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What to put on a wedding website, when to launch it, how to handle registry and RSVP pages, and the privacy settings that keep your guests and your home safe.
A wedding website should hold everything guests need to plan: date, times and addresses, the schedule of events, travel and accommodation, dress code, RSVP, and a quiet link to your registry. Launch it before you send save-the-dates, so guests can find details as soon as they know the date, and keep updating it until the wedding. For privacy, use a password or a hard-to-guess address, leave out your home address, and do not advertise when your home will be empty.
The Emily Post Institute's wedding website advice is to have the website ready before you send save-the-dates, and certainly before the invitations. The save-the-date can then point guests to it. For the wider timeline, see when to send save-the-dates and invitations, or use the invitation timeline tool below.
Wedding website pages and what goes on each: Home, Your names, date, city, and a short welcome; Schedule, Each event guests are invited to, with times and addresses; Travel and stay, Nearest airports or stations, parking, hotels, any room block and its deadline; RSVP, The deadline, meal choices, dietary needs, accessibility needs; Dress code, What the dress code means in plain words; Registry, A link, kept low-key; FAQs, Children, plus-ones, parking, weather, photos during the ceremony; Our story, Optional: how you met, kept short.
A wedding website is public unless you make it private, and it holds your full names, a date and a location.
Guests will check the site in the final week. Update it if times, the venue or the weather plan change, and put the most urgent details at the top of the home page. Send a short message to guests too, since not everyone will look.
Before you send save-the-dates, so the address can go on them. Add the RSVP page and full schedule by the time invitations go out.
Many couples add it to an enclosure card or the save-the-date rather than the main invitation, which is what Emily Post suggests. Either way, make sure every guest can find it.
If you are sharing times, places or travel details, a password is a sensible default. It keeps the information for the people you invited.
Your home address, events that not every guest is invited to, dates your home will be empty, and anything personal you would not want strangers to read.
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