Vows vs Minted
A stationery company whose free wedding websites match its printed invitations. 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 | Minted | Vows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free. The stationery is where the money is | $99 once, or $49 for a year |
| How it is paid | Free | One payment, when you publish |
| What pays for it | The printed invitations, menus and thank-you cards it sells beside the site | The payment. Nothing else is sold on or through the site |
| Advertising on your site | The site is a doorway to the stationery | None, and nothing tracks your guests |
| How the site is made | You choose one of hundreds of artist-designed templates and fill it in | 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 | A basic reply form | Reply form, guest list, your own questions, export |
| Address | A Minted address | 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 If anything here is out of date, write to hello@vows.day and it will be corrected.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 Minted is good at
- Hundreds of designs by independent artists, and the matching suite is real: the site, the invitation, the menu and the thank-you card agree.
- If you are buying printed stationery anyway, the website that matches it costs nothing.
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 Minted if
Choose Minted if the printed suite comes first and you want the website to match it exactly. That is what it is for and it does it well.
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 Minted alternative?
People looking for a Minted alternative usually want more from the website than a card that matches the paper: a real reply form with a guest list and their own questions, a site that changes when the plan does, and an address that is theirs. Vows is the site rather than the stationery, and it is written for your wedding 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.