Trade in Your Wedding Notebook for a Website
While we have all seen the tremendous impact personal and business websites and blogs have had over the internet and internet surfers, engaged couples have found that wedding websites have been extremely helpful and convenient in not only their wedding planning, budgeting and reference, but also for just about everything else.
Wedding websites are the new reference point for the bride and groom and also for their attendees and wedding party. The websites that couples can make range from simple to complex and can be used purely for getting the word out to your friends, family and colleagues along with your online friends and everyone else in the world or for just about everything that goes into planning a wedding complete with interactive sections for your bridal party to participate in.
There are many websites out there that cater specifically to couples who wish to build their own wedding site. If you are not HTML savvy, there are some very chic and elegant templates to choose from on Wed Simple and My Wedding; both sites are set up to be as simple or as complex as you’d like.
Through a wedding site you and your husband or wife-to-be set up, you can not only keep track of your guestbook and contact information, driving directions, menus, little notes that remind you of upcoming appointment, photo galleries of the whole process from the proposal to the honeymoon, an extensive online gift registry and also a personal blog for the two of you to get frustrations out, think out loud and so on.
If you are HTML savvy yourself you do not have to go through a pre-made wedding website company. You can simply buy your own domain through GoDaddy ($10) or NameNova ($7 and also the domain purchasing website I have used for about 2 years now) After you get your domain name all you need is the hosting, which I cannot recommend BlueHost enough; I have used them for years now and have never had a problem with them.
Wedding websites are your complete wedding planning tool so do you think now is a good time for you to throw away that overflowing binder and myriad of Post-It notes in various colors to keep track of your schedule? Yeah, me too.
Daily Blissings on Thu, 11th Sep 2008 4:54 am
I *just* became a marriage celebrant this week, and wowweeeee I never noticed before how many wedding sites are out there! Trust me, it’s just as confusing for the service provider (celebrant, photographer, planner, venue etc) as to which site/blog to advertise on, as it is for the bride/groom to visit!
Ultimately in the end, I just listen to my intuition and go with that!
xx
Anita
Jessie on Fri, 12th Sep 2008 8:45 am
Wow, I actually did not know, that you could do that! That is great.
Thanks for sharing.
Sinead on Fri, 12th Sep 2008 11:07 am
And best of all, the memories stay around forever…unless something replaces the internet but that’s fairly unlikely at the moment
Domestic Diva on Sun, 14th Sep 2008 4:00 pm
Those are some great sites. Wedding sites sure have come a long way, I remember when they weren’t so fancy looking, just a page with info. Too bad I’ve already gotten hitched…ha ha.
Sarah on Sat, 20th Sep 2008 12:15 pm
I tried to explain this to my cousin who is getting married next year. But alas she went out and did the whole search compare on the premade sites. Oh well! Thanks for giving heads up to others.
Sophia Lane Lee on Mon, 29th Sep 2008 11:26 pm
that is so cool! thanks for that idea!
Colin Klinkert on Mon, 6th Oct 2008 10:48 pm
Great Post! This is the kind of information I have been looking for. I will certainly come back for more reads later. Thanks for sharing.
Jenn on Wed, 8th Oct 2008 2:05 pm
That’s awesome — really, a fantastic idea! Thanks!!
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Nice post.
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SEO Services Provider on Fri, 10th Oct 2008 9:54 am
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Aspen CO Real Estate on Mon, 13th Oct 2008 5:27 am
That’s a great idea and I think you will see more and more people going this way so they can share their special day with all their loved ones. Great post!
Amy Duggar on Tue, 14th Oct 2008 1:44 pm
That’s a great news. Hopefully many will benefit from this. Keep up the good work!
Learn Japanese on Wed, 15th Oct 2008 6:46 am
Thank you for the resourceful post. Indeed marriage is no easy time of one’s life, despite it being the happiest. The planning and preparation that goes in can be immensely time consuming!
Limoeg on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 8:11 am
This is a great experience.It is a memory for whole life.Good luck.
Hendrik on Fri, 17th Oct 2008 12:13 am
Foreclosed Properties on Sat, 25th Oct 2008 5:28 am
wow, this is the great idea Hopefully it becomes benefit from this. Keep up the good work!
Tim on Wed, 29th Oct 2008 1:15 pm
I actually have a couple sites where I too share great wedding tips and recently found a site that promotes free future weddings sites as well at ewedding.com
Your Bridal Flowers on Tue, 2nd Dec 2008 11:43 pm
Great post. Putting your wedding memories on the web will ensure that they last forever.
Lazer epilasyon on Wed, 29th Apr 2009 5:22 pm
The Wedding day is most important day of life for a couple.So People spend extra and extra money for being ready for this wedding day. I think before wedding day,this day should be planned very well other wise the day could be bad.
Everybody can buy a domain from Godady or any else domain provider.You can use wordpress themes for build wedding web site easily.
Jeff Kear on Sun, 5th Jul 2009 8:09 pm
That’s a great summary about wedding Web sites and how to go about getting one. I just wanted to add that there are also many great online tools out there that can help people plan a wedding, and I wanted to let you know about one we just built that your readers may be interested in. It at http://www.myweddingworkbook.com, and it’s online wedding planning software that is free and helps brides keep all their wedding details organized. Check it out and let me know what you think, as we’re always interested in what people think so we can keep improving it. Take care…