Wedding Websites
What to Put on Your Wedding Website: The Complete Checklist
Fizz Wedding(Updated )9 min read
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
Invite family and friends to share their photos, videos, and well-wishes in one beautiful space.
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These are the non-negotiables. Get them clear and complete and you have covered the questions guests actually ask.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 essentials cover the logistics. These sections are what make the site feel like you, and they are the ones guests actually enjoy.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Some things do not belong on a public wedding website, mostly for privacy and security. Leave these off, or put them behind a password.
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.
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.
Good wording is what separates a clear, warm website from a stiff one. A few principles carry across every section.
Use this as a final pass before you share the site.
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.
