A wedding venue website, from the vows to the last dance
Couples shortlist venues on wedding directories and Instagram, then open each venue’s own website before they ask for a viewing. They’re looking for what the listing leaves out: how many guests fit, where the ceremony goes if it rains, when the music has to stop and what the price per head covers.
Forest tells your venue as one wedding day, in six of your own photos: the grounds in the morning, four moments — the ceremony, the drinks reception, the meal and the evening party — and the venue lit up at night. Each photo gains depth, a 3D image made from it, and the light follows the times you set, from the afternoon vows to the last dance.
At the end sits a card with your starting price and a button to wherever you already deal with couples: an enquiry form, a page for booking viewings, WhatsApp. There’s no calendar on the site and no deposit to pay there; it shows the venue and puts couples in touch with you.
What your site shows
The grounds, before anyone arrives
The site opens on your first photo: the venue from outside in the morning, before the chairs and flowers go out. Over it sit the name, your headline and one sentence with what couples check first: the area, how many guests you take, and whether you host one wedding a day.
The ceremony
The first moment pairs with the ceremony spot — the lawn with chairs set out, the arbour, the old tree, the chapel. With its time, say whether you’re licensed for legal ceremonies or only symbolic ones, how many can be seated, and where it moves if rain threatens.
Drinks
Second photo: the garden or terrace where the drinks reception happens, with high tables and the bar. In the text, how long it runs, whether catering is in-house or from an approved list, and what there is for children while the adults raise a glass.
The meal
Your photo of the dining room or marquee with the tables laid. This is where couples find the figures they decide on: guests seated, the menus and how they handle allergies and diets, and whether drinks are in the price per head.
The party
The fourth moment is the dance floor or terrace with the festoon lights on; give it an evening time and the photo’s light follows. Say when the music has to stop, when the bar closes and how guests get home: a coach, taxis or rooms on site.
Asking about a date
The last card sits over the venue lit up at night: your price from, per guest or for exclusive hire, and beside the card’s fixed labels — arrive, stay, guests — whatever fits: your season or viewing days, the finishing time, your capacity. Leave a field empty and it doesn’t appear; the button opens your enquiry page.
Have this ready
- Six photos of the venue, all required: outside in morning light, the ceremony spot, the drinks garden, the room laid for the meal, the dance floor or terrace, and the venue lit at night. Aim for 1,600 px or more on the long side of each.
- If a photo comes from a real wedding, permission from the people in it and a licence from the photographer who took it.
- The venue’s name and a short tagline, which head the site and make up the title Google shows.
- A sentence or two on where you are, your capacity and whether you hold one wedding a day.
- A typical wedding day at your venue, split into four moments: for each, the hour it starts, a heading and a short text.
- For the card: your starting price (per guest or for hire), your season or viewing days, and the most guests you take.
- Your enquiry link: a form (Tally, Google Forms), a viewing calendar (Cal.com) or a wa.me WhatsApp link.
- A few lines on who runs the venue, your profiles (Instagram, your listing on a wedding directory) and, for the legal notice, your legal name, tax number, address and email.
Worth knowing
Wedding photos, with consent
A venue’s best photos usually come from real weddings, with real people in them. To use them on your site you need the couple’s permission, and that of any guest who can be recognised, plus the photographer’s licence. Without them, shoot the spaces set up and empty on a day with no event.
The wet-weather plan, in writing
Anyone marrying outdoors asks first what happens if it rains. Answer it in the ceremony moment: which room or marquee takes over, how far ahead the call is made, and whether the meal moves too.
The music has a curfew
When the music stops is set by your licence and local rules, not by the couple. Put the time in the party moment and say what comes after it: late food, or the party carrying on indoors with the volume down.
Say what the price per head covers
The line under the card’s title is yours to write. Use it for what changes a budget — whether the price includes venue hire, drinks and taxes, and from how many guests it applies. It saves emails on both sides.
Questions
- Can couples book a date on the site?
- Not on the site itself, which has no calendar or form. The card’s button opens wherever you manage dates — an enquiry form, your viewing calendar, WhatsApp. Holding a date and taking the deposit stay with you, as they do now.
- Will it show the whole venue?
- It shows six of its photos, each with depth, in the order of a wedding day. It isn’t a virtual tour for wandering the grounds, so choose the spaces a typical wedding uses and name the others in the words: the chapel, the winter room, the bedrooms.
- Our photos have guests in them. Do they leave my computer while I build the site?
- No. The wizard handles them inside your browser: it caps every photo at 2,048 px, saves each one afresh without the location a phone stores in it, and calculates the depth on your own machine. The only thing that travels is the depth model, about 46 MB from promti.app, fetched with the first photo. Publishing them is another matter: that still needs the permission of the people in them.
- We have several menus, and prices change with the season. Where do they go?
- There’s room on the card for one price from: make it the lowest you really offer. The menus fit in the meal’s text, and if they live in a PDF or on another page, add it to the footer, where any link can sit under a name you choose, like “Menus 2027”.
- We host corporate events and parties too. Do they fit on the same site?
- The site tells one day, and it should be the one you sell most. If that’s weddings, the other events fit in a sentence: under the headline, in the line on the card or in the lines about who runs the venue.