What a wedding website actually does
Your wedding website holds every question a guest has, in one link, so you're not answering the same question forty times over the six months before your wedding. Where is the ceremony. What time on Sunday. Is my plus-one invited. Is it black tie or beach shoes. Is there a kids' table. Which hotel are people staying at. Is the schmear before or after the chuppah, and what on earth is a schmear.
Point people to one link, and the link answers. Your phone stops buzzing. Your mother stops fielding calls at 10 p.m. Your cousin in Buenos Aires can finally figure out what airport to fly into.
Here's where the difference between a custom wedding website and a template builder starts to show. Zola and The Knot hand you a template you fill in. You choose from forty preset themes, drop your names in, tweak the accent color, hope the fonts don't fight your invitation, and pray the pre-written labels ("Our Wedding Party," "Our Story") sound like you. What you get is fine. What you get is not yours.
A Digithad wedding site is designed the other way around. We start from your invitation, your photographer's palette, your ceremony type, your first-language habits. Then we build a website that carries all of it. The site is where the invitation lives; the invitation is not shoved into a slot the site already decided the shape of.
Why couples come to us instead of a template builder
Three specific reasons, all of which show up on the first phone call, and none of which a template will ever give you.
Bespoke design, not a template
Every site we make starts from your invitation, your palette, your first photo together. Not forty preset themes. Not a "modern minimal" toggle. If your invitation is sage and terracotta with a hand-illustrated olive branch, your site is too. If your invitation is heavy cream cardstock with copperplate engraving, your site is too. Your palette shows up in the type, the buttons, the gallery frames, and even the dressed-up detail behind the countdown. The site does not fight the paper; it finishes the sentence the paper started.
Multilingual for the mixed family
Half your guests speak Hebrew, the other half French, and your cousin in Brooklyn will not read a word of either. This is the family many couples we work with actually have. Every Digithad wedding site handles it out of the box: each visitor picks their language in one tap, and every RSVP question, dress code note, and address arrives in the language they read comfortably. This isn't machine translation with a widget on top; it's real bilingual or trilingual copywriting reviewed by native speakers before the site goes live. If this is your family, spend ten minutes with our full guide to multilingual wedding websites.
Private and dignified
Hidden from search engines by default. Optional password shared only with your guest list. No ads. No upsells cluttering the sidebar. No data quietly sold to gift registries so a stranger can email your grandmother a "wedding shopping list." Your addresses, schedule, RSVPs, and family photos never sit in a public place. Read the full standard in our wedding website privacy guide.
What to include on a wedding website
The complete list, in the order guests look for it. Every section can be turned on, turned off, or restyled to match your day.
- The essentials block: your two names, the date, the city. Warm, big, unmissable.
- Story: a short "how we met" paragraph. Not a novel; a note.
- Schedule: ceremony, cocktails, dinner, dancing, brunch. Times, addresses, and a one-line dress code per event.
- Ceremony details: the chuppah, the civil, or both. What to expect if a guest has never attended a Jewish or interfaith wedding.
- Travel & stays: hotel blocks, airport tips, transport between venues.
- RSVP: per event, meals, allergies, kids, song requests, and language preferences.
- Registry or charity: your choice, dignified, no upsells.
- Live stream: for the grandparent who can't fly.
- Gallery: engagement photos before, wedding photos after.
Full walkthrough with adaptable copy for each section: what to put on a wedding website.
The chuppah, the civil, and everything between
Jewish weddings often carry two ceremonies inside one weekend, and interfaith weddings sometimes carry three. A Digithad site treats each with its own section, its own dress code note, and its own RSVP question. Your Reform grandmother, your Catholic in-laws, and your best friend who has never set foot inside a synagogue all read the version they need.
A brief bit of vocabulary, so the website can use the right words. The chuppah (also huppah or wedding canopy) is the four-poled canopy under which the ceremony takes place; it symbolizes the home the couple will build together. Kiddushin is the betrothal, the first half of the traditional ceremony, sealed with a ring. Nisuin is the marriage itself, sealed under the chuppah with the seven blessings and the breaking of the glass. The ketubah is the marriage contract, signed in the presence of witnesses, often the ceremony's most visually beautiful document. And an aufruf is the pre-wedding synagogue honor, the Shabbat before, where the couple is called up and, in some communities, showered with candy by the congregation.
