What to Put on a Love Website: 12 Sections That Actually Work

The sections that work

1. A headline, not a title. 'For Maya' is a title. 'Local man still can't believe his luck' is a headline. The newspaper and series templates force this, which is why they work — the first line should be a sentence with a point of view.

2. The photo they haven't seen. Everyone has a photo of their partner they never sent them — mid-laugh, unposed, taken from across a room. Lead with it. It says 'I look at you when you don't know' better than any sentence.

3. Your story, short. Three to five beats: how you met, the moment you knew, the hard part you got through, now. One or two sentences each. Resist the essay; the details do the work.

4. Reasons why — specific ones. Five to twelve. 'The way you narrate the dog's inner monologue' beats 'your sense of humour' every time. If a reason could apply to anyone else's partner, cut it.

5. The count of days. The exact number since you became a couple, live if the template supports it. It's the line people screenshot.

6. A song. One. The one that's yours, or the one that was playing. Embedded, not linked.

7. A letter. The long version, two hundred to four hundred words, written the way you talk. This is where 'I love you' goes — once, at the end, after it's been earned.

8. An inside joke, unexplained. One line only you two understand. It's the proof the page was made by you, not by a template.

Optional, if they fit

9. A timeline of small dates — first text, first trip, the move — as a list, not a chart.

10. A 'things I love about us' section, distinct from 'about you': the rituals, the Sunday thing, the way you argue about maps.

11. Something interactive: a puzzle that unlocks the letter, a scratch-off, a quiz. One is charming; three is a fairground.

12. A way to reply. If the maker supports likes, notes or video replies (LovePage does), leave that on — the reply is the best part of the gift for you.

What to leave off

• "the twenty best photos — pick six; more dilutes."
• "anything you found in a list of quotes. borrowed words read as borrowed."
• "jokes about their flaws. teasing works in person, not in print, not tonight."
• "your relationship status history. this is a page about them, not a report."
• "an apology, unless the whole page is the apology."

Order and length

Headline → the photo → story → reasons → song → letter → reply. Total: 300–600 words and 5–8 photos. If it takes more than two minutes to read, it's long; the exception is the letter, which is allowed to be exactly as long as it needs to be.

If a tool writes the page for you from your answers, this is still the checklist to edit against: does it have the unseen photo, the specific reasons, the one unexplained joke? Add those and it stops being a template.