Why Collecting Your RSVPs Through a Wedding Website is the Best Way!

Your wedding is an incredibly important event, in fact, it is likely to be one of the most important days of your life! Not only is it a celebration of your love story but it's also a wonderful opportunity to bring your wedding party and invited guests together for some fun and festivities. Of course it can take a lot of time, research, energy, and let’s be honest, money, to create your beautiful wedding day. Therefore, whilst you will want to invite all of your favourite people to this milestone occasion, it’s still far from being an open-door event!

Wedding Guests

Your final wedding guest number will end up determining many important elements in relation to your big day. From the wedding venue capacity, through to your seating chart, and even the number of glasses of fizz to serve during your wedding reception. So crucially, one of the most important things to find out is…who’s coming and who will be on the guest list.

Wedding Invitation

Traditionally all wedding invites would have been paper invitations sent by post, and many still are. These hand-crafted wedding stationery designs available through independent wedding businesses are incredibly beautiful, but just imagine one hundred (or more) wedding RSVPs landing through your letterbox and your task is to go through and file each one individually – oh the admin! Digital wedding invitations are a much easier and cheaper option. It’s true that you don’t get the same tactile experience as a textured, letterpress invite, but maybe you need your budget to work hard for you and making your invitations digital is a great way to do this. Evites are also much less wasteful. In fact there’s no waste at all, making this option the most eco-friendly wedding RSVP out there.

Your Wedding Website

You can include as much or as little information as you like on your wedding website and digital wedding invitation. First things first though, go ahead and create your own custom url - a brilliant feature available through Say I do that will make sure yours is the best wedding website out there! To make your wedding website truly unique we would also recommend adding some fun details such as wedding photos and dress codes but don't forget to include the important wedding tasks too such as the wedding date, whether you're having a rehearsal dinner and perhaps some information on local attractions for guests that are coming from out of town for a wedding weekend. Having a custom domain and wedding RSVP website is a great way to share your gift registry too. You can do this via a link or you could even pop a QR code on your invitations which can take your guests directly to the correct website and your carefully curated wedding gift registry.

Online RSVPs

Through a personalised wedding website service such as Say I do you are able to send both save the dates and digital wedding invitations but they also automatically organise and track your online RSVPs within the guest list manager too. Evites and RSVP forms for weddings are also highly customisable. They can be designed to match your wedding website, you are free to personalise them, and you can even choose from a number of stylish website templates to match your overall wedding theme. It’s not hard to see why collecting your RSVPs through wedding websites is the best way. Firstly, Say I do is an incredibly user-friendly platform. As well as saving you a huge amount of time all of your guest information is kept in one safe place. And let's be honest, we all spend a lot more time online these days so having your wedding invitation and RSVP details accessible to your guests anywhere in the world is super helpful. If you don't have a wedding planner to help you, utilising a wedding website builder with the capability to send save the dates and wedding invitations, as well as tracking the all important wedding RSVPs will undoubtedly save you oodles of time (and money!). Forget contacting guests individually or having to leave off some of the important wedding information such as post wedding events or the dress code - you'll have ample space on Say I do's best wedding rsvp website for literally everything! Another RSVP feature which will come in handy is the opportunity to ask your guests specific questions or share important details about the wedding via the online RSVP form. The most obvious and vital piece of information you'll need to gather before the main event is your guests' meal choices and whether there are any dietary requirements to be aware of. For a bit of fun and to ramp up the excitement before your big day you could also ask for any song requests to get the party started or some marriage advice for the weeks leading up to the big day!

Collecting RSVPs

When you select one of the best wedding websites as your digital wedding planning hub you are able to keep track of when your guests RSVP. Ideally your wedding website builder should have an RSVP form so that your wedding party can fill in their online RSVPs with ease. You shouldn't need to be making multiple phone calls chasing people up because you can also send RSVP reminders if you have a few RSVP cards outstanding. Direct guests back to your wedding website via your custom url and continue collecting wedding RSVPs. We’re all for helping couples save time and money during their wedding planning journey, and sending digital wedding invitations through a wedding RSVP website really is the best way to do this. Find out more by visiting Say I do.