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How to Make a Free Wedding Website in 15 Minutes

A step-by-step guide to building a beautiful wedding website without spending a dollar: choosing your URL, telling your story, collecting RSVPs, and sharing it with guests.

Your wedding website is the one place every guest will visit, some of them a dozen times. It answers the questions you would otherwise answer over text at 11pm: where is the venue, what time does the ceremony start, can I bring a date, is there parking. The good news: a genuinely beautiful one takes about 15 minutes and zero dollars.

Step 1: Claim your address

Start with a free subdomain like emma-and-noah.vowesta.com. It's memorable, easy to print on invitations, and free forever. If you want something shorter like emmaandnoah.com, you can connect a custom domain later; nothing else about your site changes.

Step 2: Pick a theme, then make it yours

Choose a template close to your wedding's mood, then adjust the two things guests actually notice: colors and fonts. Match your invitation suite if you have one. A serif heading with a clean body font photographs well on every phone.

Step 3: Write your story (or let AI draft it)

The 'Our Story' section is the most-read part of any wedding site. Keep it to three short paragraphs: how you met, a moment that made it real, and the proposal. If you're staring at a blank page, Vowesta's AI planner will draft it from a few bullet points and you can edit from there. It's much easier to fix a draft than to start one.

Step 4: Add the details guests actually need

  • Date, ceremony time, and venue with a map embed
  • Dress code, in plain words ('cocktail attire, the lawn is grass so consider block heels')
  • Hotel blocks and travel notes for out-of-town guests
  • Registry or cash-gift info, one line, no apologies
  • An FAQ for everything else: kids, parking, weather plans

Step 5: Turn on online RSVP

This is the feature that saves you the most time. Guests look up their invitation by email, confirm attendance, pick meals, and note allergies. You watch the numbers update on a dashboard instead of chasing envelopes. Set your RSVP deadline about four weeks before the wedding so you have time to finalize catering and the seating chart.

Step 6: Share it everywhere

Put the URL on your save-the-dates, add the QR code to printed invitations, and drop the link in the family group chat. From there the site does the answering for you.

That's the whole project. No trial, no watermark, no 'premium' template wall. Start your site, publish it tonight, and get back to the fun parts of planning.