An online RSVP is a link that asks one question and stores the answer where you can count it. That is the whole idea. Everything else in this guide is about the details that decide whether people actually answer, and whether the number you end up with is the number that shows up.
This is the canonical Lumhe guide to online RSVPs. It covers what to ask on the form, how to set deadlines, how to run RSVPs for a celebration with more than one function, and how to make the whole thing work for a guest who is 78 and reading on a phone with the text size turned up. It also ships the thing most guides promise and skip: 20 complete, copy-paste RSVP request and confirmation messages you can send today.
RSVP stands for the French phrase répondez s'il vous plaît, which means "please respond." An online RSVP moves that request from a printed reply card and a stamped envelope to a link, a form, and a live count that updates the moment someone answers.
Two things follow from the literal meaning, and both matter.
First, an RSVP is a request for a reply, not a request for a yes. A guest who declines has fully complied. Hosts who treat declines as a failure end up writing invitations that make it awkward to say no, which produces silence instead of information.
Second, the request is addressed to a person. "Please respond" only works if a specific human received it and knows they were asked. This is why a link posted to a group chat gets a fraction of the response rate of the same link sent to each guest individually.
| Capability | Paper reply card | Online RSVP |
|---|---|---|
| Time from answer to your knowing it | 3 to 10 days by mail | Instant |
| Cost per guest | Printing, outbound postage, and return postage | Usually free |
| Who has not answered yet | You maintain it by hand | Filtered automatically |
| Changing a detail after sending | Reprint and remail | Edit once, everyone sees it |
| Dietary and accessibility answers | Handwritten, sometimes illegible | Structured, sortable |
| Reminders to non-responders | Phone calls | Targeted to the non-responders only |
| Different answers for different functions | One card, one date | One answer per function |
An online RSVP does not make people reply. It removes the friction and the postage and gives you a segment to chase. The chasing is still work, and the wording of your ask does most of the heavy lifting, which is why the templates below are the most useful part of this guide.
Use an online RSVP for anything where you need a countable number. Use paper for keepsake value. Use a group chat for nothing that involves a headcount.
The group chat deserves a specific warning, because it is now the most common way hosts lose track of a guest list. In a chat, an answer is a message in a scrolling feed. Three people say "in!", one says "should be able to," one reacts with a thumbs up, two say nothing. There is no list at the end of it, so you reconstruct the count by reading upward, and you get it wrong.
| Online RSVP | Paper reply card | Group chat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliable headcount | Yes | Yes, slowly | No |
| Cost | Usually free | Print plus two-way postage | Free |
| Best for | Any event needing a number | Formal weddings, milestone keepsakes | Logistics chatter after the count is done |
| Works for guests without email | Yes, by phone number or printed link | Yes | Only if they use the app |
| Dietary and accessibility capture | Structured fields | Handwritten | Buried in the thread |
| Per-function answers | Yes, on platforms that support functions | One card per function, expensive | No |
| Privacy from other guests | Answers go to you | Answers go to you | Everyone sees everything |
| Reminders | Non-responders only | Manual calls | Nagging the whole group |
Print the invitation if you want the object, then put a short link and a QR code on the reply card instead of a stamped envelope. You keep the keepsake, get a live count, and save the return postage on every invitation. Mixily's guide recommends the same hybrid, and it is good advice from any source.
Formal weddings where the stationery is part of the event. Milestone anniversaries where the invitation goes in an album. Small dinners of six or eight, where a handwritten card is the gesture. Even then, collect the replies digitally: the keepsake is the outbound piece, not the reply card.
Setting up an online RSVP takes about fifteen minutes if you have your guest list and your invitation ready. Here is the order that avoids rework.
The deciding question is not design. It is whether your event is one gathering or several. For a single party on a single date, almost any RSVP tool will do, and you should optimize for how few taps it takes a guest to answer. For a celebration with multiple functions, a mehendi and a sangeet and a ceremony and a reception, or a rehearsal dinner and a wedding and a next-morning brunch, you need per-function RSVP or you will be running four separate events and reconciling four lists by hand.
