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Web design for wedding and event businesses

Websites for DJs, florists, photo booths and everyone who makes the night happen.

Astra Labs designs custom websites for the people couples and party hosts hire: DJs and bands, entertainers, florists, balloon and decor studios, photo booths, party and furniture rentals, planners and officiants. It is $499 one time for up to five pages, $99 to start and the rest when you love it, before it goes live. The site shows your own nights on film, places your service inside the event, lays out your packages and starts with the question every client asks first: is my date free?

2pm4pm6pm8pmMidnight CeremonyDrinksDinnerFirst danceLast song Your part of the night Is Saturday 14 June free? Package, guests, venue, send
Clients plan an event as one day. Showing exactly where your part sits, and starting with a date check, makes the decision feel simple.
What the site has to do

You are booked for one night. The site has to sell that night months ahead.

Couples and hosts book event suppliers long before the day, usually comparing three or four of you in an evening. What decides it, learned from the 41 event businesses we designed for this autumn and the sites they had:

  1. Show a real night you worked

    Almost every business in our group had real footage: full dance floors, a garland going up, a booth strip printing, a ceremony from the aisle. Yet our notes recorded stock or borrowed images on more than a third of their sites, including stock sheet music, generic party crowds and supplier promo films. Your own night is the proof a client is looking for.

  2. Put your part in the timeline

    A client sees the day in order: ceremony, drinks, dinner, first dance, last song. Show where your service fits and what you do from arrival to pack down, and the comparison with other suppliers becomes easier for them.

  3. Packages a client can read

    Many of these businesses published clear packages on wedding directories, or had their own price calculator, yet showed little on their homepage. A short package list with what is included and a "from" price answers the second question before an email.

  4. The date check first

    "Are you free on the 14th?" is the opening line of nearly every enquiry. A short date check with the package, guest count and venue gives you everything you need to reply in one message.

  5. Keep the tools behind the booking

    Planning portals, music request apps, HoneyBook forms, deposit pages and contracts were common in our group and they work. We link them from the new site so nothing in your booking process changes.

  6. Let the colour and the feel be chosen

    Florists, balloon artists, lighting hire and stationers sell colour and mood. Letting a visitor try their palette or wording on your real work starts the brief before you have spoken.

What we found

Event businesses' websites, checked one by one.

We read the current site of every event business we designed for between late September and October 2026: 41 businesses, most of them in the US and the UK, with others in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia. On 1 November 2026 we opened each homepage again as a phone would. Read these as what we saw in a small group.

14 of 41sites used stock or borrowed photos and films in key placesFrom our review notes
21 of 29homepages had no date check or enquiry form on the page itselfMeasured on a phone, 1 Nov 2026
40 of 41businesses had their own event photos or films online to build fromFrom our review notes
2.1 MBmedian homepage download on a phone29 homepages measured

The people in this group were clearly good at what they do: full diaries, many five-star reviews, real footage. Their sites, mostly on WordPress with page builders, Wix, Squarespace, Duda and lead funnel builders, followed a familiar shape: a slider, rows of icons, counters, long keyword text and a contact page at the end. Phone numbers were well handled, with only 7 of 29 homepages lacking a tap-to-call link, but the date check usually lived on another page. 4 sites still showed template filler, such as sample testimonials or "slide title" text, which visitors notice more than owners do.

Method: our review notes describe each old site in writing; we counted notes that mention stock, borrowed or generated images and placeholder or demo content. Phone checks opened each homepage once at 390 pixels wide. See the full method.

Event work

Nine event businesses, and the idea behind each site.

None of these businesses asked to be named, so we describe the service and region only. Each design used their own films, photos, packages and prices.

Wedding DJ and MCMaine, US

Your night, priced

What we found
A large WordPress site with hundreds of blog posts, clip art and emoji headings, plus a valuable customer area for planning and payments.
What we built
Pick one of his real packages and add-ons and the film swaps to a dance floor he played at that level, while the total carries into a date check. His customer area stays exactly as it was.
Photo booth and dance floor hireCentral Texas

The strip they take home

What we found
A builder template with purple panels, card grids and leftover "slide title" placeholders, and real prices hidden inside the enquiry form.
What we built
A night with them from cocktail hour to the dance floor, opening on their mirror booth film, with each experience priced, and a booth on screen that prints their real custom layouts for each kind of celebration.
Balloon installationsSouthwestern Ontario, Canada

Built in your colours

What we found
A clean custom site with a working shop, set in a generic cream and serif look that ignored the bright pink and orange of their own logo.
What we built
Their own fifty-plus colour palette as the heart of the page: a garland hoop fills with the blend a visitor picks and carries it into the quote request.
Wedding officiantSouthern New England

