Wedding website Our Story examples:
14 About Us texts for every kind of couple.

Every good Our Story answers three questions: how did you meet, when did you know, and how did the question get asked. That is the whole structure. One or two sentences per beat, in your own voice, with one specific detail per beat - the name of the bar, the terrible film, the rain. Specifics are what make it yours; generalities ('we fell more in love every day') make every story sound like the same story.

Write it once as if telling a friend, then cut every sentence that explains a feeling instead of showing a moment. What survives is usually exactly the right length.

Met through friends: 'We met at Ana's birthday in 2019. Marco spilled a drink on Sofia's shoes within the hour. Three years later he took her back to the same rooftop: shoes survived, question asked.'

Dating app, owned with confidence: 'Yes, we swiped. The first date was meant to be one coffee; it closed the cafe down. The second lasted a weekend. The app got deleted somewhere in between.'

High-school sweethearts: 'We sat two rows apart in maths and passed exactly one note in four years. It took a decade, two cities and one very lucky wedding - someone else's - to fix that.'

Long distance: '4,700 kilometres, two time zones, one shared calendar and 41 flights. In June the counting stops.'

Met at work: 'Same office, different floors, one broken printer on the third. Jamie fixed it, badly. Lena pretended not to notice and asked for coffee anyway. Five years and one proposal on a ferry later, the printer still jams.'

Friends first: 'For eight years we were the friends everyone assumed were together. Then one New Year's Eve, everyone turned out to be right.'

Second marriage: 'We both knew what we were looking for the second time around, and it turned out to be a Sunday market and the same bad joke about leeks. This time, the wedding is small, the guest list is only people we love, and the kids are in charge of the music.'

Together for years, kids already here: 'Twelve years, two children, one dog and a mortgage later, we figured it was time to throw the party. Maya and Leo will be walking us down the aisle. Bribes have been negotiated.'

Two countries, two languages: 'She ordered in Spanish, he answered in English, and the waiter in Lisbon translated for both. We still argue about which language we fell in love in. This wedding is in both, so nobody has to choose.'

Met while travelling: 'Same delayed train out of Vienna, the last two seats in the dining car, four hours of cards. He lost every game. She kept the scorecard. It is framed in our hallway.'

The short one-liner: 'Met in 2017. Never stopped talking. See you on the 14th.'

The funny one: 'Tom claims he saw Priya first. Priya has photographic evidence that she saw Tom first, tripping over a dog lead. The dog is attending the wedding as a witness.'

Later in life: 'We met at sixty-two in a beginners' tango class, both convinced we had two left feet. We were right. We kept going anyway, and this autumn we are dancing at our own wedding.'

About Us, third person: 'Clara is a nurse who plans everything. David is an architect who plans nothing and draws everything. They met on a hiking trip that Clara organised and David got lost on. He has been following her map ever since.'

Each of these is two to four sentences with one concrete detail doing the work. Keep the shape, replace the details with yours.

'Our Story' tells how you got here, in order: met, knew, proposed. 'About Us' introduces who you are today: what you do, what you love, what your guests should know about the two of you. Most couples need only one. If many guests know only one of you, a few lines of About Us help them; if everyone knows you both, the story is the part they have not heard.

A good hybrid: one line each about who you are, then the three beats. 'Sofia teaches primary school and runs half-marathons. Marco cooks for twelve when four are expected. They met at Ana's birthday in 2019...'

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The essay format fights how people read on phones. Three paragraphs of text on a wedding website get skimmed by close friends and skipped by everyone else. The same story as a photo timeline gets read to the end, because each beat is a photo your guests want to look at, with a caption they read in two seconds and a line or two below when they want more.

It also solves the writing problem. You do not need transitions or an opening line: pick the photos first - the first trip, the terrible haircut era, the dog arriving, the proposal - and each one tells you what its caption is. The photos carry the chronology, so the words only need to carry the charm.

In The Private Wedding App, Our Story is a page of the invitation, not a separate website. In the builder, open the Our Story tab, add your photos and give each one a caption, an optional date or place line ('Summer 2019', 'Lisbon') and, where you want it, a few lines of description. Rename the page if 'Our Story' is not your style, and move moments up and down until the order feels right. In visual editing, the page opens with ready-made layouts you tap to fill in. The page appears in your guests' bottom menu next to the RSVP, schedule and venues, styled in your wedding's theme.

For a wedding in two or three languages, the page title, every caption, date line and description have a translation field, and the one-click AI translation fills the empty ones, so each guest reads your story in the language they picked. And because the invitation is one private link, your story stays in front of your guests, not on the open internet.

The same plan, $19.99/month or $189 once, carries the RSVP with meals and allergies, guest list, seating chart, budget, vendors, checklist and AI assistant. Start the free trial and write your story tonight.