Most comparisons of Evite alternatives for weddings price the wrong thing. They price one invitation, sent once, to one guest list. A wedding is a welcome party, a rehearsal dinner, a ceremony, a reception and a farewell brunch, with different names invited to each and a different headcount owed to a different vendor.
This guide compares eight platforms on that basis: whether each function carries its own guest list and its own RSVP count, what invitation formats each one accepts from you, and what happens to your guests' photos afterward. Those three columns are missing from every other roundup in this category, including the ones that name multi-event RSVP as a buying criterion and then decline to say which platforms have it.
Before you spend anything: every third-party price below is that platform's published pricing, drawn from public pricing pages and secondary coverage. None of it was live-verified for this draft, and several figures are published inconsistently across sources. Re-check each on the vendor's own page before you buy. The table of contradictory figures below names the ones to watch.
Couples leave Evite for a wedding for three reasons, and only one is the ads. The ads are what people notice; the pricing structure is what grows the bill.
Evite's free tier shows third-party banner ads to your guests. Your guest opens your ceremony details and sees a promotion for something unrelated. For a birthday party that is a shrug. For a wedding, most couples treat it as disqualifying.
This is the part that costs money. Evite's ad-free Premium is not a subscription. It is priced per event, by how many guests that event has.
| Evite ad-free tier (published) | Guest cap | Published price per event |
|---|---|---|
| Silver | up to 15 | $17.99 |
| Gold | up to 40 | $36.99 |
| Platinum | up to 100 | $68.99 |
| Diamond | up to 750 | $99.99 |
| Evite Pro (annual) | up to 2,500 per event | $249.99 per year |
A note on pricing in this table. Lumhe's figures are from Lumhe's own current plan documentation. Third-party prices are each platform's published pricing at the time of writing and should be re-verified before you commit a budget, because several of them are promotional, per-event, or quoted inconsistently across the industry's own comparison content.
Published pricing, per Evite's pricing page and secondary coverage. Re-verify before purchase.
Read that with a wedding weekend in mind. Every function you invite people to separately is its own event at its own tier: a rehearsal dinner for 30 is one purchase, a ceremony for 117 another. The advertised $99.99 buys one function.
The tone complaint is real and the least important. The harder problem is the reverse of design choice: if you already have an invitation, from a stationer, a cousin who designs, or your own hour in Canva, template-first platforms give you little room to use it. That constraint shapes half of this comparison.
Here is the full field, scored on what decides a wedding rather than a party. The last three columns are the ones this category does not publish.
| Platform | Free tier (published) | Paid entry (published) | Ads on free tier | Per-function RSVP: separate guest list and headcount per function | Invitation formats accepted | Photos after the event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lumhe | Free forever: event creation, invitations, per-function RSVP tracking and Moments | No per-event or per-guest charge. Optional paid extra: themed Digital Lifafa envelope designs, $0.49-$1.99 | No ads | Yes, native. Sub-events inside one event, each with its own date, time, venue, guest list and RSVP | Image (JPG/PNG), video, PDF or typed text. Template library coming soon | Moments: permanent shared timeline, every guest uploads |
| Mixily | 50 invites, 40 RSVPs, 2 active events, 200 emails/week | Lite $19/month; Pro $29/month | No ads on any plan (Mixily states) | Partial. Each function is a separate event with its own link. Mixily's own guide tells readers to confirm true multi-event RSVP tracking | Template-based, plus a host photo on the event page | Host photo on the event page. No guest photo collection published |
| Joy (Withjoy) | Free, no RSVP cap | Free | No ads | Published via the wedding-website schedule. Confirm whether each function can carry a different guest list | Template-based, inside a wedding website | Wedding-website photo page. Guest upload depends on setup |
| Paperless Post | Free "Flyers" | Coins from $12 for 25 coins | No ads | Each function is a separate card and a separate coin spend | Template-based; own-image upload on some card types | None published |
| Greenvelope | Free to design only, not to send | Roughly $0.99–$1.18 per recipient per mailing | No ads | Each function is a separate mailing, billed separately | Template-based | None published |
| Punchbowl | No free plan. 7-day trial, card required | $3.99/month with ads still showing; ad-free Platinum $7.99–$15.99/month | Ads persist on lower paid tiers | One event per invitation | Template-based, including licensed character designs | None published |
| RSVPify | Free tier exists; limits vary by plan | Roughly $29–$49 basic paid, as published by Mixily. Verify on RSVPify | No ads published | Multi-event RSVP with guest-list segmentation is published as a core feature. Verify the current tier | Form and event-page builder | None published |
| Zola | Free wedding website | Print invitations priced per printed piece | No ads | Website RSVP can cover multiple events, but the digital invitation product is save-the-dates only | Template-based; full invitations are print only | Wedding-website photo page |
Every cell above is published pricing or product behavior, not a live-verified figure. Confirm on the vendor's site before committing a guest list.
