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WhatsApp your guests. Replies come back to one thread.
Send RSVP reminders and ceremony updates over WhatsApp and email. When a guest replies, it lands on their record — not in three apps and a personal inbox.
Free during early access. Guests never download an app to reply.
- Channels
- WhatsApp + email today, SMS as carriers clear
- Threaded
- Every reply tied to the guest
- Templates
- 19 starters, mehndi to thank-you
WHY BULK SMS BLASTS FALL SHORT
A South Asian wedding is two-way, multi-event, and lives on WhatsApp.
The family already moved to WhatsApp
The mehndi group chat, the cousin coordination, the quote your dad forwards at midnight — for a lot of South Asian families, it all happens on WhatsApp. US-built wedding tools assume SMS or email and treat WhatsApp as an export button. Anvaya sends over WhatsApp natively, the channel guests are actually checking.
A broadcast wastes the reply
Guests text back. They ask whether kids are invited, whether the mehndi is dry or wet, whether the dress code is jewel-tones or pastels. Broadcast-first tools treat the send as the finish line, so the reply lands in a separate inbox and never reaches your planning. The reply is the part that matters.
Three apps, zero shared context
Aunty WhatsApps about the mehndi timing. A cousin emails the reception RSVP. Same wedding, two apps, and the day before the ceremony nobody can find the note she sent last month. When messages scatter across personal phones, the planning workspace is always missing half the conversation.
WhatsApp is where the family actually lives.
A lot of South Asian wedding logistics happens on WhatsApp. Aunties run the mehndi planning in a group chat; cousins coordinate the sangeet routines; your dad forwards the baraat-band quote the same way he forwards everything. Email is for the work crowd. WhatsApp is the default — so Anvaya treats it as the default too, not as an afterthought with a "share to WhatsApp" button bolted on.
WhatsApp Business messaging runs through Twilio, with delivery status and inbound replies captured in the same guest timeline. Send a ceremony update or an RSVP reminder over WhatsApp natively, and tag each template the way WhatsApp itself classifies business messages — utility, marketing, or authentication — so your reminders are shaped the way the channel expects. Email runs the same pipeline for the relatives who still live in their inbox.
- WhatsApp Business messaging through Twilio — native, not a share link
- Delivery status and replies captured in the same guest timeline
- Templates tagged utility / marketing / authentication for WhatsApp
- Email runs the same pipeline for the inbox crowd
- SMS is built and shown in history; it switches on as carrier approval clears
Every reply lands on the guest, not in a separate inbox.
The one-way broadcast model is a dead end for a wedding. Guests reply, and Anvaya treats the reply as part of the work: every inbound message — WhatsApp or email — lands in that guest's thread on your dashboard, with the channel labelled inline and the timestamp in your local time.
When Aunty answers your mehndi reminder over WhatsApp at 11:47 PM, you see it the next morning in the same thread as the reminder you sent her. When a coworker emails his RSVP regret, it lands in the same place — no forward-to-Gmail workaround, no second inbox to check. Your parents can join as co-planners and read or reply on the same thread. The thread is the record of every conversation with that guest, full stop.
- Every inbound WhatsApp and email threaded under the guest
- Channel labelled inline so you know which app she replied on
- A divider marks where the conversation switched channels
- Co-planners (your parents, the friend with the spreadsheet) can reply too
- Inbound webhooks signature-verified — Twilio HMAC for chats, HMAC for email-forward
Nineteen starter templates, from mehndi to the thank-you note.
A multi-event wedding generates a dozen message types: save-the-date, RSVP nudge, mehndi details, sangeet line-up, haldi note, baraat meeting point, hotel block, dress code, post-wedding thank-you. Anvaya ships starter templates for all of them — including ceremony-specific ones for mehndi, sangeet, haldi, and baraat — so the first draft is already written. Clone one, edit the wording, and it's yours to send.
Merge fields fill in per guest as the message goes out: first name, couple names, event date, time, venue, and the guest's own RSVP and website links. The RSVP-nudge templates come pre-spaced — thirty days out, seven days out, a final forty-eight-hour call — so the cadence is decided before you start. Want a fresh draft in a particular tone? Anvaya AI writes a subject and body from the ceremony, the stage, and your tone of choice — formal, warm, or casual — for you to edit before anything sends.
- Starters for save-the-date, RSVP nudges, ceremony details, logistics, thank-yous
- Ceremony-specific drafts for mehndi, sangeet, haldi, and baraat
- Merge fields: first name, couple names, event date/time/venue, RSVP + website links
- RSVP nudges pre-spaced at 30 days, 7 days, and 48 hours
- Anvaya AI drafts a subject + body in a formal, warm, or casual tone
Send only to the guests who still owe you an RSVP.
