01The essentials
Guests visit a wedding site with practical questions. Answer them in the order people ask, and keep each answer short enough to read standing in a hotel lobby.
| Section | What to include | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Home | Names, date, city, RSVP button | The one screen everyone sees |
| Schedule | Each event, start time, address, dress code | Stops guests arriving at the wrong time or place |
| Travel | Airports, hotel blocks, booking codes, deadlines, parking | Hotel blocks fill up and expire |
| RSVP | Deadline, attendance per event, meals, dietary needs | Caterers need final numbers |
| Registry | Links, or a note that you do not want gifts | Saves awkward questions |
| FAQ | Kids, plus-ones, dress code, photos, weather | Answers the texts before they come |
02Nice to have
These are optional, and guests skim them, but they make a site feel like yours rather than a template.
- Our story: how you met, in a few short paragraphs.
- Wedding party: names and a line about each person.
- Things to do: restaurants and sights for guests who travel.
- Photos: a few engagement photos, not an album.
- After the wedding: a link to shared photos, if you collect them.
03What to leave off
A wedding site is often public, and your names make it easy to find. Hacker News readers have built tools that guess wedding site addresses from common first-name pairs, which shows how findable the default addresses are. Keep the site to what guests need and use a password for anything sensitive; whether a wedding website should be private explains the options.
- Your home address or where you are getting ready.
- Dates you are away on honeymoon, which tell people when your home is empty.
- Bank details for cash gifts outside a registry provider.
- Guest lists, or anything that shows who is or is not invited.
04How to word it
Write the way you would text a friend: plain and specific. "Cocktail attire: suits and dresses; the lawn is grass, so skip stilettos" beats "Dress to impress". Put deadlines in bold or in the first line of their section. Give times in the local time zone of the wedding, which matters when guests fly in.
Design matters less than clarity, but a consistent font and palette help the site match your invitations. Wedding color palettes and the best fonts for websites help, and two fonts are plenty: a serif for names and headings, a plain sans-serif for details.
05A page order that works on a phone
Most guests open the site from a text message, so design for a phone first. On a small screen, every section is a scroll away from the RSVP button, which is why it should appear at the top and again at the bottom.
- 1First screenNames, date, city, one photo, RSVP button.
- 2ScheduleEvents in time order, each with a map link that opens the phone's map app.
- 3Travel and stayHotel blocks first, because they have deadlines; then airports, parking and transport.
- 4FAQGrouped by topic, most-asked first.
- 5Registry and RSVPThe registry link, then the RSVP button again.
What people who tried it say
Couples on Hacker News say guests used the site for directions, schedule and RSVPs, and that some older guests still needed the essentials on paper or explained in person.
- Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversaryHacker News
Couples with guests in several countries say the website did the work paper could not: RSVPs, directions and travel in one place. Others sent paper invitations as the formal invite and used the site only for details and RSVPs.
- Show HN: Find a random wedding websiteHacker News
The maker explained the tool pairs popular first names and checks common wedding-site address patterns, which shows how guessable many wedding site addresses are.
Looking for more first-hand opinions? Search Reddit for “what to put on a wedding website”. We link the live threads rather than summarizing them, so you read them in full.
Our take
the best wedding websites are short. If a section does not answer a question a guest would otherwise ask you, cut it.
Where this falls short
This covers what most Western-style weddings put online. Multi-day and destination weddings need more travel detail; some families prefer details by phone or in print for older guests.
Describe your wedding in a sentence or two and Orlume lays out the essentials (date, schedule, travel, FAQ) as a designed page you can publish.
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Sources
- 1.Free wedding websites · Zola
- 2.Just the FAQs · Joy
- 3.Wedding website builders compared: Joy, Zola, The Knot and the rest · Paperlust
Researched and written by the Orlume team · Updated October 2026
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