subject: Create A Wedding Website [print this page] These days your wedding guests may well be traveling to your wedding day from far-flung destinations.
If you, or your intended, have spent time abroad, or been to university, or even just moved around then you will of made many friends from all over the world.
Therefore, keeping your wedding guests informed of all your wedding plans can be quite difficult, and sending blanket emails to all your guests just won't do.
Therefore we think the best way of keeping all your wedding guests informed, and maintaining a great log of everything that is going on is to start a wedding website.
As you know, websites can hold as much information, photos or video as you like - the sort of stuff your wedding guests will love to read before and after the wedding day.
Some of the best features you can get on your wedding website are; guest books to allow all the wedding guests to leave comments, photo albums to show off your pre-wedding photos (hen & stag parties) and actual wedding photos, video clips, just upload them onto YouTube and embed them into your wedding website.
Along with those features, you can have plenty of information about the wedding, such as the wedding venue, local hotels, maps, honeymoon details. All of these things will be interesting for your guests to read, and for you to compile.
When you have your wedding invitations printed, get your wedding website domain name printed on them. Just have something like "for further details, see our wedding website..."
You can also allow your guests to send their invitation acceptances through the website, this will make it immediately interactive for them, and counts as a "green" way of saving paper and postage for them.
Making your wedding website fun for the guests is also easy, you could have polls asking the guests questions about how well they know the bride or groom. Have background music, perhaps the music that you're planning on using in your wedding ? A countdown to the wedding day, so you can see how many minutes there are left of your single life !! Perhaps even a weather forecast for the area where your wedding is located, that way your guests can see whether to bring an umbrella or not.
Making a wedding website needn't be hard, and with today's content management systems available, it's as easy as writing an email to update it.
You could have your own domain name, such as johnandmandy.co.uk (or whatever your names are) and it's just great fun, cheap, and lasts a lot longer then most of the other services you'll pay for on your wedding day.
Enjoy yourselves, share your stories and photos and keep all your wedding guests up to date with your own wedding website.
