What to Put on Your Wedding Website: The Complete Checklist

Your wedding website has two jobs, and most couples only ever set it up for one. The first is obvious: tell guests where to be, when, and what to do. The second is quieter and easy to miss while you are deep in seating plans, but it is the one you will care about most in a year. Your website is also where the day lives afterwards.

This guide covers everything worth putting on a wedding website, the essentials nobody should skip, the sections that make it memorable, and the one thing almost every website gets wrong: planning for the photos and memories that arrive after the day, not just the logistics before it.

What should you put on a wedding website?

At minimum, a wedding website needs your names and date, the ceremony and reception details, an RSVP, travel and accommodation guidance, the dress code, an FAQ, and gift or registry information. Beyond those essentials, the sections that make a site memorable are your story, the people in your wedding, and a gallery built to hold the photos guests take.

The trick is to think about the whole arc. A great wedding website does three things across three phases: it informs before the day, it points guests to capture on the day, and it keeps everything afterwards.

The two jobs of a wedding website

A wedding website is both a logistics hub before the day and a living memory archive after it. Build it for both from the start and it keeps earning its place long after the last RSVP.

Job one: the logistics hub (before)

Before the day, your website answers questions so you do not have to. Every detail you publish well is a text message you never receive. Guests check the time, the dress code, the parking, the nearest place to stay, and whether children are invited, all without asking you.

Job two: the living memory archive (after)

After the day, your website becomes the place everyone returns to. The photographer's gallery, the candid photos guests took, the messages in the guest book, all in one home on a link your guests already know. Designed for this from the outset, it is something you open on your anniversary, not a page that goes stale the day after the wedding. We cover this in depth in how to share your wedding photos after the big day.

The essential sections every wedding website needs

These are the non-negotiables. Get them clear and complete and you have covered the questions guests actually ask.

1. Your names and the date

Lead with the basics, large and unmissable: your names, the date, and the city or region. A guest landing on the site should know who, when and roughly where within two seconds.

2. Ceremony and reception details

Give the full address of each venue in a form guests can copy straight into a maps app, plus start times and whether the ceremony and reception are in the same place. If guests move between venues, say how and how long it takes.

3. RSVP

An online RSVP is the simplest way to collect responses and keep a live count without chasing paper cards. Set a deadline around four weeks before the day, collect meal choices and dietary needs if you need them, and let the responses update automatically. We walk through the whole setup in how to set up online RSVPs for your wedding.

4. Travel and accommodation

Tell guests how to get there and where to stay. List a couple of nearby places to stay across price points, mention transport and parking, and flag anything unusual about the location. For guests travelling in, this section saves hours of back-and-forth.

5. Dress code

Spell out the dress code rather than leaving a one-word label to interpretation. "Black tie" means different things to different people; a sentence describing the feel you are after, and what the weather or venue might demand, prevents the anxious pre-wedding messages.

6. FAQ

The FAQ is one of the most-visited pages on a wedding website, so use it generously. Cover children, plus-ones, parking, timings, what to do between ceremony and reception, dietary options, and anything specific to your day. Eight to ten clear questions head off most queries.

7. Gifts or registry

Put gift and registry details on the website, never on the invitation itself. A short, gracious note with a link is all you need. If you would prefer contributions to something specific, say so warmly and clearly.

8. Schedule of events

A simple running order helps guests pace themselves and know what to expect, especially across a long day or a weekend. Keep it to the moments that matter: arrival, ceremony, meal, speeches, evening.

9. Weekend logistics and local recommendations

If guests are making a trip of it, a few recommendations, things to do, places to eat, a coffee for the morning after, turn your wedding into a weekend and your website into a host.

The sections that make a website memorable

The essentials cover the logistics. These sections are what make the site feel like you, and they are the ones guests actually enjoy.

Our Story

Your story is the most-read page on most wedding websites, so it is worth more than a list of milestones. Write something specific, the small true details rather than the generic arc, and let your voice come through. We have a full guide with examples in how to write your "how we met" story.

