September 10, 2008

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.

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24 Comments on Trade in Your Wedding Notebook for a Website / Add Your Comment

  • 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 says:

    Wow, I actually did not know, that you could do that! That is great.
    Thanks for sharing. :)

  • Sinead says:

    And best of all, the memories stay around forever…unless something replaces the internet but that’s fairly unlikely at the moment :)

  • 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 says:

    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.

  • that is so cool! thanks for that idea!

  • 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 says:

    That’s awesome — really, a fantastic idea! Thanks!!

  • Nice post.
    Thanks for sharing with us.

  • 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 says:

    That’s a great news. Hopefully many will benefit from this. Keep up the good work!

  • 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 says:

    This is a great experience.It is a memory for whole life.Good luck.

  • Hendrik says:

    :) “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.” :) This all senetences are great I have faith on it.. If it is really then it is very helfull to people…..Thanks for sharing.

  • wow, this is the great idea Hopefully it becomes benefit from this. Keep up the good work!

  • Tim says:

    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

  • Great post. Putting your wedding memories on the web will ensure that they last forever.

  • 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 says:

    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…

  • I have been offering websites to my clients for some time now and have proved popular – a positive move – nice post

  • Team Able says:

    more and more creative ways to get people engaged, i find the technology age to be very amusing especially when they come up with ideas such as this. Clever.

    Wedding Limo NJ

  • As daunting as it may seem, wedding planning can be a pleasant task if you have the support of a professional. You can find yourself a company, which already has the experience and knowledge to help you plan a memorable wedding at a reasonable price. There are some companies that have the proper experience and will be able to leverage their knowledge with previous customers to provide you with the wedding of your dreams.

  • zay?flama says:

    Decide on a price. Keep your price reasonable. Whether your dress is new or old, search it up online and find a similar dress listed and base your price off of that. If your dress is marked in some way, such as a rip or marker or food stain, adjust the price accordingly.

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