Every wedding you build starts from the same set of block types. Set them up once for your studio instead of reconfiguring the same handful of choices on every new timeline.
The predefined block library
The block palette, the same one covered in the timeline editor, draws from a fixed library of eleven block types: Getting Ready, First Look, Portraits, Wedding Party Photos, Family Photos, Ceremony, Cocktail Hour, Reception, Party Bus, Travel, and Buffer / Break. That list is shared across every wedding in your studio. You can't add a brand-new type to it, but you can reshape how each one behaves through your studio's own defaults.
Saving your own reusable defaults
Open Blocks in the main navigation. Each of the eleven types has a row with four settings:
- A name. Rename "Getting Ready" to whatever your studio calls it, or leave it as-is.
- A color.
- A default duration.
- Whether the type is client-visible by default.
None of this touches a specific wedding. The settings are saved once at the studio level and apply going forward.
Set duration defaults if you consistently run certain block types long or short. Leave one at "None" and a block of that type dropped onto the timeline won't get an end time set for you; it shows at roughly thirty minutes until you type an end time in yourself or drag its edge in the 24-hour view. Backwards-build from the ceremony handles it differently: it writes an actual thirty-minute duration for any type without a saved default when it generates a day around your ceremony time. Either way, setting your own default changes what both produce, so it's worth doing even if you mostly build days by dragging blocks one at a time.
Using them on a new wedding
You don't apply these defaults manually per wedding; they're what a block starts as. Drag a block type onto any wedding's timeline, from any point going forward, and the new block is created with your studio's saved name, color, duration, and client-visibility already filled in, rather than Daymarked's out-of-the-box defaults. Change your studio's color for Portraits next month, and every Portraits block you create afterward picks up the new color automatically, on this wedding and the next one.
Nothing about a block is locked once it's placed, though. A block created from your defaults is a normal block from that point on: rename it, recolor it, move it, or toggle its client visibility for that one instance without touching the studio-wide setting.