The order of ceremony

What we found
A WordPress template with stock beach photos, animated counters and fourteen links in the menu, though the booking and deposit setup worked well.
What we built
His real steps, from the free consultation to signing the licence, as a printed programme the couple fills with their names, ending with them pronounced by name and a link to his booking calendar.
Florist with two shopsGlasgow, Scotland

Write the card here

What we found
A standard Shopify theme with a postcode bar and product cards, none of the warmth of their shops or their reels.
What we built
Their shop film under a striped awning, the signature bouquets at real prices on green panelling, and the florist's card written on the site and tucked into their existing Shopify basket.
Kids' party and bouncy castle hireGreater Toronto, Canada

It's time to bounce

What we found
A funnel template in black and white with placeholder reviews written for a car business, and none of the colour of their own logo.
What we built
Their own castle rising from flat, every unit with its real all-day price, and a party planner where the chosen castle inflates on a lawn and the booking is sent by text.
Vintage singer for eventsSouthern England

A ticket to book

What we found
A free builder site from 2019 with the builder's ad bar, stock sheet music and a broken secure address.
What we built
Her act told as a 1940s railway poster, with her own gig films so visitors hear her sing first, and a railway ticket that becomes the booking request.
Restroom trailer rentalChicagoland, Illinois

The right trailer for the guest list

What we found
A crowded template with collage images and a downloadable contract, but no way to see which unit suits an event.
What we built
Their own trailers on deep black with their red, where a couple's guest count rolls in the right trailer, then carries into a quote built from the questions they always ask.
Face painting for partiesPerth, Western Australia

The mirror moment

What we found
A free one-page link site with a pink gradient and a separate appointment form.
What we built
Her reel playing in a gold hand mirror, and her stall's design board as the page: parents tap designs, see them in the mirror and send their picks with the party request.
What comes with it

Made for comparing, choosing and holding a date.

Every event business site we make includes these.

Date check

Date, venue, guests and package in a few taps, sent by email, text or WhatsApp. A real enquiry form to your inbox is added at launch.

Your night on film

Your best footage cut into one short loop sized for phones, with longer films one tap away.

Packages and add-ons

What each package includes and where it starts, with extras such as uplighting, ceremony music or delivery. You edit them yourself.

Where you fit in the day

Your arrival, setup and finish placed on the event timeline, so planners and couples see the whole picture.

Your tools, linked

HoneyBook, planning portals, music request apps, Setmore or Calendly and deposit pages open from the site as they do now.

Reviews in their words

Chosen lines from your Google and wedding directory reviews beside the date check, where they help most.

Price for event businesses

$499, often less than one Saturday booking.

A single fixed price, the same for a one-person act or a crew with a warehouse of kit. You pay $99 to start, we design it around your own events, and the other $400 is due once you love it and before it goes live.

$499

One time. No contract and no monthly fee unless you choose hosting.

  1. To get started$99
  2. When you love it, before go-live$400
Start for $99

We work on it with you until you love it. If it still is not right, the full amount is refunded.

Included
Up to five pages written for you, your film, packages and add-ons, the date check, enquiry form at launch, links to your booking and planning tools, your dashboard, SSL and your own domain.
Weddings and corporate apart
Five more pages for $149, for separate wedding, corporate, school or venue pages.
Take deposits online
If you have no booking tool yet, live booking where clients pick a date and pay a deposit into your own account is $149.
Selling online
Florists and decor studios: up to ten products is a small shop for $199, paid into your own Stripe, PayPal or Square. Already on Shopify? Your design becomes your Shopify theme for $499 more.
Email and hosting
$49 for a business email on your own domain. Hosting, backups and small edits are $30 a month, optional.
Questions

Event pros ask us.

How much does a website for a DJ or event business cost?

With Astra Labs it is $499 one time for up to five pages: $99 to start and $400 when you love the finished site, before it goes live. Five more pages are $149, and hosting is optional at $30 a month.

I use HoneyBook (or a DJ planning portal). Will it keep working?

Yes. Your forms, contracts, planning tools and payment pages stay where they are, and the new site links to them. Couples who already booked carry on exactly as before.

Can couples check if my date is free?

Yes. The date check sends you the date, venue, guest count and package in one message by email, text or WhatsApp, so you can answer in one reply. If you use a booking calendar, its button goes on the site too.

Do I have to publish all my prices?

No. You can show full packages, a "from" price or just what each package includes. Many event businesses show starting prices and finish the quote in the reply, and you can change this any time in your dashboard.

Can my wedding directory reviews go on the site?

Yes. We place your chosen review lines from Google, WeddingWire, The Knot, Bridebook or Hitched on the page, with a link to read them all there.

I am a florist. Can people order bouquets on the site?

Yes. Up to ten bouquets or products is a small shop for $199 with card, Apple Pay and Google Pay, paid straight into your own account. A larger shop of up to 100 products in your design is $499 on top of the site.

Next year's diary is being filled right now.

Let couples and hosts see your best night and check their date in a minute. $499 for the complete site, $99 to start.