Second question: what will you upload? Some platforms only accept their own templates, so if you made your invitation in Canva or had a video invitation edited, check that the platform takes it. See how the main RSVP tracking tools compare on both points before you commit, because migrating a guest list halfway through is miserable.
Fill in the name, date, start time, end time, timezone if your guests are spread out, full street address with parking notes, and who is hosting.
The end time is the field hosts skip and guests need most. Nobody can say yes to an unknown quantity of their Saturday. "Dinner at 7" might be two hours or six, and for a guest with a sitter on the clock, the safe answer to an open-ended invitation is no answer at all.
Most hosts have designed something before they start looking for an RSVP tool. Upload it: an image file (JPG or PNG) from Canva or any design tool, a video invitation, a PDF from a stationer, or typed text if you want to keep it simple.
Whatever the format, type the core details as text too: date, time, venue, deadline. A guest copying the address into maps cannot copy it out of a JPG, and a guest using a screen reader cannot hear it at all. More on that in the accessibility section below.
Keep it to five. The next section gives you the exact list and the exact wording, plus the questions to leave off.
Send the invitation to each guest individually. There is a real, repeatable gap between "the invitation is available" and "you personally were invited," and it shows up as your response rate.
On Lumhe, this is the first step rather than the last: find your guests by name, phone number or email inside Lumhe, send a connection request, and then send the invitation to them directly, which means it arrives as a notification addressed to them. Every invitation also generates a shareable link you can send on WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram, email or anywhere else, which is how you reach guests who are not on the platform. For a full walkthrough of the sending side, including channel-by-channel copy, see our guide to sending digital invitations with RSVP tracking.
Send yourself the invitation before you send it to anyone else. Open it on a phone as well as a laptop, tap every link, submit a real RSVP, confirm it appears in your dashboard, then delete it. Check that the address opens in maps and the deadline is the date you meant.
Then leave it alone. Check the count twice a week, not twice a day, until the first reminder date.
Ask five questions. Attendance, headcount, food, access, and a way to reach the guest. Everything else is either a nice-to-have you can collect later or a reason for someone to close the tab.
| Question | Ask it? | Why | Field type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Will you attend? | Always | The entire point | Yes / No buttons |
| How many people, and who? | Always, when plus-ones or families are invited | Names give you place cards and catch the uninvited plus-one early | Number plus name fields |
| Any allergies or dietary needs? | Whenever food is served | One line prevents a real problem | Short text, not a dropdown |
| Any accessibility needs we should know about? | Always | Costs nothing, changes someone's night | Short text, optional |
| Best phone number or email to reach you | Always | This is how you send the parking update at 5 p.m. | Single field |
| Meal choice from a set menu | Only if the caterer requires it | Otherwise it is a decision you have made the guest make | Radio buttons |
| Song request | Optional, at the end | Genuinely fun, zero cost, keep it optional | Short text |
| Which functions will you attend? | Yes, for multi-function celebrations | One answer per function or your counts are guesses | One RSVP per function |
| Arrival time | No | Guests do not know, and answers are not actionable | Skip |
| Hotel and travel plans | No | Belongs on an event page, not a reply form | Skip |
| Mailing address | No | Ask separately, after the event, for thank-yous | Skip |
| Account creation, email verification, password | Never | The most expensive step you can add | Remove |
Every additional field is an opportunity to stop. A guest answering on a phone, one-handed, between other things, will finish a form that asks whether they are coming and what they cannot eat. The same guest facing eleven fields, three of which require looking something up, decides to do it later, and later frequently does not arrive.
If you genuinely need more, collect it in a second pass from the people who already said yes. A follow-up to confirmed guests completes at a much higher rate than the same questions bolted onto the initial ask.
Use plain questions. "Any allergies or dietary needs?" beats "Please indicate any dietary restrictions, allergies, or preferences that our catering team should accommodate." Both collect the same string, and one takes four seconds to read. Mark optional fields as optional: a guest who cannot tell whether the song request is required treats the whole form as long.
