Our Story Wedding Website Examples (+ Template)

The "Our Story" page is the part of a wedding website guests read for fun. They come for the date and the venue, then scroll down to find out how you two actually met. The good news: it doesn't need to be long or polished. Below are seven original our story wedding website examples in different styles that you can borrow from, plus a simple template and tips on how to write yours together.

Disclosure: Wedding Plan is our product and the screenshots come from it. The examples and writing tips work on any wedding website.

What makes a good "Our Story" section

Keep it short (150 to 400 words, in a few small chapters), specific (one real detail beats three adjectives) and safe for everyone: your grandmother and your boss will read it too. Beyond that, write the way you are together. Funny is fine; quiet and warm is fine.

7 our story wedding website examples

All couples here are made up. Keep the shape, swap in your details.

1. The short timeline

Best for couples who don't love writing. Three or four dated moments, one or two sentences each.

March 2018 – How we met. Same running club, same slow pace at the back of the group.

July 2019 – First holiday. A week in Lisbon, mostly spent looking for the tram we'd just missed.

October 2022 – Our first flat. One sofa, two cats, zero working lamps.

May 2026 – The proposal. At the finish line of our first half marathon. Tom ran it with the ring in his pocket.

2. The funny one

Best when friends already tell it at parties. Keep the joke on yourselves.

Priya was sure Sam was the IT guy. Sam was actually a guest at the same conference who happened to be standing next to a broken projector. He fixed it anyway, mostly to avoid admitting he didn't work there. Two hours later he confessed over bad coffee. She still calls him "the IT guy", and he still fixes everything with a cable he finds in a drawer.

3. The sentimental one

Best for a calm, romantic site. Sincere works when it stays concrete.

We met in the hospital waiting room the week both of our grandmothers were ill. We shared vending machine tea and long evenings, and when things got better, we kept meeting for tea anyway. Elena's grandmother lived to see us engaged and told everyone she had arranged the whole thing. Maybe she did.

4. Written in the third person

Best when a friend writes it, or you'd rather not say "we" a hundred times.

Daniel and Grace met in a choir in Manchester, where he sang slightly flat and she was too polite to tell him. Five years, two cities and one very patient choir director later, Daniel proposed on a Sunday morning walk in the Peak District. Grace said yes, then finally told him about the singing.

5. The Q&A

Best when you both want a voice. Answer separately and let the answers disagree a little.

Who said "I love you" first?
Leo: Me. Mia: Technically he said it to the pizza, but I'll allow it.

Best date so far?
Mia: Night swimming in Croatia. Leo: The same night, but the part with the ice cream after.

Who planned the proposal?
Leo, with a lot of help from Mia's sister.

6. The long-distance story

Best when the miles are part of the story. Count something: flights, time zones, video calls.

We met during a summer course in Berlin. Then Hana flew home to Toronto and Chris to Melbourne, 16 hours apart. For three years we had breakfast while the other had dinner, and we met up in six different countries. Last year Chris moved to Toronto, bought a winter coat that is far too big, and asked Hana to marry him the first time it snowed.

7. How we met online

Say it plainly. Nobody minds, and the first message is usually the best detail.

Yes, we met on a dating app. Jordan's first message was a long, serious question about Alex's photo of a sourdough loaf. Alex replied with a recipe. Our first date was at a bakery, our second was at a cooking class, and four years later we still argue about how much salt to put in the dough.

How we met wedding website template

Stuck? Fill in the blanks. It works as one paragraph or four short chapters.

How we met: We met at [place] in [year]. [One detail you both remember.]

When we knew: [A small moment, a trip, a hard time you got through together.]

The proposal: [Where, when, and one thing that went wrong or right.]

Now: We live in [city] with [pet/plant/too many books], and we can't wait to celebrate with you.

How to write our story for a wedding website

Pick three to five moments

Not your whole relationship. The first meeting and the proposal are the obvious ones; add one or two in between that say something about you, like a trip, a move or a pet.

Keep each chapter short

Two to four sentences per moment. A guest on a phone should finish the whole story in under two minutes.

Choose photos that match

One photo per moment is enough. A slightly blurry phone photo from the actual day often beats a polished engagement shoot, because it's real.

Know what to leave out

• Exes and how you got over them.
• Inside jokes that need explaining.
• Anything a parent or grandparent would rather not read about you.
• Private details like your home address. A wedding website is public to anyone with the link.

Write it together

Each of you writes your version of how you met, separately, in ten minutes. Then swap. The differences are often the best part (the Q&A style is built on them). Agree on the tone first, so one chapter isn't a joke and the next a love letter.

Finally, read it out loud. If a sentence sounds odd spoken, rewrite it.

Putting your story on a Wedding Plan website

On Wedding Plan, your story lives in the Love Story section. Each chapter has a title, a date, the text and an optional photo, and the site shows them as a timeline.

A few things worth knowing:

• Chapters: click Add story for each moment. In the web app the title field is labelled Event Name, and title, date and content are all required.
• Length: a title can be up to 255 characters and the text up to 5,000, far more than you need. Some designs show the first couple of lines and fold longer chapters behind a Read more link, so put the best line first.
• One paragraph per chapter: in many designs line breaks inside a chapter don't show, so the text appears as one block. Need a new paragraph? Start a new chapter.
• Photos: one JPG or PNG per chapter; a phone photo is fine.
• Hiding: each chapter has its own Show on website switch, so you can draft a chapter and publish it later. To hide the whole section, use Show on website in the website settings.
• Heading and intro: the section heading and the short line under it come from the design. Change them in Edit page wording, for example to "How we met" or "Our story".

The story is one section among several. For the full list of what guests need, see what to put on a wedding website, and for how all the pieces fit together, our complete wedding website guide.

FAQ

How long should the "Our Story" section be?

Around 150 to 400 words, in three to five short chapters.

What if our story isn't very exciting?

Most aren't. A small, true detail (who was late to the first date) is more charming than a big, vague one.

Do we have to include how we met online?

No. If you'd rather not say, start the story at your first date. But plenty of couples meet on apps, so there's no need to hide it.

Can we skip the story section?

Yes. It's optional, and an empty "Our Story" heading looks worse than no section at all. If you add no chapters or switch the section off, guests don't see it.

Next steps

Pick a style, write your first chapter tonight and add the rest later. Start with the free wedding website builder, browse the wedding website templates, and if you haven't built the site yet, follow our guide on how to make a wedding website.