Provider facts
What does Rose Websites charge, and what do you get?
Disclosure: Appear is run by creativebyjake, which appears in this comparison. Every fact is from each provider's own pages with the date we read them, ours included.
Rose Websites ("Brisbane, Australia" (home page footer); the contact page is a form only, with no address): The lowest one-off prices shown for celebrants ($299 to $999 including GST), each design sold to one celebrant only, and no hosting charge while you wait for registration. Below is everything its own pages say about price and packages, read 13 Oct 2026, with each source linked.
Rose Websites, from its own pages
Named by: Bing Australia, page 1 (13 Oct) for "who builds websites for marriage celebrants in Australia"; Bing Australia, page 1 (13 Oct) for "website designer for marriage celebrants".
- Website price shown
- "Locking in your design and your .com.au is a one-time fee from $299 (it varies by template, $299 to $999)." "All prices include GST." "Free to build and preview." "Nothing to pay until you choose to lock it in.
rosewebsites.com.au - What a build includes
- "All you do is choose a design and share your words and photos. We build, register, host, secure and launch it, usually within 6 hours." Listed as theirs: "Writing and building the site", "Your .com.au address", "Hosting and SSL", "Security and backups", "Ongoing edits and support", "Going live".
rosewebsites.com.au - Ongoing fees
- "Basic" "$45" "/ mo": "Your .com.au live and secured", "Fast hosting with SSL", "Enquiry form to your inbox", "Edit your words and photos anytime". "Pro" ("Most chosen") "$75" "/ mo": "Everything in Basic", "SMS alerts when couples enquire", "Site analytics: visits and enquiries", "Version history backups", "Priority support". "Monthly hosting only begins the day you go live." "$0" "hosting while you wait to be registered". "All prices include GST."
rosewebsites.com.au - Local SEO or marketing
- Not shown on the pages read
rosewebsites.com.au - Platform
- Not stated in the page text; the served HTML is a Next.js build (/_next/ assets) and the response header names Vercel as the server
rosewebsites.com.au - Named person
- No named person on the pages read. "Rose Websites is made by Rose Training Australia, a family business and nationally registered training organisation (RTO 31939)"; footer: "© Rose Websites, a service of Rose Training Australia Pty Ltd, ABN 55 605 893 810"
rosewebsites.com.au - Reviews on its own site
- Not shown on the pages read
rosewebsites.com.au - Example builds
- No client sites shown on the pages read. The designs page lists "43 designs" for sale (each "sold only once"): 9 at "$299 one-time", 22 at "$499 one-time", 6 at "$699 one-time", 6 at "$999 one-time", each "plus hosting"; the home page shows 6 of them
rosewebsites.com.au/templates - Page for celebrants
- The whole site is for celebrants: page title "Rose Websites" with "Studio for Celebrants", heading "A website as warm as the ceremonies you write."
rosewebsites.com.au - Based
- "Brisbane, Australia" (home page footer); the contact page is a form only, with no address
rosewebsites.com.au
Other things its pages say
- "Made to measure": "Curate your own site design with us, starting from" "$1,299" rosewebsites.com.au/templates
- "Each of our celebrant designs is sold only once. Choose yours and it leaves the catalogue for good, so no two celebrants ever share a site." rosewebsites.com.au/templates
- "has helped train more than 10,000 celebrants"; "10,000+" "Celebrants trained"; "100%" "Made for celebrants" rosewebsites.com.au
- "Registration with the Attorney-General can take up to six months, and it is out of everyone’s hands. We don’t charge you to host your site for a single day of that wait." rosewebsites.com.au
- Contact: "we will get back to you by email, usually the same day." rosewebsites.com.au/contact
Is Rose Websites right for you?
Best for: a celebrant who wants a ready-made design live within hours for a few hundred dollars.
Worth asking them: what the monthly plan ($45 or $75) adds up to over a few years, and what happens to the site and the .com.au if you stop paying.
How does creativebyjake compare?
creativebyjake runs this site, so read this as our side of it. Same date, same kind of source.
| Rose Websites | creativebyjake (ours) | |
|---|---|---|
| Website price shown | "Locking in your design and your .com.au is a one-time fee from $299 (it varies by template, $299 to $999)." "All prices include GST." "Free to build and preview." "Nothing to pay until you choose to lock it in. rosewebsites.com.au | $500 + GST for a two-page site, paid once; going live on a domain in the client's own name is $100 plus the domain's own fees creativebyjake.com.au/celebrant-websites/ |
| Ongoing fees | "Basic" "$45" "/ mo": "Your .com.au live and secured", "Fast hosting with SSL", "Enquiry form to your inbox", "Edit your words and photos anytime". "Pro" ("Most chosen") "$75" "/ mo": "Everything in Basic", "SMS alerts when couples enquire", "Site analytics: visits and enquiries", "Version history backups", "Priority support". "Monthly hosting only begins the day you go live." "$0" "hosting while you wait to be registered". "All prices include GST." rosewebsites.com.au | Maintenance at $50 + GST a month, no contract, two weeks' notice to stop; hosting: not stated on its pages creativebyjake.com.au/celebrant-websites/ |
| Local SEO or marketing | Not shown on the pages read rosewebsites.com.au | Appear at $250 + GST a month: the Google listing kept up, details matched across directories, a review kit, a local page every second month, Maps read weekly and AI answers monthly; Appear and maintenance together are $300 a month including GST creativebyjake.com.au/appear/ |
| Reviews on its own site | Not shown on the pages read rosewebsites.com.au | Not shown on the pages read creativebyjake.com.au |
| Example builds | No client sites shown on the pages read. The designs page lists "43 designs" for sale (each "sold only once"): 9 at "$299 one-time", 22 at "$499 one-time", 6 at "$699 one-time", 6 at "$999 one-time", each "plus hosting"; the home page shows 6 of them rosewebsites.com.au/templates | Example builds for made-up businesses, labelled as such: Vowsmith Ceremonies creativebyjake.com.au/celebrant-websites/ |
Worth asking us: about how new it is: its examples are builds for made-up businesses and its site shows no reviews, so ask Jake for a call and judge for yourself.
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