Add a civil registration on Friday and a Sunday brunch to the same site, and every guest sees what applies to them. The section for the civil ceremony carries the town hall address and the two witnesses' names; the section for the chuppah carries the venue, the timing of the bedeken, and a gentle one-paragraph explainer for anyone whose first Jewish wedding this will be.
The timeline: when the website goes live
The wedding website goes live about eight to ten months before your wedding, together with your save-the-dates. That's early enough for guests to book flights and hotels, and calm enough that you can build the site's details across the year, not the week before. Full timing guide here.
| When | What happens on the website |
|---|---|
| 10 months out | Skeletal site goes live: names, date, city, countdown, hotel blocks, digital save-the-date. Save-the-dates go out pointing to it. |
| 6 to 8 months out | Full launch. Ceremony details, schedule, maps, dress code, RSVP opens. Paper invitations mailed alongside. |
| 3 months out | Registry and travel logistics filled in. Language versions reviewed by native speakers. |
| 6 weeks out | RSVP deadline. Automatic reminders nudge the stragglers so you don't have to. |
| Week of | Final schedule, parking notes, seating chart hints, playlist voting. A last "week-of" reminder to every confirmed guest. |
| After the day | Photographer's gallery and guest phone uploads land at the same link everyone already knows. |
Packages
Three packages, one-time prices, no subscription; every site stays online for a full year:
- Essential, $490. A one-page bespoke wedding site: RSVP, program, maps, countdown. Perfect for an intimate wedding or an elopement with a small guest list. Online in about a week.
- Signature, $990. The full experience most couples choose: multi-section custom design, photo and video gallery, gift registry integration, digital save-the-date, password protection, and one additional language.
- Prestige, $1,890. Fully bespoke art direction, live stream integration, seating plan tool, up to three languages, and a concierge who stays with you until the wedding day.
Full details on our pricing page. Your date is held with a 50% deposit, invoiced securely, wherever you are in the world.
Your day is not a preset theme.
Tell us about your wedding. We reply within 24 hours with ideas, a timeline, and a first look at what the site could feel like.
Questions couples ask
How is a Digithad wedding website different from The Knot or Zola?+
The Knot and Zola give you a template with your names slotted in. Digithad hands you a website designed around your day: your palette, your photos, your invitation type, your traditions. The site is bespoke, multilingual out of the box for mixed families, hidden from search engines by default, and free of ads or upsells. One-time price, no subscription; the site is yours.
How much does a custom wedding website cost?+
$490 to $1,890 at Digithad. Essential ($490) is a one-page bespoke site with RSVP, program, and maps. Signature ($990) is the full experience: multi-section design, photo and video gallery, gift registry integration, digital save-the-date, password protection. Prestige ($1,890) is fully bespoke with live streaming, seating plan tool, and a concierge until the wedding day. All one-time; the site stays online for a year.
Can the wedding website be in more than one language?+
Yes, and it's one of our specialties. English, French, and Hebrew are standard. Arabic, Spanish, Farsi, Italian, Portuguese and others are available. Each visitor picks their language in one tap. For a mixed family whose two sides literally speak different languages at home, this is not a nicety; it's the difference between a grandparent feeling welcomed and feeling politely excluded from their own family's wedding.
Can we keep the wedding website private?+
Yes, and every Digithad wedding site is private by default. The site is hidden from search engines, so your wedding does not appear when someone Googles your names. You can add a password shared only with your guest list. Addresses, schedule, photos of your family, and your RSVP list never sit in a public place. This is not an upgrade; it is the standard.
When should the wedding website go live?+
About eight to ten months before the wedding, together with your save-the-dates. The site is skeletal at first (the names, the date, the city, a countdown, a way to save the date). Details fill in over the following two months. Full launch with maps, RSVP open, and the schedule sits six to eight months before, alongside your formal invitations.
We design bespoke celebration websites for couples and families across languages and continents: weddings, engagements, bar and bat mitzvahs, brits. Updated July 2026.