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If your event is a retirement, InviteBird adds a set of games and keepsakes called Retirement Essentials. Each one is built into your invitation and RSVP, and each has its own switch. Everything saves as you go.
A retirement party is a workplace event, and that shapes the suite. The guests are colleagues — many of them remote, and some of the most meaningful ones left years ago and won't fly in. Because the invitation reaches all of them, including the people who reply no, that's where the best material comes from.
The suite appears on retirement events. If you don't see it, set your event's occasion to a retirement.
What's in the suite
The memory book — the heart of the suite, and the one to start with. Guests say how they know the retiree — worked closely, were mentored by them, hired them, a client from outside, barely overlapped — and each gets the question that fits. "What did they teach you that you still use?" is a different question from "What quality did you admire most?", and asking the right one is the difference between a memory book and forty copies of "Enjoy your retirement!". The book also offers the bucket-list questions — where should they go first? what should they learn next? Guests can record instead of typing, which matters here: plenty of senior colleagues won't write a paragraph but will happily talk for a minute. Download every answer as one keepsake PDF. See Keepsake prompts.
Career trivia — the retiree answers on a private link: their very first job, how many years they did this work, what was always on their desk, what they won't miss — and a set of either-or picks about the years ahead (the golf course or the garden? a road trip or a cruise?). Guests guess, and only guests are scored. You never see the answers until you reveal, so you get to play too. See Who knows them best.
The one-year capsule — guests guess how the first year goes — the first proper trip, how many months before they take a class, whether they'll un-retire — and seal a personal note. A year on we email the capsule to you to pass on; the retiree says how the year really went, and every guess is graded. See Time capsules.
Prize drawing — a door prize. Every guest who says yes is entered — one entry for their group, or one per person. Or make the entries earned: everyone who comes gets one, and leaving a memory, recording a message or filling in the capsule adds more — real retirement invitations already say "in lieu of gifts, please bring a favorite memory", and this is that. 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.
What starts switched on
When you first open the suite before you send, the games that suit a retirement start switched on: The memory book, Career trivia and the one-year capsule. The prize drawing is one switch away. If you send first, nothing switches on by itself.
What your guests see
- In the RSVP — a few Career trivia questions on one screen, then the memory question with the capsule beside it.
- At the party — the quiz reveal and the draw on the big screen, run from your Event Day screen.
- Afterwards — the capsule, a year later, in your inbox to pass on.
Anything you've left off, or haven't set up, never appears.
The people who can't come
A colleague who replies no doesn't just get a thank-you screen — they get one more, asking for the memory anyway: "You can't be there — but you can still be in the room." For a thirty-five-year career, that's often where the best contributions are. Their answers land in the same book as everyone else's, marked so you know they came from someone who couldn't attend.
Common questions
Can I see the retiree's answers before the party? No. You see how many questions they've answered and nothing else — which is what lets you guess along with the room.
What happened to Would They Rather, Wishes & Advice and the bucket list? They've been folded together. The either-or picks are now part of Career trivia, answered privately by the retiree; the wishes step and the bucket list live in The memory book. An event that already collected answers keeps its older steps until the party is over, and the suite says so — and an older bucket list still downloads as before.
Do I have to turn everything on? No. Each is independent. The memory book alone makes a better keepsake than any of the games.
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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