A digital wedding guestbook, built into your invitation
A digital wedding guestbook lets guests leave their wishes right on your invitation link — a written message, a voice recording or a short video — with no app, no account and no rented device on a table. Occavia includes one in every invitation, alongside the RSVP and the photo album.
Guests record from the phone they already have, wherever they are: a grandparent who cannot travel can leave a wish from home. Every wish is private to the two of you, and you keep the voices and faces afterwards, not just signatures.
Create your invitationWhat a digital guestbook is
A paper guestbook collects handwriting at one table for one evening. A digital guestbook collects the way people actually sound and look when they wish you well, and it does so from the moment the invitation goes out. On Occavia the guestbook lives inside the invitation: once a guest has replied to the RSVP, the thank-you card offers a Leave a wish button. They write, or press record, and the wish goes straight to your dashboard.
Nothing is shown to other guests. There is no public wall of wishes and no setting that could open one by mistake, which is exactly why guests write what they really feel rather than what they would say in front of a crowd. It comes with the wedding invitation and the birthday invitation; a Save the Date, which collects no replies, has no guestbook.
How it works
Guests reply to the invitation
The guestbook opens from the RSVP thank-you card, so a guest who has answered on their phone finds the Leave a wish button right there. Returning to the invitation on the same phone brings it back.
They choose how to leave it
A written message of up to a thousand characters, a voice recording of up to ninety seconds, or a video of up to forty-five seconds filmed with a live, mirrored self-view. A name is optional. Recording stops by itself at the limit, and a guest can listen back, re-record or remove it before sending.
The wish goes straight to you
Wishes arrive in the guestbook section of your dashboard, newest first, with the guest's name where they gave one. Nobody else can read or hear them.
You keep every voice and face
Play voice wishes in place, open videos in a viewer, delete anything you would rather not keep. The words stay with your event; recordings follow the same six-month window as the guest photos, with a reminder before.
What guests see
After replying, a guest sees a card that thanks them, offers the date for their calendar and the link to share photos when they said yes, and — yes or no — a Leave a wish button. The guestbook opens in place — a text box, a Record voice button and a Record video button. For video the phone's front camera opens with a live preview, so they see themselves as they speak; for voice a timer counts up to the limit. When they stop, they can play it back, record again or send.
The labels and buttons follow the guest's chosen language on a multilingual invitation, and it all works in any modern phone browser with no download. Guests never see other guests' wishes: sending is the whole of their side.
What you see
The guestbook section of your dashboard lists every wish, newest first. Written wishes show in full; voice wishes have an in-place player; video wishes open in a viewer with full controls. Each entry carries the guest's name if they gave one and the time it arrived. A two-step confirmation lets you delete a wish you do not want to keep, and the file is removed from storage as well. Co-hosts you add can read the guestbook too.
Two days after the wedding, Occavia sends you a note with the numbers from your day — replies, photos, wishes — and a reminder that the voice and video wishes are waiting, because almost nobody gets to listen to them on the night itself.
Key capabilities
Written, voice or video
Guests pick what feels natural: a paragraph, a voice note or a short clip with a live self-view. Each wish is one clear message from one person, not a feed.
Private to the two of you
No wish is ever shown to other guests, and there is no switch that could change that. Guests write for you, not for the room.
Before, on the day and after
The guestbook is open for as long as your reply form is: from the first invitation sent until your reply-by date, or without limit if you set none. Reopen it any time by clearing the date.
No rented phone, no app
Audio guestbook services hand you a device for one evening. Here the guestbook is part of the invitation everyone already has, on their own phone.
One link does everything
The same invitation link carries the RSVP, the photo album and the guestbook, so guests never hunt for a second page and you never manage a second service.
Yours to keep
Written wishes stay with your event. Voice and video recordings are stored with your guest photos and follow the same six-month window, with an email reminder before anything is removed.
Privacy, names and moderation
A wish needs no account and no app; a name is optional, and the name a guest types is remembered on their own phone only, so they need not type it twice. Written wishes need nothing more than the invitation link; a recording is attached through the same photo link your invitation carries, so a wish cannot be pushed to your event from anywhere else. There is no automatic filter: you read or hear everything, and delete whatever you choose. Pausing photo uploads in your dashboard also pauses new recordings, while written wishes keep arriving. And because nothing is public, there is nothing to moderate for an audience — only for yourselves.
Timing, deadlines and what is kept
The guestbook appears on the RSVP thank-you card, so it is available from the day you share the invitation. It closes together with the reply form at your reply-by date — set none and it stays open; clear the date later and both reopen within seconds. A guest who replied earlier can come back on the same phone and leave a wish at any time while the form is open. Written wishes are kept with your event. Voice and video recordings are stored with your guest photos and follow the same six-month window after the event date, with an email reminder before anything is removed.
In their words
Stories worth remembering.
Real moments. Beautiful experiences.
The guestbook filled up while I was busy talking to people. I read all of it the next morning.
Frequently asked questions
Do guests need to download an app or create an account?
No. The guestbook opens on the invitation link in any phone browser. Guests reply to the invitation, tap Leave a wish and write or record — nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
Can other guests read the wishes?
No. Wishes go to your dashboard only; nothing is published on the invitation or the photo wall, and there is no setting that could make them public. Guests write for the two of you.
How long can a voice or video wish be?
A voice wish up to ninety seconds and a video wish up to forty-five seconds — a heartfelt message, not a speech. Written wishes take up to a thousand characters. Recording stops by itself at the limit, and guests can re-record before sending.
Can guests leave a wish after the wedding?
Yes, as long as your reply form is open: with no reply-by date it stays open indefinitely; with a date, the guestbook closes with the form and reopens when you clear the date in your dashboard.
Where do the recordings go, and how long are they kept?
To the guestbook in your dashboard, where you play them in place. Written wishes stay with your event; recordings are stored with your guest photos and kept for six months after your event date, with an email reminder before.
How is this different from renting an audio guestbook phone?
A rental gives you one device, at one table, for one evening. This guestbook is on every guest's own phone from the day you send the invitation, adds video and written messages to voice, and is included with the invitation rather than hired.
Does it work in my guests' languages?
Yes. On a multilingual invitation the guestbook's labels and buttons follow the guest's chosen language — fully in nine languages, with a few English labels in French, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese — and the wishes themselves can be in any language at all.