Can I start planning before I pick a design?

Many hosts know the date long before they know the look. The planner does not make you wait.

Start with the planner

1. 1Open your dashboard and choose Start with the planner. The same choice is offered in the header's Planner menu and at the first step of Create.
2. 2Answer What are you planning? with the occasion.
3. 3Give it a name under What should we call it? (at least three letters).
4. 4Set When, or choose Not fixed yet, and your time zone.
5. 5Press Start planning.

Nimanto makes an ordinary draft invitation for the planner to live in. Nobody is contacted and nothing is published. The planner's set-up opens straight away, and it never asks the occasion again.

What you see meanwhile

Until you pick a design, the invitation is shown as a planner, not as an invitation:

• On My Events its tile is a coloured planner page with the chips Planner and No design yet, and a Planners filter appears when you have one.
• Its Overview header reads "Planner · No invitation design yet", and there is no Publish button and no studio: a design comes first.
• Each planner wears its own colour, so several are easy to tell apart.

Pick a design when you are ready

1. 1Open the invitation and press Pick a design, offered at the top of its Overview, in the To do list and at the foot of the rail.
2. 2The catalogue opens on your invitation's occasion. Choose a design.
3. 3Confirm "Use {design} for your invitation?" with Use this design.

Your planner, guests and schedule stay as they are, and the words you typed carry over. From then on the invitation is shown with its cover, and you can publish it as usual. See Choose an occasion and design.