Lumhe is built around the shape of a wedding weekend rather than a single send. You upload the invitation you already have as an image, a video, a PDF or typed text, then add each function as a sub-event inside the same event, each with its own date, time and venue. Different guests get invited to different functions, and RSVPs come back per function in real time, so the rehearsal dinner count and the reception count are two separate live numbers.
Sharing works through Lumhe's people network first: find guests inside Lumhe by name, phone number or email, send a connection request and invite them directly, and that circle carries into your next event. Every invitation also generates a shareable link for WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram or anywhere else.
Honest limits: no template library yet, it is coming soon, so you need an invitation you already made. No printed stationery. No wedding website builder.
Mixily is the cleanest of the party-first platforms and is ad-free on every published plan, more than several paid competitors manage. Published free tier: 50 invites and 40 RSVPs per event, 2 active events, 200 emails per week. Paid plans are month-to-month: Lite $19 for 5 active events and 100 invites and RSVPs each, Pro $29 for 10 active events and 250 each, Plus $79 for unlimited events.
Read those active-event caps against a wedding weekend. Five functions need five active events, putting a five-function wedding on Lite at minimum, and Lite's 100-RSVP cap puts a 117-guest ceremony on Pro. That works, and $29 for a month is fair. What it buys is five separate events with five separate links, not one invitation with five RSVP columns. Mixily's own wedding guide is straight about the gap: it tells readers that true separate multi-event RSVP tracking varies by platform and to confirm the feature specifically.
Joy is free with no RSVP cap, the only platform here covering a 250-guest list at zero cost. The invitation sits inside a full wedding website with schedule, registry and travel pages. The published tradeoffs are a smaller design library and repeated reports of email deliverability problems, including invitations arriving from a generic sender address or landing in spam. Some setups also prompt guests to create an account to RSVP. Test with five people on five providers before trusting it with 117.
Paperless Post has the strongest design catalog here, and is where a multi-function wedding gets expensive quietly, because you pay per recipient per card in coins. Premium cards start around 2 coins per recipient, and a fully dressed card with liner, backdrop and stamp runs around 6. Coin packs run from 25 coins for $12 up to 1,000 coins, and that top pack, which sets your best per-coin rate, is where sources disagree.
Greenvelope gives guests an envelope-opening experience no other digital platform matches, and charges accordingly: roughly $0.99 to $1.18 per recipient, per mailing. A mailing is a send, not an event, so a save-the-date, an invitation and a reminder to the same 117 people is three charges. Its annual unlimited plan is the most inconsistently reported price here. Verify it directly.
Punchbowl no longer publishes a free plan. Access starts with a 7-day trial requiring a card, then a subscription published between $3.99 and $15.99 per month. The detail that matters for a wedding: ads persist on the lower paid tiers. Only the top tiers are ad-free, published at $7.99 to $15.99 per month, roughly $95.88 to $191.88 annualized, and the cheapest tier caps at 50 guests.
