Free Wedding Website Providers
- Ewedding.com The 24 page designs on this site are basic but attractive. But what really makes this site better than the other free providers are the many customizable pages such as quizzes, polls, guest list, wish list, and even a way to recommend your favorite vendors. Ewedding also offers upgrades for a monthly fee - see below under paid wedding websites.
- The Knot
One of the first to provide free wedding websites, the Knot has recently upgraded their options to include 20+ modern and clean designs, and greater ability to customize. They also offer coordinating save-the-date emails and, since the Knot seems to never miss an opportunity to sell, coordinating favors, napkins, and other products.
- Wedding Channel
The designs here are pretty basic, but easy to use. The best part is that the Wedding Channel will make a donation to your favorite charity whenever guests use a link from their registry page to buy you wedding gifts. Getting a gift is even sweeter when you get to do good at the same time.
Paid Wedding Websites
If you want to have a more sophisticated design, your own domain name (like www.hunterandmiloswedding.com) or the ability to customize your pages, you might find it worth paying for your wedding website. Here are some of the popular options available:
- Ewedding
Along with the options in the free version described above, for as low as $4.95 a month you get your own domain name and more bandwith (for those of you who anticipate having a lot of visitors to your wedding website!).
- MyEvent
This is the rare wedding website that offers a month-by-month option available. I find their designs a bit cheesy, but they've got unique and easy-to-use options like a family tree, custom audio message for your guests, and real time weather information.
- Nearlyweds
The modern eye-catching designs are created by some of the top invitation designers, meaning that not only can you find designs to fit your personality and style, but you can coordinate your wedding website with the rest of your event. But Nearlyweds also has the most features of the wedding website providers I've looked at. Not only can your guests RSVP online and leave comments in a guestbook, but they can read your wedding blog, see your photos and videos, hear embedded mp3s, and even use interactive maps. You can password protect the site so that only your guests can read the information, and use the site to manage your guest list. And editing your wedding website is incredibly easy. All these features aren't free though: They only offer a two-year contract for $49.
- Weddingwindow.com This might be my top recommendation for a paid wedding website provider. They offer a month-by-month option for just slightly more than MyEvent and even more features and options than Nearlyweds. You should note that editing is not quite as easy as it is on Nearlyweds, and design snobs might find the layouts to be too simplistic. I still think most will find that there are plenty of options to choose from, and that the software is easy enough to use.
Whichever of these wedding websites look promising to you, be sure to test out their free trials before signing up. Then you can see if it's the right wedding website for you.
