miji.beURLs now appear on wedding invitations. "Visit our wedding website for details" accompanies a couple's dedicated website URL. This shift extends to the way wedding invitations are made.
Wedding websites consolidate ceremony details, venue directions, dress codes, gift registries, and RSVP forms into one URL. Services like The Knot and Zola offer template-based tools for creating wedding websites.
Some couples register their own custom domains. They register names like `tanaka-and-suzuki.example` or `our-wedding-2026.example` and print them on their invitations. Short, memorable URLs complement invitation designs.
However, wedding websites have an "expiration" problem. After the wedding, some couples stop updating their sites. Depending on the service, free-tier sites disappear after a set period, and custom domains lapse when renewal is forgotten. The URL printed on invitations stays, but its destination may not.
In Japan, some couples use LINE or web invitation services instead of paper, sending a URL through a messaging app to handle RSVPs and cut printing and mailing costs. Since some older guests prefer paper invitations, some couples combine paper and a URL. URLs now play a part in wedding communication too. Before putting a URL on your invitations, the surest approach is to actually open it on your own and your family's smartphones and check that the RSVP form can be submitted. If you want to keep the site after the wedding, adding the domain's renewal date to your calendar will keep the page full of memories from disappearing without your noticing.