Event Planning Website Ideas

Event planning isn’t easy. Whether it’s a corporate event, wedding, trade show, concert, or another type of special event, a lot of hard work goes into event planning. One area that event planners often forget is their website.

A great event planner can get ignored if their website doesn’t stand apart from the rest. In this post, we’ll look at where to get ideas to help you get started on your event planning website.

An event planning website has to perform a lot of tasks. It must showcase the event planner’s services, portfolio, company information, and contact information. They also need a way for clients to hire them as their event planner.

Most service-based businesses can stop there. An event planning website can stop there as well, but there are a few more features that can help the event planner manage their events from their website.

An event planner’s website can also provide additional information, such as upcoming events. This includes the event details, date and time, location, who the event is for, etc. It also needs a way for customers to join the events, such as buying tickets to a concert or a trade show.

Event planning websites need calendars, sign-up forms, notifications, account information, previous events, upcoming events, event tracking, searching, ticket purchasing, a countdown timer, a timeline, and more.

They also need to password-protect certain events or event details so the public can’t attend weddings, corporate events, or other types of events that are not open to the public.

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With all of the features needed for an event-planning website, it’s easy to see how designing the site can become a daunting task. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to find ideas for your website.

We’ll look at several places to get ideas. I’ll discuss each of the marketplaces and platforms individually and provide insights on each.

You could look at the features you like and search for plugins that would add those features or build the layouts with WordPress blocks. Most integrate with WooCommerce for ticket sales. We’ll look at a few of the WordPress events themes and see their standout features.

We don’t recommend copying them. Instead, look at their layouts and features, see how they work, see what you like or dislike, and determine how you could create something similar or better. Mix and match the ideas until you have something unique that you like.

Of course, you could also purchase the themes to get a head start on your design. It’s up to you, but I do recommend applying good web design principles regardless of your approach.

For more information about website design, see the articles 21 Types of Effective Website Design and B2B Website Design: Best Practices and Case Studies.

One of the best places to get design ideas or free themes for your event planning website is the WordPress theme repository. I searched the WordPress theme repository for event planning and found 17 themes. You can use a variation on the keyword to find even more. These themes look amazing, and you could use any of them if you wanted.

Most don’t include extra features, but their designs are excellent examples of the pages you could build with WordPress blocks. Most have both a free and a premium version. These are a great place to start for layouts. You’d still need to add plugins for certain features.

Event Planning Management

Let’s look at the first one, Event Planning Management. The focus of the demo is weddings, but this theme includes elements for many types of events. Pages include Home, About, Services, Team, Events, Blog, and Contact.

The home page includes a full-screen header, an About section, blurbs for services, stats, the team, pricing tables, an embedded video, testimonials, a gallery, a blog, contact information, and a newsletter form.

This one is a great example of using color and images.

Eventum Lite

Eventum Lite includes a full-screen header, multiple designs of blurbs for services, multiple sidebars, embedded videos, featured events, a testimonial slider, pricing tables, stats, and a contact form with an embedded map.

It also includes pages such as About Us, Blog, Gallery, and Contact. These are unique from the home page but fit well within the design.

This one is a good example of a great layout and well-styled blocks.

EventPress

EventPress, which has a child theme on this list is called EventPlus, includes a full-screen slider, blurbs to showcase the event speakers, a countdown timer, gallery, news (blog section), and a footer with contact information.

It also includes an About page, Gallery, and Blog. These pages are simpler than the home page.

This is a good example of a good home page design.

Envato Market’s Theme Forest

Theme Forest is a popular choice for premium, high-quality, WordPress themes. They have plenty of WordPress themes to purchase or browse for ideas. These themes are great for the money, and I recommend purchasing your favorite to get you started quickly. Most include the WPBakery drag-and-drop page builder.

Love Story

Love Story is a wedding planner theme with soft colors and lots of photography. It includes styled drop-down menus, hover animations, a full-screen slider, services presented as products, a gallery, testimonials, a blog, pricing tables, a contact section, and a lot more. It includes around a dozen pages.

This one is an excellent example of how to use soft colors, typography, and animations.

Presentup

Presentup is an interesting event planner and management theme with lots of premade demos and templates to get you started. It includes WPBakery and Elementor integration with 110 premade blocks including headers and footers. This WordPress theme is excellent for mixing, matching, and customizing elements to create a unique event planner website.

