How to Make a Wedding Website for Free: Step by Step, and What to Check Before You Pick a Builder

Can you make a wedding website for free?

Yes: you can build a complete wedding website without paying anything, with the venue address, a map, online RSVPs and a QR code for your printed invitations. The difference between builders isn’t whether you can start for free — almost all of them let you — but what happens next: whether RSVPs are included, whether the site carries someone else’s ads, whether the address is yours and whether replies arrive organized or you end up copying them into a spreadsheet.

What to have ready before you start

• Your names exactly as you want them shown, and the wedding date.
• The time and address of each part of the day: ceremony, reception, after-party and any welcome drinks the night before.
• A well-lit landscape photo for the cover, where both faces are clear.
• Your RSVP deadline: four to six weeks before the wedding is typical, so the caterer gets the final count in time.
• What you need to know from each guest: whether they’re coming, who their plus-one is, their meal choice and whether they need the shuttle.

How to make your wedding website for free, step by step

• Pick a design and preview it on a phone, not a laptop: that’s where nearly every guest will open it.
• Write the home page: your names, the date and a short welcome line.
• Add each venue with its time and a Google Maps link, in the order of the day.
• Turn on RSVPs with a deadline and only the questions you’ll actually use.
• Switch on the sections that fit your wedding — your story, photos, registry, hotels, dress code — and leave the rest off.
• Read the whole site on someone else’s phone before publishing: dates, times and addresses.
• Publish, choose your web address and download the QR code for your paper invitations.

Where to make it: what to compare before you choose

• Free up to what point? Check whether RSVPs, removing ads or an address with your names are on the free plan or need a premium upgrade.
• Real RSVPs: named plus-ones, meal choices and allergies, and a clear view of who hasn’t replied yet.
• No third-party ads: a wedding site with vendor banners or a big builder logo looks like a trial.
• Mobile first and fast on cellular data: guests will open it from a text message.
• What happens to the data: whether guests must create an account to reply, whether their details are used for marketing, and whether you can delete everything whenever you like.
• What you’re left with: a guest list you can use for seating and catering, not just an inbox of replies.

The best-known options, and their limits

Zola, The Knot and Joy all offer free wedding websites with RSVPs, built around their own registry and stationery store. Wix has a free plan, but it shows Wix ads and gives you an address like yourname.wixsite.com; your own domain needs a premium plan, and Squarespace offers a free trial rather than a free plan. Canva can publish a simple site for free, but RSVPs stay in a separate form that doesn’t manage your guest list (more in how to make a digital wedding invitation on Canva). None of them is a bad choice: the question is which one saves you work at your guest count.

Your web address, privacy and what to leave off

The address is what you’ll print and read out over the phone, so keep it short and make it your names: qrinvites.com/anna-and-david is easier to type than a string of numbers. Think about who can see it, too: anyone with the link can open it, so leave off your home address, personal phone numbers and photos you wouldn’t want passed around. It also helps if it doesn’t show up on Google: pick a builder that keeps wedding sites out of search results, so only people with the link find it. For what goes in each section, see what to put on a wedding website.

When to publish it and how to share it

Publish as soon as you have a date and a venue, even if some sections are still empty: you can send the link with your save the dates (six to eight months out, earlier for a destination wedding) and fill it in later, because the link never changes. Formal invitations go out six to eight weeks before the wedding, with the RSVP deadline on them. Text the link to each guest with a personal note (there are templates in how to send wedding invitations online) and print the QR code on paper invitations for grandparents. A welcome line for the home page:

“We’re getting married on June 14 and can’t wait to celebrate with you. Here you’ll find the schedule, directions and the button to RSVP. Please let us know by May 10.”

Make your wedding website for free here

This site is built for exactly that, and it’s free for real: no card, no ads and one wedding website per account. Pick one of the designs and open the editor: you design without signing up, because the draft is saved in your browser, and you only sign in with Google to publish. When you do, you choose your address (if you change it later, the old one still leads to the new one), you get the QR code, and replies land in a dashboard with guests, tables, meals, allergies and shuttle seats, plus a PDF for each vendor. The site is published in one language, you can write your own texts in two, one under the other, and it stays out of Google. See the example wedding website, its dashboard and everything that’s included.

Mistakes couples make most often

• Choosing a builder for the prettiest template and finding out later that RSVPs aren’t on the free plan.
• Publishing without checking the time or the address: a mistake on the website reaches every guest at once.
• Filling it with empty sections and long text: a short site gets read in full.
• Asking guests to create an account or download an app to reply: half of them won’t.
• Switching builders halfway through: the link you already sent stops working.