How to Collect Addresses for Your Wedding

Chasing eighty mailing addresses by group text is its own project on top of everything else. Everly's address collection replaces that thread with two structured paths guests fill in on their own.

The short version

If you only read one section: Everly collects addresses for your wedding two ways — an RSVP step or a standalone link — and every address a guest submits through the link sits in a review queue until you approve it. Nothing gets written to a guest record automatically. Here's how each path works and when to use which.

Option 1: collect addresses inside RSVP

Turn on the address step in your RSVP settings and it appears as part of the flow guests already go through to say yes or no. It's skippable — a guest without their zip code handy isn't blocked from RSVPing — so expect some gaps you'll fill in later. This is the lowest-friction option because you're not asking guests to do anything extra; you're adding one field to a form they're already filling out.

Option 2: a standalone link or QR code

If you want addresses before RSVPs open, or you're catching guests who already RSVP'd through another channel, share the standalone address page instead. It lives at its own URL under your wedding site, with a QR code version for printing on save-the-dates or a table card. Guests land on a single form, submit their address, done — no RSVP question in the way.

What happens after a guest submits

This is the part worth understanding before you turn either one on. Addresses submitted through the standalone link don't go straight onto a guest record — they land in a holding queue first. Everly checks the name and email against your existing guest list and suggests a match. From the review panel on your Guests page, you then choose one of three things for each submission: apply it to the matching guest, create a new guest from it, or dismiss it. Nothing overwrites a guest row without you approving it — a duplicate submission or a mismatched name doesn't silently corrupt your list.

Where the addresses end up

Once applied, an address isn't a separate record — street, apartment, city, state, and zip are guest columns like any other field on that guest. They show up in your guest list view and they're already part of the guest CSV export, so pulling them for a mail merge or handing them to a stationer takes no extra step.

Which one should you use

Turn on the RSVP step if you haven't sent RSVPs yet and want addresses collected in the same pass. Use the standalone link if you've already collected some RSVPs, want a version to print on physical mail, or want a channel that doesn't ask guests to also answer the RSVP question. Most couples end up running both — the two paths feed the same review queue, so there's no conflict in using them together. Start on the address collection landing page if you're setting this up for the first time.