Wedding Website
Definition
A wedding website collects everything a guest needs into a single address. The usual sections are ceremony and reception times with full addresses, travel and parking notes, a hotel or two, a line about dress, a note on gifts, and a way to reply. Couples often add a short story and a handful of photographs, but the whole thing is normally one scrolling page, because most guests open it on a phone in the minute after the envelope arrives. It is public by default, so anything you would not print on a postcard — a home address, a door code, a phone number — belongs somewhere else. The page sits alongside the paper card or the digital invitation, which is what carries the link.
Why It Matters
Every fact missing from the page turns into a message somebody sends you. A hundred guests with one question each is a hundred replies, and most ask the same four things: when, where, parking, and what to wear. A page that answers those absorbs nearly all of it. The address matters as much as the content: a custom domain such as rosie-and-sam.wedding stays readable printed on a card and read aloud by a relative who does not type well. Change it after the invitations are posted and there is no way to reach the people holding the old one.
How It Works
The page is static: one HTML file, a small stylesheet, a few images, uploaded and live at its own address. Photographs are what make these pages slow, so resize them to around 1600 pixels wide and save as WebP or compressed JPEG first — a 6 MB camera file and a 300 KB web version look the same on a phone. A QR code on the invitation saves guests typing anything; test it on two handsets, then leave the address alone, because printed codes cannot be edited. Replies are the part a static page cannot do by itself: with no server behind it, there is nothing to receive a form submission. Point the RSVP button at something that can — a hosted form service, a shared spreadsheet form, a mailto link, or the host's own lead capture form — and keep the reply deadline beside it.
Real-World Example
Rosie and Sam publish a single page at rosie-and-sam.99helpers.site: one compressed hero photo, four short sections and an RSVP button pointing at a free form. The printed cards carry the address and a scannable code. Two weeks before the day the venue changes its parking arrangements, so they edit the paragraph and re-upload; the address is unchanged, so every card already posted is still correct. After the wedding the same page becomes a thank-you note with a link to the photographs.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Putting an RSVP form on the page and waiting for replies — a static page has no server to receive them, so the button has to point at a form service or an email address
- ✕Uploading photographs straight off the camera — a dozen 6 MB images make a page that never finishes loading on hotel wifi
- ✕Changing the address after the invitations are printed — the cards and any codes on them now lead nowhere, and the people holding them cannot be told
Related Terms
Digital Invitation
A digital invitation is an invitation sent as a link rather than a card — a small page giving the occasion, the time, the place and a way to reply. It travels in a message or an inbox, so how it previews there matters nearly as much as the page itself.
Event Page
An event page is the single address that answers what, when, where and how to get in. Conferences, gigs, workshops and community meetups all need one, usually before anything else about the event exists.
Photo Gallery
A photo gallery is a page that presents a set of images for looking at — a trip, a portfolio, an event — usually as a grid of thumbnails that open larger versions. It is public: anyone with the link, and often a search engine, can see it.
Custom Domain
A custom domain is a name you own, pointed at content somebody else hosts, so visitors see files.acme.com instead of the provider's address. You keep the registration; the provider keeps the servers.
QR Code
A QR code is a square barcode that stores a short piece of text, most often a URL, so a phone camera can open it without anyone typing. It is a picture of a link.
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