Choosing the Best Wedding Website
Gone are the days of RSVP cards that guests lose, forget to return, or get lost in the mail. Online websites are an innovative new gift to wedding planning! Saving endless follow-ups, questions and clarifications for guests, online websites track everything for your guest listing, RSVP confirmations from guests, and can include anything else you want your guests to know about your special day such as:
Meal selections
Sharing the seating plan
Input for dietary restrictions
Song Requests
Venue specifics
Shuttle information
Registry links for simplified gift-giving
Hotel Accommodation information nearby
Photo Sharing
Timeline and details of the day (including special requests)
Introduce your guests to your wedding party
Sharing your love story
An online wedding website essentially communicates with your guests for you, and in today’s high-tech world, it is considered essential for simplifying your big day by eliminating the hassles of emails and phone calls close to your wedding. The best website builders allow you to track RSVPs, message guests, manage your vendors, provide hotel recommendations and integrate your registry seamlessly
Online Replies not only simplify the communication process but save money. Choosing the right online wedding website for you can be a daunting task.
If you are trying to navigate the many options out there, here are some key comparables for my top pick websites to consider.
Popular as one of the best overall website builders available, The Knot has 160+ free website designs. It is free but be wary of all the add-ins that can cost money.
It has an easy to use registry builder but requires an American bank account to integrate with Amazon, or make a “Honeymoon or Future Fund”.
It offers an array of tools to allow you to customize it for you and is extremely easy to create and use.
The website designs are lovely but not customizable so if this is important to you, it may not be your best choice.
100% FREE - Great for couples on a budget offering services that often cost extra on other sites.
It costs nothing to create your own wedding app, usually an additional cost.
Lacks some of the extensive wedding tools compared to the Knot
You have to add registries manually
A free Canadian website that works like the Knot, wedding wire allows you to plan a multitude of activities for your wedding including your budget, venues and seating charts.
It is the full suite of planning tools and forums to plan and connect with vendors.
Although there are more than 400+ design templates, they are less aesthetically appealing than the Knot, therefore decreasing its popularity.
Designed as an event planner, this easy website builder offers a great product for compiling results of your guest list, sorting them into seating charts and other decisions for your wedding day.
Offers predetermined responses for guests to get all the information you need.
Although easy to set up, exporting lists have had reviews of glitches and names being missed adding time and potential errors for your day.
Of course, there are other wedding website builders out there that can be used even if they are not wedding-specific and may be worth checking out such as Wix, Wordpress or Squarespace.
I have to admit that I and many of us still love the hard-copy stationery options for RSVP and collection of guest information. The beautiful thing about your online website builder is you can find the one that suits your needs and interests, and keep the beautiful traditions you want.
