As I mentioned when I wrote about our invitations, Ben and I opted to keep the print materials minimal and direct our guests to a wedding website to fill in the details. Neither of us know the first thing about creating a website, so we knew a template would be our best bet.

There are a lot of options out there these days?and some of them are really gorgeous?but since I was adamant about sticking to a free option we didn?t have a ton of choices. That?s probably just as well, since we were looking for something that would fulfil a few basic functions?not looking like it came out of the ?90s was nice, but not necessary.
The main thing we were looking for was a template equipped to handle electronic RSVPs in a straightforward fashion?because of our international situation, with guests split between the US and UK (and elsewhere), it would?ve been complicated and expensive to do paper cards. After a bit of online sleuthing, I concluded that WeddingWire seemed like our best bet: their RSVP function has lots of positive reviews, it allows for a meal choice along with the RSVP (which I?ve been able to tweak into a dietary restrictions section, as we aren?t actually offering a general choice of entrees but do need to gather this info), and the system is set up to prevent guests from adding uninvited plus-ones?you enter all of your invitees? names, and guests can only respond with names that match up to the guest list. Since we didn?t include any information beyond the date, start ...