WedSites vs Bliss & Bone

Choosing between wedding platforms? Both WedSites and Bliss & Bone offer wedding websites with digital stationery, but they approach the wedding market from different angles with distinct pricing models and feature sets.

Bliss & Bone has established itself as a design-forward wedding platform, known for editorial-quality aesthetics and cohesive branding across all wedding materials. With over 100 stylish templates, matching printed stationery, and a focus on visual excellence, they appeal to couples who prioritize sophisticated design. Their subscription model starts at $15/month for Standard or $21/month for Premium, with the flexibility to cancel anytime. The platform emphasizes coordinated design across websites, invitations, save-the-dates, and printed materials, creating a unified visual identity for your wedding.

WedSites is a wedding platform built around one-time pricing and integrated planning tools. While Bliss & Bone focuses on design quality and coordinated stationery, WedSites provides planning features like timeline builders, payment tracking, seating charts, and advanced guest management alongside your digital stationery and website. Here's how the two platforms compare.

Quick Comparison

Pricing Comparison

Bliss & Bone uses a monthly subscription model: $15/month for Standard or $21/month for Premium. Both tiers include a 7-day free trial with no credit card required, and you can cancel anytime. Premium adds features like removing the Bliss & Bone branding from your footer, access to hundreds of curated stock photos, and enhanced privacy controls. Digital save-the-dates and invitations cost an additional $0.90 per email or text recipient. Wedding logos and monograms are available as one-time purchases ($40 or $80).

WedSites offers three tiers with one-time payments and no recurring fees:
- Basic Plan: $39 one-time payment gets you started with core website features
- Standard Plan: $99 one-time includes digital stationery, email tracking, and advanced guest management
- Pro Plan: $199 one-time unlocks the planning suite with checklist, budget, vendors, payment tracking, seating chart, and timeline builder

The cost comparison depends on how long you use the platform and how many guests receive digital stationery. Bliss & Bone Standard over 12 months costs $180 before stationery fees. Over 18 months, it's $270. Per-recipient stationery costs vary with guest list size. WedSites Standard at $99 or Pro at $199 is a one-time payment that includes unlimited digital stationery sends.

Design Excellence, Bliss & Bone's Core Strength

Bliss & Bone has built a strong reputation for design-forward aesthetics. Their 100+ templates offer editorial-quality designs with a modern, minimalist sensibility. The platform excels at creating cohesive branding across all wedding materials, so your website, digital invitations, save-the-dates, and printed stationery all share the same visual identity.

Premium subscribers get access to hundreds of curated stock photos, which is genuinely useful for couples who want professional imagery without hiring a photographer for engagement photos. The ability to purchase coordinating wedding logos and monograms ($40-$80) adds another layer of brand cohesion.

The option to order matching printed stationery is a significant advantage for couples who want physical invitations, save-the-dates, or day-of paper goods that coordinate with their digital presence. This is something WedSites does not offer.

For couples who prioritize visual sophistication and want their printed materials to match their digital presence seamlessly, this is a real strength.

WedSites offers extensive design customization with a different approach. The font library includes hundreds of professional typefaces. WedSites supports custom CSS, giving you control over visual elements beyond what templates provide.

You can switch between design templates at any time without losing your content or customizations. While WedSites doesn't offer printed stationery, the digital stationery platform allows for design flexibility with no per-recipient fees. WedSites has a smaller template library overall compared to Bliss & Bone's 100+ options.

Multi-Language Support

Both platforms offer multi-language capabilities, but with different implementations.

Bliss & Bone provides multi-language website support with per-guest language settings. This means you can assign specific languages to individual guests, ensuring each person sees your website in their preferred language automatically.

WedSites includes website translation functionality with a language switcher that guests can toggle between. Create a version of your wedding website in another language, and all your RSVP forms, event details, timeline, and site content work in multiple languages.

Both approaches work well for multicultural weddings. Bliss & Bone's per-guest assignment is automatic but requires more setup. WedSites' toggle approach gives guests control over their experience.

Communication Channels

Bliss & Bone offers flexibility in how you reach guests: email, text message, and WhatsApp. This multi-channel approach is valuable when your guest list includes people with different communication preferences. Older relatives might check email, while friends might prefer texts. This is a genuine advantage over email-only platforms.

WedSites focuses on email communication with tracking. Every email you send is tracked automatically. See who opened your save-the-date, who clicked through to RSVP, and who needs a reminder. The tracking includes delivery monitoring, helping ensure your communications reach inboxes.

This tracking data flows directly into your guest list database. The stationery tracking feature records every piece of communication in each guest's profile automatically. WedSites does not currently support text or WhatsApp messaging.

The key difference: Bliss & Bone offers more communication channels, while WedSites provides deeper visibility into email engagement.

