The Best Wedding Websites for Your Big Day

Joy stands out for hitting the mark on detailed wedding websites powered by organizational and planning tools, all for free.

Founded in 2016 by two Microsoft alum, Joy offers a virtually all-in-one wedding website that organizes and communicates vital logistics, combines wedding registry, guest management and RSVP capabilities, and a provides a mobile app—all for free.

Choose from hundreds of pre-designed website templates to customize with color and font preferences, and if you’re handy with code, you can personalize a wedding website some more. 

The company’s software technology also provides: 

• Personalized guest schedules
• Travel tools (including booking buttons for Lyft and Uber)
• Space to include wedding party bios
• Multiple website editor access

A companion app makes event planning and messaging guests on-the-go easy.

The Knot launched in 1996 as a media company, and though its variety of template designs may not be as extensive or as customizable as competitors, users like that they can publish their website quickly and easily. The Knot also stands out for offering more robust planning and event management tools, like: 

• A budgeter tool to track event expenses
• An event checklist and timeline
• A guestlist to track RSVPs, meal, and hotel selections
• Tools to manage thank yous and gift tracking

Event live streaming capabilities are also available.

Wedding websites built via The Knot—which include pages to drop in day-of event info, love story, and registry—are also mobile friendly, and its companion app even allows guest messaging. Sort through website templates categorized by theme, including by most popular, romantic, botanical, rustic, and modern.

Budgeting tools and multilingual website translation are just a few key features.

For those planning a destination wedding, additional support is available with WedSite’s Standard or Pro options. Its entry-level, free Lite option grants access to:

• Customizable, pre-made wedding website templates
• Website hosting for 12 months
• The ability to link to a gift registry, cash fund, or charity

However, investing in WedSite’s paid tiers include:

• Website hosting for 24 months
• Planning and event management features like paperless invitations, a custom RSVP questionnaire form, and digital save the date
  

The Pro option (a one-time payment of $199) offers advanced features for five user accounts, including:

• Multilingual website translation
• Budgeting tools
• Event checklist and timeline, printable reports, and vendor payment reminders

Choose from more than 30 pre-made wedding website templates, which doesn’t seem like a lot until you realize you can customize colors, fonts, accents, and even upload custom calligraphy and monograms.

WedSites was founded in 2017 in Melbourne, Australia, by a couple with a background in wedding coordination, web design, and software development.

Custom guest management system and beautiful pre-made templates make a paid subscription to Riley & Grey appealing.

Building a wedding website with Riley & Grey offers: 

• A number of unique templates 
• Guest management system that includes features like guest messaging
• Customized RSVPs in which guests can only see which events they’re invited to (including plus-one permissions)
• A way to collect key event information like food preferences
• Extras like reception song requests

Though the website asks users to submit an email to view website design templates, once in, the site does let you edit and preview a potential wedding website before purchasing. Once it’s published, a mobile-friendly site is available for guests to conveniently reference. Website password protection is also an option.

Like other competitors, Riley & Grey also offers a matching paper suite should one also want tangible wedding invitations. Unlike some competitors, the company automatically hides published wedding websites from search engines like Google for privacy, though a quick email to customer support can reverse that.

For a free wedding website builder, most will be satisfied with the range of templates options and features, like the option to purchase matching paper invitations and save the dates.

For those who don’t want to spend a lot of time on website design and customization, Minted does most of the heavy lifting at virtually no cost. Use Minted’s free wedding website builder to choose from template styles ranging from minimalistic with clean lines to templates with floral touches, water color schemes, and more. There are hundreds of options to choose from, and all are designed by independent artists. 

And since Minted originally began as a custom stationery company, you can choose to order paper goods like save the dates, bridal and wedding shower invitations, and thank you favor tags to match the wedding website theme.

Users like the easy-to-navigate website dashboard and how quickly it is to get a website published.

A free wedding website with Minted includes: 

• Various website layout options
• A mobile-friendly site
• RSVP address collection
• Password protections
• Photo gallery
• Custom pages

Upgrading to the paid option includes all of the above, plus:

• A custom URL

Elegant and eye-catching website templates can be customized with a unique URL, videos, and translated in multiple languages.

Dozens of elegant and most customizable pre-designed wedding templates from Bliss & Bone allow users to: 

• Create a custom URL
• Manage RSVPs 
• Create pages as needed 

Additionally, you can translate website copy into multiple languages, include videos, and choose to send online and/or paper invitations.

When selecting a wedding website template as a jumping off point, use the drop-down filter to sort through designs in themes like classic, editorial, minimal, moody, and vintage.

Subscription plans begin at $12/month for website hosting and access to the website builder. 

Upgrading to its Premium option offers the ability to: 

• Create private events
• Set up a photo gallery
• Verify guests for added security

Both subscription tiers offer a free, seven-day trial.

The company’s origins as a wedding registry service means more features and integrations with other elements of your wedding planning.

Zola bills itself as a wedding planner in your back pocket, with the addition of free wedding websites. The company, which was originally founded in 2013 as an online wedding registry service, now offers a suite of wedding planning resources, including: 

• Invitations (digital and paper)
• A registry that integrates with partner vendors like Crate & Barrel; Parachute; and Flytographer, a platform to book destination photographers 

Past Zola users enjoyed the capability to select when you’d like wedding gifts shipped home, as well as the option to receive cash gifts, experiences, and charity donations on the newlyweds’ behalf.

Websites also include: 

• Guest list manager to track RSVPs which syncs to your wedding website 
• Custom website domains may be purchased for a fee 

Its online boutique also offers wedding party accessories like jewelry and robes, party favors, and decor.