A wedding website serves to:
- Consolidate information about your wedding
- Provide guests with directions, hotel information, and other details
- Show guests your story with photos and content about how your relationship
- Make it easy to find your registry
- Provide a platform for collecting RSVPs
In order to have a functional and beautiful website, you should begin by choosing your wedding website’s domain name. Will you go with jamesandlaura.com, or will you choose something else?
You want to have the best wedding imaginable, and your domain name should be as good as it gets, therefore, the cost of a website could increase. That’s why we’re sharing how to choose a domain for a wedding website.
Try the go-to domains first
The simplest and easiest wedding website domains are classic, usually including the names of the bride and groom. Some examples are:
- com (or Meredithandtom.com)
- com (or Bethandjake.com)
- com (or Lucyandsamir.com)
These domains are easy to remember, which is helpful to guests who will want to visit your website more than once.
Go with an alternate top-level domain
Everyone wants a .COM, but .COM was actually originally used for businesses. If the .COM you want is taken, consider using an alternate top-level domain. Some of the common ones used for weddings are:
- .NET
- .LOVE
- .WEDDING
Replace “and” with “-” and “plus”
You may have your heart set on JackandLucy.com, but isn’t Jack-Lucy.com and JackplusLucy.com almost the same thing? Consider adding a hyphen or the word “plus” to keep your domain name short and simple.
Use last names
Using a last name is a good strategy in creating a unique wedding website domain. For example, you might be able to use JohnsonWedding2016.com as your domain name.
If your last name is hard to spell or difficult to remember, like Siemaszko or Scannapieco, this strategy isn’t the best. If the woman is keeping her maiden name, this strategy could be tricky, as well.
Make it short & easy to remember
Much of the time, the domain you want will be taken. There’s another Emma and Chris out there that fell in love, and took your domain.
If you need to consider alternate domains, make sure that whatever you choose is short and easy to remember. Often, guests will visit your wedding website shortly before the event– when they’re a passenger in the car or at a hotel. At these moments, they won’t have your wedding invitation on hand, and will need to remember the website. Make it short and easy to remember so that guests can find you wherever they are.
Buy multiple domains
Wouldn’t it be great if a guest could type in KevinandRachel.com or RachelandKevin.com and get to the same website? If you buy both domains, you’re making things super easy for your guests.
For example, Jim and Sally might buy:
- com
- com
- wedding
Just remember– this strategy is a little bit evil to other couples that share your names!
Be wary of double letters
If Sara and Joe get married, they may want to keep it simple, and go with SaraandJoe.com, but the double a (the last “a” of Sara, followed by the first “a” in and) can be confusing and hard to read.
Be wary of how the domain name looks, and keep in mind that domain names always read as lowercase in the browser. Even though SaraAndJoe.com looks clear as day, saraandjoe.com is a bit more confusing.
Check for inappropriate stuff
When you combine your names together, does everything look ok? Have you accidentally added a swear or inappropriate reference? For example, if Kashi and Tom buy a wedding website domain, you might have a problem. 😉
How to deal when your wedding domain has been taken
If you’re still struggling to come up with a wedding websi
te domain that works for you, consider the following:
- Use a location
- Add the date
- Try a phrase
- Add the word “wedding”
Just remember– a good wedding website domain can make things easy on your guests, but what matters most is cultivating a wonderful marriage. Don’t sweat it if the domain you want was already taken by someone else.