RSVPify is the most logistics-minded platform here and publishes multi-event RSVP with guest-list segmentation as a core capability, the feature this guide is about. Confirm which tier carries it now, because that decides whether RSVPify is the cheapest real per-function option or a mid-priced one. The tone is functional rather than romantic.
Zola belongs here only to save you an afternoon. Zola's digital invitation product is save-the-dates, and full invitations there are print. The free wedding website and its RSVP tools are useful and can cover multiple events, so plenty of couples run a Zola site alongside a separate invitation platform. Just do not plan to send the invitation from it.
A per-function RSVP means each function has its own guest list and its own live headcount. That is different from a custom RSVP question, which is what most platforms give you.
| Function | Typical timing | Who is invited | Example headcount | Why it needs its own count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome party | Thursday or Friday evening | Out-of-town guests plus the wedding party | 60 | Bar tab and venue minimum |
| Rehearsal dinner | Night before | Wedding party and immediate family | 30 | Restaurant books to an exact number |
| Ceremony | Saturday afternoon | The full list | 117 | Seating and program count |
| Reception | Saturday evening | Full list, sometimes plus evening-only guests | 117 | Catering, meal choice, table plan |
| Farewell brunch | Sunday morning | Whoever is still in town | 45 | Hardest number in the weekend to predict |
Guest counts are illustrative. The 117 figure is the US average wedding guest count published by The Knot.
Five functions, five lists, five vendors each wanting a firm number on a different date.
Three different things get sold under the same phrase, and only the third is useful.
If any answer is no, you are back to a spreadsheet, whatever the marketing page says.
Most couples already have an invitation before they pick a platform, and most platforms here assume you do not. That mismatch is the second reason couples switch.
If you designed your invitation in Canva, Illustrator or Photoshop, what you have is a JPG or PNG. Template-first platforms want you to rebuild it in their editor, and the rebuild is never the same: fonts substitute, spacing shifts, the illustration your friend drew gets cropped to their frame. Lumhe takes the image as-is and builds the event details and functions around it.
Video invitations are common now, particularly for South Asian, Nigerian and Persian weddings, where an animated invite with music is closer to standard than novelty. No platform in the table above publishes support for a video file as the invitation itself. The usual workaround is uploading to YouTube and linking from a template, so your guests leave the invitation to watch the invitation. Lumhe accepts the video file directly.
Stationers deliver PDFs. If you commissioned a suite and want the digital version to match the printed one, a PDF upload keeps the typography intact. Lumhe accepts the PDF; template-first platforms generally do not, or flatten it to a lower-quality image.
The honest number for a wedding weekend is not the price of one send. Using the five functions above, a 117-guest weekend is 60 + 30 + 117 + 117 + 45 recipient-sends: 369 invitations.
| Platform | Published basis | One send to one 117-guest list | All five functions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joy (Withjoy) | Free, no RSVP cap | $0 | $0 |
| Punchbowl (ad-free Platinum) | $7.99–$15.99/month subscription | $8–$16 for one month | $16–$32 across two months, same subscription |
| Mixily Pro | $29/month, 10 active events, 250 invites and RSVPs each | $29 | $29 for one month, as five separate events |
| RSVPify (basic paid) | Roughly $29–$49, as published by Mixily | $29–$49 | Verify: depends which tier carries multi-event RSVP |
| Paperless Post | 2–6 coins per recipient at the best published coin rate | $33 basic to $98 fully dressed | $103 basic to $310 fully dressed |
| Evite Premium (ad-free) | Per event, by guest tier | $99.99 | About $375 ($68.99 + $36.99 + $99.99 + $99.99 + $68.99) |
| Greenvelope | $0.99–$1.18 per recipient per mailing | $116–$138 | $365–$435, or the annual plan if you can confirm its price |
| Zola | Digital product is save-the-dates only | Not available | Not available |
| Lumhe | One event, five functions, one invitation, one guest circle | No separate send to buy per function | $0. Invitations, per-function RSVP tracking and Moments are free forever |
All competitor figures are published pricing, applied to the five-function scenario above. Re-verify each before you buy.
