Christian wedding website

A church wedding website for the ceremony and the reception

A Christian wedding almost always happens in two places. The ceremony is at a church — with an officiant, vows, readings, and hymns — and the reception is somewhere else entirely: a hall, a hotel, a garden, a family home. Guests need to know both addresses, the gap between them, and where to be when. A single printed invitation rarely carries all of that, and it certainly cannot update when a detail changes.

Duva puts the whole day on one website. Add the ceremony with the church name, address, and start time; add the reception with its own venue and time; and the site lays them out as a clear schedule with map links to each. If there is a cocktail hour, a receiving line, or a send-off, those go on the timeline too. Every guest opens the same link and knows exactly where the day begins and where it moves next.

• Directions to both places. The church and the reception venue each get their own address and map link.
• A schedule for the day. Ceremony, reception, and everything between, laid out as one clear timeline.
• One elegant page. A calm, timeless design for the church, the vows, and the celebration after.

Share the order of service and the details guests ask about

Guests attending a church wedding often wonder about the same handful of things: what time to arrive, how long the service runs, whether there is a full Mass, where to sit, and what to wear. You can answer all of it in your own words. Give the ceremony a description that walks guests through the order of service — whether that is the processional, the readings, and the exchange of vows, the betrothal and crowning of an Orthodox rite, or a full Mass — so a guest who has never been to your church or your tradition arrives feeling prepared rather than unsure.

A dedicated FAQ page handles the practical questions once, so you are not answering them by text fifty times. Parking at the church, whether children are welcome, the dress code, when the reception ends — put it on the site and point guests there. And because it lives online, you can fix a time or add a detail the week of the wedding and every guest sees the current version instantly.

• Order of service. Outline the processional, readings, vows, and hymns so guests know the flow.
• FAQ page. Answer parking, dress code, timing, and children once, for everyone.
• Dress code. Note church-appropriate attire and any change for the reception.

Add the rehearsal dinner and the weekend around the wedding

For many couples the celebration starts the night before with a rehearsal dinner, and sometimes wraps up with a next-morning brunch. These smaller gatherings usually have a shorter guest list than the wedding itself — the wedding party, close family, out-of-town guests — and they deserve their own details without crowding the main ceremony.

In Duva every part of the weekend is its own event with its own time, location, and guest list. Invite the whole church to the ceremony and reception, keep the rehearsal dinner to the wedding party and family, and open the farewell brunch to your travelers. Each event tracks its own headcount, so you always know exactly who is coming to what.

• Rehearsal dinner. Give the night-before dinner its own time, place, and short guest list.
• Different guests per event. The whole church for the ceremony, close family for the rehearsal dinner.
• A count for each. Every gathering keeps its own attending, pending, and declined totals.

Church wedding RSVP by text, WhatsApp, or name lookup

Collecting RSVPs by mail is slow, and email invitations get buried. Duva reaches guests where they already are. US guests get a personalized RSVP link by SMS, guests abroad get the same invitation over WhatsApp, and anyone who prefers the website can simply look up their name and respond there. There is nothing to download, no account to create, and no password to remember — a guest taps a link, confirms who is coming, and they are done.

Every text-based RSVP is verified with a one-time code, so the reply you see genuinely came from the guest you invited. That keeps your final count trustworthy when you are handing numbers to the caterer and the church. Guests can also confirm their whole household in a single response, and you can collect meal choices and dietary needs right alongside the RSVP.

• RSVP by SMS. A personalized, verified RSVP link texted to every US guest.
• WhatsApp for guests abroad. Family overseas replies in the app they already use daily.
• Name lookup on the site. Guests find themselves by name and RSVP in seconds — no login.

Registry, travel, and reminders in one place

A good wedding website does more than collect RSVPs — it carries the whole guest experience. Duva includes a built-in gift registry where you list what you would love; guests claim an item so it is not bought twice, and no payments run through Duva. For out-of-town guests, a travel page can hold hotel blocks, the nearest airport, and directions, so everyone flying in for the church has what they need in one spot.

And once the RSVP deadline is set, Duva quietly chases the guests who have not replied with automatic reminders over the same SMS or WhatsApp channel — no awkward personal follow-ups. You can gather everything behind an optional password, add a QR code and custom link for your printed invitations, and invite a parent or your maid of honor to help manage responses.

• Built-in registry. List gifts and let guests claim them, with no payments taken on Duva.
• Travel & hotels. Hotel blocks, the nearest airport, and directions for out-of-town guests.
• Automatic reminders. Only the guests who have not replied get a gentle nudge before the deadline.

What a Christian wedding website costs

Your wedding website, your guest list, unlimited RSVP collection, and the RSVP invitations and reminders you send over SMS and WhatsApp are all free — no subscription and no per-guest fee. Every account starts with 50 free credits. Credits are only for the extra messages you broadcast to guests yourself — a day-of note like "doors open at 3" or a change of plans — at one credit per recipient, and one-time credit packs ($40, $99, or $165) never expire. Guests responding on the website costs nothing. If you want them, there are two optional one-time upgrades: Planner Pro ($49) for seating charts and planning tools, and DUVA Signature ($39) for premium save-the-date designs — and Duva builds wedding websites for couples of every religion, not only Christian ones.