Git Hitched vs Guesticon

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.

Guesticon combines a wedding website, RSVP management, QR-code photo sharing, table planning and a digital guestbook. It offers 14+ customizable themes, and guests can RSVP with meal preferences and plus-ones managed from a dashboard. For photos, guests scan a QR code on a smartphone and upload without installing an app or creating an account. The table planner supports drag-and-drop seating, RSVP-list import and printable table-plan exports. Guests can leave messages and well wishes in the digital guestbook. The website works on mobile, tablet and desktop. Guesticon says couples can create an account, customize a site and share it in under 10 minutes without coding. Free accounts receive a personalized guesticon.com subdomain; custom domains are available on paid plans. The Free plan costs nothing and includes RSVP management, basic photo sharing, the guestbook and all themes. One-time paid plans start at $29, paid once.