Design a wedding website with Joy! A free and quality website + mobile app for guests

[@MishieWishie]

Engaged art director here and SO happy you have this series because I was really wondering about the UX for both me and my guests! My hangup with it all was the RSVP but was being put off my all the super templated choices for more popular sites. Thank you!

[@HelloImAlexa]

Oh yay!! So glad you found the video useful. And congrats to you and your partner 🎉🙂

[@paulseitz672]

Thanks Alexa! Love the video! Especially after battling TheKnot for a few hours and getting frustrated with its lack of agility. And no video!!! My fiancé has tasked me with the website design and wedding coordination (as I have a production and event background) so I'm looking forward to checking out Joy.

[@HelloImAlexa]

Oh yayy! So glad you enjoyed the video :) If you go with Joy I hope it works out for you! And congrats - hope you enjoy wedding planning 🎉🎉

[@abbymainwaring1408]

Many thanks from a fellow product designer! I was overwhelmed by all the website options but this helped me go with Joy and got me started so quickly. So helpful

[@HelloImAlexa]

yayyy!! so happy to hear it 🙂 And congrats!

[@shanelledahar]

Thank you for sharing! Your input and perspective are really helpful compared to other videos I have watched.

[@HelloImAlexa]

Yay!! you're so welcome

[@fleurdelotus89]

Hi Alexa! This was great-thank you. Did you use Joy’s guest list/rsvp function to manage your guest list? If so, I would love to hear what you think and potentially a tutorial 😅. Thank you!!

[@HelloImAlexa]

Yay so glad to hear! I did use their guest list and RSVP tool! Thought it was great. I found it super easy to use and it definitely helped us manage guests info through collecting their responses. We did also supplement with a Google Spreadsheet for other personal things we needed to track as well. A tutorial is a good idea 🤔 thanks for that input!

[@marieloftus5717]

Where do i go to add accommodation options to the rolling home page.

[@mebsnowy]

Please do rsvp withjoy tutorial ☺️

[@jamesmilford2011]

Hi there, great video! Do you know if this platform allows guests to send messages back to us as we’d like to offer up the option for them to enter a song they’d like to hear at our wedding.

[@HelloImAlexa]

Hello! I don't remember exactly, I'd recommend reaching out to Joy to confirm! I do remember you could send messages to guests though. And for the virtual RSVP feature you can request guests to include a song which is what we did! Hope that helps :)

[@SumeyaHassan]

Loved this video and decided to go with this website provider. Im struggling with the guest list / RSVP feature. Could you perhaps show your final website and walk us through this?

[@HelloImAlexa]

Glad you enjoy the video! I did love using Joy for our wedding website :) I'm sorry, but I'm not planning to do a video on this anytime soon -- I'm actually 35 weeks pregnant so slowing down with content for a bit! There's been a lot of interest in more wedding website videos though so it's definitely on my radar. I recommend reaching out to Joy's customer support team for any technical questions. You should be able to chat them (bottom right side) from this page: help.withjoy.com

[@rajecurling5264]

Hi Alex, thank you for your content , it was very helpful . Is there a way to do a video background on our website . Like how the the Joy website does it on its welcome page ?

[@HelloImAlexa]

Thanks!! Glad you found it helpful. I dont believe their websites have that functionality… I think you can only upload photos 🤔 Perhaps you could reach out to their customer support team to get a more concrete answer - if anything it could be a feature request!

[@shazinabdulnazer975]

How can guest upload the photos? What are the options?

[@cutenessoverload1365]

How do you upload photos for guests after the wedding?

[@__kayw]

So happy I found your videos - since you're a designer, I trusted your opinion and went with Joy instead of Zola. So far the UX is great and I've been enjoying building my wedding website on Joy. It's making me more excited :) Will we get to see your final product? =D

[@HelloImAlexa]

Oh yay! So glad you chose Joy and are enjoying it :) I found it very fun as well. Good point! Now that my wedding is over I could certainly show my website since the details are less private now. Thanks for the idea!

[@kalinapotter2693]

Hey Alexa! Thank you for your content! Have you heard of bliss and bone wedding website and could do a video on it? I haven’t found any videos on KZbin. I would very much appreciate it. ❤️

[@HelloImAlexa]

Hiii! You're so welcome :) And hmm no I haven't heard of them before. I don't have plans to do more wedding website videos at the moment but Ill think about it!

[@diranengala9229]

Hey Alexa, thank you for such a wonderful and explicit video. I have a question, after designing the website using Joy, can you just share the url and people access your site or must you purchase a domain name and hosting to link your site to?

