A wedding RSVP form is the one form most people build once in their lives, and the mistakes are always the same: one reply for a household of four, a meal choice with no name attached, and a deadline nobody can find. The RSVP online form fixes the first two by asking for each guest by name and the meal beside the name, and the third by putting the date in the confirmation and the reminder. This page walks the wedding RSVP form in the order a guest meets it, shows where an invitation code saves a hundred emails, and reads the form against the free contact form design sheet so the field count is a decision rather than an accident. It is written for the couple building their own site, which is who searches for it.
One reply per guest, not per household
The form asks how many people are replying and then shows a name, a yes or no and a meal choice for each, which is the one place conditional logic on a wedding form is not optional. A household of four is four rows on the list, each with its own meal, and the caterer's count is the total of the rows. The alternative, one reply with a count of four and one meal box, is the form that produces the phone calls in the last week.
The RSVP online form with an invitation code
A code on the invitation, typed into the first field, brings up the guests already named on that invitation so the guest ticks rather than types. It also stops the plus-one who was not invited from adding themselves, which is the question every couple asks. The code is a lookup, not a password, and the form works without it for the guest who lost the card. Kept to the code, the yes or no and the meal per guest, the form is 27 seconds on the sheet for a single guest.
The deadline, the reminder and the count
The confirmation repeats the date, the venue and the RSVP deadline; a single reminder goes to the guests with no reply a fortnight before it. On a wedding site with a few hundred visitors the sheet's entries a month is the guest list filling in, and the finish rate is the figure to watch, because a guest who started and stopped is a guest to text. Each guest is an entry with a status in Shortcodo Pro, so the count for the venue is a number on a list and the dietary notes are beside the names.
Questions people ask about wedding rsvp form
Should the wedding RSVP form have a song request?
As one optional box behind the yes, if you want it. It is the field guests enjoy, and optional means it costs no finish rate.
How do I stop uninvited plus-ones?
With an invitation code that brings up the names on that invitation, and a guest count capped at those names.
Can guests change their answer?
Yes: the code brings their entry back and the change updates the list, with the old answer kept on the entry's history.