What needs to be on your wedding website (and what doesn't)

A wedding website can grow into a sprawling multi-page site with a love story timeline, a photo gallery, and a FAQ nobody reads. Guests mostly use it for a handful of practical things, and it's worth prioritizing those over the sentimental sections that feel important to write but rarely get visited.

What guests check

• Date, time, and location, listed clearly and near the top
• RSVP, ideally with a deadline stated plainly
• Dress code, since this is the single most-asked question at most weddings
• Registry or gift information
• Travel and accommodation details, especially for a destination or out-of-town wedding

Nice to include, lower priority

Your story, a photo gallery, a wedding party page. These add warmth but aren't why most guests open the site, so don't let writing them hold up publishing the practical information guests actually need first.

One thing worth adding that gets skipped

A local recommendations section (a few restaurants, a coffee shop, what to do if guests are arriving a day early) is genuinely useful for out-of-town guests and rarely takes more than twenty minutes to put together.