You’ve ticked off so many requirements for the perfect wedding. You’ve got an engagement ring (yay!), decided on a wedding date, and venue. You’ve picked your bridesmaids and groomsmen. After a lot of deliberation, you have your guest list. What’s next on your list? Creating a wedding website.
What is a wedding website?
A wedding website is the perfect opportunity to tell your love story and communicate all the important details about your big day. Through photos and notes, you can create a story about how you met, and how your relationship blossomed. Think of it as writing a real life rom-com or romance.
You can also use the wedding website to add information that wouldn’t fit onto your invitation.
Wedding websites create a cohesive vision
Go to Lovebird.com, the premium platform for elegant wedding guest communication, and choose your save the date announcements and digital wedding invitations. Once you have chosen the design that speaks to your heart, you can then use that same theme for your wedding website. Before you send out the invitations, make sure they have a link to your wedding website. Add a line to the bottom of the invitation stating that hotel, venue, etc., information is readily available on the wedding website.
Lovebird has a beautiful collection of wedding websites to choose from, all of which are fully customizable with fonts, colors, and photo personalization.
Use the wedding website to describe your wedding theme and use photos to illustrate your vision. For example, if you’ve decided on a 1920s speakeasy-styled wedding, or pearls and bows, Lovebird’s designs can match any idea that you have for your wedding. When your guests receive their invitation, and then visit your wedding website, they’ll know what a special day you’ve planned for everyone.
What should you add to your wedding website?
A wedding website can introduce the rest of the wedding party and your family to all your guests. When it comes to planning a wedding, your wedding website is a fantastic time-saving tool. Turn your wedding website into the go-to spot where wedding guests can obtain all the information they need for your big event anytime they need it. With a wedding website, you’ll no longer have to send monthly or weekly newsletters to guests. Instead of spending hours on a laptop working on a wedding newsletter, you can do other things, like sleep!
Customize your Lovebird’s wedding website to suit your needs. Their wedding website samples are excellent sources of inspiration. On your wedding website, you can combine storytelling and practical information in one spot. Here’s how you can do this: create a section for every aspect of your wedding. Lovebird guides you through each one, which makes it super simple.
Here are a few suggestions for what to include:
- Highlight a favorite photo of you two.
- If you want to add a cool touch, include a countdown clock.
- Add a welcome note. “Dear friends and family, we’re so happy you’ll be able to celebrate our wedding with us. You’ll find everything you need to about our big day here.”
- For the “Your Story” section, write two or three paragraphs about how the two of you met and fell in love. You could also write a few paragraphs on how the two of you knew that you were each other’s person. Another idea would be to write about how the proposal occurred. Add photos for a more personal touch.
- For the Schedule of Events: Whether you’re throwing a series of parties before and after the wedding, or a pre-wedding cocktail party, rehearsal dinner and wedding, or rehearsal dinner and wedding, or rehearsal dinner, wedding, and after wedding brunch, use this section as your calendar. For each event, use the date and time, name of the venue and a brief description of the place and menu. You can add links to the restaurant and wedding venue, map, and let them click to add it to their own calendar
- Travel Details: You can use this section to highlight hotels in the area. If you’ve procured a wedding block at a hotel, add that information in this section. Do add a link to the hotel’s website, their phone number, and if there’s a promo code. If guests are traveling from afar, you can suggest airlines or name nearby airports.
- Registry: Lovebird allows you to link your wedding registry (or registries) to your wedding website. This makes tracking gifts easy on both the guest and bride and groom.
- Wedding Party: Use this section to showcase your maid of honor, best man, bridesmaids and groomsmen. Post a photo of each person with their name underneath. If you want to, add a line or two on how you met each person, or a cool fact about them. Think “Jen Sutton, our bridesmaid won four consecutive spelling bees in elementary school,” or “Brad Jones was my next door neighbor growing up. We’ve been friends since we were six years old.”
- Photo Gallery: Use this section to show off all your couple photos. You could have a section called “Growing up Cool,” where guests click through to see photos of the two of you as children, tweens, teens and milestone momements.” Show off your proposal photos by posting your photo shoot here. This section is also a good place to post your engagement ring photos, engagement party shots and anything else you want to share with everyone.
- Things to Do: Not required, but a really nice bonus for your guests. Highlight a few cultural landmarks and restaurants for out of town visitors. In addition to the place name, write a brief note of what they offer, and add a link to their website.
- FAQS: Here’s the place to write down answers to common questions wedding guests will ask you. You can also use FAQS as gentle reminders to wedding guests. Examples below: When is the RSVP Deadline? What is the wedding’s dress code? May I bring my dog?
If you prefer not to receive wedding presents, you can use the wedding website that you create on Lovebird to list and link to various charities and nonprofit organizations that your guests can send donations to in lieu of gifts. If you want to, you can even add photos of each of the charities onto the site too.
Wedding websites and dress codes: the perfect match
If your dress code is black tie, include photos of men and women wearing appropriate black tie on your website so guests can visualize what they should wear. Visual aids are really helpful when looking for the right outfit. If you’re throwing a Halloween, Star Wars, Disco,or Bridgerton-themed wedding, spend some time describing what you’d like your guests to wear, and then you can use photos to help explain it all.
Remember, pictures help so much when explaining what you want when it comes to dress codes. When you use part of the wedding website to do this, it saves time and prevents miscommunication. You want a stress-free wedding, and your guests want that too. By utilizing a wedding website to pass on information, you save time, energy, and don’t have to send the same text to a bunch of people.
Highlight the venue!
Use the Schedule of Events section to post photos of the venue’s exteriors and interiors. Post photos of the venue’s gardens if you’re planning an outdoor ceremony or cocktail hour.
If your wedding is in a historic home or castle, it could be fun to write a mini-history of the place and showcase photos from various eras. Check with your venue to see if they have a photo archive that they’ll let you use.
Most venues have pre-printed directions from various neighborhoods on how to get there. Copy the directions and add them to the website.
Travel Details
Did you reserve a wedding block or two for your wedding? Place that information on your Lovebird wedding website.
If you opted not to create a wedding block at a hotel, do provide a list of hotels in the area for out of town guests. As an extra touch, hyperlink the hotel’s name to their website. Your guests will love that.
Destination wedding add-ons
If your wedding is a destination one, add a section on your Lovebird wedding website that describes the region. Add links to nearby hotels, and link to the local weather. You may want to mention the local currency so that guests can be better prepared when they fly there.
Share a bit of the local history. Use photos and descriptions of the local cuisine. Everyone is a bit of a foodie, and people will appreciate learning about new meals they can try.
Do share local etiquette if you can. For example, if you’re getting married in a medieval church, women may need to dress conservatively for the wedding ceremony.
If you’re going somewhere tropical and beachy for your wedding, it might be a good idea to remind guests to pack sunscreen, beach sandals and a couple of swimsuits so they can enjoy the sun and not burn.
Photo sharing
Finally, encourage friends and family to share photos of any pre-wedding events as well as the wedding on Memento.com (part of the same family of brands as Lovebird). Months and years down the road, you can revisit your Lovebird wedding website. Take the time to enjoy the photos and memories that were shared by all of them. Your Lovebird wedding website becomes a treasured memento forever.
This is a sponsored conversation written by Mountainside Bride on behalf of Sincere and Lovebird. The opinions and text are all ours.