How do I collect RSVPs for a baby shower?

Make one page for the shower, put your questions on it, and send the link. Your guests open it on a phone, say whether they're coming and how many people that covers, and their answer lands on the same list your co-hosts are watching. There's nothing for them to install and no account for them to make, and you don't need one to start either - it's free for up to 25 guests on a party.

What questions should a baby shower RSVP ask?

Five: are you coming, how many of you, which meal, anything you can't eat, and are you bringing something. Meal choice and allergies are deliberately two questions - vegetarian is a preference and a nut allergy is a safety note, and a caterer handles them differently. Add the registry link and the names of the co-hosts to the page while you're there, because a good share of your guests open the link looking for the registry rather than to reply.

When should baby shower RSVPs be due?

One to two weeks before the shower. Invitations usually go out four to six weeks ahead, which gives your guests a weekend to check the date and gives you two clear weeks to finish ordering. Set the exact date from whatever you have to commit to first - the caterer's final count, your own shopping, or favours that have to ship in time to arrive.

Can I ask guests what they are bringing?

Yes - ask it on the shower's page, in the same block as the address and the time. Showers go potluck more often than other parties, so the version that works is specific: say what's already covered and name what isn't. You can edit that block whenever you like without the link changing, so as things get claimed you can update what's still needed.

Can I collect meal choices and allergies?

Yes, and keep them as two separate asks so the answers stay countable. Put both questions on the shower's page and every guest sees the same wording, which is the difference between a list you can hand a caterer and a scroll back through texts. You can edit any row on the list yourself too, so the allergy somebody mentions to you in person still ends up where your co-hosts will read it.

How do I remind the guests who have not replied?

Send them the same link again - and to be straight with you, that's a message you send, not an automatic nudge the product sends for you. The list shows who has answered, so the people still blank are your reminder list, and one message to those five is worth more than a broadcast to all thirty. Do it about a week before your RSVP date, so the count stops moving before you place the order.

Can the co-host see the guest list too?

Yes. The shower's link is the whole page, so send it to the people hosting with you and they see the same live list you do, with no account and no forwarded screenshots. That view is read-only, which is what a co-host normally needs. If two or three of you need to edit the list - add a name, correct a headcount - shared access is part of the paid plans, and a one-time pass covers a single shower with nothing to cancel afterwards.

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Make a page for the shower, put your questions on it - meal choice, dietary needs, the registry link - and send one link. Your guests answer in a tap without making an account, every reply says how many people it covers, and plus-ones are counted as people rather than as replies, so the number you order food for is the number who walk in. It's free for up to 25 guests on a party.

One baby shower RSVP link, sent wherever your people already are

The shower gets one page with one address, and that address doesn't change when you change the details. Paste it into the family group chat, put it in the email invitation, or print it under the date on a paper invite. Nobody installs anything, makes an account or joins a mailing list to answer - they open the link, say whether they're coming, and say how many of them there are.

How to collect RSVPs for a baby shower

Start from the names you already have. The guest of honour has a list, your co-host has a list, and there's usually a work list nobody has written down yet - paste all of them in, one name per line, and the party takes the whole batch at once. Ask the shower's questions on the page itself, send the link once, and the answers come back to one list instead of to three inboxes and a phone.

A free RSVP website for a baby shower has to work for the co-hosts too

Showers are usually thrown by two or three people together - a sister, a best friend, an aunt - and every one of them gets asked whether Rachel replied yet. Send your co-hosts the same link your guests get and they see the same live list, with no account and no forwarded screenshots. That view is read-only, which is what a co-host usually needs; shared editing, so a second person can add a name or correct a headcount, is on the paid plans.

Baby shower RSVP website, free up to 25 guests

A shower is usually 15 to 30 adults, so a full list can pass the free cap of 25 guests. When it does, the party refuses the next guest and tells you how much room is left - it never takes the name and quietly hides it, because a list that looks complete and isn't is worse than a clear no. $15 once, for that one party, raises the cap and takes the MakeTheRSVP line off the page. Nothing renews.

What a baby shower RSVP should ask

A shower asks for different things than a birthday does, because somebody is ordering food, somebody is shipping favours, and two or three of you are hosting it between you.

