Our Top Picks for the Best Websites for your Wedding
Wedding websites are the best way to keep guests informed of all your wedding details. While that used to be what wedding invitations were for, to be honest those have really just become a formality. Don’t get us wrong, we still love invites. But most wedding guests aren’t using them for information anymore. And this is where your wedding website comes in! When looking for a wedding website, there are a few key items you want to make sure yours has:
Easy to navigate with a Simple URL:
A menu with tabs you can create for your Hotels, Ceremony + Reception, Love Story, Registry, and RSVP will help guests get the information they need for your wedding and the events surrounding it.
Online RSVP:
While you’ve no doubt spent at least an hour putting stamps on those tiny RSVP reply cards, having an online option means guests can choose which method they prefer. Alternatively you could opt for online-only RSVP, and just send reply cards to your older relatives who might not be as computer-savvy as others.
Our Top Picks:
1. Joy
Price: Free
Features: Joy wedding websites feature a sleek design, highly-functional interface, and accompanying app that will make managing your guest list easy.
100+ themes to choose from that you can also coordinate with environmentally-friendly Paperlust and Paperculture Save the Dates and wedding invites
Use it to stream virtual wedding events
Allows multiple admins
Digital RSVPs
Global guest list tool allows you to manage and tag guests (including +1’s) all in one place. (You can also import your any guest list spreadsheets, too).
Tags make it easy to filter by groups such as where you know them from (“high school friends”), dating status (“single”), or whether they’re bringing kids.
See which guests have opened their invites. Plus, ask guests everything from their meal choices to their travel plans
Notify guests of upcoming events or changes, and message them directly from your guest list. You can even send them digital Save the Dates and invites
Collect guest photos and showcase them in live slideshows (and decide if you want guests to be able to share them on Facebook and Instagram)
Create or link your wedding registries, including retailers and cash funds
Share your love story and introduce your wedding party with photos and bios
Guests can book travel directly via your wedding website
Password protect your entire site and specific pages (like one for your bachelorette party) that only guests invited to that particular event can see
2. Minted
Price: Free. You can also select a premium wedding website upgrade for $15 that lets you pick a custom url and add a photo gallery.
Features: With gorgeous designs from their collective of independent artists, you can create a wedding website that feels bespoke yet still manages to be easy-to-use for both you and guests.
Hundreds of website designs with matching stationery options from your invites to your menus.
A simple dashboard that guides you through the website creation process, with a live preview of any changes you make.
Add pages for multiple events (such as your Bridal Shower, Rehearsal Dinner, etc.) and assign guests to each.
Create custom RSVP questions for every event (like whether they want chicken or fish).
Universal Guest List will help collect addresses with matching Digital Address Cards. Plus, Minted will track RSVPs and then address your wedding envelopes for free. (We’re obsessed with their font options for this, BTW.) Bonus? You’ll now have those addresses ready for Minted holiday cards later on.
Option to work with your own Minted designer on a completely custom design. (The current price is $98 and includes an upgrade to a Premium website.) Pom Occasions clients also can receive 35% off.
3. Zola
Price: Free. If you want a custom domain you can add one starting at $14.95.
Features: Zola’s free wedding websites offer pretty much every tool under the sun, including tons of designs, integration with their wedding registry, one of the best guest list managers we’ve seen, and a wedding checklist tool that will basically plan your wedding for you. It will also:
Collect addresses by sending guests e-mail and track RSVPs in real-time
Format addresses for printed save the dates and invitations
Manage plus ones and meal preferences
Integrate your Zola wedding registry and any other stores you might be registered at
Change your wedding website design at any time and re-order your pages including your Home, Schedule, Travel, Registry, Wedding Party, Photos, Things to Do, FAQs, RSVP
Enter your wedding date and their free checklist tool will create due dates (they’ll also incorporate any cultural or religious traditions)
Password protected site
Wedding website and seamless connection to registry apps
4. The Knot
Price: Free. If you want a custom domain name it’s 19.99/year.
Features: There are a ton of great-looking themes to choose from (which you can change at any time), and you can organize your guest lists, add addresses, as well as track invites and RSVPs for multiple events. While they give you suggested pages and sections to use, you can also create as many unique website pages you want in addition to these features on your Knot wedding website:
Choose from multiple themes and colors
Synced registry options that allow you to add anything from a honeymoon fund to department store
See which hotels offer discounted room blocks near your venue right on your website dashboard
Guest list manager that allows you to add guests to multiple events, assign a household, and help you collect guest addresses via a secure url you can e-mail them
A combined wedding checklist and budget tool that helps you stay on track
Create a photo album, share a Facebook album, or enter your wedding hashtag and pull in Instagram photos from guests
Import your guest list or add it manually to the ‘Guest List’ section
5. Wedding Wire
Price: Free. Plus the option to add a custom domain for $24/year.
Features:
Choose from over 30 designs and customize your page layouts and colors
Digital RSVPs
Preview the way your wedding website will look across all devices (desktop, phone)
Add fun survey and quizzes
Out-of-town guests can browse nearby hotels or add Airbnb options all within your personal website
Connect with various online wedding registries
6. Aisle Planner
Price: Free with your online Aisle Planner portal that comes with our Partial & Full Service offerings.
Features:
Digital RSVPs that allow you multi-faceted guest management tools
Digital messaging tool for last minute correspondence.