Build a Wedding Website with AI
Describe your wedding website in chat and an AI agent writes the real code: custom RSVP forms, travel maps and registries, live with HTTPS on a free subdomain.
Describe your wedding website
Change the prompt, or pick a different starting point. The agent writes the code while you watch.
What goes into a wedding website that works
The parts that earn their place — and what each one is actually for.
Conditional RSVP form
Guests confirm attendance, pick meals, list allergies and name plus-ones in a flow that adapts to who they are. Someone invited only to the reception never sees rehearsal dinner questions, and a family of four can respond in one pass. Responses are stored in a database, which is a paid-plan feature, and export as CSV for your caterer and seating chart.
- 1Household and party responses
- 2Meal choices and dietary restrictions
- 3Plus-one name collection
- 4Per-event attendance tracking
- 5CSV export for vendors
What goes into a wedding website that works
- Conditional RSVP form
Guests confirm attendance, pick meals, list allergies and name plus-ones in a flow that adapts to who they are. Someone invited only to the reception never sees rehearsal dinner questions, and a family of four can respond in one pass. Responses are stored in a database, which is a paid-plan feature, and export as CSV for your caterer and seating chart.
- Household and party responses
- Meal choices and dietary restrictions
- Plus-one name collection
- Per-event attendance tracking
- CSV export for vendors
- Travel and lodging hub
Out-of-town guests generate most of the repeat questions: which hotel, which booking code, what time is the shuttle. A dedicated travel page answers them once, with embedded maps, room block links and shuttle times you update in one place. Guests check this section on phones in transit, so it stays legible on a small screen.
- Hotel room block links
- Embedded maps for venue and hotels
- Shuttle schedule cards
- Airport and parking directions
- Nearby food and activities
- Multi-event schedule
Weekend weddings need a schedule page: welcome drinks Friday, ceremony Saturday, farewell brunch Sunday. Each event gets its own time, address and dress code, and guests see only the events on their invitation. One update here replaces a dozen group texts.
- Per-event times and addresses
- Guest-specific visibility
- Dress code notes
- Add-to-calendar links
- Registry links
Link to whatever you actually want: Zola, Amazon, a boutique, a honeymoon fund, a charity. The section keeps the design consistent instead of sending guests a list of bare URLs. The honest limit is that it links out; it does not process gifts or track thank-yous the way Zola's native registry does.
- External shop linking
- Honeymoon fund buttons
- Charity donation links
- Items grouped by category
- Photo gallery
Engagement shots, venue photos, the childhood pictures that go with your story section. Galleries handle high-resolution images with a lightbox view and stay quick on mobile connections, which matters because this is the section guests linger on.
- Lightbox viewing mode
- Grid and masonry layouts
- High-resolution image support
- Mobile-friendly loading
- Privacy controls
A password gate keeps venue addresses and schedules off Google and away from uninvited eyes. You can require a passcode site-wide or verify guests against a list before showing event details. Decide this before invitations print with the URL on them.
- Site-wide password gate
- No-index tag for search engines
- Guest-list verification
- Registry hidden until login
From idea to live site
Four steps, one chat. No setup, no boilerplate, no handoff.
Describe your wedding
Tell the agent your date, color palette and the pages you need, plus the specifics that make your wedding unusual: a rehearsal dinner for a subset of guests, a hotel block with a booking code, a password gate. The more concrete the description, the closer the first version lands.
Watch it build
The agent writes the real code in a sandbox while a live preview updates, so you see the RSVP form and travel page come together rather than a static mockup.
Refine in chat
Ask for changes the way you would ask a person: swap the font to match the invitations, add a shuttle schedule, make the registry section hidden until login. Each request edits the code, and you can edit the code directly too.
Publish and share
Put the site on a free yourname.automatio.site subdomain with HTTPS and send the link with your invitations. A custom domain, and the database that stores RSVP responses, are paid-plan features, so set those up before responses start arriving.
Template, agency, or AI?
The three honest ways to get a wedding website built — including where the others win.
| Aspect | Template builder | Agency or freelancer | Automatio |
|---|---|---|---|
| First version | Fastest. Pick a Zola or Joy template, fill in your details, done | A discovery-and-revision cycle before anything exists | Describe the pages you want and watch the first version build |
| RSVP logic | Yes/no forms with meal dropdowns; branching is limited | Any logic you brief, at custom-build prices | Conditional multi-step flows; guests see only their events |
| Registry | Native registry with gift tracking and thank-you manager on Zola | Custom, if the budget covers it | Links to any shop or fund, but tracking lives outside the site |
| Design | Locked to theme grids | An original design matched to your stationery | Code-level control, but you art-direct it |
| Guest data | Lives in the platform; export quality varies by plan | Yours, per the contract | Your own database on a paid plan, exportable as CSV |
| When something breaks | Help docs and support tickets | One firm is accountable, for a retainer | Ask in the same chat that built it |
First version
RSVP logic
Registry
Design
Guest data
When something breaks
Who builds a wedding website
Real situations, and what changes the day the wedding website exists.
a couple planning a destination wedding
Guests across time zones keep asking about hotels, shuttles and which events run on which day.
