What to Put on Your Wedding Website: A Practical UK Guide
Your wedding website has one job: answer the questions guests will otherwise text you. Time, place, food, parking, where to stay. If those sit in one place, the WhatsApp thread gets quieter.
This is a practical list for UK couples. Add the essentials first. Fill the extras as you confirm them. You can do this on a free marketplace site or on a paid planning suite. Both are legitimate. The sections below are the same either way.
The essentials
Your names and the date
Put them at the top. Use the full date in British form — 15th June 2026, not June 15. Guests forwarding the link to a plus-one should not have to hunt.
Ceremony and reception
Full venue name and address. Arrival time as well as start time. Say if the ceremony and reception are in different places. A simple run of day helps: ceremony, drinks, wedding breakfast, evening do.
If any part is adults-only, say so here. That conversation is worse in the comments of a group chat.
RSVP
This is the part guests actually use. Collect yes/no, plus-ones, three-course meal choices, and dietary tags in one place. Set a deadline. Six to eight weeks before is what most UK venues want for final numbers.
Make the RSVP button hard to miss on a phone.
Travel and taxis
Do not assume guests will Google the venue and get the right entrance. Postcode for sat-nav. Parking: free, limited, or permit. Nearest station and a rough taxi cost. If you have arranged a coach or taxi share, put it here.
Hotels
If you have a room block, include the booking code and the cut-off date. If you have not, a short list of nearby hotels and B&Bs is still useful for people travelling in.
The extras guests actually use
FAQ
After venue and RSVP, this is the page that saves you the most messages. Dress code. Children. Plus-ones. Last train. Cash bar or not. Anything you have already answered twice belongs here.
Gift registry and cash funds
Link the list. John Lewis, Prezola, a honeymoon pot — guests would rather click once than ask your mum. A sentence about “presence is the present” is fine. Then give them the link anyway.
Multi-day timeline
If there is a welcome drinks, a Sunday lunch, or a Friday gathering, put the times and addresses on the same site. Guests will not remember a separate PDF.
A few photos
A handful of pictures of the two of you is enough. You do not need a full gallery on the guest site before the day. After the day, a guest photo gallery that works from a QR code — no app, no login — is what people actually use on the dancefloor.
Your story, if you want it
A short how-we-met is nice. Keep it short. The logistics matter more.
What you can leave off
You do not need a public guest list. You do not need the seating plan on the open site. Hen and stag details that are not for everyone can live elsewhere.
Treat the site as the guest-facing half. The planning board, budget, and table planner are for you and your partner.
Privacy, without overclaiming
Venue addresses and hotel blocks are personal enough. Share the link with invited guests rather than posting it on an open social page. How each platform locks that down varies. If privacy settings matter to you, check the product you are actually using rather than assuming every builder has a password gate.
Free marketplace versus a paid suite
Bridebook, Hitched, and Joy do not charge couples a monthly fee. We are not going to pretend they do. They stay free because venues pay, or because the product is a simple RSVP page. That is a fair £0 choice. See Is Bridebook free?, Bridebook alternative, and Hitched alternative if you are still comparing.
How much a wedding website costs in the UK and why a one-time fee exists are the money versions of this same honest split.
Where Tie The Knot fits
Tie The Knot is the other model. £249, paid once. Lifetime access. 30-day money-back. Five templates: Modern Fresh, Romantic Classic, Boho Chic, Classic, and Luxury.
You get the guest website plus a shared planning board, a linked budget, and a drag-and-drop table planner. RSVPs collect three-course meal choices, dietary tags, and plus-ones in the couple dashboard. Gift registry and cash funds. Guest photo gallery (QR, no app, no login). Multi-day timelines. Hotel and taxi info.
No supplier ads on the site or the planner. We do not replace Bridebook or Hitched for finding a barn. Find the venue there. Put the guests, the meals, and the room here. Support: hello@tietheknot.uk.
If £0 is the software budget, stay on a free marketplace site. If you want those sections in one planning suite, start on tietheknot.uk — £249 once, lifetime access, 30-day money-back.
Photo: Drew Coffman/ Unsplash.