If half your guest list does not read the language you are writing in, you have probably already discovered that the big wedding website platforms are quiet about this. This page is what we found when we checked what each one really offers, on their own pages, in August 2026.
The short version
Zola, The Knot and Joy do not give your guests a language switcher. None of them lets a guest open your site and read it in their own language. What they offer instead is either writing everything twice yourself, or controlling which guests see which sections.
That is not a criticism of those platforms — they are excellent at other things. It is just a gap worth knowing about before you build your site on one of them and discover it in month three.
What each platform actually says
The Knot
The Knot does not claim to support this. Its own article on planning a bilingual wedding recommends "using a user-friendly wedding website platform that supports multiple languages and provides translations for key information such as event details, RSVP instructions and accommodation recommendations".
Read that again: the market leader's advice for a bilingual wedding is to find a platform that does this. That is about as clear an answer as you will get.
Zola
Zola's guidance is to "customize your site with must-have information in multiple languages". In other words: write each section twice, in the same page, yourself.
It works. It is also the reason bilingual wedding sites tend to end up twice as long as they should be, with guests scrolling past a language they do not read to find the one they do.
Joy
Joy is the most interesting of the three, because it solves a nearby problem well. It lets you build tailored schedules so different guests see different events and details — genuinely useful for a wedding split across two countries.
But it does not translate the text you write, and there is no switcher for guests. The control sits with you, deciding what each group sees, not with the guest deciding what language to read in.
Hitched (UK), and the same platform under four names
Hitched is the UK market leader, and it is worth a section of its own because of what sits behind it. Hitched.co.uk, bodas.net in Spain, mariages.net in France and matrimonio.com in Italy are the same platform under four brands, all owned by The Knot Worldwide. Zankyou, which used to be the other big European name, now redirects into them.
So this is not four platforms to check. It is one, and its help centre answers the question directly:
"While we are unable to offer an automatic translate button, you can absolutely create a bilingual site by manually typing your content in both languages."
Their recommendation is to "use clear headings to separate the two languages". That is the same answer Zola gives, in the same words, on a different continent.
Two related limits are documented on the same help centre, and they matter if a bilingual site is what you are after. Meal choices do not live inside the RSVP — "the standard RSVP button is not fully editable", so preferences go through a separate survey and the answers are read in another section, which means matching names by hand before you talk to the caterer. And the site is not deletable on its own: "we are unable to delete the site entirely because it is a part of your profile".
The platforms that do handle it
There are not many, and they work in two different ways — which matters more than the number of languages.
| Platform | Languages | Price | How the guest gets their language |
|---|---|---|---|
| LumiWed | 17 | Free (50 guests, 2 languages) · €59 one-time | A personalised link per guest |
| Invitatis | 8 (incl. Catalan, Galician, Basque) | €75 | Per guest |
| Wedding30s | 2 (Spanish, English) | €49 one-time | Switcher on the page |
If you need more than two languages, LumiWed covers more ground than anyone else we found, and it has a free tier. We are not going to pretend otherwise.
Switcher or personalised link? It changes your admin, not just the page
This is the part that is easy to miss when comparing feature lists.
With a personalised link, the platform generates a different URL for every guest and serves the language you assigned to them. The guest never has to choose. The cost is on your side: you have to generate and send 150 individual links, and keep track of which went to whom. Forwarding breaks it — if your cousin sends her link to her mother, her mother gets your cousin's language and her cousin's name.
With a switcher, you share one link. You drop it in the family WhatsApp group and you are done. Each guest taps the language they want. The cost is that the guest has to notice the switcher exists, so it needs to be visible.
Neither is better in the abstract. If your list is small and you are sending individual messages anyway, personalised links are elegant. If you are sharing one link with a group — which is how most people actually do it — a switcher saves you an afternoon.
When writing everything twice is the right answer
Genuinely, quite often.
If your wedding page is your names, the date, the venue, and an RSVP form, duplicating the text costs nothing and works on any platform, including the free ones. Do that and spend the money elsewhere.
Where it falls apart is when the page grows. Travel, accommodation, schedule, dress code, gift information and a story section, all written twice, become a page nobody scrolls to the end of. And the RSVP form is the real problem: if the questions are only in one language, guests answer them wrong — you find out at the catering headcount that four people picked the wrong main course.
What we do
We build wedding websites for €49, paid once. The site carries a Spanish/English switcher that guests use themselves, and the switcher covers the RSVP form too, including the menu choice and allergy fields. You can build the whole thing and see it before paying anything.
Two languages, not seventeen. If you need Polish or Turkish, LumiWed is your answer and we would rather tell you now than after you have paid us.
Frequently asked questions
Does Zola support bilingual wedding websites?
Zola does not offer a language switcher for guests. Its own guidance is to customise your site with the must-have information written in both languages on the same page, which means every section appears twice.
Does The Knot have a multilingual wedding website?
The Knot does not claim to. Its own article on planning a bilingual wedding recommends using a wedding website platform that supports multiple languages, which is an unusually direct way of saying that you should look elsewhere for this.
Can Hitched do a bilingual wedding website?
Not automatically. Its help centre states that while it is unable to offer an automatic translate button, you can create a bilingual site by manually typing your content in both languages, using headings to separate them. The same answer applies to bodas.net, mariages.net and matrimonio.com, which are the same platform under different brands.
Can Joy show my wedding website in two languages?
Not your own text. Joy is strong at deciding which guests see which events and details, but it does not translate the content you write, and guests have no way to switch the page between languages.
What is the difference between a language switcher and a personalised guest link?
With a switcher, you share one link and each guest picks their language on the page. With personalised links, the platform generates a different URL per guest and serves the language you assigned them. The switcher is simpler to share; the personalised link removes the choice but means sending a unique URL to every single guest.
Is it good enough to just write everything twice on the same page?
For a short site, yes. If your wedding page is names, date, venue and an RSVP, duplicating the text is fine and costs nothing. It stops working when the page grows: travel, accommodation, schedule and dress code written twice become a wall of text that nobody reads to the end.
Which wedding website platforms actually support multiple languages?
LumiWed covers 17 languages, Invitatis covers 8 including Catalan, Galician and Basque, and Wedding30s covers Spanish and English with a switcher on the page. There are others, but most wedding platforms sold in English do not handle this at all.
Written by the Wedding30s team. Every claim about another platform was checked on that platform's own pages in August 2026. If something here is out of date, email support@wedding30s.com and we will correct it.
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