eWedding vs Git Hitched

eWedding gives couples a web-based wedding website alongside tools for planning and managing guests. Its RSVP system supports open responses or guest-list restrictions on who can see and submit an RSVP. Custom forms can collect mailing addresses, song requests, and other details, and RSVP results can be downloaded as a CSV file. Planning features include budget tracking, payment alerts, gift tracking, seating charts, vendor details, and checklists. Couples can add wedding-party pages, themes, a blog, polls and quizzes, a honeymoon registry, and Google Maps. Notifications can go by text to a mobile phone and by email to multiple addresses. The homepage advertises custom domains and email addresses, as well as links to gift registries or cash gifts toward a honeymoon or home down payment. A free plan and free website option are listed. Premium costs $9 a month, billed monthly; Premium plus+ costs $27 a month, billed monthly.

Git Hitched is a free, open-source wedding website template built with Ruby on Rails for couples who host and customize it themselves. Guests enter a shared invite code, then RSVP by household for each invited event, including meal selections and dietary notes. The system records children and childcare requests, with dashboard views by age bracket and event. Administrators can manage invitations and guests, send bulk messages, review RSVP and attendance reports, import invites from a Google Sheets CSV URL, and export guest or seating workbooks. Seating tools support event tables, drag-and-drop assignments, and Excel export. Guests can reserve hotel rooms through Stripe Checkout, while administrators manage bookings and refunds. Invitation, RSVP, reminder, and hotel emails use configurable delivery providers such as SendGrid or Postmark. Nine configurable content pages, branding, events, and visibility settings support customization. Deployment configuration covers Render and Kamal. It runs self-hosted or on the web and is MIT licensed.