A five-function weekend for 117 guests ranges from $0 to about $435. Two things fall out of that.
Per-mailing and per-event pricing is what hurts, not the headline price. Evite's ad-free tier looks mid-priced at $99.99 and lands near the top at $375 once each function is its own event. Greenvelope looks premium at one mailing and roughly triples at five.
A monthly subscription with a high active-event cap is the cheapest way to buy five separate events, a real point for Mixily Pro at $29. What $29 does not buy is structure: you still hold five events, five links and five guest lists, and you still reconcile them yourself.
These figures need a check against the vendor's own pricing page before anyone relies on them.
| Figure | Versions in circulation | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Paperless Post, 1,000-coin pack | $115 in some published sources, $140 in others | Sets your best per-coin rate, so it moves every coin total above |
| Greenvelope annual unlimited plan | $125/year, $225/year for up to 150 guests, and $125–$375 by guest tier all appear in published coverage | Decides whether the annual plan beats per-mailing pricing for five functions |
| Punchbowl ad-free annual cost | About $49/year in one published roundup, versus $95.88–$191.88/year for ad-free Platinum in more detailed coverage | A roughly fourfold difference in the only tier that removes ads |
| Evite guest tiers | Tier caps and prices are published per event and shift with promotions | Every function is priced separately, so one tier change moves the five-function total |
| RSVPify paid tiers | Only a secondhand $29–$49 range was available for this comparison | Determines whether RSVPify is the cheapest real per-function option |
A large share of US weddings run across several days, the segment the standard roundup ignores. If yours is one, per-function RSVP stops being a feature and becomes the requirement.
A South Asian wedding in the US commonly runs four to six functions across a long weekend, with genuinely different guest lists.
| Function | Who typically attends | Why the list differs |
|---|---|---|
| Mehndi | Close family and friends, often women-centered by tradition | Smaller, home or small-venue scale |
| Haldi | Immediate family | Smallest list of the weekend |
| Sangeet | Extended family and friends, with performances | Often the largest evening |
| Baraat and ceremony | The full list | Timing matters more than count |
| Reception | Full list plus colleagues and community | Frequently the biggest single count |
Five or six functions on a platform that bills per event or per mailing multiplies the invitation bill by five or six. On Evite's published per-event tiers, a six-function wedding of this shape can pass $400 in fees alone.
Nigerian weddings commonly pair a traditional ceremony with a white wedding, often on separate days with overlapping but distinct guest lists. Persian weddings center the sofreh aghd with a separate reception. Jewish weddings may add an aufruf or Sunday brunch. Same problem: one celebration, several functions, several counts.
For guest lists where money is the customary gift, Lumhe includes Digital Lifafa. You add your own payment ID, whether that is Venmo, Zelle, Cash App, PayPal, a bank transfer or UPI, and the guest pays from whichever app they already use and uploads the receipt. It arrives wrapped in an occasion-themed digital envelope you open. Lumhe never touches the money. No other platform here publishes a cash-gift flow.
Every platform in this category ends at the RSVP, and the wedding does not. Your 117 guests will take a few thousand photos across five functions, and by default those sit in 117 camera rolls.
The group chat loses almost everything. Images compress on send. The thread scrolls past. People join late and never see earlier photos, and anyone who leaves takes their photos out of reach. A year later, what you have is what your photographer delivered plus whatever you saved that week.
Lumhe's Moments is a shared photo timeline attached to the event. Guests upload, everything collects in one organized place, and it does not expire when the weekend does. It is not a Story and not a chat thread. Months later, the mehndi photos your cousin took sit beside the reception photos your roommate took.
