Vows vs Bliss & Bone
Modern wedding websites and online invitations on a monthly subscription. Vows writes a wedding website from a sentence about your day, for one payment. Here is what separates them, and who should choose which.
Side by side
| What | Bliss & Bone | Vows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $15 to $21 a month, plus $0.90 per emailed invitation | $99 once, or $49 for a year |
| How it is paid | Subscription, with a seven day trial | One payment, when you publish |
| What pays for it | The subscription and the per-recipient invitations | The payment. Nothing else is sold on or through the site |
| Advertising on your site | None | None, and nothing tracks your guests |
| How the site is made | You choose one of their designs and fill it in yourself | Written from a sentence about your day, in a minute |
| Changing it afterwards | You edit it yourself in the builder | Ask in a sentence and it changes |
| Languages | Whatever you type. No translation of its own | Any language. One whole-site translation included |
| Replies and guests | Reply form and guest list, with online invitations that track opens | Reply form, guest list, your own questions, export |
| Address | A Bliss & Bone address, or a custom domain | Your own vows.day address |
Prices and features as published on 15 September 2026. If anything here is out of date, write to hello@vows.day and it will be corrected.
What Bliss & Bone is good at
- Clean, modern designs, and the online invitations are a real product: sent by email or text, tracked, matched to the site.
- A trial before anything is paid.
What Vows does differently
- You describe the day in a sentence and the whole site is written for you: your story, the schedule, travel, the gallery and the reply form. Nothing to fill in.
- Building and reading it cost nothing. The one payment is when you publish: $99 and it stays online, or $49 for a year.
- Nobody is selling anything to your guests. No registry, no vendor advertising, no tracking.
- Change anything by asking, in a sentence, for as long as the site is up.
- Any language. One whole-site translation is included, reply form and all.
Choose Bliss & Bone if
Choose Bliss & Bone if you want to send the invitations digitally from the same place as the website and are happy paying monthly while it is up.
Choose Vows if
You want a designed site written for your wedding rather than a template you fill in, at an address of your own, for one payment, with nothing sold to your guests. And if your wedding is the kind the template builders handle badly: two languages, guests flying in, a weekend rather than a day.
Looking for a Bliss & Bone alternative?
People looking for a Bliss & Bone alternative usually want to stop the monthly bill and the per-guest charges: a year of the standard plan is about $180 before a single invitation is sent. Vows is one payment, $99 for good or $49 for a year, and the site is written for you rather than filled in.
Try it before deciding: describe your day, read the whole site, and pay only if you want it online. Start with a sentence, or look at the designs first.