SMS & text-message wedding RSVP

What a guest sees, step by step

The invitation identifies the couple and includes a personal RSVP link. The guest opens the link in a browser, checks the invited party members and events, answers the attendance and any requested meal questions, then submits and checks the confirmation. Use clear wording so guests know to open the link instead of texting back an answer.

The link opens a browser form; no Duva guest account or app download is required. Guests need internet access to submit. If someone sends an informal answer by text instead, an authorized host can record it in the dashboard.

• The text arrives. A named, personal message from the couple — not an unknown sender that reads like spam.
• One tap opens it. The link goes straight to a mobile page showing only that guest’s events.
• Answer and done. Answer attendance and any meal questions, submit the form, and check the confirmation.

Why a text gets answered when an email doesn’t

Everyone has a folder of wedding emails they meant to deal with. An email invitation competes with newsletters and receipts, often lands in a promotions tab, and asks the guest to sit down at some point and take care of it — a "later" that quietly becomes "never." A text sits in the one inbox people actually clear, from a name they know, and it takes a tap to resolve. The guest answers it the way they answer any other text: right away, without ceremony.

Guests do not need a Duva account to submit. They can open the link when they read the invitation, and return to the wedding website for the schedule and travel details. Completion time depends on their party size, event questions, device, and internet connection.

• The inbox people clear. A text lands where guests actually look, not in a promotions tab beside newsletters.
• Resolved in a tap. There is no "I’ll do it later" — answering is faster than filing it away.
• No new account dread. Nobody stalls over creating a login just to say they are coming.

The guests this rescues

The people most likely to leave an RSVP hanging are rarely being difficult — they are just not living in their email. Parents, grandparents, the aunt who has never opened a promotions tab, the friend whose inbox has four thousand unread messages: these are exactly the guests a texted RSVP wins back. A text is the one digital thing they reliably see and answer, so they end up on your confirmed list instead of in the pile of names you had to chase down by phone.

A short invitation and clear instructions can help guests who are less comfortable online. Preview the form yourself, then offer direct help to anyone who cannot open or complete it. An authorized host can record a confirmed answer received by phone.

• The email-avoiders. Guests who never clear their inbox still see and answer a text.
• Older relatives. Offer a clear browser link and direct help if a guest needs assistance.
• Fewer phone calls. The names you used to chase at the deadline answer on their own.

One website, texts and RSVP in sync

The texts and your wedding website are not two systems bolted together — they are one. A guest can tap the link in the message you sent, or, if they lost it, go to your website and look themselves up by name and reply there. Both paths write to the same guest list, so however a guest chooses to answer, your headcount stays singular and correct. No exporting, no merging two lists that disagree.

That also means the reminders, the counts, and the responses all live in the same place the website does. You watch attending, pending, and declined update in real time on one dashboard as replies come in from either path.

• Texted link or name lookup. Two ways to reply, both writing to the same guest list underneath.
• One live count. However a guest answers, the dashboard shows a single accurate headcount.
• Reminders re-text the quiet ones. Set a schedule and only the guests who have not replied get a second text.

Guests stay in control

A texted invitation should feel like a courtesy, not an intrusion, and it does. Every guest can stop messages at any time by replying STOP, the standard way to opt out of texts, and Duva honors it — the point is to make responding easy, never to keep messaging someone who would rather not hear from you. Because each message is one-to-one, a guest’s number is not shared with the rest of the recipient list, and submitted RSVPs appear in your dashboard.

It is respectful by design: a personal note from the couple, easy to answer, easy to mute. Most guests are simply glad to have the whole thing handled in a text instead of hunting through email for a link.

• Opt out with STOP. Any guest can stop messages by replying STOP — the standard opt-out, always honored.
• Numbers stay private. Each text is one-to-one, so no guest ever sees another’s number.
• Replies come to you. Responses return privately to your dashboard, not to a group thread.

Numbers outside +1 use WhatsApp

Duva routes +1 phone numbers to SMS, including numbers in the US, Canada, and other North American Numbering Plan regions. Supported numbers outside +1 use WhatsApp. Routing follows the phone prefix, not where the guest lives or is traveling. Submitted browser forms update the same dashboard.

If a big share of your list is overseas, the WhatsApp wedding invitations page walks through that flow in detail. This page stays focused on the text-first experience for your guests at home.

• Handled automatically. International guests are routed to WhatsApp on their own — you never sort the list.
• One dashboard either way. Forms opened from SMS and WhatsApp invitations update the same guest roster.

No credits to send

Texting your invitations and the reminders that chase non-responders never uses credits — the one-time $10 messaging unlock covers them — alongside a free wedding website, guest list, and RSVP collection. Credits only come in for a separate broadcast you write yourself — a day-of shuttle note, for instance — with 100 credits included in the unlock, and no subscription of any kind.