Git Hitched vs Planning.Wedding

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.

Planning.Wedding is an online wedding planning platform for couples, families, and professional planners. Its tools include guest lists, RSVPs, a website, checklist, budget calculator, itinerary, timeline, vendor directory, seating charts, stationery, notes, and a guest photo album. Partners, family, and friends can work on a project in real time without accounts, with project updates stored in the cloud and synced. The website builder offers customizable templates, drag-and-drop sections, RSVP forms, password protection, and widgets for event details, travel, accommodation, FAQs, and registries. Couples can use a free custom URL and QR code in one of three domain formats, or connect a custom domain. RSVP responses connect to the guest list for managing attendance, plus-ones, VIP events, and reminders. Android and iOS apps share projects across devices. Basic is free; Premium costs $29, paid once, billed per project. The terms say active projects and their content are removed one year after the last update, and archived projects after five years.