If your celebration has more than one function, you need one RSVP per function, each with its own guest list and its own count. This is the single biggest structural gap in most online RSVP advice, which assumes one event on one date.
Real celebrations rarely look like that. A wedding weekend is a welcome dinner, a ceremony and a reception, sometimes a next-morning brunch. A South Asian wedding might run mehendi, sangeet, ceremony and reception across three days. A graduation is a ticketed ceremony with two seats and an open house afterward for forty people.
Consider one guest: your cousin's husband, who works Saturdays until 4 p.m.
On a single-event RSVP, he has three buttons. Yes is wrong, because he cannot be at a 2 p.m. ceremony. No is wrong, because he is definitely coming to the reception. So he picks maybe, or he does not answer at all, and you have one unusable data point covering three separate vendor orders.
Give him one RSVP per function and he answers three times in about eight seconds:
| Function | His answer | What you can now do |
|---|---|---|
| Friday welcome dinner, 7 p.m. | Yes | Add one to the restaurant count |
| Saturday ceremony, 2 p.m. | No | One fewer chair, no printed program |
| Saturday reception, 6 p.m. | Yes | Plate, place card, bar count |
Multiply that by the ten or twelve people on any list with a similar conflict, and the difference is the entire accuracy of your catering order.
With per-function RSVP, your dashboard produces a table like this, live, without you maintaining a spreadsheet:
| Function | Invited | Yes | No | Awaiting | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehendi, Fri 2 p.m. | 40 | 31 | 4 | 5 | Oct 2 |
| Sangeet, Fri 7 p.m. | 120 | 88 | 11 | 21 | Oct 2 |
| Ceremony, Sat 11 a.m. | 150 | 104 | 9 | 37 | Oct 9 |
| Reception, Sat 7 p.m. | 220 | 141 | 18 | 61 | Oct 9 |
Four numbers, four vendors, four separate reminder segments. On a single-event tool you have one number and four guesses.
Lumhe is built around this shape of event, so the flow is short:
Event creation, invitations, per-function RSVP tracking and Moments are free forever on Lumhe, with no per-event or per-guest charge. You can also share the invitation link on WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram or any other platform for guests who are not on Lumhe.
If your event is specifically a wedding, the wedding-specific version of this workflow, including save-the-date sequencing and plus-one handling, is in our complete guide to online RSVPs for weddings. For splitting one master list into per-function lists without double-inviting anyone, see guest list management by function.
Every template below is complete and ready to send. Replace the bracketed parts and nothing else. They are grouped by job: the RSVP line that goes on the invitation, the message that carries the invitation, the confirmations you send back after someone answers, and the microcopy that sits on the form itself.
These are request and confirmation messages. If what you need is the chase, the reminder sequence and last-call scripts are in our guide to getting people to actually RSVP.
Template 1. Casual party
Template 2. Semi-formal dinner
Template 3. Formal wedding
Template 4. Multi-function celebration
Template 5. Family invitation with children
Template 6. Text message with link
Template 7. Email with link
Template 8. Direct in-app invitation note
Template 9. Individual text instead of a group chat post
Template 10. Phone or voice note script for a guest who does not use apps
Template 11. Yes confirmation, casual
Template 12. Yes confirmation, with the details they will need
Template 13. Per-function confirmation, partial attendance
Template 14. Reply to a decline
Template 15. Reply to a maybe
Template 16. Deadline line, three registers
Template 17. Plus-one question, unambiguous
Template 18. Dietary question
Template 19. Accessibility question
Template 20. What guests see after the deadline passes
That is 20 templates: five invitation RSVP lines, five sending messages, five confirmations and five pieces of form microcopy.
Set your guest-facing RSVP deadline 7 to 10 days before your vendor's real cutoff. Those days are the only room you get to chase non-responders, and hosts who put both dates on the same day end up sending the final headcount text on the morning they have to submit the number.
