Wedding hashtag generator
Both names in, hashtag ideas out. No scoring and no best match, because whether a pun lands is not something a rule can tell you and you will know in a second.
Your first names
These always read correctly. Most couples end up here.
The surname
For a couple sharing one name after the wedding.
Both surnames
The blends are hit and miss by nature. Use one if it lands, ignore the rest.
Before you print anything, search the tag on Instagram. A hashtag already carrying somebody else's photographs is worse than no hashtag at all, and this page cannot check that for you: it runs entirely in your browser and talks to nothing.
The hashtag is the easy part.
Seating the room is the job that takes the evening. Build it here, print one QR code, and guests find their own table on the day. Your first event is free through 250 guests.
Start a seating planThe plural is the part that goes wrong
Ordinary English words ending in a consonant and a y take -ies. Surnames do not. They are proper nouns and they keep their spelling, so it is the Murphys, the Kennedys and the Grays, never the Murphies. Surnames ending in s, x, z, ch or sh take -es, which is why it is the Joneses and the Marshes.
It matters here more than it looks, because a hashtag is printed. A spelling mistake in a caption is gone by the next morning. The same mistake on a welcome sign is in every photograph of the entrance, and somebody in the family will mention it.
The rest of what this page does is join words together, which is not difficult. It does not rank the results or pick a favourite. A generator that tells you which pun is best is guessing, and you can see the answer faster than it can.
Common questions
- How do I make a wedding hashtag?
- Take the pieces guests already know, your two first names or the surname you will share, and join them in CamelCase so the words stay readable. #SarahAndTom reads; #sarahandtom does not. Then check the tag on Instagram before it goes anywhere near a printer.
- Is it the Murphys or the Murphies?
- The Murphys. Surnames are proper nouns and keep their spelling, so the -y to -ies rule that applies to ordinary words does not apply to them: the Kennedys, the Grays, the Murphys. Only surnames ending in s, x, z, ch or sh take -es, which is why it is the Joneses and the Marshes. This generator follows that rule, which is the single thing most hashtag tools get wrong.
- How long should a wedding hashtag be?
- Short enough to read from across a room and type without a mistake. Past about 24 characters it is fine in a caption and a problem on a sign, because the guest reading it is holding a drink and standing at an angle. Every character you remove is one fewer chance of a typo putting a photograph somewhere nobody will find it.
- Can you check whether my hashtag is already taken?
- No, and any tool claiming to should be treated carefully. This page runs entirely in your browser and makes no network requests at all, which is also why it needs no account and stores nothing. Search the tag on Instagram yourself: a hashtag already carrying a stranger’s photographs is worse than having no hashtag.
- Do we even need a wedding hashtag?
- Only if you want guest photographs collected in one place, and a hashtag is not the only way to do that. It depends on guests remembering to type it, which a fair number will not. A QR code on the table is the other way, and it does not depend on anybody remembering anything.
This is the one tool here that has nothing to do with seating, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The rest of the site is about the harder job: you can draw the room and seat it in the browser with no account, then print one QR code so guests find their own table.
If the hashtag was for collecting photographs, a QR code on the table does that without depending on guests remembering to type anything. While you are planning, the drink calculator and the table calculator answer the two questions that come from the same guest list.