What Is a Wedding RSVP Website?
A wedding RSVP website is an invitation page plus a response form: attending, meals, plus-ones. Guests should not need a login. Hosts see the list in a dashboard.
Paper RSVP cards still work for a local list with good mail. They fail when the list is split across countries, when meals have real cost, and when plus-ones mutate in group chats. A website is not more romantic. It is more exportable.
The guest should not create an account to say they are coming. That is a WedPOV rule. Hosts authenticate because they own the event. Guests open /{slug}, read the facts, submit, leave. If a product makes Grandma join a wedding OS to decline, it is the wrong weight.
On WedPOV the invitation website can stay free. Collecting RSVPs and the guest list in-product unlocks with Pro at $49, together with the live camera and gallery. That is an honest packaging choice: we do not pretend RSVP is a separate SKU with its own maze. Exact entitlements live in billing code.
An RSVP website is also not a planner operating system. Vendors, seating charts, budgets, and timelines are other products. If you need them, buy them. Keep WedPOV for the page, the replies you paid to collect, and the camera — or pick one suite and leave. /compare exists so that sentence is testable.
Why couples search this
Digital RSVP wins when the list is spread out and catering minimums lock on real numbers, not thumbs-up emojis.
How it works in practice
One public slug
/{slug} is site plus RSVP. Draft means guests cannot open site, camera, or gallery yet.
Free vs paid
Website free. RSVP collection with Pro ($49) plus camera. Platinum ($79) adds shot count, hosting length, partner slot.
Meals and plus-ones
Collect them on the same submit so the export is the list you cook for.
Export
Hosts manage and export from the dashboard as replies arrive. The chat thread is not the record.
Common mistakes
Spreadsheet plus Instagram DM
You will miss the person who was traveling. The page is the inbox.
Password-protecting out of fear
Draft already hides unpublished work. Extra guest logins recreate the problem we refuse.
Building a 12-page microsite
Guests need date, place, dress, RSVP. Novels belong in a linked PDF.
Not the same as
Paper card
Lovely. Still pair with a site if anyone is abroad.
The Knot / Zola-style suites
Registries and planning. Different center of gravity. Use them if that is the job.
Email-only RSVP
Unstructured. Meals get lost. Plus-ones appear as surprises.
Checklist
- Publish only when the slug is the one you will print.
- State plus-one policy in copy, not only in the form.
- Chase missing names from the dashboard, not memory.
- Do not promise features we do not ship.
- Send the same URL in every thread so people stop asking for ‘the other link’.
Related terms
FAQ
Do guests create accounts to RSVP?
No. Hosts authenticate. Guests submit and leave.
Can I export the list?
Yes. Hosts manage and export responses from the dashboard as they come in.
Is RSVP free?
The invitation website is free. In-product RSVP collection unlocks with Pro at $49 with the camera.
Can I change a guest’s reply?
Hosts can manage the list in the dashboard as the date gets close.
Does the RSVP site include a camera?
Same wedding object, different URL. Camera is /e/{slug} after you share that QR.
Put the definition on a real wedding page.
Free website. Live guest camera from $49 Pro. Guests never make an account.