A working deadline names three things: a day of the week, a date, and a reason. Drop any one of them and it reads as a suggestion. "RSVP soon" and "please respond at your earliest convenience" both mean "do this whenever."
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| Vendor cutoff (day 0) | Caterer, venue or rental company needs the final number |
| Day 0 minus 7 to 10 | Your guest-facing RSVP deadline |
| Day 0 minus 4 | Second nudge to whoever is still silent |
| Day 0 minus 2 | Direct ask, by text or phone, to the last few |
| Day 0 | Submit the number, counting non-responders as no |
These windows are the standard planning ranges most invitation guides use, including Mixily's, and they hold up well in practice.
| Event type | Send invitation | RSVP deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Casual gathering among close friends | 2 to 3 weeks ahead | 5 to 7 days before |
| Birthday party, dinner party, BBQ | 3 to 4 weeks ahead | 7 to 10 days before |
| Baby shower, graduation open house | 4 to 6 weeks ahead | 2 weeks before |
| Formal wedding or milestone celebration | 6 to 8 weeks ahead (save-the-date 6 to 8 months) | 3 to 4 weeks before |
| Holiday party or anything in December | 6 weeks ahead, minimum | 2 to 3 weeks before |
| Destination or travel-required event | 3 to 4 months ahead | 6 to 8 weeks before |
Multi-function celebrations should not share one deadline, because the functions do not share one vendor.
The rule: each function's deadline runs off its own supplier's cutoff. A Friday welcome dinner at a restaurant that needs numbers 72 hours out can take RSVPs much later than a Saturday reception with a plated menu and printed place cards.
| Function | Vendor cutoff | Guest-facing deadline | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome dinner, 40 seats | 3 days out | 10 days out | Restaurant can flex a few covers |
| Ceremony, 150 chairs | 10 days out | 3 weeks out | Chair rental and printed programs |
| Reception, plated dinner | 14 days out | 3 weeks out | Per-plate counts and place cards |
| Next-morning brunch | 2 days out | 1 week out | Buffet, easy to scale |
Say the different dates out loud on the invitation, as in Template 4. A guest who sees two dates and no explanation assumes you made a typo and waits for the later one.
Send reminders to non-responders only. This is the rule that matters most, and it is the one most hosts break. A guest who replied on day one and then receives two more "are you coming?" messages concludes that your messages are automated, and next time they will not open the first one either.
The short version of the sequence: nothing for the first quiet week, a warm nudge about four days after the deadline passes, a more direct message with the vendor named about four days after that, and a binary yes-or-no ask by text or phone at 72 hours. Segment shrinks at every stage, and the channel escalates. If both of those hold, five messages feel attentive rather than pushy.
The full timeline, with 24 copy-paste nudge, last-call and day-before scripts, is in our dedicated guide on getting people to RSVP. It is the companion piece to this one, and there is no point duplicating it here.
Two things worth adding in the RSVP-setup context specifically:
Filter by function, not just by status. Most platforms can now filter by Going, Maybe and Haven't responded. Far fewer can filter by response status within one function of one event, which is what you need when the same guest has answered your reception and ignored your ceremony. On Lumhe, each function carries its own guest list and its own response status, so the nudge goes only to the people who owe you an answer for that specific function.
Free tools handle this fine. You do not need to pay for reminder automation. If you are tracking a wedding on a budget, the free options for RSVP tracking cover targeted reminders without a paid tier.
Design your RSVP for the guest with the hardest time using it, and everyone else gets a faster form. This section barely exists in online RSVP guides, and it is where a meaningful slice of your non-responders actually live. The person who never replied is often not rude or disorganized. They opened your link, could not read it or could not work out where to tap, and closed it.
| Barrier | Who it affects | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Image-only invitation | Screen reader users, anyone zooming in on a phone | Type the date, time, venue and deadline as text alongside the image |
| Account or password wall | Everyone, older guests disproportionately | Allow replies with no account |
| Tiny tap targets and thin fonts | Guests over 65, anyone with tremor or low vision | Large buttons, minimum 16px body text, high contrast |
| Email-only invitation | Guests who use a phone but not email | Send by text or phone number as well |
| No non-digital fallback | Guests with no smartphone at all | Offer a phone number and RSVP for them yourself |
| Time-limited or one-use links | Anyone who opens it later on another device | Use a stable link that works whenever they get to it |
An invitation that exists only as a JPG, PNG, PDF or video is a picture as far as assistive technology is concerned. A screen reader announces "image" and stops. A guest with low vision who pinches to zoom loses the layout, and nobody can copy the address into a maps app.
