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Your family shouldn't have to start over every time. Grove gives the person doing the work real tools - and gives the family somewhere to actually be.
days until the reunion
Used by families, class reunions, military units, church groups, and Greek chapters.
Sound familiar
The group chat for updates nobody reads. A spreadsheet for RSVPs nobody filled out. Venmo requests pending since March. Your notes app with the venue name you're not sure is still available. Email for the three people who don't check the group chat.
And your own memory for everything else - the nut allergy, the person who needs a hotel, what went wrong last time that you swore you'd fix this time.
Every family has someone who carries all of this. It's a lot to carry alone.
who's bringing the potato salad again?
reunion_budget_v3_FINAL.xlsx
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Venmo request
$75 reunion deposit
Pending since March
Notes app
venue ideas, catering, ask Patricia about...
The real problem
The logistics are hard. But the real problem is what happens to people when the communication breaks down. The confusion. The dismissal. The feeling of being shut out of something that's supposed to be yours.
What it feels like right now
- Someone asks where the money is going. The answer never really comes.
- The person who planned it last time quietly stopped responding.
- Three group chats. Three versions of what's happening.
- The same question asked six times because it's buried in 340 unread messages.
- People feeling dismissed for asking reasonable things.
- The family historian passed away. Everything she knew went with her.
What Grove changes
✓The budget is visible. What it costs, what it covers, what's been paid.
✓Questions get answered once, publicly, where everyone can see them.
✓One link. One source of truth. Everyone included.
✓The person who planned it last year left notes. The next person starts there.
✓What the family built doesn't disappear after the weekend.
✓The family historian's recipes, stories, and photos are in the archive - for everyone, forever.
Grove is where your family organizes itself.
RSVPs, payments, the schedule, the task list, the potluck board, the budget, lodging, a health score that tells you what's slipping. Everything the organizer needs, without opening a second app.
When someone asks about the budget or the plan, the question becomes a visible thread with a real answer - not a message buried in a group chat. Decisions get recorded. Announcements stay pinned. Nothing important disappears.
After every reunion, Grove assembles a Capsule - who was there, the photos, the moments that mattered. The Memory Vault holds recipes, stories, and documents going back decades. The record doesn't require anyone to maintain it. It just grows.
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12
RSVPs
$840
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28
tasks
Planning phase · 28% complete
For the person doing the work
The dashboard shows you the three things that actually need attention right now. Not a list of 47 items. The health score pulls from RSVPs, payments, tasks, lodging, and communications - and links you directly to whatever's off.
When you create a reunion, Grove seeds your task list with 35 tasks organized by phase. You're not starting from scratch. You're crossing things off.
When someone in the family has a question about the budget or the schedule, they can ask it where everyone can see the answer. Not in a private message you'll repeat eleven times. Once, publicly, done.
And when it's all over, Grove generates a briefing for whoever runs it next year. Every family has had the person who did this for twenty years hand it off to someone who had to figure it all out again. Grove ends that.
For everyone else
Everyone gets a personal link. They tap it, confirm they're coming, add whoever's joining them, and pay. All on their phone in about four minutes. No app to download. No account to create.
The payment happens right then, not two weeks later when they meant to get around to it. Your roster updates. Your budget reflects it. You don't have to reconcile anything.
Need a deposit now with the rest due before the event? That's an option. Some people will still want to pay by Zelle or Cash App. Those get tracked in the same place.
Wilmer Family Reunion
Will you be there?
Drop your PDF or image into Grove. When someone shares the link in iMessage, WhatsApp, or any group chat, the preview shows the flier, the reunion name, and the RSVP link. No more emailing attachments. No more “can you resend the flier?”
Wilmer Family Reunion 2026
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Between reunions
A family that only talks in the weeks before a reunion isn't really a community. It's a recurring event thread. Grove gives your family a private space that stays open between events - organized around what actually matters: what's been decided, what still needs an answer, what's coming up, and what the family wants to hold onto.
This is the backbone of the whole thing. The planning is easier because the family is already connected. The second reunion is easier because the community stayed warm. The history compounds because nobody had to start over.
When someone asks about the budget or the banquet plan, the question becomes a visible thread - not a message that disappears. Decisions get recorded where the whole family can find them. The answer exists once, permanently, for anyone who needs it.
An always-on lounge where family can drop in and say hello. A planning room for the committee. A virtual attendance room for whoever can't be there in person.
Photos and stories sorted by decade. Your grandmother's recipe next to the photo from 1987. Not an album - a record. It grows after every reunion without anyone having to maintain it.
Before you arrive
When you RSVP, you can add a photo - a recent one, a throwback, or both. The organizer approves it and it goes up on the reunion page so the family knows your face before the weekend starts.
For people meeting a whole branch for the first time, or seeing cousins they haven't seen in fifteen years, that changes the first five minutes of the reunion.
The photos don't disappear after the weekend. They go into the family archive, filed by year. The one you upload for 2026 becomes the “before” photo for 2028.
Marcus
Patricia
DeShawn
Angela
Ray
Linda
James
Then
Now
Grove knows when your family members' birthdays are. On the day, it posts to the family feed and sends a note to the people who care. You don't have to remember. It just happens.
Can't make it in person? Someone at the reunion can go live from their phone and you watch from wherever you are - the opening ceremony, the cookout, the awards night. The recording saves automatically.
Some families rotate which branch hosts. Grove tracks the sequence, notifies the next branch two years out, and carries the outgoing host's notes forward so nobody starts from scratch.
Committee Calls
Schedule a video call right inside Grove. Your committee joins from a link - no separate app, no “can everyone download Zoom.” The AI takes notes while you talk, pulls out action items, and posts a recap to the people who couldn't make it. The next meeting starts with context instead of “where were we?”
Agenda
Marcus
Chicago branch
Patricia
Atlanta branch
Denise
Houston branch
Roy
D.C. branch
Grove adjusts its terminology and defaults when you set up your group type. A family reunion works differently than a military unit reunion. Grove knows that.
When it wraps, Grove puts together a Capsule: who was there, the photos, the ceremony moments, the shoutouts. It goes out to everyone who attended.
Next year's organizer opens Grove and the history is already there. They don't have to ask around. They don't have to guess.
Wilmer Family Reunion 2026
47 attended · 312 photos · 6 moments · Chicago, IL
Year two
Most tools for this are disposable. You use them once and rebuild from scratch next time.
With Grove, the second reunion starts where the first one ended. The roster is already there. The branches are defined. The photos are in the vault. The branch that hosted last time left notes - what the venue cost, what they'd do differently, what the next branch needs to know first. The person running it next year isn't starting from scratch. They're picking up where you left off.
That's not a feature. That's continuity. And it compounds. The third reunion starts better than the second. The fourth better than the third.
Every family has had a reunion that happened once and then never again because the person who ran it burned out and nobody knew where to start. Grove is why that stops.
“The first time we used it, I spent maybe half the time I usually would chasing people down.”
“By year two, everyone just knew how it worked. Nobody asked where to find anything.”
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