your list. Add them one at a time, or bring in your guest list as a file, then tick the people you want us to invite. Each one gets a personal email in your names, with a question of your own if you like, and one reminder if they have not recorded. Your list shows who has opened their invitation and who has recorded. For anyone without email, copy their own link and text it to them. Nobody is contacted until you tick them.

In two parts. Your starter kit ships within two business days of booking. Your stands, signs, and cards ship two weeks before your wedding, after we check your names, table count, and address with you about five weeks ahead. If your wedding is only a few weeks away, Wend Wedding ships complete within two business days.

A screen about ten inches across, for a shelf or a table, that plays the video of everything you collected. It arrives with your video already on it, and there is no app or subscription needed to watch it. It is a separate thing from the keepsake frame in your kit, which holds a printed card with your names and your code. The video frame is made about thirty days after the wedding, so that messages from the cards your guests took home are on it. It is included with Wend Hosted and optional with Wend Wedding at $99. More video frames, for parents or grandparents, are $99 each.

Yes. Many wedding registries let you add a gift from any website. Paste the link for the package you want: wend.marketfoundry.io/wend-wedding.html or wend.marketfoundry.io/wend-hosted.html. If the registry asks how you would like to receive it, choose the money toward it, so that you book it yourselves with your names and date. Add it early. Wend starts before the wedding, so it suits a shower registry well.

Yes. Choose "A gift for a couple" when you reserve, and enter their names and wedding date. Add their email and we write to them with their own page and a private link to run it, or tell them yourself and pass the link on. Use the Presented by line for something like "A gift from Mom and Dad". Ship it to them or to you.

Your starter kit has what you use before the wedding: the keepsake frame with Our Story, a sheet of take-home cards to try, and a Start Here card. The stands and signs are printed for your final table count, with your names and date as you confirm them, so we send those two weeks before. Nothing is printed for a number that changes, and nothing sits in a closet getting bent or lost.

Tell us roughly. A stand for every guest table is included, and we print for your final count when we check in before the wedding. If the number moves by a few tables, there is nothing more to pay.

Moving your date costs nothing. Reply to your confirmation and we will change it, any time before the kit is printed. With Wend Hosted, the new date needs a set of stations to be open. If you cancel within 14 days of booking, you get a full refund. After that, and until the kit is printed about five weeks before the wedding, we refund all but $49, which covers your page and anything already sent to you. Once the kit is printed it has been made for you, and it cannot be refunded.

Yes. At checkout you can choose Klarna, Affirm or Afterpay and spread the cost. They decide whether to approve it and on what terms. Your page opens the day you book, however you pay.

Your package includes a year from the day you book, or until 90 days after your wedding, whichever is later, to keep your story growing in your archive: recording your own story, adding your photos, and filling in the pages of your book. Everything already recorded stays available to watch after that, and your guests can still add theirs from the cards they take home.

No. Your page is set up when you book, and every code is already printed for your wedding. Record a hello to yourselves the day the starter kit arrives and you'll know it works before the day.

You do. Messages appear as your guests record them. You can remove any you do not want.