Vows vs Wix
A general drag-and-drop website builder, free with Wix branding or paid without it. 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 | Wix | Vows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free with Wix branding, or $17 to $36 a month | $99 once, or $49 for a year |
| How it is paid | Subscription for the paid plans | One payment, when you publish |
| What pays for it | The subscription, and Wix branding on the free plan | The payment. Nothing else is sold on or through the site |
| Advertising on your site | Wix branding on the free plan | None, and nothing tracks your guests |
| How the site is made | You build it yourself, dragging blocks into place | 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. Multilingual sites need its own extra tools | Any language. One whole-site translation included |
| Replies and guests | Through apps from its marketplace rather than built in | Reply form, guest list, your own questions, export |
| Address | A Wix address, or a custom domain on a paid plan | 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 If anything here is out of date, write to hello@vows.day and it will be corrected.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 Wix is good at
- The most control of any builder: if you can imagine a layout you can drag it into being.
- A huge app marketplace, so almost anything can be bolted on.
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 Wix if
Choose Wix if you want total control over every pixel and are happy to assemble the wedding pieces from apps.
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 Wix alternative?
People looking for a Wix alternative for a wedding usually want the opposite of a blank canvas: a designed site, made for them, with the reply form already in it, and no monthly bill or branding on the page. Vows writes the site from a sentence, for 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.