Managing dietary requirements

Learn how to record and track dietary needs for your guests, either by entering them manually or letting guests submit their requirements through the RSVP form.

Keeping track of what your guests can and can't eat is one of those things your caterer will thank you for. WedSites makes it easy to record and manage dietary info for every guest.

Adding dietary requirements

  1. Go to Guests in your main navigation
  2. Click on the guest
  3. In the Details tab, find the Dietary field
  4. Type in their dietary needs (like "Vegetarian", "Gluten-free", "Nut allergy")
  5. Click Save guest

The field is free-text, so you can type whatever makes sense. If the guest has no dietary requirements, you can leave it blank or type "None."

Removing dietary requirements

Just clear the Dietary field and save. Easy.

Collecting dietary requirements through RSVP

You don't have to manually enter this for every guest! If you've enabled the RSVP feature, you can ask guests to submit their own dietary requirements when they RSVP online. This saves you a ton of time.

To enable this, go to your RSVP settings and make sure dietary collection is turned on. Check out our configuring RSVP field collection article for the full setup.

Filtering by dietary requirements

You can filter your guest list to show only guests who have (or don't have) dietary requirements:

  1. Click Filter guests
  2. Under Dietary, select:
    • Has dietary - Shows guests with something entered
    • No dietary - Shows guests with nothing entered
  3. Click Apply filters

This is handy when you need to give your caterer a list of special meals.

Tips

Be specific. "Allergic to shellfish" is more useful than "food allergy." The more detail, the better your caterer can accommodate.

Let guests tell you. Enable dietary collection in your RSVP settings so guests can enter this info themselves. It's more accurate and saves you the work.

Export for your caterer. You can export your guest list with dietary info as a CSV to share with your venue or caterer.

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