What to Put on Your Wedding Website, Section by Section

You've turned on your wedding website, and now there's a menu of empty pages staring back at you: schedule, travel, FAQ, registry, our story, gallery, wedding party. Every one of them has a blank box waiting for words, and suddenly the fun part of planning feels like a surprisingly large homework assignment.

Here's the good news. Your guests don't need seven beautifully filled pages. They need a few answers at exactly the right moment. Below, we'll sort out which pages earn a spot, what to write on each one, and which ones you can happily skip.

What do guests actually need from your website?

Picture your cousin opening your site from the passenger seat on the way to your wedding. What are they looking for? Probably the ceremony time, the address, where to park, or whether they were supposed to bring the kids. Nobody in that car is scrolling for your engagement photos.

So stop thinking of your site as pages you have to fill. Think of it as questions your guests need answered. Answer those first, keep each answer short enough to read on a phone, and you're done with the part that matters.

That gives you a clear order. Home and RSVP aren't pages you choose: they're the foundation every site starts with. On top of that, four pages answer almost everything guests ask. The rest are lovely extras.

This matches what we see couples choose on Vowfly. The page they add most often is the schedule, then the registry and the FAQ. Story, gallery and wedding party pages show up far less often. A missing gallery has never made anyone late.

Build these first

These four do the heavy lifting. Get them up before your save-the-dates go out, and you can relax about the rest.

Schedule

This is the page your guests will open the most, so fill it in first. List every event they're invited to, with a date, a start time and a full address for each. Welcome drinks and a next-day brunch belong here too. Keep invite-only events, like the rehearsal dinner, off the public schedule.

Small details save a lot of texts. "Ceremony starts at 4:00. Please arrive by 3:30" beats "4:00 PM" every time. And if the ceremony is on grass, say so now, before someone chooses stilettos.

Travel and places to stay

Even if most of your guests live nearby, a few will drive in from hours away or fly in. This page is for them.

Put your hotel or room block right up top, with the booking link and the group code. Then put your hotel's actual booking cutoff date beside the link. That's the date guests need, and every block is a little different, so check your contract rather than guessing. After that come the practical bits: the closest airport, the drive to the venue, and where to park.

Guests who travel start planning when the save-the-date arrives, which is why we'd send those 12 to 18 months out (or 6 to 12 months if no one has to travel). Have this page ready by then. Our guide on when to send save-the-dates and invitations walks through the timing.

FAQ

Every question you answer here is a text you won't get the week of the wedding. Guests ask the same handful of things at nearly every wedding, so start with these:

• Is there parking? Where to park, whether it costs anything, and if there's a shuttle.
• What should I wear? Name a dress code, then translate it. "Cocktail attire: suits or dresses, nothing floor-length needed."
• Are kids welcome? A clear, kind yes or no. The names on the invitation already show who's invited, so the FAQ is the gentle place to confirm it: "We love your little ones, but this will be an adults-only evening."
• Can I bring a plus-one? Point guests to their invitation, which shows exactly who's invited.
• What if it rains? If any part is outdoors, say where it moves and whether guests need to do anything.
• Do you have a registry? One warm line and a link to your registry page.

Write every answer in your own words. Only you know whether your venue has parking.

Registry

Your registry page has one job: get a guest who wants to give to the right place, fast. It's also the right home for this information, since registry details are best kept off the invitation itself.

Link your registries from any store, and add a cash fund if you'd rather have help toward a honeymoon or a first home. On Vowfly, guests give to a cash fund through Venmo, PayPal, Cash App or Zelle, straight to you. There's more on setting that up on our wedding registry page.

Keep the wording light. "Your being there is the best gift. If you'd like to give something, here's where to find us" sets the tone without asking.

Add these if they sound fun

The personal pages are the fun ones, but only if you actually want to make them. Nobody has ever arrived at a wedding wondering why there wasn't a three-paragraph story about the first date.

They're also the pages most likely to sit half finished, with one placeholder paragraph and a single blurry photo. So add one when it sounds like a joy to make. Our Story is sweet when lots of guests only know one of you. A gallery is worth it if you have engagement photos you love. A wedding party page helps at bigger weddings, when guests want to put names to faces. If none of that sounds fun right now, leave them off. An empty page reads worse than a missing one.

What to write on each page

Here's the short version for every page, with a sample line to get you started. Tap a page to open it.

For the RSVP date, we'd pick 10 to 14 days before your caterer's headcount date, because that's how long it takes to follow up with the guests who go quiet. Our guide to RSVP wording and deadlines has the full plan.

Do you need a wedding website at all?

Not always. If your wedding is small, everyone lives nearby and there's one event in one place, your invitation can carry the details on its own, and no one will miss a website.

On Vowfly, the website is free and entirely optional. Without one, the details you add show right on your invitation. When you want more room, turn the website on and it picks up your invitation's design, so the two look like one wedding. Read more on our wedding website page.

Start with the schedule

If you only do one thing tonight, open the schedule and add your ceremony and reception with their times and addresses. Once guests know when and where, everything else is a bonus. Build the other three before your save-the-dates go out, add the fun pages if you're in the mood, and reread the whole site a week before the wedding, because that's when everyone goes looking for the parking details.

When you're ready, create your invitation with Vowfly for free, and turn on a matching website whenever you want the extra room.