Guides

How to do everything

Short, step-by-step guides with the real screens. Start with the first one; the rest you can read when you need them.

1. 1 Plan your first partyFive questions, one at a time, with the real invite taking shape beside them. Nothing goes out until you send it.
2. 2 Run a date pollNot sure which Saturday? Offer a few dates, guests mark which ones work, and you pick the winner.
3. 3 Pick a design and add your photoBrowse the design wall by occasion, collection and tone, then put your own photo or art on the invite.
4. 4 Make art from your wordsDescribe the look you want, and get invite art made for your party, with the colors and the page matched to it.
5. 5 Food sign-up, head counts and the caterer linkLet guests sign up to bring something, ask each person's meal choice, cap the head count with a waitlist, and share the live count with your caterer.
6. 6 Guest extras: selfies, questions and the guest wallThe day's plan, the weather, parking notes and a video link on the invite, plus selfies with the RSVP, questions for you and a wall of notes.
7. 7 Build your address bookImport your phone's contacts or a spreadsheet, tidy them into households with real names, and keep everyone's details current.
8. 8 Plan togetherGroups share one address book and plan parties together. Add a co-host to just one party.
9. 9 Invite a class or a teamPost one join link in the class or team chat. Each family adds itself to the guest list and gets its own invite.
10. 10 Send your invitesText every household from your own phone, email them, or both. Each household gets its own link.
11. 11 Add sections to your inviteWhere to stay, getting there, the menu, what to wear with your colors, the place with a map, or your own words, on every guest’s invite.
12. 12 Send invitations in SpanishThe invite, its opening, the texts and the emails in Spanish, for the whole party or one household, and a switch for every guest.
13. 13 Make a wedding websiteYour story, every event, where to stay, the menu and your questions answered, at letsparty.rsvp/your-names, built a section at a time. Guests RSVP on their invites.
14. 14 Use a domain you already ownYour wedding website lives at letsparty.rsvp/your-names. If you own a domain like samandalex.com, forward it there in a few minutes.
15. 15 Track your RSVPsWho's coming, how many, their meal choices, and who hasn't answered. Tap any number to see exactly who.
16. 16 Make a seating chartAdd tables, seat each household (the kids can sit apart), print the chart and the list for the door, and show guests their table.
17. 17 Nudges, reminders and updatesA “can you make it?” before the RSVP date and a reminder before the party go out on their own. For anything else, send an update by email or text.
18. 18 Set up the photo wallEveryone's photos from the party in one place, a QR sign for the table, and a live slideshow for the TV.
19. 19 After the party: keepsake wishes, thank-yous and next yearPrint the wishes, notes and photos as a keepsake, thank everyone who came, and start next year's party from this one.
20. 20 Plan your yearBirthdays from your address book and the holidays you host, laid out twelve months ahead, with reminders.
21. 21 Helpers: group-chat RSVPs, “Write it for me” and answers for guestsRead RSVPs from a group-chat screenshot, get the invite details written three ways, and let guests' questions be answered from your party details.

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