TextMyGuests Alternative: Wedding Guest Texting Compared (2026)

Looking for a TextMyGuests alternative? Compare its per-message tiers and $2/month duration fee with Cordially Wed's one-time $69/$119/$169/$249 tiers.

By Mia · 2026-07-20 · Updated 2026-09-13

TextMyGuests has been doing wedding guest texting for years and it does the fundamentals properly: a dedicated event phone number that activates when you pay, unlimited guests and unlimited groups on every tier, pre-scheduled messages, on-the-fly broadcasts, bulk CSV upload, picture and rich-media attachments, and two-way SMS and MMS replies collected into one organised stream. It also allows multiple co-owners, so a planner and a couple can both log in, and it has a native Android app. If you're weighing alternatives, the comparison comes down to three things: how its message-credit pricing behaves at your guest count, whether SMS alone reaches your whole family, and whether you want texting joined up with your RSVPs. Prices below are from the TextMyGuests pricing page as of September 13, 2026; always check their site for current numbers.

How TextMyGuests prices

TextMyGuests charges once per event, and the meter is messages, not guests:

• $34 for 400 messages
• $59 for 800 messages
• $119 for 2,000 messages
• $229 for 4,000 messages

Every tier includes unlimited guests, unlimited groups, and the dedicated event number, so a 300-person wedding carries the same headline price as a 40-person one. That is genuinely unusual in this category and it's the strongest thing about the model. There's also a free 30-day trial, though it only sends test messages to your own phone at up to 10 a day, so you can't pilot with real guests. One line on the pricing page is easy to miss: an additional $2 per month applies for each month of the paid event's duration, so a long engagement adds real money on top of the tier price.

Check the message-credit rules for your plan

Before buying a message bundle, confirm how the provider counts recipients, replies, long texts, and pictures. The pricing page checked lists package quantities but does not give enough detail to treat every credit rule as settled.

For budgeting, if one outgoing message to one recipient uses one credit, 800 credits cover eight full-list sends to 100 people, while 2,000 cover ten to 200 people. These are conditional examples, not a verified statement that a broadcast uses only one credit. Ask how to add capacity if the allowance runs out during your wedding week.

How Cordially Wed prices instead

Cordially Wed is also a one-time payment with no subscription, but it meters the thing you can count in advance, unique guest phone numbers, and never meters messages:

• $69 for up to 50 unique guest numbers
• $119 for up to 100
• $169 for up to 200
• $249 for up to 400

Messages are unlimited at every tier and replies are always included, so the eighth reminder to non-responders costs the same as the first, which is nothing. Above 400 numbers there's a contact flow rather than a self-serve tier. The free tier is a self-test: real messages sent to your own phone before you pay, so you see exactly what lands on a guest's screen. TextMyGuests keeps a clear advantage for very large lists, since its guest count is unlimited on every tier while Cordially Wed's ladder is sized by numbers.

SMS, WhatsApp, and where replies land

TextMyGuests advertises a dedicated event number and a private stream for SMS and MMS replies. WhatsApp was not listed on the public homepage and pricing pages checked on September 13, 2026; confirm it directly if essential.

Cordially Wed manages SMS and WhatsApp replies in one wedding inbox. SMS is available to supported +1 and UK +44 numbers; WhatsApp reaches guests who use it, including those outside that SMS coverage. A guest may switch to a travel SIM or eSIM while WhatsApp keeps the home number registered to their account over Wi-Fi or travel data. Confirm their WhatsApp number before departure and check that their account and internet connection remain active. If one channel is unavailable, the other can be an alternative way to contact them. This does not promise automatic resending or guaranteed delivery.

What surrounds the texting

TextMyGuests is a texting tool, deliberately so. Guest grouping and segmentation are there, and replies come back into an organised stream. Cordially Wed connects the texting to the rest of the guest side, and that whole side is free: a guest list with per-event tagging, RSVP collection with a separate response per event, a wedding website, seating charts, and Apple and Google Wallet guest passes. The practical payoff is targeting, because RSVP status sits in the same tool as the send. A reminder can go only to guests who haven't responded yet. A venue change can go only to the guests tagged for that event. Guests install nothing either way, since RSVP links open in an ordinary browser.

Which should you pick?

Stay with TextMyGuests if your guest list is very large, you're sending a small number of well-planned broadcasts, you want a dedicated event number with co-owner access, and you're content tracking RSVPs elsewhere. Its unlimited-guest tiers are worth pricing for a large list with a small number of sends, after you confirm the credit rules and include the duration fee. Look at an alternative if you can't predict your message count, if your family is spread across countries, or if you want reminders that already know who has responded. Cordially Wed prices once by list size, never counts messages, adds WhatsApp, and leaves everything around the texting free. You can see it before spending anything: send a free test message to your own phone at cordiallywed.com/invite/ and look at exactly what a guest would receive.