How many of you are coming?: The plus-one question, asked as a number rather than a yes. A partner, the guest of honour's mother and the sister driving her all arrive on one reply, which is why the reply count and the headcount are different numbers at a shower. Every guest on the list carries their own number, so the count adds up people.
Which meal do you want?: If there's a plated brunch or a sit-down lunch, the caterer wants counts by dish about ten days out - not names, counts. Ask it as a short list of options so the answers come back countable.
Any dietary needs or allergies?: Keep this separate from the meal choice. Vegetarian is a menu preference; a nut allergy is a safety note, and the kitchen treats them differently. One free-text line is enough, and it's the line the guest of honour will want to read herself.
Are you bringing anything?: Showers go potluck more often than other parties do. The useful version is specific: say what's already covered and ask what isn't, so you don't end up with three trifles and no salad.
Where is the registry?: Not a question, but it belongs on the page anyway - a good share of the people who open the link came to find the registry, not to reply. Put the registry URL in the shower's own description block and it's there every time somebody opens the link, including the people who open it four times.
Who is co-hosting, and who do I text?: Name the co-hosts on the page with one contact between them. Without it, every question about bringing a mother-in-law lands on whoever happened to send the invitation.

How to set one up

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Start your guest list
Name the shower and paste in the names you already have, one per line. There's no account step and no template to pick, and the party has a shareable link from the moment it exists.
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Put the shower's questions on the page
Write what you need in the party's description: meal choice, dietary needs and allergies, the registry link, and which co-host to text. You can edit that block later without the link changing.
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Send the baby shower RSVP link
One link, in the group chat, in an email, or printed on the invitation. Your guests answer on a phone with no account, and each reply says how many people it covers.
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Order from the headcount, not the reply count
Because every reply carries a number, plus-ones are counted as people. The list updates live for you and for your co-hosts, so the count you order food from is the one everybody is looking at.

When to send the invitation, and when to close the RSVPs

4 to 6 weeks before

Send the invitation and the link. Showers land on a weekend daytime or a weekday evening, and your guests are arranging childcare and travel, so this goes out earlier than a birthday invitation would.

1 to 2 weeks before

RSVPs due. Set the date from whatever you have to commit to: a caterer's final count, the shopping you're doing yourself, or favours that have to be ordered and shipped in time to arrive.

3 to 4 days before

Final count. Send the same link again to whoever is still blank, then work from the headcount rather than from the number of replies.

Baby shower RSVP questions

: Make one page for the shower, put your questions on it, and send the link. Your guests open it on a phone, say whether they're coming and how many people that covers, and their answer lands on the same list your co-hosts are watching. There's nothing for them to install and no account for them to make, and you don't need one to start either - it's free for up to 25 guests on a party.
: Five: are you coming, how many of you, which meal, anything you can't eat, and are you bringing something. Meal choice and allergies are deliberately two questions - vegetarian is a preference and a nut allergy is a safety note, and a caterer handles them differently. Add the registry link and the names of the co-hosts to the page while you're there, because a good share of your guests open the link looking for the registry rather than to reply.
: One to two weeks before the shower. Invitations usually go out four to six weeks ahead, which gives your guests a weekend to check the date and gives you two clear weeks to finish ordering. Set the exact date from whatever you have to commit to first - the caterer's final count, your own shopping, or favours that have to ship in time to arrive.
: Yes - ask it on the shower's page, in the same block as the address and the time. Showers go potluck more often than other parties, so the version that works is specific: say what's already covered and name what isn't. You can edit that block whenever you like without the link changing, so as things get claimed you can update what's still needed.
: Yes, and keep them as two separate asks so the answers stay countable. Put both questions on the shower's page and every guest sees the same wording, which is the difference between a list you can hand a caterer and a scroll back through texts. You can edit any row on the list yourself too, so the allergy somebody mentions to you in person still ends up where your co-hosts will read it.
: Send them the same link again - and to be straight with you, that's a message you send, not an automatic nudge the product sends for you. The list shows who has answered, so the people still blank are your reminder list, and one message to those five is worth more than a broadcast to all thirty. Do it about a week before your RSVP date, so the count stops moving before you place the order.
: Yes. The shower's link is the whole page, so send it to the people hosting with you and they see the same live list you do, with no account and no forwarded screenshots. That view is read-only, which is what a co-host normally needs. If two or three of you need to edit the list - add a name, correct a headcount - shared access is part of the paid plans, and a one-time pass covers a single shower with nothing to cancel afterwards.

If the shower isn't the only thing you are planning, the count moves for different reasons at a kids' birthday. When the replies stop arriving, there is a way to chase the people who have gone quiet, and if you have not sent anything yet you can get the names down first.

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