How to Make a Wedding Website (Step-by-Step, 10 Minutes)

A wedding website is the modern wedding card. It carries your names, your date, your venue, your story — and the practical bits guests keep forgetting: the dress code, the hotel block, whether kids are invited, which gate to park at. Done well, it replaces a dozen group chats and a hundred “wait, what time?” messages.

The good news: building one takes about ten minutes. You don’t need to know HTML, you don’t need a designer, and you don’t need to host anything yourself. This guide walks through it in five small steps.

1. Pick a wedding website builder

You have two real choices: a general site builder, or a wedding-specific tool. General builders are flexible, but you’ll spend hours wiring up RSVP forms and message boards that a wedding-specific builder gives you out of the box — usually on a monthly subscription you’ll then have to remember to cancel.

Varumo is wedding-specific, one-time-priced, and India-first. If you want a method for comparing any two tools rather than a ranking, we wrote how to choose a wedding website builder.

2. Choose a template that matches your wedding’s feel

Templates are starting points, not handcuffs. Pick one for the overall mood — luxe and editorial, soft and romantic, bright and playful, or rooted in a tradition — then customise. The accent, background and text colours are all yours to set, and even the section headings are editable, so “Our Story” can become “How we met” or something in your own words.

Don’t agonise. Look at five templates, pick the one that makes you smile, move on. Browse the catalogue — there are 91 designs, including a Faith & tradition group (Hindu, Muslim · Nikah, Christian, Sikh and interfaith), regional sets for Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Bengal, Odisha and Kashmir, and plenty that are culturally neutral. If your wedding has a tradition you want the page to honour, start with choosing a template by tradition.

3. Add your details

Six things must be on the page. Everything else is optional:

• Both your names. Bride first, groom first, alphabetical — your call.
• The wedding date. A countdown looks nice but isn’t essential, and it suits some templates better than others.
• The venue. Name, full address, and a map link. Paste a Google Maps share link and the page renders an interactive map guests can tap for directions.
• The schedule. Ceremony at 11, reception at 7. Include arrival hints — “please be seated by 10:45” saves a lot of phone calls.
• RSVP. Even if you’ve collected replies another way, the form catches latecomers.
• How to reach you. A WhatsApp number or email. Guests will have questions.

Optional but loved: a short story of how you met, a gallery of engagement or pre-wedding photos, hotel and travel notes, an FAQ, and a line about gifts. Skip anything that doesn’t apply — empty sections look worse than missing ones. The full list lives in our wedding website checklist.

4. Turn on RSVPs

This is where a wedding website earns its keep. Every reply lands in one dashboard with the guest’s name, whether they’re coming, how many they’re bringing, and a message. Export to CSV for the catering call. No more group-chat arithmetic.

If you’d rather collect replies elsewhere — some families do the whole thing by phone — you can switch the form off entirely and the section disappears from the page.

5. Share the link

Once the site looks right, you have two options for the address:

• The included URL. Something like varumo.com/riya-and-rohan. Short, clean, included in every plan, and it unfurls with a proper preview card on WhatsApp.
• Your own domain. Something like riyaandrohan.com. Two costs: the domain itself, bought yearly from a registrar, and an add-on here to connect it. Optional — most couples skip it. Current registrar prices and the exact DNS steps are in our plain-English custom-domain guide.

Either way, share by WhatsApp, SMS, or a QR code printed on your paper card. The link works on every phone, with no app to install.

Little touches worth knowing about

• Colour. Set the accent, background and text colours from a preset or any hex code, and watch the preview recolour as you type.
• Your words. Section headings are editable, so the page can speak in your family’s register rather than a template’s.
• Scratch to reveal. The invite can open as a scratch card that guests swipe away — a small piece of theatre that works surprisingly well on a phone.
• Music. Optional background audio that starts on the guest’s first tap, with a mute toggle always visible. Never set it to ambush someone in a meeting.

How long does this actually take?

About ten minutes to a usable first draft. An hour or two if you’re fussing with photos and copy, which is worth it. A weekend if you rewrite everything three times, which isn’t.

Should I pay for it?

Building and previewing is free. You pay when you want the link to work for your guests — and you can publish on a free 1-day trial first to see the real thing live before you decide.

Varumo plans are one-time, from ₹799, which keeps your site live for 92 days, up to 365 days on the longest plan. No subscriptions, no renewals — see current pricing.

Whichever tool you use, be wary of monthly billing. Your wedding website has a single purpose and a finite life; it doesn’t need a standing order.

Common mistakes

• Cramming everything into one section instead of using the schedule, travel and FAQ sections separately.
• Putting the dress code on the website but never in WhatsApp — plenty of guests won’t open the site until the day before.
• Choosing a dark, low-contrast hero photo. The hero is the first thing guests see; make it bright and legible with text over it.
• Forgetting to test the RSVP form. Send one to yourself before sharing the link.
• Deciding “no kids” but not saying so. Put it in the FAQ — guests appreciate clarity far more than they resent the rule.
• Never opening the site on a phone. That’s where nearly all of your guests will read it.

Ready to start?

Open Varumo, pick a template, fill in the six essentials, share the link. You’ll be done before your tea gets cold. New to the builder? The step-by-step tutorial walks through every screen.