What are the benefits to having a wedding website?
Many times couples will wonder about having a wedding website, the purpose behind it, and should they have one to start with.
Today, we’ll dive into those answers and help determine if you should have one for your upcoming wedding day.
What is a wedding website?
The purpose of a wedding website is to have a central location where you can send friends, family, and loved ones that will help detail the day and show the planning process of your wedding.
As you start to develop things like a color scheme, the menu for your dinner service, perhaps a theme, you can showcase samples of that on the website.
Many times, couples will also have an RSVP system on the page as well as some images from their engagement session or other related materials they feel are important, like directions, times, and the like.
Couples Make a Wedding Website
What are the benefits of having a wedding website?
The key benefit is being able to communicate with everyone without having to connect with them. Simply giving the website address on a save-the-date or wedding invitation can greatly help answer all the typical questions couples tend to get.
Where should we park?
What time do we need to be there?
Is there a dress code?
Can we bring the kids?
Countdown to the Wedding
Those are just a few examples f things that you can address on the website.
Additionally, keeping it fresh with content will help keep guests coming back. Maybe it’s a sneak peek of the wedding dress or something fun that you’re planning like a bridal shower.
You can also put all the vendor info on the page, who is the photographer and their website, the venue’s directions and phone number, local hotel information, etc.
The other benefit here is that if you need to make a change, you only have to do it once, on the website. Without one, you may have to call, email,and notify people about the same thing, several times over.
Where should I create my site?
Great question!
Some of the most used websites include:
There are plenty of others, but these tend to be the four that couples steer to because they have a free version and they are fairly easy to set up and use. If you want to go a somewhat professional and paid route, consider using Squarespace.
Should we even have a wedding website?
Well, it depends, the truth is that you don’t really need one, but it helps greatly. being able to have everything in one central location just makes things easy for you and for everyone too.
I’ve seen more couples in the last 5-7 years put up a site, even if it’s somewhat basic, it’s definitely something that I recommend that you do.
Each of the vendors listed above has its advantages and disadvantages, limitations, and feature sets.
Truthfully, this is a minor line item in the overall picture of the wedding, so if you decide against it, don’t sweat it, but having one helps greatly in a world of smartphones and wireless devices.
