Creating A Wedding Website: Weddingwire For Beginners

WeddingWire is a great platform to create a wedding website and share all the details of your big day with your guests. The website can be set up in just a few minutes and is completely free of cost. WeddingWire offers beautiful, easy-to-use, and customizable design templates that can be personalised to match your wedding style and theme. You can add your own photos, share your love story, and even create a photo album. Additionally, you can include important information such as the date, time, and location of the wedding, travel and hotel details, and directions to the venue. WeddingWire also allows guests to RSVP directly on the website, making it a one-stop shop for all your wedding planning and communication needs.

Pick a design that matches your wedding's theme and style

WeddingWire's Wedding Website Tool makes it easy to create a personalised and free wedding website. The first step in your wedding website creation quest is to find a custom design that matches your wedding's theme and style.

Are you modern or classic? Romantic and vintage, or fun and funky? WeddingWire will help you find the wedding website template that best speaks to your colour scheme and style. You can also feature one of your engagement photos or a favourite snapshot as your website backdrop.

To keep things consistent, it's a good idea to match your website to your colour scheme and wedding theme. After you've selected a wedding website design, you can customise the colours to fit your palette. You can even change the fonts and website layout to make your site even more personalised.

• Modern wedding theme: This theme embraces a minimalist mindset to make a maximum impact. It is characterised by meticulous attention to detail, clean lines, geometric shapes, and neutral hues. Industrial venues such as art museums, wine bars, lofts, and warehouses are ideal for a modern wedding.
• Glamorous wedding theme: A glamorous wedding is all about creating a once-in-a-lifetime experience with top-notch service and attention to detail. It often features crystal chandeliers, elaborate floral arrangements, silk linens, and gold details. A swanky ballroom or regal château would be the perfect venue for this theme.
• Rustic wedding theme: A rustic wedding connects your celebration to nature and is usually held in venues such as barns, sheds, vineyards, or outdoors under a marquee or tree. It incorporates rustic elements such as timber, metal, and natural unstructured bouquets and flowers.
• Vintage wedding theme: A vintage wedding is reminiscent of a bygone era, often the Victorian era, the '20s, or '40s. This theme is expressed through the garments, hair, and makeup worn by the bridal party, as well as the venue styling, floral, and decoration choices. A cocktail wedding is usually more applicable to this theme, as cocktail parties were popular in the roaring '20s.
• Bohemian wedding theme: A bohemian wedding generally has a relaxed yet elegant vibe, with an element of nature incorporated into the styling choices. It often includes dried florals, pampas grass, dried palm leaves, eucalyptus, rattan, fringe, macramé, wood, and stone. A beach setting or a desert venue would be ideal for this theme.
• Romantic wedding theme: A romantic wedding creates a dreamlike setting with a warm colour palette, lush flowers, and soft fabrics enveloped in candlelight. An outdoor event, such as pitching a sailcloth tent along the coast or inviting loved ones to a garden or vineyard, would be ideal for this theme.
• Whimsical wedding theme: A whimsical wedding is playful and colourful, with quirky elements and a mix of a garden wedding and a fairytale aesthetic. It often includes mismatched bridal party outfits, thrifted china, creative wedding table numbers, and interactive entertainment such as a photo booth or live painter. A greenhouse, backyard, or mansion would be a perfect venue for this theme.

Start with the basics: date, location, and save-the-date page

WeddingWire’s Wedding Website Tool makes it easy to create a personalized and free wedding website. You can start with the basics: the wedding date, location, and a save-the-date page. This is all you need to create a wedding website, and you can add more details later as your wedding plans progress.

The save-the-date page is a great way to welcome your guests to your website and share basic information about your wedding. You can also let your guests know that more details will follow as your wedding planning progresses. For a fun touch, you could include a wedding date countdown so your guests can count down the minutes until your special day.

The wedding date, time, and location are the most important details to include on your website. You can also add travel information, hotel details, and directions to the venue, especially if you have reserved a block of hotel rooms. This information will be particularly useful for any out-of-town guests.

