eWedding vs Vowesta

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.

Vowesta is a wedding planning platform for building a wedding website and coordinating guests, invitations, seating, and registry contributions. It runs on Android, iOS, and the web, and includes an AI planner that uses wedding details to create timelines, suggest vendors, flag budget risks, and propose seating arrangements. Couples can manage unlimited guests, households, plus-ones, RSVPs, meal choices, and seating charts. Email invitations and QR-code save-the-dates are available.

The universal registry supports items from any store and cash funds, with card contributions handled through Stripe. Vowesta charges 2.5% on cash gifts, registry contributions, and raffle tickets; card processing is also deducted before payout. The free plan includes the planning tools, unlimited guests and RSVPs, custom domain connection, and a Kept camera for the first five guests. Optional extras cost separately: expanding the camera is a one-time charge whose price depends on guest count, and a new domain through Vowesta costs $19.99 a year.