Free wedding hashtag generator

How this generator builds your list

Type both first names and you get up to four sets: blends of the two names, classic patterns that keep the names whole, a surname set if you fill that field in, and a rhyme set if your names happen to end the same way. Everything is worked out in your browser from the letters you typed. No AI, no request leaving the page, which is why the same names always give the same list. The year field waits for all four digits, so the list never flickers through #MayaLeo20 on the way to #MayaLeo2027.

The blender splices the names at a vowel and also offers them run together, so Maya and Leo give #Mayeo, #Leaya, #MayaLeo and #LeoMaya. A blend has to open with the first two letters of one name and close with the last two of the other, and it is thrown away if what came out is one name with a piece of that same name attached, or lands within a letter of either name: Ann and Dan can produce Annan, which is just Ann again, so that one is dropped while #DaAnn is kept. Anything that stacks four consonants in a row or repeats a letter three times goes too, and so does a splice that stutters a pair of letters, because nobody spells those correctly at a party.

Two cases break most generators. When one name starts like the other, or contains it outright — Jo and Joseph, Paul and Paula, Kate and Katherine — there is no honest seam to splice on: every cut lands inside the longer name and comes back out as that name respelled. Those pairs skip splicing altogether and keep the forms that hold both names whole, which means fewer blends and more classic patterns. When the two names end the same way after their last vowel, splicing one onto the other’s tail collapses back into one of them, so it is skipped and a rhyme set takes its place.

Surnames get their own handling. One ending in an s, x, z, ch or sh sound is pluralised as the Joneses or the Lynches rather than the Jones’. A capital you typed inside the name is kept, so McDonald gives #TheMcDonalds and not TheMcdonalds, and a surname in several words closes up — van der Berg becomes #TheVanDerBergs.

Check it before you print it

No generator can tell you whether a hashtag is free — that would mean searching Instagram for every result, and this page searches nothing. Each result has a check link that opens Instagram’s own page for that tag. Posts from other weddings mean yours will be buried in them; an empty tag page means you have found a clean one. Do that check on the day you commit, and again before anything goes to print.

Three tests before you decide. Say it out loud to someone who has not seen it written: if they cannot spell it back, your guests will not type it correctly either. Read it once in lower case with the capitals stripped out, because that is how it appears under a photo and that is where an accidental word shows up. And keep it short: guests type it one-handed, at a reception, holding a drink.

Then put it where guests will see it early. A tag on the invitation is used from the day you send it; one introduced on a sign at the reception lasts one evening. Add one line telling people what to post, repeat it on your wedding website, and the job is done.