Vows vs Squarespace
A general website builder that many couples use for a wedding site. 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 | Squarespace | Vows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $16 to $39 a month, billed yearly | $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 on paid plans | None, and nothing tracks your guests |
| How the site is made | You build it yourself, from a general-purpose template | 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 write. No translation of its own | Any language. One whole-site translation included |
| Replies and guests | No wedding reply form of its own: a general form, or a third-party tool | Reply form, guest list, your own questions, export |
| Address | A Squarespace 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 If anything here is out of date, write to hello@vows.day and it will be corrected.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 Squarespace is good at
- The designs are among the best of any builder, and the editor gives you complete control.
- If you already know Squarespace, or enjoy building pages, you can make anything.
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 Squarespace if
Choose Squarespace if you want to build the site yourself and enjoy doing it, or already have an account. It is a superb general tool.
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 Squarespace alternative?
People looking for a Squarespace alternative for a wedding usually want the wedding parts it does not have, a real reply form with a guest list and meal choices, and to stop paying monthly for a page they need for a year. Vows has the form built in, is written for you from a sentence, and is one payment.
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.