We're back: why Our Bridal Fund went quiet, and what we rebuilt

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Our Bridal Fund launched in 2016 with a simple idea: give engaged couples a personal, good-looking page for their wedding, honeymoon or first home fund, and let their guests give from any phone in under a minute.

For a while, we didn’t live up to that. This post explains what happened, what we rebuilt, and what to do if you started a fund with us before.

What happened

From the start, Our Bridal Fund took payments through WePay. In 2024 WePay was shut down, and our gift and payout system stopped working with it.

We didn’t rebuild right away, and we should have. Couples kept finding us and starting fundraisers, but they couldn’t finish setting up payments, and their guests couldn’t give. We let those couples down, and we’re sorry.

What we rebuilt

Instead of patching the old system, we rebuilt Our Bridal Fund from the ground up.

• Payments run on Stripe Connect. Each couple has their own Stripe account, where they can see every gift. Guests pay securely by card.
• The price didn’t change. It’s free to create and share a fund. We keep one 6% fee, card processing included, and guests pay exactly the amount they choose: a $100 gift puts $94 in your account.
• Your money is protected. To protect couples and guests from card fraud, each gift is released about 4 weeks after it’s made, or 7 days before the wedding if that’s sooner. Released gifts are paid into the couple’s bank every Friday. How getting paid works.
• Pages work on phones. Fundraiser pages load fast on a phone, look right when you share the link in a text or a group chat, and the dashboard shows who has given and who to thank.
• Same address, same setup. A fund still lives at a personal address like yournames.ourbridalfund.com, and setup still takes about 10 minutes.

If you started a fund before the relaunch

Your page is still there. We carried over every fundraiser: the story, photos, design, milestones and every gift already received.

• If your fund was live, log in and open Settings → Payments to connect a Stripe account. It takes about five minutes, and your page takes gifts again as soon as Stripe confirms your account.
• If you never finished setting up, log in and pick up where you left off. If you’ve forgotten your password, reset it here.

We’re emailing couples with weddings still ahead of them with the same steps. Questions? Write to [email protected] or use our contact form; a person answers.

Our story since 2016

When	What happened
2016	Our Bridal Fund launches: personal fund pages with milestones guests give toward.
2016–2023	Couples across the US use it for weddings, honeymoons and first homes.
2024	WePay, our payment service, shuts down. Guests can no longer give.
2026	We rebuild the platform on Stripe Connect and carry every fundraiser over.
November 2026	Our Bridal Fund reopens. You’re reading the first post on our new blog.

What’s next

This blog, Love & Money, is where we’ll write about the money side of weddings: how cash and honeymoon funds work, what to say on the invitation, what guests actually give, and what we’re building next. Here’s how we write, including how we use AI and how we correct mistakes.

Sources

• Getting paid (Our Bridal Fund Help) (checked 2026-11-11)

Drafted with AI, edited and fact-checked by Lauren A. Jean. How we write.