Laurie

What Laurie is

Laurie is one of Squarespace's own free 7.1 templates, built on Fluid Engine and styled as the business site of a wedding planner. The demo is called Weddings by Laurie: soft neutrals with a deep red accent, generous white space, a serif headline face and photographs of real celebrations rather than stock ballroom shots. The old listing on this page sold Laurie as a wedding website for couples with event details and RSVP forms; it is not that. There is no RSVP form, no schedule of the day and no registry in the demo. It is a six page site for someone who plans weddings for a living and needs enquiries.

What it does

The pages in the demo are Home, About, Services, Consultation, Blog and Contact. Home introduces the planner, shows a few featured weddings and pushes visitors towards booking a consultation. Services is where full planning, partial planning and on the day coordination would sit, each with its own description and a call to action. Consultation is a dedicated page for the first call, with a form so prospective couples can share their date, venue and budget range before you speak. The Blog is a standard Squarespace blog with two categories in the demo, Wedding Stories and Wedding Tips, and six sample posts (real wedding write-ups such as Jamie and Sophie, plus advice pieces on DIY weddings and staying on budget), which is a sensible content plan for a planner who wants to rank locally. Contact is a simple page with a form and social links. Every section is drag and drop in Fluid Engine, and the palette and type live in Site Styles.

Who it suits

Wedding planners and coordinators first, then wedding stylists, celebrants, florists and venue consultants who sell a service and want a consultation funnel rather than a shop. The blog structure makes it a good fit for anyone who intends to publish real weddings as case studies. It is not a couple's own wedding site, and it is not a photographer portfolio: for that look at Quincy, another free Squarespace template I list separately.

One honest caveat

Laurie is a skeleton with a good page plan, not a finished business. The demo has no pricing, no packages table and no client portal, and the Services and Consultation pages are placeholder copy you will rewrite from scratch. The look leans heavily on warm, well lit photography of real weddings; if you are starting out and only have a few images, the pages will feel thinner than the demo. As with every free Squarespace template, the value is in the layout and the hierarchy, and the rest is your work.

Setup

Laurie is free and included with every Squarespace plan, including Personal. You choose it when you start a new site, or preview the demo and click to start from it. There is no licence to buy and nothing to install. Squarespace 7.1 does not let you switch templates on an existing site, so if you already have a 7.1 site you would start a fresh trial from Laurie and move your content across. Plan for one to three hours to replace the demo content across the six pages, and longer if you want the blog populated before launch.

Related guide

See how Laurie compares with paid designer templates in my roundup of the best Squarespace templates for wedding professionals, or browse the templates for wedding planners collection and the full Squarespace templates list. If you are weighing a free Squarespace template against a designer template, read my guide on how to choose the right Squarespace template.