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Make a wedding website

Your story, every event, where to stay, the menu and your questions answered, at letsparty.rsvp/your-names, built a section at a time. Guests RSVP on their invites.

A wedding website gives guests one place for everything around the invitation: how you met, when and where each event is, where to stay, the registry and the answers to the questions everyone asks.

Here’s an example, for a made-up couple’s weekend.

Make one

On the wedding’s party page, tap Make one beside A wedding website?. If the wedding is a weekend (the rehearsal dinner, the big day, the brunch), make it from the weekend’s page instead, and it covers every party in it.

It starts with your names and your invitation’s look, and it’s off: only you and your co-hosts can see it, with See it, until you tap Turn it on.

What goes on it

• The top: your names over a photo of the two of you, with the date, where it is (“Sedona, Arizona”) and a countdown in days, hours and minutes. Without a photo, it shows your invitation’s picture. A bar stays at the top with your initials, the sections and an RSVP button.
• Our story: as long or short as you like. A blank line starts a new paragraph.
• Photos: up to 20 (engagement photos, the two of you through the years), after your story. Add photos saves each one as it uploads; add a caption, change the order with the arrows, or Remove one. Guests tap one to see it large.
• The events: each party’s date, time, place name, what to wear and its plan for the day as a timeline. Untick one only some guests go to, like a rehearsal dinner for family.
• Travel: anything else about getting there and staying, in your own words.
• Registry and links: up to six buttons, starting with the links already on your invitation.
• Questions: “Are kids welcome?”, “Can I bring a date?”, with your answers.

The whole page is in your invitation’s colors and fonts, in wide bands that alternate light and a shade deeper, with the RSVP at the end. On a library design, each section opens under a small picture painted in the same style as your invitation’s art: an open book over your story, a gift over the registry.

Build it a section at a time

The editor shows your page as a list, in the order guests see it. Tap a section to open it, fill it in and tap Save. On a computer the website sits beside the list; on a phone, switch between Edit and See it. Tap any part of the website and that section opens in the list.

• ↑ Up and ↓ Down move a section. Hide it takes it off the page and keeps what’s in it. The RSVP always shows.
• + Add a section shows what else can go on the page, as pictures. One tap adds it in a sensible place and opens it.
• A section shows on the website only once it has something in it, so adding one never puts an empty box in front of guests.

Sections you can add

• Where to stay: up to six hotels, each with its booking link, its room-block code and a note (“$159 a night until October 1, ten minutes away”).
• Getting there: a line each for flying in, the shuttle, parking and rides home.
• The menu: course by course, with a line under it (“Pick your main when you RSVP”).
• What to wear: each party’s dress code from its invitation, a few words of your own, and the colors you love as swatches.
• The venue and map: the party’s place, with a map and Get directions for the guests who can see its address.
• Your own words: a heading and anything else you want guests to know. Add as many as you like.

The day after the wedding, when the website becomes an album, the hotels, getting there, the menu, what to wear and the venue come off with the RSVP. Your own words stay.

RSVPs stay on each guest’s own invite

The website doesn’t take RSVPs, and it never lists your guest list. Each household answers on its own invite, by name and with meal choices, as always. Once the website is on, every invite has an Our website button.

A guest who can’t find their invite types their email on the website, and if it’s on your guest list, their own link is emailed to them. Anyone else gets the same reply and no email, so the website can’t be used to find out who’s invited.

Addresses and a password

The website shows each place’s name but not its address, like a party’s public link: addresses are on each guest’s own invite. Add a password, and only your names and the date show until it’s typed (once per device); then the events show their addresses and directions too. Print the password on your invitations or put it in the text.

Once the party’s seating chart is shown to guests, a website with a password gets Find your table: a guest types their first and last name and sees their table, nobody else’s. Without a password, it tells guests their table is on their own invite.

Search engines are asked not to list the website either way.