Buy your .wedding domain today

A .wedding domain serves both, and the registry markets it to both. Couples use it for a single event site carrying directions, RSVPs, a registry link and the photos afterwards. Planners, venues, photographers, florists, caterers and celebrants use it as a permanent business address.

Nothing in the registration distinguishes the two. You buy the same way and get the same name, so the only real difference is how long you intend to keep it and what you point it at.

No, a .wedding domain has no eligibility rule and no verification of any kind. The registry publishes specific eligibility policies for some of its extensions and none for this one, so a couple and a national venue group buy it on identical terms.

Standard conditions still apply. Registration details have to be true and kept current, and the registry can act on a name used for abuse. For an event site or a vendor site, neither is something you will notice.

Two first names in front of .wedding is the pattern most couples pick, and it is the one the extension was built for. Joining them or hyphenating them both work, and the choice is usually about which reads better on a printed invitation.

Test it out loud before you buy. This is a name guests will read off a card and type on a phone, so the version with fewer ways to get it wrong is worth more than the version that looks tidier.

Couples put a .wedding address on save-the-dates and invitations, then use the site behind it for the details that change. Directions, timings, dress code, accommodation, a registry link and an RSVP form all live somewhere guests can find without asking.

The site usually outlives the day. Photo galleries go up afterwards and the same address keeps working for anyone who wants to look back, which is the main reason couples renew a name they bought for one afternoon.

A .wedding domain can point at a site that already exists, wherever it was built. You change where the domain aims rather than rebuilding anything, and the site itself carries on unchanged.

Couples often run it the other way round and use the .wedding name as the address they hand out, redirecting to a page inside a larger site. Guests get something short to type, and you keep one place to update.

A .wedding domain is not automatically better than a .com, and the honest answer depends on which name you can actually get. The extension buys you an exact, self-describing address, usually one still available where the equivalent .com went years ago.

The trade is familiarity. Couples typing from memory reach for .com, so a business relying on word of mouth may want both, with one redirecting to the other. A business found mainly through search, directories and referrals loses very little by leading with .wedding.

A .wedding address works for a year-round business, and plenty of established vendors run on one. Planners, florists, venues and coordination tools use it as their main address precisely because it names the market they serve every week of the year.

The word describes your customers rather than one occasion, which is what makes it durable. A venue that also does corporate events is the case to think twice about, since the name will keep pointing at one half of the business.

A .wedding domain keeps working until you stop renewing it, and then it moves through a fixed sequence. Your registrar sends notices before and just after expiry, the site and any email on the domain stop resolving, and a redemption window of about a month follows during which you can still recover the name.

After that it moves to a short pending-delete stage and returns to the open market, where anyone can register it. Recovering it during the redemption window carries a restore fee on top of the renewal, so the cheaper decision is the one made in advance. Leaving auto-renew on, or paying for several years up front, avoids the situation entirely.