How to Build a Wedding Website (Without It Taking Over Your Life)
Category: Wedding Websites · Published 2026-09-25
A wedding website exists for one reason: so you never have to answer "what time does the ceremony start?" by text message again. Done well, it answers every question your guests would otherwise ask you, collects your RSVPs, and quietly makes the whole wedding easier to run. Done badly, it becomes another job on the list.
Here is how to do it well, in one evening.
## Start with the questions guests actually ask
Before you choose colours or fonts, write down the questions you have already been asked. They are almost always the same ten:
- Where is the ceremony, and what time does it start?
- Where is the reception, and how do I get between the two?
- Where do I park?
- Can I bring a plus one?
- Are children invited?
- What is the dress code?
- Where should we stay nearby?
- What time does it finish?
- Do you have a gift list?
- How do I RSVP?
Your website only needs to answer these. Everything else is decoration.
## The pages that matter
**The details page.** Date, times, addresses with postcodes, and a map link for each venue. Put the postcodes in large type. guests will be typing them into a satnav in a car park.
**Travel and staying over.** The nearest train station, taxi numbers, and three or four places to stay at different prices. If you have arranged a coach or a block of hotel rooms, say so plainly.
**RSVP.** This is where a website earns its keep. An online RSVP that asks for names, dietary requirements and song requests saves you a spreadsheet and a shoebox of reply cards. Give a deadline, and make it at least six weeks before the wedding so your caterer gets final numbers in time.
**Gifts.** One short paragraph and a link. Nobody wants to read an apology for having a gift list. just say what you would like and move on.
## What to leave off
Leave off anything you would not put on a printed invitation. That means no live countdown (guests know when the wedding is), no long "how we met" essay unless you genuinely enjoy writing it, and no public schedule of your supplier setup times. Keep the day-of logistics between you and your venue.
One more thing: do not put your full home address or honeymoon dates on a public page. Keep the site private with a password if it holds anything sensitive.
## Get the wording right once
Write the answers the way you would say them to a friend. "The ceremony starts at 1pm, so please arrive by 12.30" beats a paragraph of formal phrasing. Guests skim; short sentences win.
Then send the link out with your invitations, and let the website do the answering.
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