Text My Wedding Alternative: Unlimited Wedding Texting Compared (2026)

Looking at Text My Wedding? Compare its per-text plans with Cordially Wed's unlimited messaging, WhatsApp support, and free RSVP and guest list tools.

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Is text RSVP free? Collecting RSVPs by text link is free in Cordially Wed: each guest gets their own RSVP link, and the guest list, RSVP tracking and wedding website cost nothing. You only pay, once, if you want to send the texts to guests from Cordially, and you can send yourself a free test first. The full setup is in our wedding RSVP app guide.

Text My Wedding is one of the better-known wedding texting services, and it does the core job well: scheduled texts to your guest list from a dedicated number, with a free self-test to your own phone before you pay. If you're evaluating it, the honest comparison comes down to two things: how the pricing behaves as your message count grows, and whether texting alone is all you need. Prices below are from Text My Wedding's public pricing page as of September 13, 2026; always check their site for current numbers.

How Text My Wedding prices

Text My Wedding sells buckets of texts, one-time, per wedding:

Guests are unlimited, but messages are the meter: 100 guests on a 500-text plan means five texts per guest, total, across your whole wedding. The pricing calculator says receiving guest replies and photos requires Plus or above. Photo and video guest-book options vary by plan; do not assume every photo feature starts at the same tier. For wedding planners they sell a separate Planner subscription at $299 per year with 5,000 texts pooled across unlimited events, plus $30 per additional 1,000 texts; unused credits expire if the annual plan lapses.

Where the per-text math pinches

Consider an illustrative message plan. A 150-guest wedding with a save the date, an invitation, two RSVP reminders to stragglers, a hotel note, a shuttle time, and two day-of updates is already pushing 1,000 messages, and that's a single-event wedding being reasonably chatty. Additional events and updates can increase that total. On metered plans, that growth is a plan upgrade; worse, it makes you hesitate before sending the last-minute change that guests most need. The message you skip to save texts is usually the one that mattered.

How Cordially Wed prices instead

Cordially Wed makes messages unlimited and sizes the one-time price by unique phone numbers instead:

For the same phone-number tier, send two texts or two thousand and the price is the same, and replies are always included. Like Text My Wedding, there's no subscription, and you can send yourself a free test message before paying anything.

Beyond texting: what else is in the box

The bigger structural difference is what surrounds the texting.

Text My Wedding has its own charms, notably a shareable photo stream and digital guest book that Cordially Wed doesn't offer. If collecting guest photos over text is your priority, that's a genuine point in their favor.

Which should you pick?

Choose Text My Wedding if your planned sends fit its allowance and its guest photo features matter to you. For receiving text replies and photos, compare against Plus at $87 or above, rather than assuming Starter includes them. Its current refund policy says purchases are generally non-refundable, subject to the exceptions it describes, so use the self-test first.

Choose Cordially Wed if you want unlimited messages and replies, need SMS and WhatsApp in one inbox, or want messages connected to per-event RSVPs. Text My Wedding can be cheaper for a modest message plan; Cordially Wed removes the need to predict your final send count. Read why unlimited wedding texts help or send yourself a free test at cordiallywed.com/invite/.

Need a wedding website as well? Our free wedding website builder guide covers what a free site should handle.

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