Personal Wedding Website — Gotta Get One!
2 Comments | If you are a Wedding Junkie you truly want everyone to share in all your wedding moments from the time he says “will you” to the time you say “I do”. One of the greatest ways to help people from near and far share in all of these moments is with a personal wedding website. Some are free and some charge, but all of them can help you get messages, photos, travel info, etc., out to your friends and families. When I got married I used a company called Wedding Window to create our personal wedding website. What I loved about them was I could just go in, tinker around and create a website using their free trial. I saw how easy it was to use and I was sold. I used our personal wedding website primarily to: - share photos, share photos, share photos
- provide info and links on where to stay to out-of-town guests - entertain people (or so Id like to think) with stories of how we met, etc. - share the fun of planning with friends and family who lived far away
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Personal Wedding Website Option: www.weddingwindow.com |
Try Before you Buy Go with one that let’s you try before you buy. Your soon-to-be-hubby let you try him out before you decided to buy so why not your web vendor.Trying out the site will let you go in and see how easy or hard it is to use. You are going to be the one putting all the info in and the last thing you want to do is have to go get another college degree to fill in your wedding website. It should be easy — if it’s not — go to the next one. |
Personal Wedding Website Option: www.theknot.com |
Pay or Free? Go with something that meets your budget — don’t feel like you need to spend a mint. But don’t immediately discount the ones you have to pay for because as we know sometimes you get what you pay for, right? |
Personal Wedding Website Option: www.wedshare.com |
Functionality that’s important to you! Get what you want. For me it was photo sharing — I asked myself “Do they let me add photos or add links to photos I have stored somewhere else, like KodakGallery or Shutterfly?” I didn’t want to store my photos on the Wedding Window rather I wanted to use what I normally use, KodakGallery. Wedding Window allowed me to just link to the albums I already had elsewhere. |
Personal Wedding Website Option: www.wedquarters.com |
Sample Text and Templates Please girl, you are planning a big shin-dig for all your family and friends and you don’t have time to go writing eight pages of fresh-out-of-your-brain content for your website. You will love the help — if nothing else it will give you something to start from. Go with a site that has a bunch of sample text in there already. You don’t have to use it word for word, but you can use it to start what you are going to say. |
Personal Wedding Website Option: www.ewedding.com |
When It’s Over I hate to tell you this — I didn’t want to hear it either. Your wedding… it will be over one day. I mean having said “I-Do” and being off on your “marry” way will be a good thing, but you will want to keep every last memory, piece of paper, scrap of rice left on the floor, etc that you can to remember your big day — that is IF you truly are a Wedding Junkie, of course. So, while I contemplated paying the annual fee for my wedding website for the next 50 years to keep it active it just didn’t make much sense. So, the website I used actually let me purchase a keepsake cd of the site. This way I will have it for—ever. Even though when I go to show it to my grandkids one day I will have to go lug that thing called a “computer” out from the dusty attic to get it to work… just like my parents did with the record player every time they wanted to play the 45 of Neil Diamond’s greatest hits…. Sweeeeeeet Car-o-line… dudundundah… I digress… |
