Cut the Cake

Cut the Cake makes invitation pages that guests can RSVP to, for events people host themselves: a birthday dinner, an anniversary party, a reunion, a tasting at a venue. Give this plugin what you know about the event (a title, a date and time, a place, a short description) and it returns a link. Opening the link shows the invitation with those details in place. That first step needs no account.

Once the host presses Keep this invitation and signs in, they choose on Cut the Cake which events the plugin may open and what it may do. It can then read and change those events: the title, date, time and place, and the place's street address where the host gives it; the wording; the colors, type and cover photo, which can be a picture from the conversation, attached or one ChatGPT generated; the host's own sections, the menu and the potluck's sign-up sheet; which features are on, such as a photo booth, song requests, a potluck list, Awards or a gift exchange; and who can come. It can add guests from a list or spreadsheet, with their answers and phone numbers, after showing you the summary, add songs you name to the playlist, showing you the versions to choose from when a song has several, set up awards for guests to vote on, and write a message to guests that is left as a draft. Where the host allows it, it can report how many people are coming and how many photos, guestbook notes, song requests and potluck sign-ups guests have added, show the host their guest list in the chat, or read guests' names and answers, and then record an answer the host was told somewhere else ("Joe texted me, he's coming"): yes, no or maybe, who is coming, their dishes, and an email address or phone number the host gives, each put to the host before it is saved, and, only where the host turned that on, add a co-host by the address the host gives, after putting that exact address to the host. The host watches each change appear on their own screen.

It is for anyone hosting an event who wants replies collected in one place and would rather shape the invitation in a conversation than in a form.

Limitations: the plugin does not produce an image, a card or a PDF. It never sends an invitation or a message, never deletes anything, and never gives the assistant a guest's email address, phone number or note (a guest list the host asks to see is drawn for the host alone). It cannot publish on its own: publishing is the host's own press, on a button in the chat or on Cut the Cake. It keeps working on an event after it is published only where the host chose that, and a change there shows to guests right away; moving a published event's date, time, place or address is put to the host first. A connection ends when the host removes it, and after 30 days in any case.