VW Wedding Theme Review

General design

Cherish, love and hope are what I think about this theme. It has a warm and sweet design with vivid colors, beautiful typography and extensive page styles.

However, if you are looking for more sections on the homepage like the demo, you have to buy the pro version. The free version only has this design so it looks less stunning and fancy.

Other elements

Color and Font

To make it sweet, you can see the peach color as the main tone embellishing the theme. It's not pink, as it may be quite "cheesy", so the author chooses this peach color to make it sweet enough. Moreover, you can change this color to any color you want.

Allura is an artistic and aesthetic font, which is suitable for a wedding case. On the other hand, Merriweather is readable for the body paragraph. This is such a reasonable combination of typography. Besides, the author gives you many standard fonts to change the heading, body or global font.

Page Layout

Then, I explore that there are 3 style for the page layout and here they are:

All looks okay, but my favorite one is the default full-width like the demo. It makes your website so extensive and intuitive. Moreover, when you select that style, the menu looks funnier, like it's floating on the slider. This is also the sticky menu so I love this part a lot.

Home Page's Elements

The slider won't let you down with full-screen style and three different layouts for the content. Whichever you choose, the content, button, and title appear nicely. I recommend the center alignment as it looks like a poem, which is so true with a wedding atmosphere, right?

Unlike the demo, you have only two sections on the homepage. And because the images will show up with the default frame, you should select the featured images for these sections carefully to make this area look symmetrical.

Archive Page

When turning to the blog post, it's so exciting that here I have a sidebar and three styles for the list structure of this page. If you look closely, you can see the differences between the content layout of each style. They are all well-organized, intuitive and prominent. However, in the free version, the blog page doesn't look fancy and lively like the pro demo

Responsive

Your website is still beautifully displayed on any device or screen with this free WordPress theme.

It required no complicated step or enclosed plugin to run this theme. However, setting up the homepage need more than one step. You have to set the homepage template on the Edit Page section and then point this page as the homepage in the Customizer or Admin pannel.

Then, the Customizer has everything you need to set up this theme and make the homepage quickly and simply. Remember that the free WordPress theme doesn't have one-click demo install so you have to set it up traditionally.

The Testimonial, Call to Action, Gallery, ... on the homepage are just available on the pro version. But don't worry, you still have the Groom and bride section, Slider and Love story section to exhibit your photo on the homepage.

Like other WordPress themes, you have Customizer with live preview and just need to stay here to modify this theme in an easy and convenient way.

Color and Font

As I said before, the color and typography are changeable. The number of colors is unlimited while you have a lot of typeface for different sections. I tried some sections here and it's so easy to apply these changes. You just need to select a color, font, style, size, ... in the dropdown menu and see how they look like with the live preview.

Widgets

Besides a sidebar and four footer columns, there are two other areas to add widgets and you are provided with all the basic widgets from WordPress. I did some examples here so you can see how the Groom social media and Bride social media will display.

Theme Options

Now, let's move to the VW Setting, where you modify the important elements like Slider, Blog layout and Homepage section. Everything is made to be a favorable condition for users. You just need to select your wanted item in the library and they can be rendered properly in a second. For instance, this is how I change the global style and the sidebar position for post or page.

As long as your page has a featured image, it can be shown beautifully on the slider. But it just has 4 sliders and lets you select pages so your choice is still limited.

As for the Groom and Bride section, the number of items is only two, and this number of Love Story section is one. I think that this is the biggest disadvantage of this free version.

You are able to create a post with all the standard post types or embed video, audio, social channel, ... from the giant ones like Youtube, Soundcloud, Facebook, ...

Here is an example. Just see how nice the Youtube video is. It's full-width and looks really symmetrical with other elements around.

And when you gather your images in a gallery, it will adjust your images in a frame so that it's clean and well-organized like this.

After verifying SEO optimization, it's good news that this free WordPress theme is SEO friendly.

The speed is not good so it may affect your experience. Here I checked it by Google PageSpeed Insights.

 

The in-depth documentation provides you with all the structure to install, set up and customize this free theme. Plus, the sticky sidebar menu can quickly transfer you to the desired sections immediately.

If the documentation and FAQs can't solve your problem, a support forum is a right place for you. By signing up an account and logging in, you can reach the support forum with free of cost. There are already topics for all the pro themes, but free users have to create a new topic to ask for help.