Most wedding planning advice assumes you have an unlimited Saturday afternoon and the patience of a saint. Building the wedding website is one of the few tasks where that is not true: the technical part can take five minutes if the tool is built for it, and the content part can take another twenty if you have your details ready.
This is the exact path we recommend if you are starting from zero today.
Before you open the builder
Have these eight things on a phone note or a piece of paper. They are the only inputs the wedding website needs to be ready to publish.
- Both names, in the order you want them shown
- The date of the wedding
- The full address of the venue (or two addresses if the ceremony and the reception are in different places)
- One photo of the two of you that you actually like
- An email where guests can reach you in case they have questions
- The dietary options you are offering at the dinner (meat / fish / vegetarian / vegan)
- A short two-line story about how you met, or just a sentence — anything is better than blank
- The deadline for confirming attendance (we recommend three weeks before the wedding)
Five minutes of preparation here saves twenty minutes of going back and forth inside the builder. Trust us.
Step 1: Pick a template (60 seconds)
Open the wizard. You will see four templates: Classic Garden, Romantic Blush, Modern Dark and Minimal White. They all have the same structure underneath — what changes is the colour palette and the typography.
Pick the one that feels closest to the venue. If your wedding is outdoors in May, Classic Garden is hard to beat. If you are doing an evening reception in a hotel, Modern Dark looks more grown up. There is no wrong answer — you can change it later in three clicks.
Step 2: Names, date, venue (90 seconds)
Fill the four required fields. The wizard shows you a live preview as you type, so you can see the names appearing in the hero exactly as they will look to your guests. If you want to swap "and" for "&", do it now and stop worrying.
For the venue, paste the Google Maps link. The wizard extracts the address automatically and embeds the map at the bottom of the page. Guests will see the directions inside the wedding website, no need to copy-paste anywhere.
Step 3: Upload your photo (60 seconds)
One photo of the two of you. Not five, not ten — one. The hero of the wedding website is the photo that everyone sees first, and the rule is the same as on a dating app: the best photo carries 80% of the impression.
It does not have to be professional. We have seen wedding pages built with a phone selfie that look great because the couple was happy in the photo. If you have an engagement photo, even better. Drop it on the wizard, crop it inside, done.
Step 4: Programme and dietary options (90 seconds)
The programme is just a list: ceremony at 17:00, cocktail at 18:30, dinner at 20:00. Three lines is enough. Guests need to know when to arrive and when the dinner starts, not a minute-by-minute breakdown.
The dietary options matter more than the programme. Pick the categories you are offering, and the wizard adds them to the RSVP form so guests can mark their choice. If your venue offers four dishes, list four. If it is a buffet, you can skip this step entirely and just write "buffet menu, all dietary needs covered" in the venue notes.
Step 5: Preview, share, publish (40 seconds)
The preview button shows you exactly what your guests will see. Open it in a phone — that is where 90% of guests will read it. If something looks off, fix it. The whole wedding website lives behind one URL.
You can share the preview link with your partner, your parents, anyone you want feedback from, before you pay. We recommend a 24-hour cooling period: build it, share with two trusted people, sleep on it, publish the next day. The cost of waiting is zero. The cost of publishing something with a typo and then having to update it after a hundred people already have the link is real.
When you are ready, click publish. The 49€ payment goes through Polar (one-time, no subscription, no hidden fees), and your wedding website goes live at the URL you picked. Done.
What you can change after you publish
Almost everything. Programme, menu, story, photos, gallery, dietary options, even the template — all of it lives in your private dashboard. The URL stays the same, so guests never have to update anything on their side.
What you cannot change after publishing is the slug — the part of the URL that comes after wedding30s.com/. Pick it carefully when you build the page. Short, memorable, easy to spell over the phone.
What if I want to take longer?
You can. The wizard saves automatically, so you can leave it half-built and come back tomorrow. Some couples spend an hour fine-tuning the colours, the typography, the gallery layout — that is fine. The point of the five-minute promise is that there is no obstacle if you are short on time.
Open the wizard now and see how far you can get in five minutes. The preview is free; you only pay when you press publish.