Wedding website
A bilingual wedding website designed to make the planning process smoother and ensure a clear, informative experience for the guests, and reflect us as a couple.
Project Summary
With so many details to manage, we needed one place to keep everything organised. This bilingual website was created to share essential wedding information with our guests—RSVP and accommodation, event timeline, countdown, venue directions, celebration guidelines, and contact details. Built with a mobile-first approach, it was designed for guests of all ages and reflected us as a couple through visuals aligned with our invitations and moodboard. I collaborated with a real developer to bring the design to life and ensure the site was fully functional and responsive. Feedback from friends about their wedding experiences helped shape clearer content and navigation, reducing the need for calls and messages and letting us focus on other parts of the planning.
Key results
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Designed and launched a real, responsive bilingual wedding website used by over 70 guests across mobile and desktop
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Prioritised mobile-first design based on usage data (80%+ mobile visitors)
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Facilitated the planning process for us and made event details clearer for guests — no repeated questions about the wedding
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Created an interactive quiz that helped guests to know us better and feel more included in the celebration; received great feedback and high engagement
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Delivered full design in one week and collaborated with a developer under a tight timeline
Context & Ideation
Context
We knew that planning a wedding would take time, energy, and coordination. Friends often shared how guests kept calling or texting with the same questions—about times, locations, or dress codes—even though the answers were already on the invitation. It became clear that people often lose the invite or don't read it fully, and the couple ends up repeating the same information over and over.
So I decided to create our own wedding website—one that would help us manage communication more easily and provide guests with a clear, accessible space to find everything they needed in one place. Existing platforms didn't match our visual style and felt overpriced or too limited, so building our own gave us the freedom to create something both useful and personal.
Real Wedding Feedback
To guide the website's direction, I spoke with friends who had attended or planned weddings themselves. These informal conversations revealed practical pain points that helped me understand what guests often struggle with—and what couples wish they'd done differently.
Clear Contact Person
Guests often didn't know who to contact during the event if something went wrong. They usually only had the couple's numbers, who were unavailable at key moments like the photoshoot.
Guest Tracking Chaos
Without a central system, couples struggled to track RSVPs and changes—who was coming, staying, or changing their mind—leading to disorganisation and stress
Missing Timelines
Many guests forgot or lost their invitations and had no idea what was happening when. This led to confusion and calls to the couple on the wedding day.
More Info Than Paper Allows
Printed invitations couldn't hold all the practical info—like dress code, transport tips, or reminders—without ruining the aesthetics. As a result, guests were sometimes left unprepared.
Key Features
To translate real needs into practical solutions, I created this mind map to define the core website features—based on both user feedback and our own planning experience. This approach kept the goals in focus, organised the content clearly, and ensured the design supported an easy and useful experience for our guests.
Design
Mood
This moodboard guided both our wedding and website decisions, helping me keep a consistent look and feel. It blends classic elegance with a modern touch—black and white photos, greenery, white flowers, ribbons, and pearls. The mood felt calm, personal, and fresh. Most importantly, it reflected who we are as a couple and the experience we wanted to create for our guests.
Typography
I used the same typography on the website as in our wedding stationery to keep a consistent visual identity. The typefaces were chosen based on our moodboard, the tone of the event, and the wedding environment. Cinzel was used for display, headings, and titles to create a classic feel, while Poppins ensured readability for body text and labels.
To maintain structure, I followed the Material Design 3 type scale, which helped define hierarchy across devices and simplified developer handoff with clearly defined, reusable text styles.
Colour Palette
Our primary colour—an earthy olive green (#646A30)—was first chosen for our wedding stationery. It's a colour we both genuinely love and associate with warmth and positivity, so it was clear from the start that it would be the main colour for our wedding.
To adapt it for the website, I added complementary dark and light shades to ensure contrast, readability, and a balanced layout.
Final Design & Outcome
Hi-Fi Designs
The final screens were designed to support both planning and communication, making sure all key information was easy to find in one place — without the need for repeated calls or messages. Since over 80% of visitors to our temporary website were using mobile devices, I followed a mobile-first approach to ensure a smooth and accessible experience for all guests. RSVP functionality, in particular, was designed exclusively for mobile, based on how guests were most likely to interact with it.
Visually, I kept consistency with our wedding stationery, using the same rich olive green as our core color and incorporating illustrations from our printed materials. This helped the site feel lively, festive, and personal—just like the event itself.
Game Interaction
To help guests feel more connected and included in the event, I created a playful quiz with fun, personal questions about us as a couple. It adds a light interaction moment to the site and helps even distant guests get to know us beforehand.
The quiz turned out to be one of the most well-regarded features of the site and received a lot of engagement. Even our closest relatives discovered new things about us through it - no one managed to score a perfect 10/10.
Challanges
During the process, I faced several challenges that needed to be addressed to meet our initial goal—making wedding planning easier for us and ensuring our guests felt well-informed and included.
Designing a Bilingual Website
Our guests speak 6 different languages, so it was essential to make the site accessible in both Latvian and English.
I built a clear, responsive layout using flexible “content blocks” that worked well in both languages. I also wrote and adapted all text in both versions to keep the tone consistent and warm.
Choosing Mobile-First vs. Desktop-First
It was important to make an informed decision rather than rely on assumptions.
I used data from our temporary site and found that over 80% of visitors accessed it via mobile. This clearly supported a mobile-first approach for better usability.
Communicating Clearly Across Diverse Guest Groups
Our guests ranged from tech-savvy friends to older relatives with less digital experience. Some didn't know us well, like plus-ones.
I used simple structure, language, and visuals to ensure ease of use across all ages. A playful quiz helped distant guests feel more familiar and included before the event.
Tight Timeline Before Launch
I had just two weeks to deliver a complete design ready for development, with a wedding timeline already in motion.
I used a Trello board to prioritize tasks, keeping scope realistic. I delivered final designs within one week and used the second to support the developer with implementation and design guidance.
See the Real Website in Action
The bilingual website went live on July 1, giving our guests early access to all the essential information in one place.
After the wedding, we'll update it with a new feature: a space where guests can download photos from the celebration—keeping everything beautifully organised and easy to access.
To the Website
Reflection and Next Steps
Reflection
This project was a big milestone for me — not only because it was the first time something I designed went live, but also because I had to balance real constraints like a tight timeline, bilingual content, and mobile-first priorities while collaborating closely with a developer.It pushed me to make faster decisions, think practically, and stay clear about the user experience throughout.
What made it especially rewarding was seeing people actually use the website as intended.We didn't get a lot of questions about the timeline or logistics — instead, we received great feedback about the quiz and how much guests enjoyed discovering new things about us before the celebration.
Next time, I'd focus on improving how I structure and prepare content for multilingual projects and making handoff materials even more developer-friendly.
Future Steps
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Integrate a photo upload feature using an external service, so guests can easily share their favorite moments in one central place.
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After the wedding, we’ll enable downloads from a curated photo gallery — only reviewed and approved images will be available for everyone to enjoy.