beautiful wedding websites

Event venue? check. White dress? check. Bridesmaids? check. Wedding website??

Wedding JoJo has templates that are clean and polished. Pages
include an RSVP options for all events (wedding + rehearsal dinner, etc.), a
guestbook, photo galleries, registry information, and password protection. With
a paid membership you can get password protection, more theme options and a custom domain.
However, even with access to all themes, in comparison they are still limited and you are stuck with the existing page
structure and layout (i.e. about pages are in Q/A format).

Wordpress is often considered the standard in today’s web design. It is easy to
use and the amount of themes and plugins available makes for endless options.
Plus, there’s no expiration, so you can revisit year, after year. One downside:
the nicer themes might cost a few bucks, and customizing html and css is
possible, but tricky. There’s a lot of themes geared towards weddings here at
a variety of price points. If you want full control of your site, this is a
great option.

The Knot is one of the most popular wedding websites out
there. There are numerous themes to fit your day, they have matching invites
through Paperless Post, Wedding Divas and Minted, oh AND they’re free.

Riley and Grey has really sleek design, but it is on the
pricey side. They do have an option to ‘pay now and publish later’ minimizing
the time you actually need it live. You can do all the prep work and only pay
for the time the guests need to use it. There’s only a few themes, with little
color customization. However, I do think there designs are thoughtful and
dynamic and can fit a range of wedding aesthetics.

Squarespace is beautiful and the templates are polished and
responsive, which means the site will remain beautiful on mobile, so guests can
easily browse the registry while shopping in store. Speaking of registries,
Squarespace offers an easy tool to accept cash – usually something you have to
find a third party tool to accomplish.

Mywedding.com is user friendly, and you don’t have to know
an ounce of html to get a great product. There’s also a bit of flexibility,
couples can create unique sub-pages like “In Loving Memory.” It also has tons
of themes that look sharp. Oh, and the hundreds of themes they offer? All
free.

Yup, those are our mugs in that screen shot. We  opted for a Blogger site, it was free, and we could keep it pretty much forever. I wanted to be able to revisit after the wedding and had fantasies of turning it into a couples blog site (like I could ever convince Billy to do such a thing). If your wedding has logos or specific graphics, you can incorporate them any way you like and stay consistent with fonts. Blogger and WordPress have a lot of the same pros. Where WordPress has a plethora of dynamic themes, Blogger easier to customize with little web design knowledge.  I’ll be doing a tutorial on how we created ours next week!