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A Hitched alternative for couples who want the website to carry more

Hitched gives you a free wedding website alongside free planning tools and an app. When Will You Marry is a paid-once website builder. Here is an honest look at what each one does.

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Hitched is a UK wedding planning site, and its wedding website is free, like all of its planning tools. Its own FAQ puts it simply: all of the wedding planning tools are free at Hitched, including the wedding website. Alongside the site you get a checklist, a budget planner, a guest list, a drag-and-drop seating chart, a supplier and venue manager, and a Hitched app.

When Will You Marry is a UK wedding website builder that you pay for once. Building is free, publishing costs £59 on Standard, and Premium costs £99 and adds a gift registry with no fees, your own domain, a seating chart, a budget tracker and SMS. There is no subscription and no advertising on your site.

So the choice is not free against paid on the same thing. It is a free site inside a wider planning platform, against a site where the gifts, the messages and the guest list all work from the website itself. The comparison below uses Hitched's own wedding website page, read on 3 November 2026.

Where cash gifts go

On Hitched, you share a link to your gift list from your wedding website. Its page does not give a fee figure for that, so we have not guessed one. On our Premium plan the registry is part of the site: you set out each gift or fund with a picture and suggested amounts, then add your PayPal.me, Monzo.me or Revolut.me link or your bank details. Guests pay you directly, and we take 0%. Your dashboard keeps a tracker of every contribution, with totals converted into pounds when relatives abroad give in their own currency.

RSVPs and the guest list

Both of us take RSVPs on the website and put them straight into the guest list. Hitched syncs replies with its guest list and lets guests choose from your menus. On our Standard plan each reply carries a meal choice, the dietary version of a dish where you offer one, and free-text notes, and you can copy the full list into Google Sheets or Excel for your caterer. From the same list you can schedule emails against your wedding date, sent only to guests who have not replied yet if you like.

Photos and messages from guests

Hitched links your site to Wedshoots, its own app where guests add photos to a shared wedding album. We do things differently. Our guestbook, on Standard, takes messages with photos and GIFs that appear on your site, and you can add a button linking to a shared album you already use, such as Google Photos or Dropbox. We do not have an app of our own, so guests use the site in their phone's browser.

Your web address

Hitched creates an address for your site automatically, and you can personalise it. On our Standard plan your site lives at a whenwillyoumarry.com address. Premium lets you connect a domain you own, bought from any registrar, such as yournames.co.uk. You add one DNS record, we check it and serve the site over HTTPS, and the domain stays registered to you. For invitations, every published site can download a QR code as a PNG or SVG file.

Keeping the site to your guests

Hitched lets you add a welcome form or a password under its settings. On When Will You Marry, Standard and Premium sites can have an optional guest password covering the whole site, RSVPs included. Guests enter it once, perhaps from the invitation, and stay unlocked for 30 days; change it and the old one stops working. Every couple site is also marked noindex, so search engines leave it out.

Side by side

When Will You Marry and Hitched, compared

Hitched details are from Hitched’s own website, checked 3 November 2026. Prices and terms change, so check before you choose.
Feature	When Will You Marry	Hitched
Cost of the wedding website	Free to build; £59 once to go live, £99 once for Premium	Free, as are all of Hitched's planning tools¹
Gifts	Registry on Premium; guests pay the couple directly and we take 0%	Share a link to your gift list from the site; no fee figure stated¹
RSVPs	On Standard, with meal choices and dietary notes	Guests RSVP from the site, synced with the Hitched guest list, and can choose menus¹
Guest photos	Guestbook with photos and GIFs (Standard); a button to your own shared album	Guests add to a wedding album through Hitched's Wedshoots, linked from the site¹
Web address	whenwillyoumarry.com address on Standard; your own domain on Premium	Created automatically, and you can personalise it¹
Privacy for guests	Site-wide guest password, optional, on both paid plans; noindex	Add a welcome form or a password under Settings¹
Seating chart and budget	Both on Premium	Drag-and-drop seating chart and budget planner, free¹
Supplier and venue tools	None	Free supplier and venue manager¹
App	No app; works in the browser	Hitched app¹

When Hitched may suit you better

Hitched is the better choice if you want everything free. Its website, seating chart, budget planner, guest list and checklist cost nothing, while our site costs £59 to publish and our seating chart and budget tracker need Premium at £99. It also has a supplier and venue manager, which we do not offer, and an app for planning on your phone. If you are still finding suppliers, and a free site does what you need, Hitched will serve you well.

Common questions

Is the Hitched wedding website free?

Yes. Hitched's FAQ says all of its wedding planning tools are free, including the wedding website. When Will You Marry is free to build but costs £59, once, to publish.

Why would I pay for a wedding website when Hitched is free?

You would pay for gifts that go straight to you with no fee taken, your own domain, SMS to guests and messages scheduled against your wedding date. If a free site with a gift list link and RSVPs covers what you need, there is no reason to pay for more.

Can I move from Hitched to When Will You Marry?

There is no automatic import, so you would copy your text and photos across, and our contact importer can bring guests in from a CSV file. Building costs nothing, so you can rebuild the whole site and compare before paying.

Is When Will You Marry a monthly subscription?

No. Standard is £59 and Premium is £99, each paid once, and upgrading later costs £40. Paid sites are guaranteed to stay online for at least 24 months after your wedding date.

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