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Wedding Planning Websites
If you have never planned a wedding, when you begin, chances are you will
feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task. There are thousands of details to
keep track of, hundreds of messages and bits of information to share with family
and friends, and an untold number of hours to be invested in pulling everything
together for a perfectly executed event. If the wedding you are planning is your
own, you may end up feeling completely frazzled by the time you walk down the
aisle.
The good news is that every aspect of wedding planning can be accomplished
better, faster, and more creatively with a Wedding Planning Website. This is
especially true of keeping friends, family, the bridal party, and guests
informed of every detail. Not only will you cut down on answering the same
questions over and over, you will also ensure that everyone receives the same
information in the same way at the same time. With a Wedding Planning Website,
you can send and receive messages, share photos and stories, and help your
wedding guests with their plans.
Communicating wedding (and related events) information through a Wedding
Planning Website
Depending on the Website's size, here are just a few of the ways you can use
your Website to communicate all kinds of information. For example, you can:
- Post details about all wedding-related events, such as bridal party
fittings, the rehearsal dinner and wedding reception, bridal showers,
bachelor and bachelorette parties, and the ceremony. Include as much detail
as you like regarding driving directions, times and dates, links to related
Websites, contact information for members of the bridal party, hotels, and
other venues.
- Develop a wedding-day or weekend timeline to help vendors, guests, and
the wedding party plan their time so they can be where they need to be when
they need to be there.
- Help guests get to know you, the wedding party, and each other with
online introductions.
- Upload photos and biographies of the bride and groom, your families, and
the rest of the wedding party.
- Provide all necessary contact information so that participants and
guests can easily reach you by phone, e-mail, or snail mail.
- Set up two-way communications so that guests can RSVP for
wedding-related events, subscribe to your communications, and just stay in
touch.
- Furnish entertainment by including options for games, fun polls, or
quizzes.
- Create an online guestbook so that well-wishers can leave you notes and
messages.
- Sharing your happiness through your Wedding Planning Website
One of the most exciting parts of wedding planning is sharing your happiness
with family, friends, and the world. You can do this in several ways through a
Wedding Planning Website:
- Set up online photo albums, and upload photos of you, your fiance, and
your families. Encourage visitors to order prints of your online photos.
- Share stories about how you met, how he or she "popped the big
question," and other fun anecdotes. After the wedding, you can add honeymoon
and newlywed stories.
- Express your deepest feelings through romantic or inspirational quotes
-- yours, your friends’, and those of other notable people.
- Include a "wedding countdown" on your Website, reminding everyone of how
many days, hours, even minutes remain until the big event.
- Share your big day with those who could not attend the ceremony or other
festivities but who want to feel "part" of your special event.
Helping your wedding guests plan
The Wedding Planning Website can also help your guests as they prepare for
your wedding. Here are some ways to make their planning easier:
- Provide general directions to all venues; and link to Websites with interactive
maps, where guests can generate driving directions from their homes or hotels.
Help out-of-town guests by including flight, rental car, and hotel information.
- Furnish links so guests can make reservations and buy tickets online, directly
through your Website.
- Include other helpful information for guests, such as up-to-the-minute weather
forecasts, nearby restaurants and attractions, timely events, and city street
guides.
- Post a "wish list" to give guests gift ideas. Make it easier for shower and
wedding guests to purchase gifts by linking to gift registries at the retail
stores where you are registered.
Here are some other features you might incorporate in your
Wedding Planning Website:
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Your personal wedding domain name
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E-mail notifications when someone signs a guestbook or RSVPs
for an event
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Password-protection options
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Visitor tracking
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Blocking outsider advertisements
What it takes to create a Wedding Planning Website
Costs generally run from free for limited-feature sites, to
several dollars a month for subscription services, to several hundred dollars
for custom-designed Wedding Planning Websites.
There are three basic options for creating a Wedding Planning Website.
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Create a personal Website or blog, and modify it to be your Wedding Planning
Site.
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Hire a professional Website designer to build a custom Wedding Planning
Website.
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Sign up for an online wedding Website service that will take you,
step-by-step, through the process of setting up your Wedding Planning Website
(one excellent choice is
right here).
Click on the links above for more information about each Wedding Planning
Website option.
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