Planning a wedding is said to be one of the top ten most stressful events of your life. Compounded with the consistent ringing of the telephone from wonderful and well meaning family and friends checking the status on everything from the date of the Bridal Shower to the dress code, it can become overwhelming! A personal assistant would be ideal, but for those of us that don’t have the same luxury as Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, a personal wedding website could be the answer.
A personal wedding website allows you, as a couple, to share all the details of your upcoming wedding with family and friends, no matter where they live in the world. It will bring your guests closer together and closer to you, through the sharing of your story prior to the busy Big Day.
Options are endless and include everything from free online services allowing you to post a few photos and change background colours to a fully customized personal wedding website, such as the Define Studio Wedsite™ with your own domain name!
Top Wedding Website Features
Completely Customized
A personal wedding website completely customized will allow you to incorporate any of the below features but will also personify the two of you completely.
Getting married in the wine country? Work with your personal designer to incorporate stunning images from the vineyard and a page of personal tasting notes.
Always dreamed of being a celebrity? Use the home page as your magazine cover and include a page featuring your “Paparazzi” bridal party. Famous icons can be used as your webpage navigation buttons.
Or Go Bollywood and have the entire site designed around your favourite Bollywood theme. Options are endless, Dream It, Theme It and Let us Create it!
Photo Gallery
There are options as simple as a scrolling page of photos to fancy interactive flash galleries.
Post engagement photos and bridal party photos. Include photos from when you two were tiny little ones (everyone loves the charming bathtub shot!) or photos of parents and grandparents on their wedding day.
The photo gallery is an excellent way for family and friends you haven’t met to get to know you prior to the wedding day. Best of all, share your wedding and honeymoon photos after the big event!
Online RSVP
A huge time and money saver! No additional postage, just have your guests respond directly online with the number of people attending, meal preference and any other special details you require. A customized wedding website will allow you to revise the RSVP questions as well as send a confirmation email each time someone RSVP’s. Look for a service that offers an area for you to log in to your site to review who has and hasn’t responded.
Online Blog
Some custom wedding website services will incorporate an online Blog or Twitter into your website. This will allow you to keep your guests up to date on the latest happenings leading up to the wedding. You can even set it up so an email is sent to subscribers each time you update your Blog.
Guestbook
Collect Best Wishes from guests before and after the wedding day. Many online guestbook’s are in real time so comments are posted immediately.
The Wedding Party
Chances are many of your family and friends don’t know everyone in the wedding party. A fantastic way to share is via photos and a personal story, quote or memory of each of the members. Include your parents and grandparents as well.
It really adds a personal touch and gives guests a sense of being a part of your big day.
Personal Stories
We all love the “how you met” and engagement stories. Your guests will enjoy reading about the two of you and feel closer to you as your wedding day approaches.
Link to Gift Registries
Wedding etiquette says its taboo to state your gift registry location on your invitation so what’s a good way to get the word out? Let your guests know where you’re registered via your site!
Offer Directions / Travel Details
Provide directions to each event and even include a Google map. Include names of best places to stay while in town or some of your favourite activities and restaurants.
Flash Wedding Websites
A flash wedding website will truly impress friends and family! There are endless options available to truly personalize your wedding website and give it an elegant or really fun look.
Personal Songs
Add your personal song or several songs as background music to your site.
Password Protection
Password protection is an ideal way to protect sensitive information you prefer only those authorized have access to. You can password protect certain pages or the entire wedding website.
After the Wedding
After the wedding, your personal wedding website becomes a fantastic way to share your wedding and honeymoon photos plus include a special thank you message to all your guests.
Your website can be printed on favours or thank you cards as a reminder for everyone to check back and view your photos. You may not be able to have a personal assistant for your wedding, but a personal wedding website may be the next best answer for the busy bride!
ABOUT Define Studio Wedsite™:
Define Studio Wedsite™ specializes in the creation of beautiful, custom designed wedding
websites to showcase all the unique aspects of your wedding day. Stunning themes you can
personalize, coupled with a variety of exciting features including online RSVP, Photo Gallery and a personal wedding Blog are just some of the options available.
CONTACT:
Anne Sullivan
Studio Director
02 9969 3588
