Wedding websites are becoming a very popular tool to use when planning your big day. Using this type of tool is a useful and a great way to build excitement! Furthermore, a website is a perfect resource to share more than can fit on a save the date or invitation. Websites can include bonus information like the engagement story and links to the gift registry or hotel blocks.
With the many changes the pandemic brought, couples looked to wedding websites to keep their guests updated. This gives you a platform to make announcements or updates along your wedding planning process. Wedding websites have become a common complement to save-the-dates or invitations. To easily share wedding details, gift registries, or accept RSVPs all in one is a perk for couples.
We will be going over some popular wedding website platforms like Wedding Wire, Zola, and The Knot! If you’re interested in what wedding websites have to offer and want to know the difference between them read below.
Main 3 Wedding Website Providers: What’s the Difference
Zola
- Cost: Free (Custom domain is $14.95)
- Registry: Zola-hosted registry
- RSVP services included
- 140+ design templates
- Matching Wedding Stationery
The Knot
- Cost: Free (Custom domain is $20)
- Registry: Easily hosts registries from many places, along with cash and experience gifts
- RSVP services included
- 100+ design templates
- Matching Wedding Stationery
WeddingWire
- Cost: Free (Custom domain is $24 for 1 year)
- Registry: WeddingWire-hosted registry
- 120+ design templates
- RSVP services included
Additional Website Information
If you have additional information to share about your wedding, your website is the place to share it! If you are using a website that allows you to add an album for your engagement photos, take advantage of it! Add a collection of your favorite photos of you and your fiancé throughout your relationship.
The website is also a great place to show some love to your wedding party! Many couples like to include their wedding party, sharing if they are a relative or friend, adding a photo, or a story to go along with listing each individual’s names.
If you have them, don’t forget these additional details on your website: your wedding hashtag, attire suggestions for the guests, and parking instructions for your ceremony or reception if it is not obvious upon arrival.
Making Your Wedding Website Unique
Here are two ideas to add to your website to further personalize it!
- How You Met and/or Engagement Story – While your closest friends probably can share these stories themselves, or were most likely involved along the way, you still have old friends or relatives who haven’t heard the story in its entirety. Your website gives you the opportunity to set it straight on what your official first date was, who said, ‘I love you” first, how the question was popped!
- Couple’s Top Shops – Share your favorite restaurants, pubs, and shops in the local area around your wedding! Perhaps you have a reason for why you’re getting married in that town or a local establishment you met at or had your first date at. Share the places that mean the most to you two, or suggest a spot to visit before or after the ceremony, after the wedding reception, or for breakfast the next morning.
Wedding Registries
Popular wedding website providers include registry integration to make it easy for your guests to shop for wedding gifts right from your site! Instead of sharing your long registry link on your physical invite, you can add your website URL, saying that your registry and more wedding details are on your wedding website. This encourages guests to use the website as a resource for your big day!
Keep in mind, some websites, like Zola and Wedding Wire, make it much easier if you are using their registry platforms. These registries let you include gifts from a variety of stores like Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Amazon. Instead of your guests shopping individually at each store, you would have one universal registry. If you do register for gifts at a few places separately, you can simply add links on your wedding website.
So, when you’ve run out of space on your wedding invitation, want a platform to share your favorite engagement photos, or want to share your favorite spots in the town of your wedding for your guests, a wedding website is a great solution!
Complete Weddings + Events in Tampa
Creating a wedding website helps build up excitement for the big day, and can be a great resource for your guests! Contact Complete Weddings + Event in Tampa to help knock out your wedding vendor team to help make this big day a success!