diff --git a/craft/src/components/forms/ContactForm.toHtml.test.ts b/craft/src/components/forms/ContactForm.toHtml.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36e48f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/craft/src/components/forms/ContactForm.toHtml.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import { describe, test, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { ContactForm } from './ContactForm';
+
+const toHtml = (ContactForm as any).toHtml;
+
+describe('ContactForm.toHtml relay wiring', () => {
+  test('with recipientEmail: emits marker, placeholder action, honeypot', () => {
+    const { html } = toHtml({ recipientEmail: 'a@b.com', thankYouUrl: '/thx', fields: [] }, '');
+    expect(html).toMatch(/<!--WHP-FORM id="F[0-9a-z]+" recipient="a@b.com" thankyou="\/thx"-->/);
+    expect(html).toMatch(/action="__WHP_FORM_ACTION__F[0-9a-z]+__"/);
+    expect(html).toContain('method="POST"');
+    expect(html).toContain('name="_gotcha"');
+    // marker id and action id match
+    const mid = html.match(/id="(F[0-9a-z]+)"/)![1];
+    expect(html).toContain(`__WHP_FORM_ACTION__${mid}__`);
+  });
+
+  test('without recipientEmail: no marker, falls back to formAction', () => {
+    const { html } = toHtml({ formAction: '/legacy', fields: [] }, '');
+    expect(html).not.toContain('WHP-FORM');
+    expect(html).toContain('action="/legacy"');
+    expect(html).not.toContain('_gotcha');
+    // Backward-compat: ensure non-relay output is byte-identical (no extra blank lines from honeypot)
+    expect(html).not.toMatch(/<form[^>]*>\n\s*\n/);
+  });
+
+  test('without recipientEmail + real fields: byte-clean legacy output (realistic case)', () => {
+    // The empty-fields case is NOT byte-identical to the old code (the old
+    // template emitted a stray whitespace line when fields was empty; the new
+    // ternary drops it). Real forms always have fields, so pin THAT scenario:
+    // no marker, no honeypot, and no whitespace-only line between <form> and
+    // the first field.
+    const fields = [{ type: 'text', label: 'Name', name: 'name', placeholder: 'Your name', required: true }];
+    const { html } = toHtml({ formAction: '/legacy', fields }, '');
+    expect(html).not.toContain('WHP-FORM');
+    expect(html).not.toContain('_gotcha');
+    expect(html).toContain('action="/legacy"');
+    expect(html).not.toMatch(/<form[^>]*>\n\s*\n/);
+    // First field renders directly after the form tag (no stray blank line).
+    expect(html).toMatch(/<form[^>]*>\n\s*<div/);
+    expect(html).toContain('Name');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/craft/src/components/forms/ContactForm.tsx b/craft/src/components/forms/ContactForm.tsx
index a813e01..889de8b 100644
--- a/craft/src/components/forms/ContactForm.tsx
+++ b/craft/src/components/forms/ContactForm.tsx
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ interface ContactFormProps {
   labelColor?: string;
   inputBg?: string;
   inputBorder?: string;
+  recipientEmail?: string;
+  thankYouUrl?: string;
 }
 
 const defaultFields: ContactFormField[] = [
@@ -187,6 +189,23 @@ const ContactFormSettings: React.FC = () => {
         />
       </div>
 
+      {/* Relay recipient */}
+      <div>
+        <label style={{ fontSize: 11, color: '#a1a1aa', display: 'block', marginBottom: 6 }}>Send submissions to (email)</label>
+        <input type="email" value={props.recipientEmail || ''}
+          onChange={(e) => setProp((p: ContactFormProps) => { p.recipientEmail = e.target.value; })}
+          placeholder="you@example.com" style={{ ...inputStyle, padding: '4px 8px', fontSize: 12 }} />
+        <p style={{ fontSize: 10, color: '#71717a', margin: '4px 0 0' }}>
+          Delivered via the site's contact-form relay. Requires the relay to be enabled on this server.
+        </p>
+      </div>
+      <div>
+        <label style={{ fontSize: 11, color: '#a1a1aa', display: 'block', marginBottom: 6 }}>Thank-you page URL (optional)</label>
+        <input type="text" value={props.thankYouUrl || ''}
+          onChange={(e) => setProp((p: ContactFormProps) => { p.thankYouUrl = e.target.value; })}
+          placeholder="/thank-you (blank = hosted page)" style={{ ...inputStyle, padding: '4px 8px', fontSize: 12 }} />
+      </div>
+
       {/* Success Message */}
       <div>
         <label style={{ fontSize: 11, color: '#a1a1aa', display: 'block', marginBottom: 6 }}>Success Message</label>
@@ -358,6 +377,8 @@ ContactForm.craft = {
     labelColor: '#374151',
     inputBg: '#ffffff',
     inputBorder: '#d1d5db',
+    recipientEmail: '',
+    thankYouUrl: '',
   },
   rules: {
     canDrag: () => true,
@@ -414,10 +435,19 @@ ContactForm.craft = {
     alignSelf: 'flex-start',
   });
 
+  const useRelay = !!props.recipientEmail;
+  const fid = 'F' + Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 8);
+  const actionAttr = useRelay ? `__WHP_FORM_ACTION__${fid}__` : esc(props.formAction || '#');
+  const honeypot = useRelay
+    ? `<input type="text" name="_gotcha" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off" style="position:absolute;left:-9999px" aria-hidden="true">`
+    : '';
+  const marker = useRelay
+    ? `<!--WHP-FORM id="${fid}" recipient="${esc(props.recipientEmail)}" thankyou="${esc(props.thankYouUrl || '')}"-->`
+    : '';
+
   return {
-    html: `<form action="${esc(props.formAction || '#')}" method="POST"${formStyle ? ` style="${formStyle}"` : ''}>
-  ${fieldsHtml}
-  <button type="submit"${btnStyle ? ` style="${btnStyle}"` : ''}>${esc(props.submitText || 'Send Message')}</button>
+    html: `${marker}<form action="${actionAttr}" method="POST"${formStyle ? ` style="${formStyle}"` : ''}>
+${honeypot ? `  ${honeypot}\n` : ''}${fieldsHtml ? `  ${fieldsHtml}\n` : ''}  <button type="submit"${btnStyle ? ` style="${btnStyle}"` : ''}>${esc(props.submitText || 'Send Message')}</button>
 </form>`,
   };
 };