The fix costs one minute. Upload your artwork, then type the same details into the event fields: name, date, start and end time, full address, deadline. Lumhe accepts image, video, PDF and typed-text invitations and keeps event detail fields alongside whatever you upload, so both versions live together. Do this even if you think none of your guests need it, because you do not actually know that.
For the relative who does not use a smartphone, do not build a workaround. Call them, ask, and enter the answer yourself. Template 10 is the script.
Two details make this work. Ask about everyone in their household by name, because "we'll come" from a couple is two seats and you should confirm which two. And mail or hand them a printed copy of the details afterward, since the whole reason they are not using the link is that they want something they can put on the refrigerator.
At a wedding with 150 guests, the group over 70 is typically parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and long-standing family friends. That can easily be 20 to 30 people, which is 15 to 20 percent of your count and often the group you most want in the room. Losing their RSVPs to a login screen is the most avoidable failure in this entire guide.
Compare on four things: whether guests need an account, which invitation formats you can upload, whether the tool supports more than one function inside one event, and what the free tier actually covers. Design comes fifth, because you have probably already designed your invitation.
The table below is built from each platform's publicly published materials as of writing. Prices, caps and features change often, so re-verify anything you are about to rely on before you commit a guest list to it.
| Lumhe | Mixily | Evite | Partiful | Paperless Post | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per-function RSVP inside one event | Yes. Each function has its own date, venue, guest list and RSVP | No. One event, one date, one list | No | No | No |
| Invitation formats you can upload | Image (JPG/PNG), video, PDF or typed text | Event page with your own photo and styling | Template library, with some photo upload | Template-led event page with photo | Template library, design-led |
| Template library provided for you | Not live yet. Coming soon | Event page styling | Yes, extensive | Yes | Yes, its main strength |
| Guests need an account to reply | No | Mixily states guests do not need an account | Generally no | Phone number is used to reply | No |
| Free tier | Free forever: event creation, invitations, per-function RSVP tracking and Moments. No per-event or per-guest charge | Mixily states a free tier with no fees and no ads. Its published pricing lists a free plan capped at 40 RSVPs. Re-verify | Free tier exists with paid upgrades. Re-verify current limits | Free | Free tier plus paid "Coins" for premium designs. Re-verify |
| Native post-event photo timeline | Yes. Moments, a shared timeline that does not expire | No. Mixily's own guide recommends a third-party QR photo tool for this | Limited | Photo album feature | No |
| Cash gifting support | Yes. Digital Lifafa, host adds their own payment ID | No | No | No | No |
| Primary sharing method | In-app people discovery by name, phone or email, plus a shareable link | Email and link | Email and link | Text link | Email and link |
| Paid extras | Optional themed Digital Lifafa envelope designs, $0.49 to $1.99 | Re-verify | Re-verify | Re-verify | Re-verify |
Lumhe is the entry in that table with per-function RSVP and a permanent shared photo timeline, and it is also the entry that does not design your invitation for you. There is no template library live yet, no printed stationery, and no wedding website builder. If what you want is a platform that hands you a designed invitation and you have not made one, a template-led tool will serve you better for that specific job.
What Lumhe is built for is the event shape the others do not model: several functions, different guest lists, one place to track them, and a permanent home for the photos afterward.
For a fuller side-by-side of RSVP tracking specifically, including tools built for large weddings, see the RSVP tracking tools comparison.
