You volunteered to host, so the guest list is yours: the mom-to-be's names, her mother's additions, and the four people who replied to the wrong person. Send one link by text or WhatsApp, take every allergy with the yes, and hand the caterer a real number for the brunch table.
- Send the invitation 4 to 6 weeks out, or 6 to 8 weeks if guests are flying in
- The mom-to-be's list, her mother's and yours, all behind one link
- Decide who can bring the older siblings
- Every yes carries its own allergy line, so you know which cousin's toddler cannot have peanuts and which aunt is dairy-free
- Cap the list at what the room actually seats
- A printed QR card reaches the aunts who still reply by phone call
Used by the sisters, best friends, coworkers and mothers-in-law who threw the shower while the mom-to-be stayed off the guest list.
Built for Whoever Got Handed the Baby Shower Guest List
Three lists from three people, a registry line nobody wants to write, and one headcount for the caterer.
Real-Time RSVP Tracking
Every yes, no and still-quiet name sits in one list on your phone. The aunt who answered by voicemail, the coworker bringing two older kids, the cousin who has said nothing since the sprinkle was announced. You read the count off instead of scrolling back through three chats.
Guest List Management
The mom-to-be's list, her mother's list and your own arrive as three separate texts, and two of them overlap. Put every name in one place, filter by who has answered, and chase only the ones who have not.
Dietary Preferences
Guests type their allergies and dietary notes the moment they accept, so the brunch order is settled before you call it in. No group-chat round of who can eat what.
Plus-One Control
Decide whether a guest may bring a partner or the older siblings, and set the limit per name. Each extra person rolls into the confirmed headcount on its own.
WhatsApp & QR Sharing
Share the link in the family group chat, or print the QR code onto a card for the grandmother-to-be who is not in it.
Guest Capacity Limits
A booked private room has a fixed number of seats, and it fills faster than you expect once the older siblings take their own. Set that number as your cap. Invyt counts confirmed guests, plus-ones and children against it.
How to Plan a Baby Shower with Invyt
Three steps: create it, share it, and hand the caterer a number you trust.
Create Your Baby Shower
Add the date, the start time and the address, then set the maximum the room allows. Say whether partners count as plus-ones and whether older siblings can come, with a limit per guest so one family does not take four seats.
Share Invitations
You send it yourself over WhatsApp, text or your own email. Invyt never emails your guests. The mom-to-be's out-of-state friends tap the link and reply from their phones, with nothing to download.
Track RSVPs in Real Time
Replies land in one list, each name carrying whatever it cannot eat. When the caterer calls, you read what is on the screen: twenty-two confirmed, four of them older siblings under ten. One payment per event adds the CSV export and the dietary summary the caterer actually wants.
Baby Shower Guest List Tracker
One list for the shower: who said yes, who is still quiet, and every allergy the kitchen needs to know about.
- Every reply lands marked accepted, declined or pending, so the chasing list stays short and specific: two aunts, the mom-to-be's coworkers, and the cousin bringing a four-year-old.
- Older siblings and partners roll into the headcount by themselves.
- A restaurant's private room seats 24. Set 24 as your cap, and confirmed guests count against it as the yeses arrive.
- Ask the allergy question once, on the RSVP form, and it is answered before you order. Roughly 1 in 13 US children has a food allergy, and a shower brunch is the worst place to learn that.
- No spreadsheet, no charge, and nothing for the mom-to-be to keep track of.
Four Things Every Baby Shower Host Gets Stuck On
Four problems land on the host at once: when to send, who goes on the list, how to word the registry line, and what to do when half the family can only join by video. Here is where to start on each.
Just been asked to host?
Shower or a sprinkle for the second baby. Who hosts, once the mom-to-be's mother offers to. Games or no games. Where the registry line goes without reading like a bill. The planning guide settles all four before you open the guest list.
No idea who to invite?
A baby shower guest list usually runs 15 to 30 names, about 20 typical. The guide covers who the mom-to-be expects to see, whether coworkers get invited, what to do about the aunts who assume they are already on it, and how to say no once the room is full.
Stuck on the wording?
Lines to copy for a co-ed shower, a sprinkle, a sip-and-see, and the registry sentence nobody enjoys writing.
Running it over Zoom?
Gift opening on camera only works if everyone joins at the same minute. The guide shows where the video call details go in the invitation, and how grandparents on a tablet get in without a phone call for help.
What Baby Shower Hosts Say
“My sister was expecting and the last thing she needed was a spreadsheet. I ran her shower on Invyt, so the yeses and the allergies came to me. She watched the list fill up from the couch. She never had to answer a single who-is-coming text.”
Emma H., sister and host
“I organized a baby shower and had a catering order to place. Four of the yeses brought older siblings, so the kids' plates went on the order too. Collecting allergies through the RSVP form saved me hours of back-and-forth texts.”
Zoe P., host
Frequently Asked Questions About Baby Shower Planning
Ready to Plan Your Baby Shower?
The caterer wants a final number two weeks out, and that number includes the older siblings coming with a parent. Create the event free, share it once, and watch the yeses land with every allergy attached. The mom-to-be never has to look at the list.
Costs nothing to run • Printed invitations for 30 guests run roughly $110 to $200 • No credit card required