Quincy

What Quincy is

Quincy is one of Squarespace's own free 7.1 templates, built on Fluid Engine and styled as a portfolio and booking site for a wedding photographer. The demo site is called Cath Quincy: warm neutral tones, large photographs, a serif headline face and a short, confident tone of voice. The old listing on this page described Quincy as a wedding website for couples with event details and RSVP forms; it is not. There is no RSVP form, no event schedule and no registry in the demo. It is a four page site for a photographer who shoots weddings and needs to be booked.

What it does

The pages in the demo are Home, About, Bookings and Weddings. Home opens with a full width image, a one line introduction and a call to action into the work. Weddings is a Squarespace portfolio collection, with each wedding (the demo ships with two, Madison and Lenoix, Soria and Antoine) opening as its own gallery page, so you can build a story per couple rather than dumping everything into one grid. About carries the photographer's bio and a portrait, and Bookings is where enquiries land: a form and, if you connect it, a scheduling block for consultation calls. Because it is Fluid Engine, every section is drag and drop, and the colour and type system sits in Site Styles, so a cooler or darker palette is a settings change rather than a rebuild.

Who it suits

Wedding photographers first, then elopement, engagement and couples photographers, and portrait photographers who want a per-client gallery structure. Videographers can use the same skeleton with video blocks in place of galleries. It is not a site for a couple planning their own wedding, and it is not a wedding planner site: for planners look at Laurie, another free Squarespace template I list separately.

One honest caveat

Quincy gives you a mood and a page skeleton, not a finished business site. The demo has no pricing or packages page, no blog and no client proofing, so you will add a Services page yourself and use a third party gallery service for delivering client photos. The whole look depends on strong, consistent photography with lots of negative space; if your images are busy or inconsistent the layout will feel emptier than the demo. And as with any free Squarespace template, most of the work is replacing every placeholder image and writing your own copy.

Setup

Quincy 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 Quincy and move your content across. Plan for one to three hours to swap the demo content for your own across the four pages, plus time for each wedding gallery you add.

Related guide

See how Quincy compares with paid designer templates in my roundup of the best Squarespace templates for photographers, or browse the templates for wedding photographers 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.