Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Ten Reasons A Wedding Website Is A Must Have, Not A Nice To Have

These days no wedding is complete without your very own wedding website, filled with his and hers stories on how you met, the song you first danced to, your very first picture together, and of course all of your wedding details. While you might be thinking that its just a fun project to take on if you have some extra time, its actually just the opposite, it should be one of the first things you think about once you start gathering all of your wedding details. Here are my top ten reasons why 'create wedding website' should go at the top of your to do list!


1. Save Money on Printing Save the Dates and Invitations! Wedding websites are an easy cost effective way to get Save the Date information out to your guests. Its not always economical to print and send all 700 friends and family members an actual Save the Date Card. Cut down on costs by sending an e-version through your wedding website to friends and family who you know would appreciate it just as much as the actual card.

2. Share Important Wedding Details - If you're lucky enough have a huge family like I do (as most Desi people are) with 15 aunts and uncles, 28 first cousins, and numerous 2nd cousins, nieces, nephews, relatives, and friends spread around the world, you might find that you're having to repeat yourself quite a bit to fill in the details of your wedding festivities for everyone. With a wedding website, you can simply share a link with your guests, and they can find out travel options, places to stay, fun things to do while they're visiting, what the weather will be like, what to pack, where you're registered, all wedding details, and ANYthing that is simply too much to include on a wedding invitation, but common questions that your guests will have.

3. Share Your Love Story - Most of the time, the majority of your guests will be meeting your significant other for the first time at your wedding. Why not 'introduce' them earlier on, and share your story before and after meeting one another. Let everyone get to know both of you as a couple. Guests want to know how you met, fell in love, how the proposal happened, pictures from your life together so far. Aside from your actual wedding day, this is another place for you to show off your personality and style and give guests a feel for what's to come.

4. Make it Interactive, Let Your Guests Share Too - As much as all of your loved ones want to take the floor and the microphone on your big day and tell you how much they love you and wish you happiness, there isn't always time for that. The best receptions are the ones where speeches are kept to a minimum and are short, sweet, simple and sincere. So encourage your bridal party, friends and family to share all of their thoughts, funny anecdotes, and well wishes on your website instead, by creating a guestbook. Have a poll question if you want to break a tie and decide on what your entrance song should be. Create a fun quiz so friends and family members can show off what they know about you as a couple. Finally, keep a countdown to the big day!

5. Serves as A Keepsake - Unless you've been scrapbooking your entire life, and you've already had half of your wedding scrap book completed before you even met your husband to be, your wedding website is the perfect scrapbook! Its a great place for all your wedding details, memories of all the meticulous planning, pictures, and well wishes from guests. Ask anyone that made a speech or toast at your wedding to write it down for you on your website so you can save and cherish the words.

6. Share Memories Even After the Big Day - As soon as the wedding is over there are tons of pictures and memories you're dying to share and others are waiting to see. Keep the 'scrapbook' going with pictures from all of your wedding festivities, videos, and speeches for everyone to relive the fun.

7. Online RSVPs! - Try to make your life just a little bit easier and include an online RSVP form. The more guests that use the online form and indicate their meal preferences, the less physical mail you have to open, decipher, sort, and record!

8. Includes Loved Ones that Can't Make it for the Big Day - Inevitably there will be loved ones that can't make it to the wedding for one reason or another. That doesn't mean they can't know all the details of exactly what's happening, and share in the pictures and memories.

9. Password Protection Optional - If its privacy you're worried about, then simply add in a password to access the site and give it out only to your friends and family.

10. Easy to Set up, Edit and Share New Content - If you're concerned that all of this will take up countless hours that you already don't have, don't worry. With free templates available everywhere, all you really have to do is choose which template you like best and start uploading! Editing is a breeze and if you have any announcements, or new information you want to share with your guests, you can do so in a matter of minutes.

Finally have fun with it! Traditionally your wedding invitations and your actual wedding will be a bit more formal, this is where you can let loose a little, and have fun with your whole wedding process. If you really want to run with it, create a facebook page for your wedding, or create a twitter account and have your friends follow you for updates! Here are a few free wedding websites to get you started!

http://www.ewedding.com/

www.mywedding.com/main/wedding_websites.html
http://www.theknot.com/
www.weddingwire.com/wedding-website.html

2 comments:

  1. It is a good topic to start and engaged people should read this. Then only know the importance of creating the personal wedding website. The engaged people can create the personal wedding website easily with the help of android wedding app.

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