How to manage wedding RSVPs without the endless chase

Every planner knows the RSVP grind: the initial yes/no is easy, but then people change their minds, add a plus-one, go vegetarian, or shift their arrival day — and each change means chasing someone and updating three places by hand. The tedium is not collecting RSVPs; it is keeping everything downstream correct as they change.

The approach that actually works

• One live guest list as the single source of truth — not a spreadsheet copy that drifts.
• Let responses flow in directly so you are not transcribing emails.
• Connect RSVP to everything downstream — a change should update seating and catering counts automatically.
• Surface what changed so you see updates without re-auditing the whole list.

How Mezze does it

Mezze publishes a guest RSVP page whose responses flow straight into your live guest list. When an RSVP changes, seating and catering counts update themselves, so a late "actually we cannot come" does not leave a stale number in your kitchen sheet. You stop chasing and start managing.

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