Which wedding website is right for you?

WithJoy (often searched as "Joy") is free and well-liked for its clean, simple interface. It offers integrated registry features and optional paid services alongside its free wedding websites, and a custom-look URL is a USD $19.99/yr add-on. Guests generally get the best photo-sharing experience through Joy's companion mobile app.

WedWiz takes a different approach: a single one-time payment, with no registry commissions, no app required for guests, and no account for you to set up. Your page previews live for free, watermarked, so you only pay once you're happy with it.

Zola is one of the most complete free wedding platforms around, bundling a website with registry, guest list, and checklist tools. It's genuinely free to build — Zola's revenue comes from registry purchases, stationery sales, and optional add-ons, and a custom domain runs from USD $14.95/yr. Card-processed cash-fund gifts typically carry a small standard processing fee.

WedWiz is a much smaller, more focused tool: it's just the wedding website, built without an account, with RSVP replies emailed straight to you instead of living inside a Zola dashboard. If you want Zola's full planning suite, Zola is a strong choice — if you just want a beautiful page without signing up anywhere, that's where WedWiz fits.

The Knot offers a free wedding website with hundreds of designs, backed by one of the biggest vendor directories in the industry. That directory is also core to its business — The Knot generates significant revenue from vendors paying for advertising and premium placement, and a custom domain is a USD $19.99/yr add-on.

WedWiz doesn't have a vendor marketplace at all — it's purely a website builder. What it adds instead is no account, a one-time price with nothing recurring, and guest pages that can publish in English, Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese.

Minted's wedding websites are genuinely beautiful, designed by independent artists to match Minted's stationery. The base site is free and typically comes with a stationery credit, but a custom URL is a paid add-on that renews annually, and the designs are built to complement a printed invitation suite rather than stand alone.

WedWiz isn't trying to sell you paper goods — it's a one-time purchase with no renewal fee, and your RSVP responses land in your inbox rather than a Minted dashboard. If matching physical stationery to your website is the priority, Minted's design library is hard to beat.

Canva is a general design tool, not a wedding platform, which is exactly its appeal — near-total creative control over layout, fonts, and imagery, in any language you like. But that flexibility means an RSVP form, guest list, and registry links aren't built in as wedding-specific features; most Canva wedding templates ask you to connect an external form tool just to collect an RSVP, and a real custom domain needs Canva Pro.

WedWiz gives up Canva's open-ended design freedom in exchange for a wedding-specific builder: RSVP, schedule, gallery, and registry links are already there, and every response is emailed to you directly, no extra tools required.

Easy Weddings is Australia's biggest wedding planning platform, used by a large share of engaged Australian couples. Its free wedding website is one part of a much larger planning dashboard — budget calculator, guest list, seating planner, and a directory of thousands of Australian suppliers. That directory and its concierge referral service are central to the business, and building a site means creating an Easy Weddings account.

WedWiz is a narrower tool by comparison: just the wedding website, published without an account, with RSVP replies sent straight to your inbox instead of a planning dashboard. If you want Australian supplier recommendations and a full planning toolkit alongside your website, Easy Weddings covers a lot more ground.