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What to put on a wedding website (and what to leave off)
A guest opens your link on a phone, usually standing up, usually while doing something else. They are looking for one of four things: when, where, what to wear, and whether they need to reply. Everything else is decoration — welcome, but only after those four are answered.
Lead with the date, not the story
Your names and the date belong in the first screen, before any scrolling. This sounds obvious and is the most commonly broken rule: a long romantic introduction above the date means a guest who opened the link to check a time has to scroll past your love story to find it.
Put the story lower. The people who want it will reach it, and the people who came for a time will have already left happy.
Give each ceremony its own time and place
Indian weddings are rarely one event at one address. Pithi at home, mehndi in a garden, sangeet at a hall, the wedding somewhere else again. A single venue line at the top cannot carry that, and guests end up phoning to ask.
List each function with its own date, time and place. If two are at the same address, say so once rather than repeating it — a guest reading the same hall name four times stops reading.
Say the time you actually mean
If the muhurat is 11:11 and the pandit will not wait, write that plainly and ask people to be seated by eleven. If the sangeet says 7:30 and realistically starts at eight thirty, you can say that too — guests are grateful for it, and it stops the first hour being empty.
Vagueness here is the single biggest cause of a ceremony starting late.
Answer the questions people are embarrassed to ask
Can we bring the children. Is there parking. Do we need to come to all of it. Is there food for people who do not eat onion and garlic.
These are the questions that generate phone calls to your mother on the morning of the wedding. Six lines on a page prevents most of them, and nobody has to feel awkward asking.
What to leave off
A gift registry reads as a request in most Indian families — if you want to say something about gifts, say it gently or not at all. Long biographies of the wedding party are a Western convention that rarely lands here. Background music that plays automatically will get your link closed on a quiet train.
And leave off anything you would have to keep updating. A page that is out of date is worse than a page that is short.