You can also include a save-the-date page with a custom domain name. WeddingWire allows you to enter a custom domain name, and their system will check its availability and make it quick and easy for you to reserve it.

Add more details: travel info, hotel details, and directions

WeddingWire's website builder makes it easy to add travel info, hotel details, and directions to your wedding website. Here's how to make the most of this feature:

Travel Information

Provide clear travel directions to the wedding venue, including transport options and approximate journey times. If your wedding is in a remote location, consider including a map and instructions on how to get there. You can also mention any transport arrangements you've made for guests, such as a shuttle service.

Hotel Accommodation

Share links to local hotels and accommodation options near the wedding venue. If you've reserved a block of rooms for guests, be sure to mention this and provide details on how to book within the reserved block. You may also want to recommend specific hotels that suit different budgets or offer special rates for larger groups.

Additional Details

Enhance your website with extra information that will be useful for your guests. You can include airport and flight details, rental car information (with any relevant discount codes), and a list of your favourite local restaurants. If your wedding is in a popular tourist area, you could also suggest local attractions and activities for guests to enjoy during their stay.

FAQ Section

Anticipate your guests' questions and create an FAQ section to provide clear answers. This will save you time answering individual queries and will ensure your guests have all the information they need. Include questions about dress code, parking, and any COVID-related health and safety measures that will be in place.

By including these details on your wedding website, you'll make it a valuable resource for your guests as they plan their attendance at your special day.

Create an FAQ section with dress code, wedding hashtag, and parking info

WeddingWire’s Wedding Website Tool makes it easy to create a personalised and free wedding website. One of the most important parts of creating a wedding website is the FAQ section, where you can answer your guests' questions about the dress code, wedding hashtag and parking information.

For the dress code, you can provide specific examples of what the dress code means, for example, "semi-formal: cocktail dresses and jumpsuits, dark suits and ties". If you don't have a specific dress code, you can give guests an idea of what would be appropriate, such as "sundresses, polo shirts, and slacks or shorts for a beach casual wedding".

For the wedding hashtag, you can include this in the FAQ section and also find opportunities to display it on your wedding day.

For parking information, you can let guests know if the venue has its own lot/garage, if there will be valet, or if guests are expected to find their own parking. If the latter, it is helpful to provide a list of suggested parking lots and/or garages.

You can also include other questions in the FAQ section, such as:

• What time should I arrive at the ceremony?
• Will the ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception take place indoors or outdoors?
• What will the weather be like?
• How do I get to the wedding venue? Will transportation be provided?
• Can I bring my kids?
• What type of food and drink will be served during the cocktail hour and reception?
• I have dietary restrictions/allergies. What's the best way to let you know?
• Will there be an open bar?
• Have you booked hotel room blocks for guests?
• Can I take pictures during the ceremony to post on social media?
• What's the best way to RSVP?
• When is the RSVP deadline?
• I can't attend the wedding in person. Will there be a virtual wedding celebration?
• I'm visiting from out of town. What can I do while I'm in [your wedding city]?
• Do you have a wedding registry?
• Can I bring my gift to the wedding?
• Will there be any other events to attend during the wedding weekend?
• What health and safety measures will you be taking during the event?
• How will you communicate any updated information and/or changes before the wedding?
• What's the best way to contact you if I have additional questions?

Include a guestbook, music requests, and info for wedding party

A guestbook, music requests, and info about the wedding party are all important features to include on your wedding website.

Guestbook

A guest book is a great way to allow more distant friends to share their well wishes without needing to call or text you. Guests can also use your wedding website to RSVP.

Music Requests

You can allow guests to submit music requests on your wedding website. If you are using WeddingWire, you can export a list of all of the song requests submitted by your guests. Just open the website editor, go to your RSVP page, hover over the song requests section and click on the wrench icon. Then, click on 'Export Song Requests' to export a CSV file.

Wedding Party Info

Your wedding website is a great place to give guests a sneak peek at the VIPs of your big day. You can list every member of your wedding party and include a photo and a little friendship bio for each. This will make your wedding party feel loved and help other guests know who's who when the processional begins.

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