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Thinking about Joy? Here is how we compare

Joy gives you a free wedding website and an app. We charge once to publish, take nothing from your gifts, and keep everything in the browser. Here is the honest difference.

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Joy, at withjoy.com, is a free wedding website builder with RSVP tools, templates, hosting and a companion app, and it now accepts card payments into cash funds for UK registries as well as US ones. If you want a capable site for nothing, Joy is a reasonable place to start, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.

The real differences are about money flow and what you get in return for paying. On Joy, a guest who pays a cash fund by card pays a processing fee on top, which goes to Joy's payment provider. With When Will You Marry, guests pay you directly through your own Monzo, PayPal, Revolut, Wise or bank details, and we never touch the money. You pay us once instead: £59 to publish, or £99 for Premium.

The table below uses Joy's own website and help pages, checked on the date shown.

Free versus one payment

Joy's site is free. Ours is free to build, with every template, colour theme and font, and you can edit it as often as you like before paying anything. Publishing costs £59 once, with no renewal. Some couples prefer paying a fixed price for a site with no advertising on it and a clear end to the bill, others would rather pay nothing, and both are fair choices.

Where a card fee lands

Joy says it keeps no fee from cash gifts, and that is true. When a guest pays by credit or debit card, though, Joy adds a processing fee to the guest's payment, and its own example shows a $100 gift costing the guest $103.50. Our registry, on Premium, sends guests to your own wallet or account instead, so there is no processing fee from us at all. Guests tell you what they sent and you mark it received.

No app to download

Joy's website comes with a companion app, and Joy says guests need that app to add photos to your site. We have no app, for you or your guests. Your dashboard and your wedding site both run in any phone or laptop browser. For photos after the day, you add a button that opens your shared album on Google Photos, Dropbox or iCloud, wherever you already keep them.

Guest privacy, stated plainly

Joy lets you put a wedding password on chosen pages or the whole site. Ours works on the whole site: on Standard and Premium you can set an optional guest password, guests enter it once and stay unlocked for 30 days, and RSVPs sit behind it too. Change it and everyone using the old one is locked out. Every site is also unlisted and hidden from search engines by default.

Planning tools in the same place

Premium adds a drag-and-drop seating chart that copies into a spreadsheet for your venue, a budget tracker, SMS broadcasts and your own domain. Every plan, including Free, has a dated wedding checklist with alerts and shareable save-the-date flyer images, so you can start telling people before you have paid for anything.

Side by side

When Will You Marry and Joy (withjoy.com), compared

Joy (withjoy.com) details are from Joy (withjoy.com)’s own website, checked 3 November 2026. Prices and terms change, so check before you choose.
Feature	When Will You Marry	Joy (withjoy.com)
Wedding website price	Free to build; £59 once to publish, £99 once for Premium	Free, including RSVP tools, templates and hosting¹
Fees on cash gifts	None: guests pay your own Monzo, PayPal, Revolut, Wise or bank account (Premium)	Joy keeps no fee; card contributions carry a processing fee paid by the guest, which goes to Stripe²
Card gifts outside the US	Guests can give in other currencies, converted to your total at daily exchange rates	Card contributions available for registries in the US, UK, Canada and Europe (EUR)²
Custom domain	Included in Premium	Buy a domain through Joy or use one you already have¹
RSVP questions	Attendance, meal choices, dietary needs and plus-ones (Standard)	Attendance, meal preferences and hotel rooms by default, plus rehearsal, address and relationship¹
Password for guests	Optional guest password on Standard and Premium, covering the whole site; sites are also unlisted and hidden from search engines	A wedding password on chosen pages or the whole site¹
App and guest photos	No app; a button links to your shared photo album	Companion mobile app; guests use it to add photos to the website¹

When Joy (withjoy.com) may suit you better

Joy is the better choice if you want to spend nothing on the website, if you want guests to add their photos directly to your site through an app, or if you want to lock only some pages and leave others open. Joy's website page also lists site languages beyond English, including German, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese. If those matter more than a one-off price and gifts that skip a payment processor, Joy is a sound option.

Common questions

Is Joy really free?

Joy says its websites, planning tools and registry are free. Apart from buying a domain through Joy, the cost we found on its pages falls on guests: a processing fee added when they pay a cash fund by card, which Joy passes to Stripe rather than keeping.

Does Joy work for UK weddings?

Joy's help pages say card contributions to cash funds work for registries in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Europe. Its pages do not say much else about UK-specific features, so check anything that matters to you on Joy's own site.

Why pay £59 when Joy is free?

You are paying once for a site with no advertising, a registry that sends gifts straight to your own account, and tools like email broadcasts and a guestbook with photos and GIFs. If none of that matters to you, a free builder may be the better fit.

Can guests upload photos to my When Will You Marry site?

No. You add a button to a shared album you already use, such as Google Photos, Dropbox or iCloud. Guests can add a photo or GIF to a guestbook message on Standard and above.