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If your event is a graduation, InviteBird adds a set of games and keepsakes called Graduation Essentials. Each one is built into your invitation and RSVP, and each has its own switch. Everything saves as you go.
A grad party is often a drop-in open house over several hours rather than a seated program, so the suite leans on things guests do on their own phone whenever they arrive — and on the keepsake that comes afterwards.
The suite appears on graduation events. If you don't see it, set your event's occasion to a graduation.
It starts with the level
A preschool graduate and a med-school graduate need different questions. The suite picks one of four levels — Preschool & K, Grade school, High school or College & beyond — from your design's category or title (high school when nothing says), and you can change it in one tap. The level changes the quiz, the advice questions, the capsule and the gift-hint suggestions.
What's in the suite
Who knows the graduate best — the graduate answers a short quiz about themselves on a private link, and guests guess whenever they drop in. Most questions are pick-from-four, and the grad can write their own answer under "Something else", which is shown at the reveal but never scored; only guests are scored, never the grad. For a preschool or grade-school graduate, a parent answers and every question is a tap. You reveal when you like — a grad party isn't a game show. See Who knows them best.
Advice for the next chapter — not a blank line. Guests say how they know the grad and each gets the question that fits: a teacher gets a different one from a neighbor. A high-school or college grad gets "What do you know now that you wish someone had told you at 18?"; a preschool grad gets "What do you hope Leo keeps loving?" Guests can type or record, and people who can't come are asked too. See Keepsake prompts.
The 10-year capsule — guests call where the grad will be in ten years: the city, the work, what they're most likely to have done, one word for the decade and one wild prediction, plus a sealed personal note. When it opens we email it to you to pass on; the grad says what actually happened, and every guess is graded. For a preschool or grade-school graduate the capsule asks what they'll be like at 18 and opens at their high-school graduation — change the date if your grad's timeline is different. See Time capsules.
Prize drawing — a door prize. Every guest who says yes is entered — one entry for their group, or one per person if you prefer. Or make the entries earned: everyone who comes gets one, and leaving a memory, recording a message, filling in the capsule or playing the quiz adds more. Before the day you can run a practice spin that doesn't count; at the party you draw on the big screen. See Earned entries.
Gift hints — what the grad actually needs, shown as a card on the invitation page: the dorm list, a first apartment, a new backpack for the fall.
What starts switched on
When you first open the suite before you send, the games that suit a graduation start switched on: Who knows the graduate best, Advice for the next chapter and the 10-year capsule. The prize drawing and gift hints are one switch away. If you send first, nothing switches on by itself.
What your guests see
- In the RSVP — a few quiz questions on one screen, then the advice question with the capsule beside it.
- On the invitation page — gift hints.
- At the party — the quiz reveal and the draw on the big screen, run from your Event Day screen.
- Afterwards — the capsule, years later, in your inbox to pass on.
Anything you've left off, or haven't set up, never appears.
Common questions
Can I see the graduate's answers before the party? No. You see how many they've answered, never what they said — so you can guess along with everyone else.
What happened to Guess the Future? Its questions were about things nobody can know at the party, so they moved into the 10-year capsule, where they can actually be graded. An event that already collected guesses keeps the old step until the party is over, and the suite says so. The older wishes step and the separate "Earn your entry" switch were folded in the same way: into Advice for the next chapter and the prize drawing's earned entries.
Do I have to turn everything on? No. Each is independent, and a grad party doesn't want a dozen screens in the RSVP. Two or three is plenty.
Do these cost extra? No — they're included on every plan. You're billed by guest count, per Plans and pricing.
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