A travel hub and schedule page give every guest the current itinerary on their phone, and you update it in one place instead of resending details.
- Post room block codes and booking deadlines
- Update shuttle times for the whole list at once
- Share the weekend itinerary before anyone asks
a couple with a big list and messy sub-events
Flat yes/no RSVP forms cannot record who is invited to the rehearsal dinner, so the spreadsheet gets reconciled against invitations by hand.
A branching form shows each guest only their events and collects meals and allergies in the same pass, giving you clean counts per event.
- Import a household list and tag guests to events
- Collect plus-one names for the seating chart
- Export per-event headcounts for the caterer
a partner with strong opinions about design
Template themes never quite match the stationery, and every drag-and-drop layout starts to look the same.
Because the site is real code, typography, spacing and color can match the invitations exactly instead of approximating the nearest theme.
- Match a font pairing to the printed invitations
- Set the palette from the stationery colors
- Build a custom layout for bridal party bios
a wedding planner building sites for clients
Commissioning a custom-coded site for every couple is out of reach at a small-agency budget.
You can generate a working custom site per client and hand over the source code, so the client owns an asset instead of renting a template.
- Deploy a client preview on a subdomain
- Customize the RSVP flow per event
- Push the finished code to the client's GitHub
What separates a good wedding website from a bad one
The decisions worth getting right early, and the mistakes that cost you later.
What the site is for
Guests use a wedding website for about four things: the ceremony and reception times and addresses, the RSVP form, the hotel block and travel details, and the registry. Love stories, proposal timelines and bridal party bios are optional extras. The checklists agree on this much, whether they come from The Knot or independent planners. A good site gets a guest from "I got the invitation" to "I know where to be and what to wear" in under a minute on a phone. A bad one buries the address behind a slow-loading animation or a wall of scrolling prose.
RSVP logic is the whole game
The RSVP form is where template builders most often fall short. Real weddings have sub-events: a rehearsal dinner for twelve people, a welcome drinks night for out-of-towners, a kids-free reception. A flat yes/no form cannot record who is invited to what, so couples end up reconciling responses against invitations by hand. With code, the form can branch: look up the guest, show only the events they are tagged to, ask for meal choices and allergies if they accept, and end with a short well-wish box if they decline. The responses land in a database (a paid-plan feature on Automatio) that exports as a CSV you can hand to your caterer and use for the seating chart.
The template trade-off, stated fairly
The incumbents are good at what they do. Zola's site is free, connects natively to its registry, and its guest management tools are capable; Joy has a strong free plan too. If a template design fits and your RSVP needs are simple, use one, because they are mature products and the price is hard to argue with. The walls couples hit are design and logic. One bride on r/weddingplanning described the Squarespace route:
{{blockquote: I really liked Squarespace, although we had to pay a subscription for things like custom URL, password protection, and RSVP forms. We also paid a separate subscription for a countdown widget. | u/Lilith_Cain on Reddit | https://reddit.com/r/weddingplanning/comments/1j08el2/recommended_wedding_website_builders/mfaixv2/}}
Others in the same thread found the template designs repetitive, or settled on a platform they liked while listing the features it lacked. Custom code is the alternative to working around those limits, and building it by chat is the alternative to paying an agency to write it.
Mistakes worth avoiding
The most common is the single-page build. It looks refined until a guest needs to find the registry a second time; in r/wedding, commenters who used one-page sites said people stop scrolling fast and miss details buried past the first screen. Give every guest task its own anchored section instead. The second mistake is building desktop-first. Guests open the site in a hotel lobby or a parking lot, so addresses need to be tappable and shuttle times readable on a small screen. The third is treating privacy as an afterthought. If you would rather not have your venue indexed by Google, say so in the first description; a password gate and a no-index tag are straightforward to build and annoying to retrofit once the invitations have the URL printed on them.
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What to get right first
The decisions that are painful to change later in wedding website.
Group households first
Before building, list which guests share an invitation, so the RSVP form lets one person respond for a whole family. Retrofitting household logic after fifty people have already responded is the painful version of this job.
Tag guests to events
Tell the agent who is invited to what while describing the build. Visibility rules are easy to specify up front and hard to add once responses exist.
Exact addresses, not landmarks
Give full addresses or GPS coordinates for parking entrances, rural venues and hotel lobbies, then tap every map link on a phone before the invitations go out.
Decide privacy early
If you want the site password-protected or unsearchable, say so in the first prompt. It changes how every page is built, not just the front door.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about wedding website