How to collect RSVPs for ceremony, reception, and brunch

RSVPAll-in-One plan

A wedding is rarely one event. Add each part of your celebration; ceremony, reception, rehearsal dinner, Sunday brunch; to your RSVP form and guests answer yes or no to each one individually. Combined with the guest list, you can even invite some households to the reception only.

Plan: All-in-One plan · Where: Sidebar → RSVP (under “Your guests”) → Your form tab

Before you start

  • Every event you add is included in your plan at no extra cost.
  • Per-household restrictions need Invitation only mode and at least two events on the form; with one event there’s nothing to restrict.

Steps

  1. Open the Your form tab. In the sidebar, click RSVP, then Your form.

  2. Click Add an event to reply to. It’s at the bottom of the question list, marked “Ceremony · reception · brunch”. The Schedule Item Details popup opens.

    the question list with the Add an event to reply to button highlighted

  3. Fill in the event. Give it a NAME guests will recognize (“Wedding Ceremony”), and optionally a DATE, LOCATION, START TIME, and END TIME. Whatever you fill in is shown under the question on the form, so guests reply with the details in front of them.

    the Schedule Item Details popup filled in, with Add Event highlighted

  4. Click Add Event. The event appears in your form as its own card; “Joining us for Wedding Ceremony?”; asked as its own yes or no.

  5. Repeat for each part of your celebration. Each event becomes one question. Click any event card later to edit its details (Update Event).

    the form builder showing three event cards (ceremony, reception, brunch)

  6. Restrict households if needed. On the Guest list tab (in Invitation only mode), click Edit on a household. The Invited to list shows a checkbox per event; leave everything checked to invite them to it all, or untick the events this household shouldn’t see. Restricted households never even see the other events on their form.

    the household editor’s Invited to checklist with one event unticked

  7. Click Save in the page header so the form goes live with your schedule.

What you should see

Guests answering your RSVP get one Joyfully accept / Regretfully decline choice per event, and the form requires an answer for each before they can continue. On the Replies tab, a reply’s detail view shows exactly which events each party accepted, and the CSV export lists attended events per party; your per-event headcounts for the caterer and the venue.

If something goes wrong

  • You need to delete an event. Open its card, click the delete option, and type delete to confirm. Be careful: deleting an event item permanently removes it and the replies associated with it, and nothing is recoverable.
  • A household says they only see one event. Their Invited to list is restricted. Edit the household and re-check the missing events.