Wedding Websites

A Straight Answer

Who Can See Your Site

Your site starts out unlisted. Search engines are asked not to list it, and its address, your names followed by a short run of random characters, isn’t published or linked anywhere, our own sitemap included. If you’d like more than that, you can set a password. Turn it on and the whole site moves behind it: your schedule, your venue and its full address, your travel notes, your wedding party, your registry, your FAQ, the RSVP form, and every calendar file. Anyone without the password gets a password screen and nothing else. It stays off unless you switch it on. Set one if you want it, and if you’d rather keep things simple, your site stays readable by anyone holding the link.

• Out of search by default. Every site tells search engines not to list it from the day it goes live. Being findable is something you turn on, never something you have to remember to turn off.
• An unlisted address. Your link doesn’t appear in any directory, sitemap, or menu. Not even ours. It’s yours to hand out.
• A password, if you want one. Set one and everything on the page sits behind it, calendar files included. Leave it unset and anyone with your link can read the site.
• Less on the page, if you’d rather. Show first names and last initials in place of full surnames, and leave your venue address off altogether. This changes what the page says, not who can read it.