The wedding party or family

Introduce the people standing beside you. A short, warm line about each person helps guests connect names to faces and feel part of the circle.

A photo gallery built for its second life

Add a handful of photos before the day, but design the gallery for what comes after, because this is where the guest photos and the professional images will eventually live together. Treat it as the home of the day, not a decorative afterthought.

A living guest book

A digital guest book fills up with messages through the day and keeps them, unlike a paper book that ends up in a drawer. It becomes part of the keepsake you return to.

Guest photo sharing: why most websites get this wrong

Almost every wedding website treats guest photos as an afterthought, and it is the biggest missed opportunity of the lot. The photos your guests take are the candid heart of the day, and without a deliberate plan most of them never reach you.

The friction problem

The usual approach, a QR code to a browser upload, sounds frictionless but is not. Uploading through a browser at a party means leaving the camera, finding a tab, waiting for a page and choosing from the camera roll. Guests do it once and stop, so you capture the first dance and little after it.

The two-gallery model

What you actually want is two galleries in one: your photographer's curated set and your guests' candid feed, side by side in the same place. The polished and the unscripted together tell the whole story of the day, and keeping them in one home means you are not hunting across phones and chats a month later. Our full playbook is in how to collect every guest photo at your wedding.

Where the companion app fits

This is where a wedding-day app earns its place. Guests join by scanning a code or entering an invite code, then capture with native-camera quality, wedding-day filters, and the two things no browser tool offers, sixty-second voice toasts and short video messages. The website is the hub before and the keepsake after; the app is the capture on the day; and everything the app captures flows onto the website. See how the two fit together on the companion app page.

What to leave off your wedding website

Some things do not belong on a public wedding website, mostly for privacy and security. Leave these off, or put them behind a password.

• Your home address and personal phone numbers. Use the FAQ or a contact form instead.
• Bank details in plain view. Keep gift contributions to a secure, intended method.
• Anything you would not want a stranger to read. Wedding sites are often public; password-protect the site if you want to share sensitive logistics or keep the guest list private.
• Overly long blocks of text. Guests skim on phones; be generous with detail but ruthless with padding.

If privacy matters to you, a password is the simple answer. It keeps casual searchers out while letting your guests in with one shared code.

A phase-by-phase timeline

Build your website in stages rather than all at once, releasing each section when guests need it. The detail on timing is in when should you create your wedding website, but the short version is three phases.

• Launch with your save-the-dates. A simple site with names, date, location and a way to register interest is enough to start.
• Fill it out with your invitations. Add the RSVP, full details, travel, accommodation, FAQ, registry and schedule once the invitations go out.
• Open it up after the day. Switch the site's centre of gravity to the gallery and guest book, and keep it live so people can revisit and add photos.

How to write each section well

Good wording is what separates a clear, warm website from a stiff one. A few principles carry across every section.

• Write for a phone. Short paragraphs, clear headings, no walls of text.
• Be specific over generic. "Parking is free in the car park behind the church" beats "parking available".
• Describe the dress code, do not just label it. A sentence on the feel and the setting saves a dozen questions.
• Keep the tone yours. Warm and human reads better than formal and stiff, on every section from the FAQ to Our Story.

Your quick-reference checklist

Use this as a final pass before you share the site.

• Names, date and location, clear at the top
• Ceremony and reception addresses, copy-pasteable, with times
• Online RSVP with a deadline and any meal or dietary fields
• Travel, parking and accommodation guidance
• Dress code, described not just labelled
• FAQ with eight to ten real questions
• Gift or registry details (never on the invitation)
• Schedule or running order
• Our Story and the people in your wedding
• A gallery and guest book built for after the day
• A plan for collecting guest photos, set up before the day
• Sensitive details left off or password-protected

Set up well, a wedding website is not a chore you tick off, it is the one place that carries your wedding from the first save-the-date to the memories you relive years later. To see how the website and a wedding-day capture app work as one, visit the companion app page.