Email your event invitation to every guest

Once your invitation is made, you can email it to every guest at once instead of sending it one by one. Each guest still gets their own RSVP link, so their answer lands on your guest list just as it does from a text.

Email the invitation

1. Open the event and tap Send invitations.
2. The top row says Email the invitation · 43 guests: everyone on the list who hasn't been sent it yet and can get an email from you. Tap it.
3. The email opens on its checklist, already made from You're Invited: your invitation card on top, your note, the date, time and place with Add to calendar, and one RSVP button. The subject is "Maya, you're invited: Holiday Party" (just "You're invited: Holiday Party" for someone without a first name).
4. Change anything you like, send yourself a test, then Review and send.

Under the row, guests the email can't reach are counted by reason ("3 have no email · text them"). Their one-tap rows are right below, so you can text them the invitation.

Until a guest's copy goes out, the guest list shows Scheduled with the day (Going out while it sends, Email paused if it's paused). Once it's gone they're marked sent, the same as a text. Meanwhile their one-tap row won't send it, so no one gets it twice. If someone texts them the invitation anyway, their email copy is skipped. If AveryIQ can't confirm a copy went out, the guest shows May not have gone.

Who gets it

To only ever holds the event's guests. Pick one:

• Not sent yet (the starting point): guests who haven't been sent the invitation, by text or email. Guests already on an email that's scheduled or going out are left out, so no one gets it twice.
• Everyone invited: every guest on the list.
• Hasn't answered: guests who were sent it and haven't said yes or no. Guests not sent it yet aren't included, so no one gets a reminder first.

Couples who share an email address each get their own copy with their own RSVP link, so each can answer for themselves. Each copy counts toward your sending limit.

Guests with no contact yet are left out until you tap Include on their row (Who can get your emails).

Add someone to the guest list later and they show as Not sent yet: send them the next Not sent yet email, or text them from their row.

Avery's personal lines

On Send invitations, Avery adds a short opening line for a few guests she knows something about ("Leo is going to love the cocoa bar this year"), and you can edit or clear each one. They stay out of the email unless you turn on Add Avery's personal lines in To. Then each of those guests' lines goes at the top of their own copy, exactly as you reviewed it. If a line changes after you open Review and send, it asks you to check again. The lines go at the top of the first Text block, so the switch is off for a design without one. Reminders don't repeat them.

Remind who hasn't answered

Once some guests have been sent the invitation, Send invitations also offers Remind who hasn't answered. It's the same email, sent to Hasn't answered, with the subject "Reminder: Holiday Party is Saturday". A reminder isn't held back because the invitation went out a few days ago, and the two count as one email toward the four-in-30-days rule.

Opened and answered

A guest counts as Opened when they tap the RSVP button. Mail security scanners that open every link in an email don't count, so you won't see guests "open" it when no one did. If an email bounces, the guest shows Email bounced and is back to Not sent yet: text them instead.

If someone answers by replying instead of tapping RSVP, tap them on the guest list and choose Going or Can't make it.

Reuse it

On a sent or stopped invitation, Duplicate keeps the same event and opens on Not sent yet, which also picks up anyone a stopped send didn't reach. To use the same design for a different event, choose Start from this design: you get an ordinary email with the event details flagged to check and no RSVP button.