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Free wedding websites, compared honestly
Five free wedding websites, read from their own pages and privacy policies, each with the date we read it. Where another one does something better, the table says so.
| The question | deckle.page | Zola | The Knot | Joy | Minted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The website | Free, with no paid tier | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| Your own web address | About $21 a year for a .com: twice what the registry charges, with our half shown. It never renews by itself | From $17.991 Cheaper there | $19.99 a year2 Cheaper there | About $19.99 a year3 Cheaper there | $15 a year4 Cheaper there |
| An account before you see your site | No. Two names and a date, and it exists | Yes: an email and password, asked after your names1 | Yes: “Sign up to create your website”, asked after your names2 | Yes3 | Yes4 |
| Ad trackers on a guest’s page | None. A guest’s page makes no request to any other company | Yes: DoubleClick, Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest and Bing pixels on their sample site1 | No public example site to measure | Yes: Criteo, DoubleClick, Taboola, Outbrain and other ad networks on their featured example3 | Google Analytics on their demo; no ad network seen4 |
| Guest details and other companies | Never shared, never sold | Its policy shares data with ad partners, and a postal list with other companies (policy of 9 October 2025)1 | Its policy shares data for partners’ own marketing, which it says may count as a sale (policy of 16 September 2026)2 | Its policy says it may “sell” or “share” data with ad networks, and lists guests as a category (policy of 28 August 2026)3 | Partly: its policy says the address book is not sold (policy of 10 September 2026)4 |
| What a guest’s phone downloads | 1.4 MB on our example with sixteen photos, and no scripts | 4.5 MB and 136 scripts on their sample site1 | No public example site to measure | 4.8 MB and 62 scripts on their featured example3 | 4.3 MB and 7 scripts on their demo4 |
| Paper that matches the site | Print-ready files in the same design, free to print anywhere. We don’t sell printed cards yet | Matching printed invitations1 Better there | Matching printed invitations2 Better there | Matching printed invitations3 Better there | Printed stationery by independent designers4 Better there |
| Registry | A link to the registry you choose | Built in1 Better there | Built in2 Better there | Built in3 Better there | Links and a cash fund4 |
| Phone app | No | iOS app1 Better there | Yes2 Better there | Yes3 Better there | No4 |
| A password on the page | Yes, free | Yes1 | Yes2 | Yes, per page3 | Yes4 |
Want the registry and an app in one place?
Zola, The Knot and Joy are built around a registry and run from a phone app. We have neither, and say so.
Want your guests left alone?
A deckle.page guest page makes no request to any other company, and your guests’ details are never shared with anyone.
Want the page and the paper as one design?
Your site, invitation and save the date are set from one style, so changing the look changes all of them.
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