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on August 06, 2010
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Vintage tattoo-themed wedding website template from Royal Steamline
There are a bazillion wedding website services, and here's the thing: most of them feature relatively toothless templates. Which is why I've offered offbeat wedding websites for the last year and a half ... but here's the thing: NOW THEY'RE FREE. As in, free forevar. As in, never cost a cent.
Zombie-themed wedding website template from Theresa Hawk Designs
There are already more than 19 Offbeat templates up already (plus over 200 non-Offbeat templates), with more Offbeat designs launching next week.
Free forever, lots of features, great designs ... why are you still here? Start designing your forever-free wedding website today:
And, as an added treat, Aerin from Royal Steamline is taking votes on which wedding website template she should make next. Want to chime in?
About Ariel Meadow Stallings
Author of Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides, Ariel acts as the publisher of all the Offbeat Empire websites. She lives, loves, and dorks out hard in Seattle, WA.
Amesly said
AHHH!! That's fantastic!! I had wanted to set one up, but we just couldn't afford it! It's great that couples can do that now and not worry about budget!
skullcandie said
*sobs*
I just paid to make my own wedsite… I wish I would have known about this!
Craftyminx said
We went with mywedding.com from the beginning even though I wasn't thrilled with their design options. I am sooo happy that there are some awesome options now!! Our wedding is a month away, but I am definitely changing over our design to one of these.
Sara said
Gah, this is after I paid for my site at Nearlyweds too! Oh well at least we only paid $49 for the year, now they want $99. x.X
Ariel said
I want to be clear — I still love the Nearlyweds guys and consider them friends. They're *awesome*, and I've loved partnering with them … but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to offer OBBs awesome wed-sites for free.
Meghatron said
The problem for me is that had I KNOWN there would be awesome Royal Steamline wed-sites available for free so soon after paying for one, I wouldn't have coughed up all that money for Nearlyweds, seeing as we are unemployed and parents to a toddler.
Joselle said
OMG! Thank you so much. I've just had RSVP-related stress in the last few days and this site has solved all of our problems. I can't believe it's free! It's so so much easier to navigate than the paid sites with better designs to boot. THANKS!
Joselle said
Can I gush once more? The music page! Adding a small sampling of our wedding playlist just made my night. Again. This is FREE?!
Halle said
This is brilliant! I want a 'wedsite' so we don't have to use paper RSVP cards. All that waste makes me shiver. Yay for awesome partnerships and OBB
lilfox said
THIS IS SO GREAT! I signed up for one on a diff website, but since it is about a year from the date, no one has seen it (not even the FH). I will be changing over ASAP. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! Thank you all the peeps who made this possible!
Danikat said
This is great.
I was planning to make a website on Free Webs just because, well, it's free. But there's a few things (RSVPs in particular) which I wasn't sure I'd be able to do on there. I'll definately be looking at this site first now.
hgrada said
YAYAYAYAYAYAAAYYYYY! I'm so excited! I'm switching my design over right now!
Bridgette said
I am so excited about this! I was about to buy one of the old sites that cost money, but even before this was posted – I happened across the Zombie Loverlies invites by Theresa Hawk. I had planned DIY on invites but I really wanted them, then I saw the wedsite to match and I HAD to have them – not to mention it was free and had partnered with OBT?! Needless to say I ordered the invites and set up the website. It is great! (Also side note – Theresa Hawk is super awesome, she is really friendly and put a rush on the order so I could get and use the invites and the cost was within my budget.) Yay!
Hannah said
Wow – I've been contemplating using the offbeat wedsites. I just wasn't sure about whether I could change all the labels (aka translate).
BUT I'm wondering: it is free now, how do they make their money? Are there any ads on my wedsite? Do I have to pay for extra features? I just don't understand how something suddenly can be free. Money has to be made, hasn't it?
Celeste said
I think they make their money off of advertising on mywedding.com, not on your personal website. When I look at my wedsite from the link they provide to guests, it doesn't have any advertising on it at all. I started a wedsite on there after seeing this post (Hello Lucky's San Francisco design was too cute to pass up), and it's definitely sucked me in to looking at mywedding.com for other things, like vendor listings, which is I believe what they had in mind.
Ariel said
Mywedding is indeed advertising-supported, but it's not advertising visible to your guests on your wedsite — it's advertising that you as a user will see when you're working on your page. (In other words, they're advertising to brides — not to guests. Does that make sense?)
Hannah said
Yes, thank you. That takes away my concerns.
Jessica_Iowa said
Thank you so much!
I look forward to building a wedsite URL and putting it on our save the dates!
CrazyShi said
Thank Thank Thank Ariel
Tressa said
Can you customize your own html/css template for your wedsite?
alexette said
done and done! alas, not one of the lurvley OBB designs, but regardless. what a great tool – and free to boot!
Jenni & Karen said
We totally created our website using a mywedding.com Offbeat Bride template. Check it out!!!!