How to Make a Wedding Website With RSVPs, Free

A wedding website answers the questions every guest asks: when and where, what happens during the day, how to get there and where to sleep, what to wear, and how to say yes. It collects the RSVPs so you are not counting replies across text messages. You can have one live today, free: the event template has the date and venue on the first screen, the story, the schedule, travel and stay, photographs, questions and an RSVP form that asks for party size and dietary needs.

What goes on a wedding website?

• Your names, the date and the venue on the first screen, with the RSVP button. Half your guests open the site only to check the date.
• The story, two paragraphs: how you met and what the day will be. This is the part that makes it yours.
• The schedule: welcome drinks, ceremony, dinner, dancing, brunch, each with a time and a place.
• Getting there and where to stay: the station, the shuttle, the hotels with rooms held and the date they are released, parking.
• Gifts, said once and gently.
• Questions: dress code, children, plus-ones, parking, weather. Every answer here is a message you do not get the week before.
• Photographs, a handful.
• The RSVP form, with a reply-by date.

How do you collect the RSVPs?

The RSVP form on the template asks for the guest's name and email, whether they come, how many they are including themselves, and dietary needs or a song request. Each reply lands under Forms & leads in your dashboard, and your browser can notify you when one arrives. When the seating plan starts, export the replies to CSV and sort by household.

Two things make RSVPs easier. First, a reply-by date on the page and in the form's note; the template shows it under the RSVP button. Second, one reply per household: say so, and the form's "how many of you" question does the counting. On Free Forever a website takes 250 replies a month, more than a wedding needs. How the forms work: add a contact form.

How do you make it with the template, step by step?

1. Open the event template and its live preview.
2. Press Use this template, sign up (free), and the demo site is live at your-names.onstatpio.com.
3. On Site content, fill in Basics: your names, the headline ("We're getting married" is fine), and one sentence with the date and the place.
4. Set Date and venue: the date and start time, the venue's name and address, a map link, the reply-by date and the dress code. These go on the first screen and into the structured data (an Event with its place and dates).
5. Write The story, then the Schedule: one line per moment with its time and place.
6. Under Travel, stay and gifts, add getting there, where to stay and the gifts note.
7. Upload six photographs with a short caption each, and answer the questions guests ask.
8. In Form and booking, keep the RSVP form. Add your email under Contact for questions. Pick your colours in Look and press Publish.

Step by step with screenshots: start a website from a template.

Can you keep it private?

Yes. Password protection is on every plan: set a password in the website's settings and send it with the invitation. A protected site is also marked not to be indexed, so it stays between you and your guests. If you would rather not have a password, the site is still only found by people who have the address; it is not listed anywhere unless you share the link.

Do you need to pay for a wedding website?

No. The template runs on Free Forever: one website at your-names.onstatpio.com with HTTPS, the RSVP form, analytics, and a small Statpio badge in the footer. If you want an address with your names (amaraandtheo.com) and no badge, that is Solo Pro at $9 a month; you can keep it for the months around the wedding and stop afterwards, and connecting the domain takes a few minutes: connect your domain.

When should it go live, and what changes later?

Put it online with the save-the-dates, so guests who travel can plan, even if the schedule is not final: the date, the venue and the hotels are enough to start. Add the schedule, the dress code and the questions as they settle and publish again; the address stays the same, so the link on the invitation keeps working. After the wedding, swap the RSVP form for a thank-you note and the photographs for the real ones, or take the site down. Everything on the page is yours to change.