This one makes excellent use of color, typography, animations, and layout.

Unica

Unica has a simple design that includes 4 layouts for multiple types of events including general, weddings, corporate, and social. Features include pre-made modules such as services, clients, team members, testimonials, and contact forms.

This one makes excellent use of color.

Grenda

Grenda is an event management theme with multiple demos and lots of pages to get you started. It includes pages for menus and venues, making it an excellent choice for any type of food-related event. It has lots of styled blocks including blurbs, pricing tables, sliders, team members, a blog, a gallery, a contact section, and more.

This one makes excellent use of color, photography, and layout.

PartyMaker

PartyMaker was designed for multiple types of events and includes an integrated store with pre-made WooCommerce pages. It includes multiple home pages using the same or similar elements including sliders, blurbs, CTAs (Call to Action), pricing tables, testimonials, team members, clients, gallery, blog, and more. The focus is on parties, and it shows from the design, but it does include pages for services and your portfolio.

This one makes excellent use of color, typography, and layout.

Pinterest

Pinterest is one of the best places online to find ideas. Simply search for “event planning website” and you’ll see more results than you’ll need. You can also filter the results. It gave me the option to see design ideas.

You can hover over any of the results to save it to your list, share it with others, follow the poster, comment, etc. This is a great way to build a list to pull from for inspiration for your own designs or build a list of possible WordPress themes to purchase.

You can also click on anything you want to see more details. The example above is a layout from Dribble. It includes sections for upcoming events, recent events, and all events. It shows the events as posts with text and thumbnails.

You can also click on the image search feature at the bottom of the image to find similar images on Pinterest. This is a great way to find similar design ideas that you can pull from.

There are lots of themes, plugins, and tools available to build your event planning website. Here’s a look at a few great options.

Theme Builders

If you want to get started easily, take a look at theme builders, such as Divi, Elementor, or Beaver Builder. Some have templates you can use to get started. Their templates can also be used for ideas. Divi is a drag-and-drop WordPress theme builder with lots of free templates, including a layout called Event Coordinator.

The layout above has seven premade pages that you can easily customize. All the modules you need are here and pre-styled including blurbs, sliders, countdown timers, pricing tables, and lots more. Plus, you can add more features with add-ons or plugins such as timelines and sign-up forms. You can also create your own layouts.

For more information about Divi, see our Divi Review. For more information about theme builders, see the article Divi vs. Elementor: Can I Use Divi and Elementor Together.

Eventin

Eventin is an all-in-one event manager plugin that adds event management to any WordPress theme, and it includes Divi integration. It’s powered by AI and has a free and pro version. The best tools are in the pro version, and this is the version I recommend.

It includes a calendar, event booking, registration, listings, RSVP, recurring events, sell tickets, visual seat arrangements, QR codes, and more. It can run live and virtual events and includes Zoom and WooCommerce integration. You can also build a multi-vendor event marketplace.

Prices start at $69 per year or a one-time payment of $189 and increase from there.

Event Manager

Event Manager is an event management plugin that integrates with WooCommerce and Google Maps. It includes custom templates. Features include multiple registration forms, ticket sales for live or virtual events, an attendee dashboard, email notifications, event sales reports, and lots of add-ons to expand it further.

Add-ons include recurring events, QR codes, an event calendar, custom coupons, a waitlist, event booking from the dashboard, membership pricing, global events, seat planning, an event duplicator, front-end submission, and more.

Prices start at $59 per year or $149 for lifetime access.

Planning Pod

Planning Pod is online event management software that integrates into various platforms including WordPress. It provides all the tools you need to create and manage all types of events.

It helps you manage contracts, to-do lists, appointments, and more. You can also get venue management and floor plan management software if you need more features. This is especially good for large event-planning companies.

Prices start at $59 per month.

That’s our look at event planning website ideas. We’ve only scratched the surface of where to get ideas. Fortunately, there are lots of places on the web to get ideas when building your event planning website.

Of course, we don’t condone copying someone else’s work. Use these examples to help spark your imagination to create your own designs. I recommend using the premium WordPress themes or theme builders to create your ultimate event planning website. They provide the best designs to get you started quickly, and you can add more features with a plugin.

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