Mixily's own online RSVP guide tells readers to pair its RSVPs with a third-party QR-code photo tool. That is a useful, honest disclosure on their part, and it is worth reading as a product statement: the RSVP and the photos live in two separate places, with a separate sign-up. Whether that matters depends on how much you care about the after-event half, which is the subject of the next section.
The RSVP is the start of the guest relationship, not the end of it. Two things happen after every celebration, and most RSVP tools have no answer for either.
Photos scatter by default. Some land in a group chat that scrolls away, some sit in camera rolls nobody exports, some go up as Stories that expire in 24 hours, and the good ones from your aunt's phone never reach you at all.
Set up one shared place before the event, not after. On Lumhe, that is Moments: a shared photo timeline where guests upload and everything collects in one organized place. It is not a group chat and not a Story, so it does not expire and it stays available after the event ends. It is included free.
Two practical notes. Tell guests at the invitation stage, in the same message as the RSVP, because a mention on the invitation is worth ten reminders afterward. And ask two or three people by name to upload. Named requests get uploads; general announcements do not. There is more on this in our guide to sharing event photos with all your guests.
Gifting comes up on the RSVP page more often than hosts expect, because that is the moment a guest is thinking about your event. It also comes up from guests who cannot attend, who frequently still want to send something.
If your occasion involves money gifts, Digital Lifafa handles the cashless version directly between the two of you. You add your payment ID, whether that is Venmo, Zelle, Cash App, PayPal, Wise or a bank transfer. Your guest pays from whichever app they already use and uploads the receipt. Lumhe wraps it in an occasion-themed digital envelope that you open like a real lifafa. Lumhe never touches the money; it is a direct transfer between your guest and you. Themed envelope designs are the only paid extra, at $0.49 to $1.99.
For a graduation, a milestone birthday or a wedding, this solves the "I'm not coming but I want to send something" case cleanly, which no RSVP-only tool addresses.
Your RSVP data is your thank-you list. Keep the yes list, the plus-one names and the contact field you collected, and you already have the addresses and the correct spellings. That is the practical reason to ask for a contact field on the form even when you think you have it somewhere else.
The mistakes below are ordered by how much damage they do, not by how common they are.
| Mistake | What it costs you | The fix |
|---|---|---|
| Requiring an account to reply | Your largest single drop-off | Use a tool where a guest can answer in one tap |
| Posting the link in a group chat instead of sending it to people | Roughly the difference between a count and a guess | Send individually, to each guest |
| No dated deadline | The "I'll do it later" pile | Day of week, date, and a reason |
| RSVP deadline on the same day as your vendor cutoff | No room to chase anyone | Move the guest deadline 7 to 10 days earlier |
| No end time on the invitation | Silence from anyone with a second commitment | Add the end time |
| One RSVP for a multi-function event | Maybes instead of numbers | One RSVP per function |
| Reminding everyone instead of non-responders | Trains guests to ignore you | Filter by response status, per function |
| Eleven form fields | Abandoned forms | Cut to five, collect the rest later from confirmed yeses |
| Image-only invitation with no typed details | Loses screen reader users and anyone copying the address | Type the key details as text too |
| Not testing on a phone | Broken links discovered by guests | Send it to yourself and complete a real RSVP |
| No contact number anywhere | Every question becomes a non-response | One phone number, visible |
| Treating a decline as a problem | Guests avoid answering at all | Make no an easy, gracious answer (Template 14) |
Work down this list in order. It is the whole job.
Before you send
Sending
After sending
After the event
The best free RSVP tool is the one that matches your event's shape. For a single party on a single date, most free tools work and you should pick on how few taps a guest needs to reply. For a celebration with several functions, choose a tool with per-function RSVP, because otherwise you are running multiple events and reconciling the lists yourself. Mixily states its free tier has no fees and no ads; on Lumhe, event creation, invitations, per-function RSVP tracking and Moments are free forever with no per-event or per-guest charge.
