Had an idea to make a website for my wedding too (married one year ago), but in the end, decided to go with traditional paper invitations as would be difficult to explain to older people how to RSVP and paper invitations would be more cost-efficient (By comparing the time needed to build the website with my hourly rate).
For big Indian weddings with hundreds of people, I do see that the website can benefit by not needing to contact each person about RSVP status.
At a traditional indian wedding, you don't invite people. You tell your aunts and uncles and friends, and they tell their aunts and uncles and friends, and they tell theirs, etc, until you end up with 800 people at your wedding.
At $25-50+ a head for food and alcohol at reception alone, that is a huge number unless you come from wealth... However I think I read somewhere the average cost of South Asian wedding is $100-150k in California. Ouch.
Indian weddings have this notion of 'Full family' and 'couple' invite string in wedding cards to limit the no. of people. Usually people go in person to invite people to wedding.
Had an idea to make a website for my wedding too (married one year ago), but in the end, decided to go with traditional paper invitations as would be difficult to explain to older people how to RSVP and paper invitations would be more cost-efficient (By comparing the time needed to build the website with my hourly rate).
For big Indian weddings with hundreds of people, I do see that the website can benefit by not needing to contact each person about RSVP status.