Digital Stationery Pricing

Bliss & Bone charges $0.90 per recipient for digital save-the-dates and invitations sent via email or text. For smaller weddings, this cost is modest. For larger guest lists, it adds up -- for example, 150 guests receiving both save-the-dates and invitations would cost $270 in stationery fees.

WedSites Standard and Pro plans include unlimited digital stationery sends with no per-recipient fees. Send save-the-dates, invitations, reminders, and follow-ups at no additional cost. Integrated email tracking is included.

This makes WedSites more economical for digital communication, especially for larger weddings or couples who want to send multiple rounds of communication.

Guest List Management

Bliss & Bone provides guest management with their "Smart RSVP" system. Guests only see the events they're invited to, which is genuinely useful for weddings with separate rehearsal dinners or VIP events. The private event functionality helps manage weddings where not everyone is invited to everything.

WedSites offers guest management with a household system that groups families and couples together so they can RSVP as one unit. Organize guests into custom groups for planning and filtering. Create A/B lists to manage large guest lists. The "Collect Guest Details" feature sends a custom form to gather email addresses, phone numbers, and mailing addresses before sending save-the-dates.

You can export your guest list data whenever you need it, with no restrictions on accessing your own guest information.

Planning Tools Comparison

Bliss & Bone focuses on design, guest communication, and stationery. Their platform doesn't include planning tools like checklists, budget trackers, vendor management, payment tracking, seating charts, or timeline builders. For these needs, you'd use separate tools alongside Bliss & Bone. This is consistent with their focus as a design and communication platform.

WedSites Pro plan ($199) includes a planning suite:

Pre-Populated Checklist: Generates automatically based on your wedding date with recommended deadlines. Add custom tasks for your unique to-dos.

Budget Calculator: Expense tracking with customizable categories. See allocations, spending, and remaining funds at a glance. Reallocate between categories as priorities shift.

Vendor Management: Store vendor contacts, contracts, files, and notes in organized profiles.

Payment Tracking: Payment reminders linked to vendor profiles and budget categories. When you create a payment for your photographer, it connects to your "Photography" budget line and your photographer's vendor profile.

Seating Chart Builder: Drag-and-drop tool using the groups from your guest list. Guests get color-coded labels based on their group.

Timeline Builder: Create your day-of wedding runsheet with time blocks for every event. Use the virtual highlighter to mark key moments and print copies for your team.

Note that these planning tools are only available on the Pro plan at $199. The Standard plan at $99 does not include them.

WedSites Limitations

• Smaller template library: WedSites has fewer design templates than Bliss & Bone's 100+ editorial-quality options
• No printed stationery: WedSites is digital-only and cannot produce physical invitations or paper goods
• No mobile app: WedSites is web-based only, with no dedicated mobile app for planning on the go
• Email-only communication: No text or WhatsApp messaging, unlike Bliss & Bone's multi-channel approach
• No built-in registry: WedSites lets you link to external registries but does not offer its own registry feature

Who Should Choose WedSites

WedSites may be a better fit if you:

• Want integrated planning tools: The Pro plan includes checklist, budget, vendors, payment tracking, seating chart, and timeline builder
• Want unlimited digital stationery: Send save-the-dates, invitations, and reminders with no per-recipient fees
• Need email tracking: See who opened your invitations and monitor delivery, connected to your guest list
• Have a large guest list: Per-recipient pricing at Bliss & Bone adds up with more guests
• Want custom CSS control: Extensive fonts and full CSS for fine-grained design control
• Prefer one-time pricing: Pay once instead of monthly subscriptions

Who Should Choose Bliss & Bone

Bliss & Bone may be a better fit if you:

• Prioritize editorial-quality design: Their 100+ templates offer sophisticated, modern aesthetics
• Want coordinated printed materials: Matching websites, invitations, and printed stationery create visual cohesion
• Need multi-channel communication: Email, text, and WhatsApp messaging reaches guests however they prefer
• Value curated stock photos: Premium access to professional imagery without a photo shoot
• Want branded wedding materials: Wedding logos and monograms add polish to your celebration
• Prefer flexible cancellation: Monthly subscription means you can stop anytime
• Need a cash registry: Their free cash registry integrates with your website
• Have a smaller guest list: Per-recipient stationery costs are manageable for intimate weddings

Making Your Decision

Both platforms have genuine strengths. Bliss & Bone excels at design quality, printed stationery, and multi-channel communication. WedSites offers deeper planning tools, unlimited digital stationery, and one-time pricing. Consider trying both -- Bliss & Bone offers a 7-day free trial, and WedSites has a $39 Basic plan -- to see which approach fits your wedding best.

This comparison is based on research conducted in February 2025. Features and pricing for both platforms may have changed since publication. Visit both websites to confirm current offerings.