How much does a wedding website cost in the UK?

The short answer: anywhere from nothing at all to around £1,500, and the price has less to do with how the site looks than with who does the work.

Below is what UK couples actually pay, route by route, including the costs that tend to appear later — a custom domain, removing platform branding, or paying someone to fix something the week of the wedding.

Free platforms: £0, with conditions

Joy, The Knot, Bridebook, Hitched and GettingMarried all offer a free wedding website with RSVPs, a schedule, travel information and a gift list. For a straightforward one-venue, one-day wedding with guests who are comfortable online, a free site is often genuinely enough.

The costs that do come up:

Your own domain — around £10–£25 a year for a .com or .co.uk, more if you buy it through the platform rather than a registrar. Without it your address looks like platform.com/emma-and-tom.
Removing platform branding and adverts — usually part of a paid upgrade, typically £20–£60.
Your time. Most couples spend somewhere between five and fifteen hours setting one up, writing the wording, and then chasing guests through the RSVP list.

The real limits are structural rather than financial. Free platforms are template-driven, so multi-day weddings, guest-specific invitations, second languages and unusual RSVP questions either can’t be done or have to be bodged.

Paid DIY builders: £50–£250

If you build the site yourself on Squarespace, Wix or a themed WordPress template, expect roughly £150–£250 for a year of hosting and a domain, or £50–£120 if you use a cheaper host and a bought theme. A premium wedding theme on its own is usually £30–£70.

You get far more design control than a free platform and the site is genuinely yours. You also inherit the work: the layout decisions, the copywriting, making it behave properly on a phone, and building the RSVP form so the answers arrive somewhere useful. This route suits couples who enjoy that kind of project — and it is a project, not an afternoon.

Freelance designers: £400–£1,500+

A freelance web designer building a one-off wedding site in the UK typically charges £400–£800 for something simple and £900–£1,500 or more for a fully custom design with illustration, animation or complex RSVP logic. Hosting and domain are usually extra, either billed on or set up in your name.

The quality is often excellent. Two things to check before you commit: whether the quote includes writing the content or expects you to supply it finished, and what happens after launch. Many freelance projects end at handover, which means the guest-list change three weeks before the wedding is either a new invoice or your problem.

Done-for-you concierge services: £99–£900

This is the category we sit in, and it’s worth being clear about what you’re paying for: not pixels, but someone taking the whole job off your list — the design, the wording, the RSVP setup, the updates when your plans change, and the answers when a guest emails you confused.

Our prices, in full:

Founding Rate — £99. A limited number of places while we build our early portfolio, in exchange for honest feedback and permission to feature your site once you’re married.
Essential — £195. A complete, well-written single-page site with RSVPs, guest information and hosting.
Signature — £395. A multi-page site with richer content, more design work and ongoing changes handled for you.
Bespoke — £895. Custom design and the complicated cases: multi-day itineraries, second languages, guest-specific pages, unusual RSVP questions.

Hosting is included, and depending on the package you can also have editing access if you’d like to change your own wording — most couples never use it, but it costs nothing to have.

Which route is right for you

Use a free platform if your wedding is one day at one venue, you don’t mind a template, and you have the evenings to spend on it. Build it yourself on a paid platform if you want design control and actively enjoy making things. Hire a freelancer if you want something visually distinctive and you’re happy to supply the content and manage the project. Choose a done-for-you service if your constraint is time and attention rather than money.

One honest note: the cost of a wedding website is rarely the deciding factor at these numbers. The deciding factor is usually how much of your remaining planning capacity you want to spend on it.

Questions worth asking whoever you choose

Is hosting included, and for how long after the wedding?
Who writes the content — and is editing included?
How many rounds of changes are included before launch?
What happens when something changes after launch, and what does that cost?
Can I use my own domain, and who owns it?
Where do RSVP answers go, and can I export them for the caterer?

The answers to those six questions explain almost every price difference in this market.