[@HelloImAlexa]

You're so welcome! You do not need to purchase a domain name with Joy -- there's a free one you can use and I was able to select a URL name that I really liked no problem. Hope that helps :)

[@iodean7616]

Can i insert video before scrolling to other pages?

[@illbeokay45sos]

is there a way to buy ur own url/domain name

[@HelloImAlexa]

With Joy? You should be able to buy a domain from NameCheap, GoDaddy, etc and connect it

[@holistic_meg_]

We are using joy for our wedding website i have a question about sending the invites though....when I read online it says to send invites out 3 months before but in our case this is far too late! We were thinking send it out 9 months before with a rsvp for 3 months before as everyone has to travel and that way they all have access to the website and we who has rsvp'd quickly or has left it late and we know who can come to what. Has anyone else done this??

[@HelloImAlexa]

Hi there! I actually thought the same thing with our wedding as well! I think weddings have a lot of traditional aspects to them but I think you should do whatever feels right to you. Usually "save the dates" go out first, many months ahead of time (I think we sent ours out around 10-11 months out) and on the wedding website we had our RSVP there ready for people and some people did fill it out but not most. Then RSVPs are sent much closer to the wedding -- like 2-3 months as you noticed. I think we sent ours out around 3 months out from the wedding date. I was pretty reluctant to this and wanted to send them like 5 months out or something and would have preferred people to let us know as soon as they could (like many months in advanced!) but now that I'm a mom and I was pregnant most of last year, I can understand better that some people just can't really tell you that far in advanced and need to give you a RSVP once its closer. Life happens, people don't know who they want to bring as their +1, just not everyone has everything figured out! The RSVP around 2-3 months out also helps remind people to fill out their RSVP so you dont need to track people down. Anyway, hope that helps!

[@mstealeaf1656]

I’m getting married in Oct 2023. I had already started using Joy prior to finding this video. But now my guests are having trouble rsvp and they’re clicking on look for invitation. Did I do something wrong?

[@vivia122794]

We are getting married that month as well! Did you end up figuring this out?

[@mstealeaf1656]

@@vivia122794 I had to turn the password option off. People we able to rsvp with no problem after that.

[@HelloImAlexa]

Glad you figured it out! I was able to use the password feature no problem 🤷‍♀️ I especially wanted to do this since I have a more public profile. Def recommend reaching out to their customer support if it's not working for you! Loved using Joy 🙂

[@mariaorellanes]

Hi Alexa! Thanks for sharing. Were you able to send your save the date and invitations from Joy? I´ve tried with my email and the invitation does not arrive. The RSVP button does not appear on the home page either. And it freaks me out a little that even if you buy the domain it only serves as a mask, did you notice that? After that it looks like a really complete platform.

[@HelloImAlexa]

Hey María! Answers below: Q: Were you able to send your save the date and invitations from Joy? I´ve tried with my email and the invitation does not arrive. A: We sent our Save the Dates through Joy and didn't have any issues with this. Have you checked your spam for it? We did have some people who this happened too, though we could see in the backend if they hadn't opened it yet and asked them to check. They always found it. If it's still not working, def recommend reaching out to Joy's support team and see what could be going on. For invites, I believe they use a 3rd party company for printing. I think you export your list and upload that to their 3rd party who coordinates printing them. I personally designed and printed our wedding invites since I have a design background, so I did everything manually. Wish I could add more perspective to your question here but I can't! Q: The RSVP button does not appear on the home page either. A: If you're not seeing it then I believe you need to go into the settings and turn on the toggle for RSVP. Once that's active you should see the button! Again, I recommend reaching out to Joy's support team to check if that doesn't work. Q: And it freaks me out a little that even if you buy the domain it only serves as a mask, did you notice that? A: Why does that freak you out? I'm not 100% sure I am understanding this one. I personally liked our non-custom domain with the Joy platform - I got the first choice for domain name that I wanted. LMK what you think and if you have any follow ups!

[@KevyB.]

This is so limited. You are unable to create a header, or other text or the picture page nor the 2nd page which has the date, it's very frustrating.

[@HelloImAlexa]

Sorry you're frustrated! I found it the best product out of what is out there when it comes to templated wedding website platforms. Hope you figure out what's best for you!

[@loismarieilocso3635]

Can you still edit the wedding website once you created it?

[@HelloImAlexa]

Yes definitely! I think it's a work in progress throughout the whole planning process

[@ceydahadid9562]

How to post a picture?? I can't 😭😭