All your wedding website questions will be answered with this definitive guide on why and how you should make a Zola wedding website, what to include on it, and when to share it with your guests.
Jump through this step-by-step guide on making your beautiful wedding website:
There are a lot of things you need to do during the wedding planning process to prepare for your big day; for example, you need to choose a wedding venue, narrow down your guest list, and find the perfect wedding vendors.
But one important task you'll want to knock off your wedding planning checklist as soon as possible? Creating your wedding website.
A wedding website is a great way to share details about your upcoming nuptials with your loved ones. But what, exactly, is a wedding website—and as a couple, how do you know what to put on wedding website?
Let's take a look at all things wedding websites (include wedding website ideas!) to help you pull together a website to celebrate your big day:
A wedding website is a special webpage created just for your wedding day. It’s a one-stop shop used to help you communicate crucial wedding details with your friends and family (only those who are wedding guest, of course!), such as venue details, the weekend itinerary, the dress code, where you’re registered, travel and accommodation information, as well as photos. For some couples, it acts as a website invitation wedding—and is also how guests RSVP to the event.
Basically, you can think of it as an online help desk for your wedding day, helping you stay organized and push out important information to your guests.
The good news is that you don’t need a fancy website builder to create a wedding website of your dreams (or just one that matches your wedding stationery). Use Zola to build a free wedding website that easily keeps all of your information, recommendations and ideas, photo albums, wedding hashtag, online RSVP form, and more in one place.
Here’s how to do it—plus, what to include on a wedding website.
Typically, most couples make their wedding website public (so a guest who has misplaced their invitation can find it easily with a quick Google search), but if you choose to opt for a private website, your website should be shared with all of your wedding guests.
What you include on your wedding website is ultimately up to you and how personalized you want your site to be, but it’s best practice to include the following:
You should begin creating your wedding website as soon as you set your wedding date and have booked your wedding venue. Publish it and make it live the same time you send save the dates (roughly 6-8 months before the wedding day) so guests can read more about the event and begin making travel plans.
You should share your wedding website with your guests via your save the dates (or even your invitations) so they can easily go online to learn more details (and RSVP if you’ve opted to collect replies online).
But, what about sharing on social media? We recommend that you do not post your wedding website on your social media accounts. It creates confusion about who is actually invited and can lead to some uncomfortable conversations with uninvited individuals as a result.
Save the dates and invitations are limited in terms of space and what’s acceptable to include on them, which puts a cap on what you can communicate to guests through snail mail. Having a wedding site online is great because it gives guests a place to go if they have questions, rather than bombarding you with texts, calls, and emails. And they make life easier for your guests, too, while making travel plans or in case they lose the wedding invitation.
Instructions for how to make a wedding website will be different for everyone, depending on which platform you choose for your wedding website (or whether you decide to build one from the ground up on your own). Regardless of which method you choose, creating a wedding website is done by following these steps:
Clearly, we’re a bit biased, but the short answer is to make your wedding website on Zola. Thankfully, there’s a lot of evidence to back up our claim:
Looking for some more wedding website advice? Here are a few tips to help you make the most out of your wedding website:
Your wedding website is super helpful in the months and weeks leading up to your wedding. But it's also a great way to share all the amazing memories from your big day with your guests after the wedding.
Some elements you'll want to consider adding to your wedding website after you say your I do's include:
Now that you know all the benefits of creating a beautiful wedding website, and where to do so, what are you waiting for? Start designing your free wedding website on Zola today!