Wedding Website

Many couples are asking this very common question: “Do we need to put up a wedding website for our big day?Is it very important?“

The answer is yes, it is very important.

In a world where modern technology is the most ideal way to reach a wider audience and get in-touch with “lost” people in your circle, setting up a website for your wedding is as virtually important as choosing where to held your reception. It is easier to relay information, very convenient, stylish, less than expensive and very practical.

Here are some of the great advantages of having a personal wedding website:

Stress-free

Dealing with stress preparing and organizing an orderly wedding event is tough enough much more answering inquiries from friends regarding the details of your big day. This is where the convenience of creating a wedding website comes in. Think of it as a “helping hand” for your preparation. It will allow you to do the planning with some peace of mind because you can share the details of your preparation and other important guide and reminders to your friends and family without missing the point.

Don’t worry, it won’t cost you anything, there are several online services which offer free web hosting for your site, plus you can customize the features and page elements based on your preferences. Blogger and WordPress are two most popular sites that offer free web hosting. These sites provide cool free templates and both friendly-users even for beginners.

Online Guestbook

Long lost friends and relatives who are already settled in the far corners of the world and unfortunately cannot make it to your wedding can get in touch with you and can extend their wishes and congratulations through posting comments on your site.

Communicate with your Guests

You can tell your friends to wear something formal, semi-formal or coordinated theme attire through your site and you can include the details or explanation why you choose such mode of attire which cannot be squeezed in just one line in the invitation.

Here, you can announce also what foods, style and drinks the guests will be expecting at the reception. What theme and arrangement you plan to have and the do’s and don’ts in the ceremony and other important message you may want to announce.

Offer Directions

Setup a page on your wedding website to outline all the events and gatherings prior to your wedding. You can provide directions to your events and you can even upload maps or provide links to an online map service to ensure no one gets lost.

Who is in your Wedding party?

You may choose to put into details who are the people you choose as part of your bridal entourage. You may create a special page just for them including photos and cute introduction for each attendant and sponsor.

Gift Registries

Wedding etiquette books, online sources and magazines dictate that it is very rude and inappropriate to attach a bridal registry card in the wedding invitation, it suggests impoliteness, let your relatives and attendants spread the message of the bridal registry instead. You may choose to announce it in your wedding website. “Adding this information to your site makes for a great way to let everyone know where you are registered” says topweddingsites.com

Convenient way to post RSVP

RSVP is a French term for “please response”. Since most of the guests now are active online, they can easily post their response, if they are attending or not through your wedding site. This will save time, money and tension from you and your guests.

Share your Romantic Journey together

This is quite mushy to some couples, but with a dash of creativity, you can compose a beautiful story of your romantic journey which would surely inspire and delight your friends and relatives on how far you travel in your relationship, it will add glamour to your wedding preparation plus it implies sweetness and enduring romance. You may put into vivid details where you meet, how the proposal transpired and other cheesy stuff.

Share!

Your wedding site is not only useful to your guests, but very valuable to those loved ones who cannot make it to the wedding. Maybe you have family or friends overseas who cannot attend, a website will allow them to feel a part of your plans and your big day. It also offers them an additional way to communicate with you.

Using a full featured wedding website will really help organize and relieve some of the stress of your wedding planning. Family and friends can now just visit your website to get the details on all your events, registries and more. You can easily include your web address in your wedding invitations to get the word out. Plus, having your own site is most impressive!

After the Wedding

Wedding sites are not only great to announce your wedding and provide details about what is coming up, but they are just as important to provide information and photos after your wedding. You know everyone is waiting for you to bring your wedding album over so why make them wait? Simply upload some photos online and let them enjoy sooner rather than later.

You can also update your website with honeymoon photos and comments; everyone will love to hear about your trip. A great way to remind people to visit your site after the wedding is to print your web address on your favors/giveaways, or to print it on your thank you cards.

So there you go…setting up a wedding website is indeed cool and practical, an effective personal assistant for every busy bride. Plus you have an enduring memory on your planning and organizing prior to your wedding. This will serve as a sweet memory site of your journey to a different chapter in your life.

Here are some of the best wedding websites where you can create your own for free:

http://www.wedsimple.com/Default.asp

http://www.weddingwindow.com/

http://www.wedquarters.com/

http://weddings.myevent.com/

http://www.ewedding.com/

http://www.momentville.com/start

Goodluck to you and best wishes!