Making a wedding website takes about twenty minutes if you do it in the right order: pick a design, type your names and date, add the venue and the schedule, publish, and share the link. Everything else, the travel section, the registry, the photos, the story, can be added later without changing the link. The mistake is waiting until you have all of it, because the people who need the site most, the ones booking flights, need it first.
Start with what is fixed
You need three things to publish: your names, your date, and the venue. If you have those, make the site today, even if the site says nothing else. Guests booking travel need the date and the city, and a site with two facts on it is more useful than a beautiful one that goes live a month before the wedding.
On Lazo, pick any of the designs, type your names and watch every preview update, then create the site with that design. It is live at your own link immediately, and it is free, with no card.
Add the logistics, then stop
The schedule, with times: ceremony, cocktails, dinner, dancing, and anything the night before or the morning after. The venue with the address guests should use. Where to stay, with the hotel block deadline. How to RSVP and by when. That is a complete wedding website; publish it and send the link with the save-the-date.
Every Lazo design has a section for each of these, in the same order, so the only decision is which design. Leave a section empty and it does not show.
Come back for the rest
Photos, when you have the engagement shoot. The story, when you have an evening. Dress code, when you have decided. Registry, once it exists. Vendors, once they are booked; on Lazo, vendors you book through the planner appear on the site on their own.
None of these change the link, so nothing you have already sent goes stale. Guests who open the site in month one and again in month six see the same address with more on it.
Choosing a design without agonising
Match the venue, not your personality. A garden wedding wants greenery, a ballroom wants black tie, a beach wants a beach. Guests should get the setting from the site before they read a word.
Check it on a phone, because that is where nearly every guest will open it. Type your own names into the preview; a design that looks right with 'Charlotte and Henry' can look different with a long double-barrelled surname.
You can change designs later on Lazo and everything you have added carries over, so the choice is not final.
Before you share it
Open the link on a phone that is not yours. Tap the address and check the map opens in the right place. Tap RSVP and reply as a test guest, then delete the reply. Read the dress code line as a guest who has never met you.
Decide whether the site is public or has a passcode. Public sites can be found by name, which guests like; passcode sites need the code on the invitation.
What to actually do about it
- Tell your stationer the website link before the save-the-dates go to print.
- The link goes on the save-the-date and the invitation. Make the site first so the link exists; on Lazo it is meetlazo.com/w/ and your names.
- Ask your photographer for three engagement photos early, in web sizes.
- The full gallery arrives weeks later. Three photos are enough for the cover and the story section, and the site looks finished.
- Ask your venue whether guests should use the venue's own directions.
- Some venues have a directions page for a reason: the map route crosses a locked gate or a private road.
Common questions
How early should we make the wedding website?
As soon as you have a date and a venue, ideally before the save-the-dates go out, so the link can be on them. Fill in the rest over time.
Do we need to know how to code or design?
No. On Lazo you pick a design, type your names and details, and it is live. There is nothing to install and no design decisions beyond which template and which color look.
Can we change the design after publishing?
Yes. Switch designs or color looks any time; your names, schedule, RSVPs and everything else carry over and the link stays the same.
The vendors this depends on
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