Ministry Marriage Ministry Website Template
Twelve Dinners
A site for a marriage ministry whose whole program is a year of monthly dinners: four couples, rotating homes, one conversation card per month. It should read like an invitation to supper, while keeping the route to real counselling one click away.
Starting at $500
Start with this design and I’ll personalize it with your branding, photos and words. Keep your current domain or get a new one.
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- Built for
- Married and engaged couples in Charlotte, from newlyweds to forty-year marriages, and the churches that send them.
- Navigation
- Split screen. Identity and navigation stay fixed on the left half while content scrolls on the right, like a printed programme.
Names, photos, times and stories in this template are sample content. Your version uses your own words, photos and branding.
Why it looks this way.
- Typography
Gilda Display is a high-contrast display serif with the look of an engraved place card, so every headline reads like an invitation to supper. Instrument Sans handles the practical layer (dates, addresses, childcare times) in a plain, slightly narrow grotesque that never competes with it.
- Gilda Display headlines
- Instrument Sans body text
- Color
A claret red taken from a glass of wine held up to a candle, a beeswax gold for small accents, and a linen background with a faint rose cast. Dark mode is a candlelit room: deep plum-brown with the claret lifted to a dusty rose so it still reads at night.
- Page
#F4EFEE - Cards
#FFFBFA - Text
#231A1C - Brand
#6E2335 - Accent
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- Page
- Layout
A split panel keeps the name, the one-line promise and the navigation fixed on the left like the card on a dinner menu, while the content scrolls beside it. Couples usually read this site together on one laptop, so a calm, book-like layout suits it better than a busy header.
Pages: Home, How the year works, The twelve questions, Host a table, When it's hard, Join a table
- Hero
Three photographs in a staggered row with the headline running across them, like a magazine spread about a dinner party. The first thing you see is people at a table, which is the whole program in one image.
- Calls to action
'Join a table' is the main action because a single sign-up is the only step a couple needs to take. Hosting, giving and counselling each get their own verb: offer your dining room, sponsor a table's childcare, talk to a counselor this week.
- Photography
Candlelit dinners, couples of different ages and backgrounds, and long tables. We avoided wedding imagery on purpose: this ministry is for year seven and year thirty, not the big day.
- Accessibility
Underlined text buttons with a heavy focus ring, body text at 17px, and every date written in words. The 'When it's hard' page lists crisis and domestic-violence lines in plain text that works without JavaScript.
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