Sending a reminder is half the work; knowing it landed is the other half. Anvaya shows a delivery state on every outbound message — pending, sent, delivered, or failed — and WhatsApp status callbacks update the dashboard as the provider reports back. A failed number shows up as failed, with the reason, so you can fix it before the cut-off instead of texting a dead number for six weeks.
The audience builder is shaped like the wedding, not like a spreadsheet. Send to everyone, to one ceremony's guest list, to the people still marked pending for the haldi, to a saved household group, or to hand-picked names. Before you send, a preview shows how many will go out and flags anyone with no reachable number or a duplicate, so a 200-guest broadcast holds no surprises. Every send is written to the activity log, so two parents working in parallel can see who already messaged whom.
- Delivery states: pending, sent, delivered, failed — updated by WhatsApp callbacks
- Audience: all guests, one event, pending-for-an-event, a group, or hand-picked
- Per-event RSVP status drives the send list — text only the holdouts
- Pre-send preview flags no-contact and duplicate recipients
- Every broadcast and reply written to the activity log
Carrier-grade routing, with international numbers handled.
Outbound WhatsApp and email run through Twilio's infrastructure, and a 500-guest broadcast goes out in concurrent batches rather than one slow drip. Phone numbers are normalized to international E.164 on entry, so a US 415 number, a UK 07 number, and an Indian 91 number all resolve cleanly between the guest record and the inbound webhook — a relative in the UK, Canada, India, or the UAE stays attached to the same thread.
Inbound is verified before it touches your data. WhatsApp webhooks are checked against Twilio's signature; an email a guest forwards back is parsed by the email worker, HMAC-signed, and matched to the guest by sender address — so a matched reply threads under the right guest automatically. SMS routes through the same pipeline and switches on for everyone the moment carrier (A2P 10DLC) approval clears.
- Twilio routing for WhatsApp + email; SMS ready behind carrier approval
- E.164 normalization across US, UK, Canada, India, and UAE numbers
- WhatsApp inbound verified against the Twilio signature
- Forwarded-email replies HMAC-signed and matched by sender address
- A matched reply threads under the guest automatically
COMPARED
Where Anvaya lands against the usual wedding-text tools.
Most wedding-text tools broadcast over SMS and stop there. Anvaya is built for two-way, WhatsApp-first, multi-event messaging. Here is where each tool sits today.
| Feature | Anvaya | Text My Wedding | Zola | WedTexts | Replied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Two-way messaging (not just broadcast) Guests reply; replies land in your dashboard, threaded under the guest. | |||||
Native WhatsApp delivery WhatsApp Business messaging through Twilio — not a "share to WhatsApp" link. | |||||
Email replies in the same thread A guest forwards a reply over email; it lands in the unified guest thread. | |||||
Unified thread per guest WhatsApp and email for one guest rendered in a single chronological view. | |||||
Send by ceremony + RSVP status Text only the guests still pending for a specific event, not the whole list. | Basic | Basic | Basic | ||
Delivery status per message Pending, sent, delivered, or failed — updated as the provider reports back. | Delivery only | Delivery only | |||
Ceremony-specific templates Starter drafts for mehndi, sangeet, haldi, and baraat. | Generic | Generic | Generic | Generic |
Two-way messaging (not just broadcast)
Guests reply; replies land in your dashboard, threaded under the guest.
Anvaya
Text My Wedding
Zola
WedTexts
Replied
Native WhatsApp delivery
WhatsApp Business messaging through Twilio — not a "share to WhatsApp" link.
Anvaya
Text My Wedding
Zola
WedTexts
Replied
Email replies in the same thread
A guest forwards a reply over email; it lands in the unified guest thread.
Anvaya
Text My Wedding
Zola
WedTexts
Replied
Unified thread per guest
WhatsApp and email for one guest rendered in a single chronological view.
Anvaya
Text My Wedding
Zola
WedTexts
Replied
Send by ceremony + RSVP status
Text only the guests still pending for a specific event, not the whole list.
Anvaya
Text My Wedding
Zola
WedTexts
Replied
Delivery status per message
Pending, sent, delivered, or failed — updated as the provider reports back.
Anvaya
Text My Wedding
Zola
WedTexts
Replied
Ceremony-specific templates
Starter drafts for mehndi, sangeet, haldi, and baraat.
Anvaya
Text My Wedding
Zola
WedTexts
Replied
As of June 2026, from public product pages. Competitor features change — verify on each tool. SMS sending in Anvaya switches on as carrier (A2P 10DLC) approval clears.
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