What to Put on Your Wedding Website (and What to Leave Off)

A wedding website is a tool, not a scrapbook. Its job is to answer the questions guests would otherwise text you at 11pm: what time, where, what do I wear, can I bring someone, where do I sleep. Get that right and your phone stops buzzing.

The mistake most couples make is putting everything on there. The good ones are ruthless about what earns a place. Here's where the line sits.

The details every guest actually needs

Start with the practical stuff, because that's the whole point. If a guest can't find these in under a minute, the site has failed.

• The date and times. Ceremony start, and a rough end to the evening so people can sort lifts and babysitters.
• The venue or venues. Full address, a map link, and clear instructions if the ceremony and reception are in different places.
• The RSVP. A simple online form beats chasing replies by post. Ask the questions you genuinely need: attending or not, meal choice, dietary requirements, plus-one name.
• Dress code. Two or three words and one honest sentence ("Garden party, but bring a jacket, the marquee gets cold after dark").
• Travel and parking. Nearest station, whether there's parking, and any shuttle or taxi info.

A wedding website built for the job, like Build The Day, handles the RSVPs and meal choices for you, so replies land in one tidy list rather than across texts, emails and a few cards that got lost in the post.

The pages worth adding if they apply to you

Not every wedding needs these, but when they fit, they save a lot of back-and-forth.

Accommodation. If guests are travelling, list a couple of nearby hotels and B&Bs at different price points, plus any room block you've arranged. You don't need to book for people, just point them in the right direction.

A schedule. A loose running order helps, especially when there's a gap between ceremony and reception. Guests panic about gaps. Tell them where to go and what to do.

Gifts or a registry. Link it plainly. If you'd rather have money towards a honeymoon, say so simply and without a poem. People appreciate the directness.

FAQs. This is the unsung hero. "Can I bring my kids?" "Is the ceremony outdoors?" "What time should I arrive?" Answer the ten questions you keep getting and watch the messages dry up.

What to leave off

Here's where restraint pays. A few things look charming in your head and land badly in practice.

Your whole love story in 1,200 words. A short, warm paragraph is lovely. The full timeline from the dating app to the proposal is not what guests came for. Save the long version for the day.

A photo gallery from before the wedding. Tempting, but it bloats the page and slows it down on phones. Most people are checking the site on a train, not browsing your engagement shoot.

Anything you haven't confirmed. Don't put a venue or time up until it's locked. Guests will screenshot it, book trains around it, and be cross if it moves.

Strict rules dressed as fun. "No phones, no photos, no exceptions" reads as a telling-off. If you want an unplugged ceremony, ask warmly and explain why in a line.

Keep private things private

Some details should never sit on a public page, even a password-protected one.

Guest contact details in particular deserve care. You're collecting addresses and dietary info, which is personal data, so use a platform that keeps it behind a login rather than a public spreadsheet anyone could stumble across.

Make it easy to find and easy to read

A brilliant website nobody can find is useless. Put the link on your save-the-dates and invitations, and consider a short, memorable address rather than a long string of characters. A QR code on the invite works well for less tech-confident guests.

Then test it on a phone. Most guests will open it on mobile, often one-handed on the bus. If the RSVP button is hard to tap or the address is buried three scrolls down, fix that before you send the link to a single person.

The best wedding websites feel almost boring in how clearly they work. Guest arrives, finds the answer, RSVPs, leaves. That quiet efficiency is exactly what you want, because it frees you up to actually plan the wedding instead of answering the same five questions forty times over.