Your Guide to Building The Perfect Wedding Website

Do you want an easy way to collect responses from your friends and family for your wedding, without the struggle of having to wait for physical mail or call each person until they respond? Or maybe you’re getting tired of answering the same questions about your ceremony date and venue over and over? Making note of dietary restrictions and allergies is another detail that can often get lost in the shuffle of event planning. 

What I’m getting at is that building a website for your wedding is a massive time-saver and stress reliever. If you’re having a local wedding or if you’re planning a destination event, there’s bound to be lots of coordination required and important info to share with your guestlist and vendors. If you take the time to create even the simplest of websites, you’ll thank yourself in the long run! Keep reading for a few of the big reasons why I recommend a website, who it benefits, and where you can get started.

What event information should be made available online? There are so many bits you can include on your webpage, from the obvious to the small notes you want to share with the people you’re inviting. You can use a wedding website to provide travel accommodation details to your guests, links to room blocks at your venue, provide dress code guidelines, and share basic event information such as date, times, and locations. If you have a wedding registry you can add the link to that on your webpage as well, eliminating the need for your loved ones to ask you another question when you’re already neck deep in planning details! Have an important update or last minute change you need to share? No need to worry about contacting each individual guest when you’ve got a website that can do the work for you.  

TIP! My RSVP stationery designs come with options to include a QR code or link to a webpage, giving people a fool-proof way to submit their attendance response in style.

RSVP Luggage Tag with QR Code

Boarding Pass with Online RSVP

Not only can you share info, but you can also request info too! Gather RSVP responses online instead of chasing down each person you sent an invite, collect meal selections if you’re giving attendees food options at the reception, and ask for attendee addresses so it’s easy for you to prepare and send thank you cards when the time comes. 

Your next question might be, is it actually worth the time to build a website? Especially if you have no graphic design or limited digital skills? If creating web pages is something you love to do, of course you can dive right into the deep end and start from scratch, personalising every little aspect. However, if you’re looking for something more straightforward that’s still beautiful to look at, customizable, and easy to understand, there are countless tools at your disposal. And bonus - many of them are free to use! I’ve included a list of popular options below. Take a look at the tools available and decide which offers the features and designs that appeal to you the most. You truly can’t go wrong! 

• The Knot
• Say I Do
• Joy
• Wix
• Zola

Who actually uses the wedding website? Well, not only will you cut down the time spent responding to questions from your guestlist, but those invited will also appreciate the ease of having a hub where they can quickly go to check where they need to be and when. Having been a bride myself, as well as a guest to many weddings, I can confidently say that wedding webpages make everybody’s life a lot easier. Event planners and vendors you hire will also benefit from having a link they can reference at any point outlining your wedding style, dates, dress code, and the amount of people planning on attending. This is especially true if you’re organising a destination wedding where vendors aren’t locally accessible to you during the height of the planning process. 

Let’s wrap things up by reviewing the top advantages of having a wedding website: 

• Save yourself from tons of repetitive calls and messages by providing key details right off the bat.
• Share extra notes that might not fit on your formal, paper invitation. 
• Useful for friends, family, and vendors needing to access particulars about your wedding.
• Collect attendee information that will save YOU time and effort throughout the wedding planning process. 
• Easy to put together, and customize to match the tone of your event using one of the online tools linked above; we love cohesiveness!
• Any last minute changes to your event can be shared out to your guests with one simple update online, rather than dozens of the same email or phone call having to be made. 
• Accessible 24/7, 365.