Ten Reasons To Build a Wedding Web Site

by Elizabeth Watts

1. You're either planning a wedding at the last minute or years in advance.
   A wedding web site can provide late-breaking details to keep your guests informed of all the most recent changes in your plans. Or it can set the tone for your wedding early, allowing you to keep on on-line journal that lets the world in on your wedding experience.
2. The wedding invitations, reply cards and envelopes, and reception cards barely fit into their envelopes. There’s no way you can stuff in directions and special requests.
   Rather than bulk up your invitation envelopes and add up postage cost, include the address of your wedding web site in your invitation. Then your guests can log on to find out additional information: where to bring gifts, if you prefer donations to a certain charity, whether you want children at your wedding and if childcare will be provided, and any other special requests. You can also scan in a copy of your actual wedding invitation and post it on your site.
3. Your family and friends are clueless.
   On your web site, you can include information that is either troublesome or just plain impossible to add to your invitations. One of the most helpful tips: list where you are registered and include a link to their site if they have one.
   Provide your own directions to the ceremony and reception site (you can scan in an hand-drawn map) or else link to a map site so your guests can easily look up directions.
   Another interesting idea, especially if you are planning an outdoors wedding, provide a link to the local weather forecast so your guests will have an idea of what to expect climatically.
4. Half of the people in your wedding don’t know each other.
   Introduce your families and your wedding party to each other before they meet in person by posting pictures and short profiles. When they finally meet in person at the wedding they’ll already know something about each other.
5. Information on paper has a way of disappearing.
   Why not put a newsletter online for your wedding party members that have access to the Internet? You can remind them of special duties or give tips on attire. How about those other people that will be helping with the wedding that may not know what they are supposed to do? They can log on to your web site site to find out when they’re needed. And the great thing is you can print the site out and send it to those who don't have access, because the work is already done for you! You will take a huge amount of stress off yourself and your wedding party.

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