How Much Does a Wedding Planner Website Cost in 2026?
By Alexey Chasin · Updated October 17, 2026 · 9 min read
A wedding planner website costs anywhere from $19 a month on Squarespace plus 40 to 80 hours of your own time, to $25,000 from an agency. Most planners who hire a designer pay $2,500 to $8,000 and wait six to ten weeks. Velour Web builds the same site at no build fee, included with hosting at $50 a month, billed $600 for the first year, with the code yours after that year.
This guide prices the website for your wedding planning business: the site couples find when they search your name or 'wedding planner' plus your city. It is not about a couple's wedding website on Zola or Joy, and not about planning software. Those are free or cheap and they are not what a planner needs to book clients.
The price table
Every number below is either a published price read on October 17, 2026, or a market range we see in quotes planners forward to us. Your time is in the table because it is the real cost of the cheap paths.
| Path | Up front | Ongoing | Your hours | Who writes the pages | Who owns it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wix free plan | $0 | $0, with Wix ads and a wixsite.com address | 40 to 80 | You | Wix; nothing exports |
| Squarespace Basic or Core | $0, or $100 to $300 for a third-party template | $19 or $29 a month on annual billing ($25 or $39 month to month) | 40 to 80 | You | You own the content; the site stays on Squarespace |
| Showit with a purchased template | $300 to $1,500 for the template, typical | $22 to $39 a month on annual billing, blog on WordPress | 30 to 60 | You | You own the content; the design stays in Showit |
| Freelance designer on Showit or Squarespace | $2,500 to $8,000 | The platform fee above | 10 to 20 for interviews and feedback | Usually you, or $150 to $400 a page extra | You, on the platform |
| Agency, custom design | $8,000 to $25,000 | $50 to $300 a month hosting and care | 10 to 20 | Included | You, after final payment |
| Velour Web, built on our design system | $0 build fee | $50 a month hosting, billed $600 for the first year, then month to month | About 2 for the interview and approvals | Included, from a 30-minute interview | You: domain and content from day one, code after the first paid year or a $999 buyout |
What moves the price
- Page count. A five-page site (home, about, services, portfolio, contact) is the floor. Each extra page of real writing is $150 to $400 from a designer, or an evening of your time.
- Galleries. Real-wedding galleries with 40 to 80 photos each need compression and lazy loading or they take ten seconds on a phone. Designers charge for this; builders leave it to you.
- Copywriting. The about page, three package descriptions and an FAQ are the hardest part for most planners. Interview-based writing is what the higher quotes include.
- Photography. If your portfolio is phone photos from the back of the room, a styled shoot runs $500 to $2,500 depending on how many vendors trade services. It is usually worth it.
- SEO setup. Title tags, a page per service, schema, a Google Business Profile, and a sitemap. Builders have the fields; nobody fills them in for you.
- Booking and client tools. HoneyBook, Dubsado and Aisle Planner forms embed on any site. A booking system built from scratch is custom software and costs five figures anywhere.
The hidden costs of the cheap paths
The free Wix plan is free because the site carries Wix advertising and lives at a wixsite.com address. Couples notice both, and Google will not rank a subdomain for 'wedding planner' plus a city against planners on their own domains. The moment you upgrade for a custom domain, you are on a paid plan, so the honest Wix price is $17 a month and up on annual billing, per the Wix plans page in October 2026.
Squarespace and Showit do not hide their prices, but they hide the clock. A planner building a first site on either spends two or three weekends choosing a template, another on photos, and then weeks writing copy in the gaps between weddings. Forty hours at the rate you charge for a day of coordination is more than most designers' quotes. The template purchase for Showit is a second cost, and so is the Showit blog, which runs on WordPress and needs its own plugin updates.
Designers and agencies cost what they cost for a reason: someone writes the pages, sets up the forms, and launches on your domain. The risk at that tier is the second invoice. Ask how edits are billed, what hosting costs after launch, and whether the design files are yours if you leave.
What a fair designer quote should include
- A written page map before design starts, with a launch date.
- Mobile and desktop designs approved before the build.
- Copy written from an interview, or a clear note that you are writing it.
- An inquiry form that asks for date, venue, guest count and budget, delivered to your inbox and your CRM.
- Title tags and meta descriptions on every page, FAQ schema, and a submitted sitemap.
- Image compression on every gallery, and a load time under two seconds on a phone, tested in Google PageSpeed.
- Google Business Profile created or cleaned up, linked to the site.
- The ownership terms in writing: domain in your name, content yours, and what happens to the code and design when you stop paying.
Event planner websites cost the same
A corporate or social event planner's site has the same bones: service pages by event type instead of by wedding package, a past-events gallery, and an inquiry form that asks for headcount and venue status. The price table above holds. Corporate planners sometimes add a capabilities deck as a PDF and a case-study page, which adds a page or two of writing and nothing else.
Why ours is free, and what it is not
Velour Web builds the same site free: it is included with hosting at $50 a month, billed $600 for the first year and month to month after that, and the code is handed over after the first paid year or on a $999 buyout. The build is free because every planner site is built on our design system, which turns a week of design into a day, and because the first year of hosting pays for the build. What you do not get is a from-scratch design or a thirty-page venue-by-venue SEO site; the first is not worth paying for and the second is a Growth plan, from $549 a month, that adds pages month by month.
We built CHIC Flowers, a luxury wedding florist in San Diego and Los Angeles featured in Vogue, Brides and Haute Living, from a five-page portfolio into a 115-page site that ranks for venues and styles. That is the method behind the planner sites, and it is the reason the page map and the inquiry form matter more than the template.
Sources
- Squarespace pricing: Basic $19 and Core $29 a month on annual billing, $25 and $39 month to month, read October 17, 2026.
- Showit pricing: Showit $22, Showit with Basic Starter Blog $27, Showit with Advanced Blog $39 a month on annual billing, read October 17, 2026; the blog tiers run on WordPress.
- Wix plans: Free plan at $0, Light from about $17 a month on annual billing, read October 17, 2026.