How NECESSARY is a wedding website?

If you do make a wedding website, just don't post it publicly. What we are doing, is just putting the website name on the back of our save the dates and those only go to people invited to your wedding. A lot of other things I've been seeing lately is that some places you can require a pin for people to see your page. Just give the pin to people you trust. The only reason we made one was so we could link our registry to it. But its completely up to you, not everyone makes one or want one. But there are options to keeping it private if you do end up making one.

I created a simple website from WW. It was quick and easy, and you can also secure it with a password. I added this info to out invites, so only people who get an invitation can view the website. Hope this helps

Website not required...

It is not necessairy, but you could always make it private and require a password to access it. If you think people will give out the password, those same people would also show your invitation and share those details anyway. You would a bit paranoid though so I would just not do one at all.

Websites are convenient these days but people made it just fine without them for years. The only practical information is that you can check the exact address the day of the wedding, hotel block, and registry information. You already said the hotel block doesn't apply to you, people can save their invitations for the address, and people usually spread the registry by word of mouth. Everything else I see are pictures and love story. Just skip it.

It depends on your crowd, my website was extremely helpful for out of town guests for flights, hotels, etc. Most my rsvps are on my site as well, you are being extremely paranoid, your wedding is not the event of the century , people are not just going to look you up and decide they MUST be there. Im not sure what typenof people you keep in your "network" but i highly suggest cutting ties with them if this thought even crosses your mind

They are not necessary. I'm not doing one either- not because of the reasons you posted, but because 1. I don't feel like actually setting one up and 2. The inserts will work just as well regarding address location and hotel block info.

Not necessary at all. I'm doing one for my own reasons though. I have quite a few out of town guests so I have hotel block information on there. I don't have any details that I want to "surprise" guests with. I just have information regarding times, locations, and the fact that we will be serving a buffet and have an open bar. We also found it to be a good place to put some of our engagement photos. But, your guests will make it there with or without a website.

With regards to surprising your guests on the day - it is entirely up to you what you put on the website or not. As others have mentioned, you can create one with a pin / password.

I used Withjoy, mostly because they have an app where our guests can add any photo's that they take on the day (which only invited guests can access). It was important to us to have an easy way for our guests to share their pics with us.

Also, our wedding venue is some ways out of town, so many of our guests are staying overnight - we could put hotel options in for them. And it was a great way to warn guests about things like "the ceremony is on the grass - be careful about wearing stilettos".

At the end of the day, a wedding website is super convenient, and I would recommend looking into some options before you decide. They aren't necessary though, and some of the older generation don't quite get the "online rsvp" thing, no matter how easy it is.

I was in the same boat as you, but I ended up creating one. I have been invited to a few weddings recently where they had websites and I think it is so helpful especially because we were traveling from out of town.

All of my guests will be traveling around 2-5 hours for the wedding and I think it is super helpful to show which hotels are blocks (dated they need to book by), let them know there is transportation to and from hotel, what time everything starts, a little bit more about us, and I think the best part is the RSVP option. It has enough information and a whole lot more than I can include on my detail card.

I like on the WW website you can create you can not add a plus 1 which I wanted. So only the names in each household will pop up. But then you do need to create a guest list on WW.

I'm all for a website, I couldn't tell you how many time I've forgotten the invitation or reception card at home and have to ask my friends where I'm going . Also they will be able to look up the venue after you send out invites anyway

Not at all necessary. People went to weddings before wedding websites. Wild, eh?

Thank you ladies for confirming that a wedding website is NOT necessary, despite its benefits, we lived long before the wedding website fad. I think I will pass on this one. My fiancé & I are very busy and would not have the time to dedicate to the creating of the website. I appreciate the insight on setting a password/pin that is so cool to avoid the random creeps & the rsvp, hotel blocks, directions is all great but we don't need it. Anyone who is attending should save the invite, take a photo, or text me or a family member. As I mentioned we are not doing hotel blocks and my guests are 90% family we can get rsvps via phone call, text, or in person contact.

To the user who said Im paranoid and should reconsider my network, hunnie your network does not only consist of those you choose as friends or those who are given to you as family, it includes current. & former coworkers, colleagues, mutual friends, school friends, etc. So yeah please don't be naive and think everyone on your Facebook is your friend in real life or wants your best interest. Also unfortunately we know a lot of ppl we care for but just cant invite our guest list is already 150ppl (mainly fam) I don't want to have to explain that they aren't getting an invite.

Happy wedding planning gorgeous ladies thanks for the insight!!!

I don't have one, and honestly even if I did people probably wouldn't use it. Plus I don't want the hassle of the upkeep.

And I did paper RSVP's, which I'm not sad about one bit! I wouldn't want to get a phone call and forget to write something down and then forget if someone was coming!

You're right, we have lived in a world without websites before and it worked out just fine!

It's not necessary, but can be helpful depending on your situation. 85% of our guests are OOT, so we did it mainly for hotel info. Also in my circle it's the norm. We also password protected ours and put the pin on our Save The Dates

Don't refer to other members as 'hunie", okay? It's snotty behaviour and most of what you've gotten back has been helpful INCLUDING the post about being paranoid.

I made one on the knot to post the link for the 2 hotel blocks I have. I have a pin # attached to it so only guest can see it.