Send Your Minted Wedding Website to Guests by Text
Minted makes the paper. We handle the phones. Import your guest list, text your Minted website or a photo of the invitation itself, and run RSVP reminders that do not depend on anyone remembering to send them.
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Then your invitations are beautiful and expensive, and a meaningful share of the people receiving them will still not send the reply card back. That is not a reflection on the stationery. Paper is the announcement; text is the follow-through.
Photograph the suite or send your Minted website link, and let the reminders do the unglamorous part — the part that otherwise turns into your mother phoning her cousins in July.
- Text the Minted website link with the RSVP deadline attached
- Send a photo of the printed suite as a save-the-date or a reminder
- Reminders go only to the guests who have not responded
- Wedding-week logistics that paper cannot carry
How to text your Minted wedding website
Minted handles the design and the mail. This is everything that happens on a phone afterwards.
Copy your Minted website URL
Grab the link to your published Minted wedding site. If your RSVP lives there, that is the destination for every message we send, and the one link you should keep consistent everywhere.
Bring in your guest list
Export from Minted if you built your list in its address collection tool, or paste from the spreadsheet you used for addressing. CSV and Excel both upload in Guests → Bulk Import.
Add the mobile numbers
Address lists almost never have phone numbers on them. Share the invite link or QR code in the family group chats and let guests add their own number — no account, no app, one tap.
Send the link, or the invitation itself
Photograph the printed suite in good light and attach it to the message. It is the closest thing to the paper landing in someone's hand a second time, and it travels to guests whose address you never got.
Turn on the reminders
One nudge two weeks after the mail lands, one at the deadline, one final personal ask. That is usually all it takes to close a paper RSVP list.
New to importing guest lists? Start with the guest import guide — it covers CSV uploads, column mapping and groups.
Paper for the announcement, text for the answer
A Minted suite arrives once, gets admired, and goes on the fridge. The reply card goes into a drawer with the takeaway menus. Nobody means for that to happen; it happens to every wedding.
Send the same information by text a few days after the mail lands, and your response rate climbs without a single phone call. The paper still does its job — it just stops being the only route to a yes.
The reminder schedule for paper invitations
Timed around when the mail actually lands, not when you dropped it at the post office. Each message goes only to the guests who have not replied — by card, by website or by text.
Confirms the invitation landed and offers a digital route to RSVP.
Non-responders only. Short and warm.
"Reply cards are due Friday."
Direct, personal, no link. Closes most of what is left.
Minted vs. Text My Wedding
Different jobs entirely, and they work well together. Minted is the invitation; we are what happens between the mailbox and the final headcount.
| Capability | Minted | Text My Wedding |
|---|---|---|
| Printed invitation suites | ✓Best in class | —— |
| Wedding website | ✓Included | —We link to yours |
| Address collection | ✓Built in | ✓Also collects mobile numbers |
| Text messages to guests | —— | ✓The whole product |
| RSVP reminders | ◐Website and email | ✓Text, sequenced, targeted |
| Two-way replies | —— | ✓Shared inbox |
| Day-of coordination | —— | ✓Scheduled and grouped |
| Photo collection after the wedding | —— | ✓Guests reply with photos |
Comparison reflects publicly documented features and is checked periodically. Minted is a trademark of its owner; Text My Wedding is an independent product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Minted.
Texting alongside a paper invitation
How to add a digital layer to a mailed suite without it feeling like a second, cheaper invitation.
Timing the first text
Send it about five days after the invitations should have arrived. Any earlier and it beats the mail, which spoils the moment the paper was paid for. Any later and it reads as a chase rather than a courtesy.
The wording that works is the wording that assumes the paper arrived: "our invitation should have reached you this week" rather than "here is our invitation."
Photographing the suite
Flat, daylight, no direct sun, a plain surface. Shoot from directly above so the edges stay square, and crop tight. A portrait-shaped photo fills a phone screen; a landscape one arrives as a strip in the middle of the thread.
If your suite has multiple cards, send one image of the main invitation rather than four of everything. The details card belongs on the website.
Does this replace the Minted RSVP?
Only if you want it to. Most couples keep the Minted RSVP page and use text purely to drive people there — the messages carry the link, and the website stays the system of record.
Guests can also reply YES or NO directly to the text, which is what the older half of your list will do regardless of what the message tells them. Those replies update your headcount too, so both routes end in the same number.
Where to find phone numbers
If you collected addresses for the mailing, you have envelopes and no mobile numbers. The collection link fixes that: guests fill in their own number, and it appears in your list immediately.
Share it wherever your people already are — the family group chat, your wedding website, or a text to the numbers you do have with a note asking them to pass it on to the cousins.
The messages after the RSVP
Once the headcount is closed, the useful texts are logistical: the hotel block release date, the rehearsal details for the wedding party, the wedding-week message with parking and shuttle times, and one on the morning itself.
None of that can go on paper you mailed in April, which is the honest argument for having a phone channel at all.
Save the dates before the paper
A text save the date months earlier costs nothing and lets you find out which numbers are wrong while it does not matter yet. Couples who do this arrive at the invitation mailing with a list that is already clean.
It also gives out-of-town guests the runway they need to book flights, which is the actual purpose of a save the date.
Text templates for Minted couples
Wording that assumes the paper has already gone out. Swap the names, dates and link for your own.
After the mail lands
Hi Eleanor — our invitation should have reached you! If it's easier, you can RSVP online: ameliaandjulian.minted.us
Save the date preview
Save the date, Eleanor! 09.11 · Hudson, NY. The paper invitation is coming in the spring. 🤍
Reply card rescue
Eleanor, reply cards are due Friday and we know exactly how those envelopes disappear. One tap instead: ameliaandjulian.minted.us
Wedding week
Saturday! Ceremony at 4:00, The Willow Barn. Parking is in the north lot. Black tie optional — and it's a lawn, so heels beware.
Minted and Text My Wedding questions
Can I send my Minted wedding website by text?
Yes. Paste your Minted site URL into a message and send it to your whole guest list. The link is shortened and tracked, so you can see who opened it and follow up only with the guests who did not.
Can I text a photo of my printed invitation?
Yes. Photograph the suite flat in good light, attach it to the message, and it sends as a picture message. Couples usually do this either as a save-the-date preview or as a reminder a few days after the paper lands.
Does this replace my Minted RSVP page?
Only if you want it to. Most couples keep the Minted RSVP and use text to drive people to it. Guests can also reply YES or NO to the text itself, and those answers update your headcount alongside the website responses.
Where do I get phone numbers if I only collected addresses?
You get a collection link and QR code that guests fill in themselves. Share it in a group chat, on your wedding website, or in the first text you send to the numbers you already have.
Can I import a guest list from Minted?
If you built your list in Minted's address collection tool, export it to a spreadsheet and upload it under Guests → Bulk Import. Otherwise, paste from whatever spreadsheet you used for addressing — that works just as well.
Will texting make the paper invitation feel redundant?
Not if the timing is right. Send the first text about five days after the invitations should have arrived and write it as a follow-up rather than an invitation. Guests read it as a courtesy — especially the ones whose card is already lost.
What should I send after the RSVPs are in?
The hotel block release date, rehearsal details to the wedding party, a wedding-week message with parking and shuttle times, and one short message on the morning itself. None of that fits on paper you mailed months earlier.
The paper's perfect. Now make sure they answer.
Text your Minted website, run the reminders, and finish your headcount on time.
Free to build your guest list and preview messages. You only pay when you are ready to send.