| In India the online RSVP is pretty useful because 1) The average middle class or upper middle class wedding is several hundred people 2) Vegetarian / Non vegetarian food preferences are helpful to estimate costs and convey to the caterer 3) Choice of alcohol preference is useful because you are only allowed to serve alcohol if you buy a permit and every bottle is tagged and photographed by the excise department in some cases. Most weddings do not serve alcohol, but those that do are usually helped by including a alcohol preference question. 4) Destination weddings are increasingly common, or the wedding will take place in only one venue i.e. the bride or groom's hometown. In this case it's common to rent hotel rooms for the entire opposite side of the guest list. For this, having a digial RSVP is useful to organise rooms. 5) For Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims, a wedding typically involves multiple days of ceremonies and meals with multiple venues for each one. Sometimes people will attend all. Sometimes they will attend only a few. For events of that size, organising information is a big deal, and having enough of a heads up helps manage costs and be better prepared. The website will be irrelevant in a year, but just the RSVP feature can potentially be extremely helpful. Once you have the RSVP stuff in place, the map and other stuff just becomes basic pages that you may as well put in place. |