Vows vs Riley & Grey
Design-led wedding websites on a monthly or yearly 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 | Riley & Grey | Vows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39 a month, or $299 a year | $99 once, or $49 for a year |
| How it is paid | Subscription, for as long as the site is online | One payment, when you publish |
| What pays for it | The subscription | 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 | Reply form, guest list, your own questions, export |
| Address | A Riley & Grey 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 If anything here is out of date, write to hello@vows.day and it will be corrected.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 Riley & Grey is good at
- The designs are genuinely good, and the brand is the one design-conscious couples already know.
- Building is free until you publish, which is the right way round.
- A serious company with years behind it.
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 Riley & Grey if
Choose Riley & Grey if you want a well-known premium name and do not mind a monthly bill for as long as the site is up. It is the closest thing to Vows in what it is trying to be.
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 Riley & Grey alternative?
People looking for a Riley & Grey alternative are nearly always looking at the price: $299 a year, or $39 a month, for a site that most couples want online for a year or two. Vows is $99 once and it stays up, or $49 for a year, and rather than filling a design in you describe your day and it is written for you.
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.