Create the event on a free platform, upload the invitation you already made, add your questions, and send it to each guest individually rather than posting one link to a group. Guests tap yes or no, and your count updates live. The parts that cost nothing but change your response rate most are a dated deadline, an end time, and no account requirement.
RSVP is short for the French répondez s'il vous plaît, meaning "please respond." Yes, you should reply if you are not coming. A no is a complete and polite RSVP, and it is far more useful to your host than silence, since it lets them finalize a headcount without chasing you.
They should not, and on most modern tools they do not. An account wall, an email verification step or a password reset between the invitation and the answer is the most expensive friction you can add, and it disproportionately loses older guests. If a platform requires guests to register before they can reply, that alone is a reason to pick a different one.
Set the guest-facing RSVP deadline 7 to 10 days before your vendor's real cutoff, so you have a window to chase non-responders. In practical terms that is usually 7 to 10 days before a casual party, 2 weeks before a shower or open house, and 3 to 4 weeks before a formal wedding. For a multi-function celebration, give each function its own deadline based on that function's supplier.
Yes, on a platform that supports functions inside one event. On Lumhe you add each function separately with its own date, time, venue and guest list, and different guests can be invited to different functions, each with its own RSVP and its own live count. On single-event tools you would need to create a separate event per function and merge the lists by hand.
It should, and you should verify it rather than assume it. Most guests will open your invitation on a phone, so send yourself the invitation, open it on a phone, complete a real RSVP and then delete it. Check the tap targets, the text size and whether the address opens in a maps app.
Call them, ask, and enter their answer yourself, then mail or hand them a printed copy of the details. Template 10 above is the script. Ask about each person in their household by name, because "we'll come" from a couple is two seats and you want to confirm which two.
Five or fewer: attendance, headcount with names, dietary needs, accessibility needs, and a contact field. If you need more, ask the extra questions in a second message to the guests who already said yes, where completion rates are much higher than on the initial form.
Planning a celebration with more than one function? Upload the invitation you already made to Lumhe, whether that is an image, a video, a PDF or typed text, then find and connect with your guests by name, phone number or email inside Lumhe and send it to them directly. Add each function separately, so the ceremony and the reception have their own guest lists and their own RSVPs, and you always know the headcount for each one. After the event, everyone's photos collect in Moments, a shared timeline that does not expire. Guests who want to send money instead of a gift can do it through Digital Lifafa. You add your payment ID, they pay from whichever app they already use and upload the receipt, and it arrives wrapped in a digital envelope you open. Lumhe never touches the money. You can also share your invitation link on WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram or any other platform. Explore Lumhe.
| Keyword | Type | Placement |
|---|---|---|
| online rsvp | Primary | H1, intro, "What an online RSVP actually is", "How to set up an online RSVP in six steps" |
| what does rsvp mean | Secondary | H2 "What an online RSVP actually is (and what RSVP means)"; FAQ "What does RSVP mean" |
| how to create an online rsvp | Secondary | H2 "How to set up an online RSVP in six steps"; "Your online RSVP setup checklist" |
| free rsvp website | Secondary | H2 "Choosing a platform: what to actually compare"; FAQ "What is the best free RSVP tool?" |
| best free rsvp tool | Secondary | FAQ "What is the best free RSVP tool?"; platform comparison table |
| how to collect rsvps online for free | Secondary | FAQ "How do you collect RSVPs online for free?"; Step 5 of the setup section |
| online vs paper rsvp | Secondary | H2 "Online RSVP vs paper RSVP vs group chat: what to use when" |
| rsvp deadline | Secondary | H2 "RSVP deadlines: how to set them, and how to stagger them per function"; FAQ on deadlines |
| rsvp templates | Secondary | H2 "20 copy-paste RSVP request and confirmation templates" |
| per-function rsvp | Secondary | H2 "Per-function RSVP: different guest lists for different functions" |
| rsvp accessibility | Secondary | H2 "Accessibility and older guests: making the RSVP work for everyone" |
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Most party planning guides give you a vibe and a pep talk. This one gives you the numbers: how many weeks out to do each task, what a party costs per guest at 1