Short, direct answers about reaching your guests, collecting their photos, and what any of it should cost.
Upload your guest list to a wedding SMS tool, write one message, and send it. Each guest receives it as an individual text, so nobody sees anyone else's number and nobody can reply-all. Group threads (iMessage, Android RCS) cap out around 20 to 32 people and turn into chaos, and phone carriers will throttle or block a personal phone that sends the same message to 100 numbers. With txt.wedding this costs $1 per guest, one time, with unlimited messages.
Wedding texting services price three ways: per guest, per message, or a monthly subscription. txt.wedding charges $1 per guest, one time, with unlimited messages. A 120-guest wedding pays $150 (the up-to-150 tier) and can send as many updates as it likes. Competing tools typically run $2 per guest, or cap you at 500 to 5,000 total messages, or bill monthly until you remember to cancel.
Send an individual SMS to every guest as soon as the decision is made, and repeat it two hours before the ceremony. Text is the only channel that reliably reaches people who are already traveling: SMS is opened about 98% of the time and usually read within three minutes, while your wedding website and email will be missed by most guests on the day. Do not rely on a group chat, a website banner, or word of mouth through the wedding party.
No. Guests never need an app. They receive a normal SMS on any phone, including flip phones and phones with no data. You do not need one either if you pick a browser-based tool: txt.wedding runs entirely in a web browser on a laptop or phone, and you can also send by texting our number from your own phone. Some competing services require an iOS or Android download, which adds friction for you and nothing for guests.
Mass SMS wins for anything time-sensitive. Wedding websites are great reference material but guests rarely return to them after RSVPing. Email gets opened by roughly 20% of recipients. Group texts reach everyone in the thread but cap out around 20 to 32 people, expose every phone number, and generate reply-all noise. Use a website for standing details, and individual text messages for anything that changes.
A digital guest book replaces the paper sign-in book with a link or QR code guests scan at the reception. They upload photos and videos from their own phones and leave a short note, and everything lands in one private gallery you can browse and share afterwards. It works better than paper because guests already have their phones out, and better than a photo-sharing app because there is nothing to download. txt.wedding includes a guest gallery and a shareable gallery link at no extra cost.
Put a QR code on every table that opens a browser upload page, and text the same link to your guest list the morning after. Guests upload straight from their camera roll with no app and no account, and everything collects in one gallery. Hashtags miss anyone not on that platform, shared album links break across iPhone and Android, and asking in a group chat gets you the four photos from the four people who remembered.
The paper sign-in book gives you a keepsake and about thirty signatures. A QR-code photo gallery gives you hundreds of photos and videos and costs nothing. An audio guest book gives you the most emotional recordings but needs rented hardware and an attendant. Text-in messages give you notes from guests who never make it to the table with the book. Most couples pair a paper book with a digital gallery, which covers both the object and the content.
Most couples need four things: a way to track budget and tasks, a wedding website with RSVP or guest sign-up, a seating and guest-list tool, and a way to reach guests quickly when something changes. Everything else is optional. No single product does all four well, so pick a planner for logistics, a website for standing details, and a texting tool for anything time-sensitive. txt.wedding is the communication piece: it is not an all-in-one planner and does not try to be.
The software side of a wedding should cost you very little. A wedding website, guest sign-up, and a guest photo gallery are all available free. The one place worth paying is reaching guests quickly on the day, because that is where free options genuinely fail: group texts cap out around thirty people and email is read by about a fifth of your list. txt.wedding is free to set up, free for your wedding page and gallery, and $1 per guest one time if you want to text your guests, with unlimited messages.
txt.wedding gives every couple a free wedding website at txt.wedding/w/your-names. It includes a hero, your story, the schedule, venue details with dress code and hashtag, travel information, an FAQ, a photo gallery, and a guest sign-up form that collects name, phone, and optional email. It is free with no subscription and no ads. The only paid part of the product is sending SMS updates to your guests, at $1 per guest one time.
An AI assistant is good at the writing and organizing parts of a wedding: drafting timelines, comparing venues, building checklists, and word-smithing tricky messages. It cannot text your guests on its own, but with txt.wedding you can connect your assistant to your account, paste your guest list into the chat, and have it add guests, group them, and prepare your day-of texts for your approval. You stay in charge of every send. The texting itself is $1 per guest, one time, with unlimited messages.