Set the expectation inside the invitation:
A per-function RSVP list is also your thank-you list, because it tells you who turned up for what. Guests who came to the rehearsal dinner and the farewell brunch traveled for you, a different note from the one a reception-only guest gets.
Lumhe is the strongest option here for per-function RSVPs, format freedom and post-event photos. It is the wrong choice in three situations, worth saying plainly.
Joy is free with no RSVP cap and publishes no guest-facing ads, making it the cheapest ad-free option for a large list at $0. If you want stronger RSVP tooling, Mixily's published free tier is ad-free at 50 invites and 40 RSVPs, and Mixily Pro is $29 for a month. Verify both before you buy.
Joy, which publishes no cap on free RSVPs. The tradeoff is documented email deliverability complaints, including invitations sent from a generic address and landing in spam, so test with a small group first. Mixily's free tier caps at 40 RSVPs and 2 active events, short of a multi-function weekend.
Lumhe does it natively through sub-events, where each function carries its own date, venue, invited guests and RSVP count inside one invitation, and RSVPify publishes multi-event RSVP with guest-list segmentation as a core feature. Everywhere else you choose between a custom question on one form or building each function as a separate event with its own link. Mixily's own wedding guide tells readers to confirm true separate multi-event RSVP tracking platform by platform, which shows how rare it is.
Paperless Post has the better design catalog, and for a single elegant send it is the stronger product. For a multi-function wedding the math flips, because it bills coins per recipient per card. Published rates put one fully dressed 117-guest send around $98 at the best coin rate and five functions around $310, against roughly $375 on Evite's ad-free per-event tiers. Both need re-verification.
For one send to one list, published pricing ranges from $0 on Joy to roughly $116 to $138 on Greenvelope, with Mixily Pro at $29 and Evite ad-free Premium at $99.99. For a five-function weekend, the field ranges from $0 to about $435. What moves your bill most is whether the platform charges per event, per mailing, or a flat monthly fee.
Yes, if your platform accepts a video file as the invitation itself, which Lumhe does. No other platform here publishes support for it, so the workaround is hosting the video elsewhere and linking from a template, which splits your invitation and your RSVP into two places. Confirm this early, because it is the constraint most couples find last.
It depends on your guest count and how many functions you are hosting. Under 40 guests with one or two functions, Mixily's published free tier covers it, ad-free. For a large list on a budget, Joy's uncapped free tier is the only genuinely free option at scale, with the deliverability caveat. For four or five functions, free tiers usually run out on active-event caps before guest caps.
Lumhe does, through Moments, a shared photo timeline where every guest uploads and nothing expires. Joy and Zola both include a photo page inside the wedding website, though guest upload behavior depends on configuration. The rest of the field publishes nothing here, which is why most couples end up with a group chat that scrolls away.
Planning a wedding weekend? 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 rehearsal dinner and the reception have their own guest lists and their own RSVPs, and you always know the headcount for each one. After the wedding, 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.
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| best free evite alternative for a wedding | Secondary | FAQ: "What is the cheapest ad-free Evite alternative for a wedding?" and "What is the best free wedding invitation platform in 2026?" |
| evite alternatives wedding invitations | Secondary | "Why couples move off Evite for a wedding" and "Bring your own invitation" |
| wedding invitation platform no ads | Secondary | Comparison table ads column; "Punchbowl: a subscription that may still show your guests ads" |
| multi-event rsvp wedding platform | Secondary | "Per-function RSVPs explained: five functions, five guest lists" |
| 100 guest wedding invitation cost | Secondary | "Real cost for a 117-guest, five-function wedding"; FAQ on 100 to 117 guest cost |
| is paperless post better than evite for weddings | Secondary | FAQ: "Is Paperless Post better than Evite for weddings?" |
| free wedding invitation platform 2026 | Secondary | FAQ: "What is the best free wedding invitation platform in 2026?"; Joy and Mixily entries |
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