For couples
Wedding guest list
Every wedding starts as a list of names on the back of something. This is that list, kept properly — who is coming, to which part of the day, what they can eat, and where to post the invitation.
From first names to final numbers
Three passes, and most couples do the first one in an evening.
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Get the names down
Type them in, or upload the spreadsheet you have already started. Rough is fine — a name on its own is a valid guest.
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Sort out who is invited to what
Mark each guest for the parts of the day they are coming to, group households together, and tag the ones you are still deciding about.
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Send, and let it fill itself in
Invitations go out, replies come back, and dietary needs, addresses and headcounts land on the list without you retyping them.
What the list keeps hold of
Parts of the day
Ceremony, wedding breakfast, evening — named however your day is actually shaped, and applied per guest.
Households
Families and couples stay together for the invitation and the reply, while remaining separate people for seating and catering.
Dietary needs and allergies
Captured from the guests themselves when they reply, so the caterer gets what the guest said rather than what somebody remembered.
Tags and filters
Your side, their side, work, the maybes. Tag whatever you need and filter the list by it.
Spreadsheet import and export
Bring in a CSV and map the columns on screen. Take the whole thing back out whenever you want it.
Live headcounts
Attending, maybe, not attending and still-to-reply, counted per part of the day, updated as replies arrive.
Why not just use a spreadsheet?
Plenty of couples do, and for the first fifty names a spreadsheet is honestly fine. It stops being fine at the point the list has to do more than hold names.
The trouble starts when the same information lives in several places: a column for the day guests, another tab for the evening ones, a WhatsApp thread where somebody mentioned they had gone vegetarian, and a seating chart that was correct a fortnight ago. Every reply then has to be copied into all of them, and the one you forget is the one the caterer works from.
Here, a guest is one record. Their reply, what they can eat, which parts of the day they are invited to and where they are sitting all hang off that one record, so a change lands everywhere at once.
Questions couples ask
Is the guest list really free?
Yes. Every planning tool on Wedding List Manager is free for couples, with no guest limit, no trial and no card needed. Wedding suppliers pay to advertise; you do not pay to plan.
Can I import a guest list I have already started?
Yes. Export your spreadsheet as a CSV and upload it. You match your columns to ours on screen, so it does not matter what order they are in or what you called them.
How do I handle evening-only guests?
Each guest is marked for the parts of the day they are invited to — ceremony, breakfast, evening, or whatever you have named yours. Your numbers, invitations and seating all follow that split, so evening guests never end up counted for the meal.
Where do plus ones and families go?
A household goes on one invitation together, so they get one card and reply once. Everybody on it still exists as their own guest, which is what lets you seat them separately and record what each of them eats.
Can my partner or my mum help with the list?
Yes. You can invite other people into your wedding and choose what they are allowed to see and change. Nobody gets in until you have let them in, and you can take that back at any point.
What happens to the list after the wedding?
It stays yours. You can export it at any time, and you can delete your account and everything in it whenever you want.
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