The Private Wedding App ($19.99/month, or $189 once for lifetime access where nothing expires) is the better fit if you want one price for the whole wedding: one invitation link where each guest picks their language among up to three of 26, RSVP with meals, allergies and plus-ones per event, a seating chart fed by those answers, budget, checklist, vendor tools, private access and an AI assistant. Joy covers a free website and registry: it is free to use, with custom domains, texting and premium designs as paid upgrades, its AI seating chart bought per event, a second language built by duplicating pages by hand, and no hosting length stated on its pages.
Joy is the wedding website most couples meet first: it is free to start, with paid upgrades and a seating chart sold per event. The Private Wedding App is a full wedding planner with the invitation built in. Published by The Private Wedding App: we make one of the two, so every Joy fact below comes from Joy's own pages, read on 22 October 2026 and linked at the end.
Price, and how long the site stays online
Joy is free to use for its website, registry, unlimited guests, online RSVP and hundreds of digital invites, while custom domain names, text messaging and premium designs are paid upgrades whose prices are not on its pricing page. Its seating chart is a one-time purchase per event, and its pages do not state how long a free site stays online.
The Private Wedding App is $19.99 a month with a 3-day free trial, or $189 once for Lifetime. On Lifetime nothing expires: your invitation stays online and your planner stays open, with no time limit, and nothing is sold separately.
Guests in several languages
Joy translates its own menus and buttons into the guest's language, and its help center has you tag each guest by language and duplicate and translate each page once; its RSVP, Registry and Schedule pages cannot be duplicated, and page titles are not translated automatically.
On The Private Wedding App there is one invitation and one link. Each guest picks their language among up to three of 26, Arabic and Hebrew right-to-left included, the whole invitation follows, RSVP and meals included, and one-click AI translation fills every empty field. Every reply lands in one guest list.
RSVP, meals, allergies and seating
Joy's RSVP asks custom questions, such as meal choices, across several events, and its paid seating chart can place guests with AI and pulls in their meal choices and dietary restrictions. The Private Wedding App asks meals, one dish per course if you like, a severe-allergy question and plus-ones per event, then seats only confirmed guests on a seating chart included in the price, with a caterer day sheet of plate counts and allergies by table.
Planning tools and private access
Joy lists a planning dashboard, registry and several editor accounts on its pricing page, with no budget or checklist named there. The Private Wedding App adds a budget tracker, a checklist, vendor comparison, a moodboard, guest photo sharing and a Wedding Planner AI that knows your wedding. Its private access option asks anyone opening the link for an email or phone number that matches your guest list before anything is shown.
Every fact on this page, with the date it was checked
The Private Wedding App, checked October 22, 2026: pricing ($19.99/month with a 3-day free trial, or $189 once; with Lifetime nothing expires), the multilingual invitation, the meal and allergy RSVP and the seating chart.
Joy, checked October 22, 2026: pricing page (free to use: planning dashboard, website, registry, mobile app, unlimited guests, online RSVP, digital invites, multiple editor accounts; custom domain names, text messaging and premium designs as upgrades, no prices shown; no hosting length stated); online RSVP page (custom questions such as meal choices, multi-event responses in the guest list); seating chart help article (one-time purchase per event; AI seating from the guest list, with meal choices and dietary restrictions pulled in); help article on guests in multiple languages (menus and buttons translated; pages duplicated and translated once; guests tagged by language; RSVP, Registry and Schedule pages cannot be duplicated; page titles not translated automatically).
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For planning the whole wedding at one price, yes: The Private Wedding App is $19.99/month or $189 once for the invitation, RSVP with meals and allergies, seating, budget, checklist, vendors and AI assistant, with nothing expiring on Lifetime. Joy covers a free website and registry, with its seating chart bought per event and no hosting length stated on its pages.
Is Joy really free?
Joy's pricing page says Joy is free to use for the website, registry, RSVP and digital invites, with custom domains, text messaging and premium designs as paid upgrades and no prices shown there; its seating chart is a one-time purchase per event. The Private Wedding App has no add-ons: $19.99/month or $189 once.
Which is better for a bilingual or multilingual wedding, Joy or The Private Wedding App?
The Private Wedding App: one link, each guest picks their language among up to three of 26, the RSVP and meals included, with one-click AI translation. On Joy, menus switch language while you duplicate and translate each page one by one, and its RSVP, Registry and Schedule pages cannot be duplicated.
How long does a Joy website stay online compared with The Private Wedding App?
Joy's pages did not state a hosting length on 22 October 2026. On The Private Wedding App's $189 Lifetime plan nothing expires: the invitation stays online and the planner stays open with no time limit.
Can I move from Joy to The Private Wedding App?
Yes. Paste your guest list into The Private Wedding App, or ask the assistant to add it, then send one invitation link. Start with the 3-day free trial on the monthly plan, or pay $189 once for Lifetime.