Load an HTML file directly from public folder as View in Laravel

Just place the wedding folder directly inside the public folder:

mv wedding/ /path/to/laravel/public

Then visit your site URL with a wedding suffix:

http://my-site.com/wedding

This will load the index.html from inside the wedding folder.

This works via Nginx's try_files directive in your /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/my-site config file:

location / {    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;}

This instructs Nginx to first search for an actual file corresponding to the URL (for example, /css/app.css, /wedding/index.html, etc). If it does not find a matching file (e.g. it would normally return a 404 not found), then it should instead pass the query string as an argument to the index.php script.

Load static files from controller using File Facade

use File;return File::get(public_path() . '/to new folder name/index.html');

One solution is to rename your wedding invitation's index.html to index.php and place it within your resources/views folder, so that it becomes a Laravel template.

cd path/to/laravelmkdir resources/views/weddingmv public/wedding/index.html resources/views/wedding/index.php

Then you can call it from your controller as you wish:

public function index(){    return view('wedding.index');}

Of course with this method you'll have to ensure any CSS/JavaScript/image urls are properly mapped to their respective locations within the public/ folder.