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This post comes from advising customers what information they need to put on their save-the-date cards. The first thing we ask is,"Are you doing a website for your wedding?" And after listening to customers, we are pretty much of a mind that a wedding website is a very good, if not absolutely necessary, part of the wedding. When a website is up and running, the save-the-date can be short and sweet and direct guests to the website for more details.
What we love about having a website:
You can update it as circumstances change. If a hotel block fills and you need to add a new one, it's done.
On a website, you can be conversational, and in talking about the wedding and the events, you can bring up things like dress, parking, and children much more easily than you can fit these things into a few words on a printed piece. I remember one bride saying on her website, "This is what Southern casual dress means...." and going on to list the kinds of outfits her guests should pack.
You can give direct, accurate website links for hotel blocks - no hoping that your guests will get correct information and rates from making a phone call to an 800 number.
You can link to your registries. We know that it is important to most brides and grooms that their guests know where they have registered, but we are still old-fashioned enough that we cringe to see the information printed on anything. Linking through the website is a better way to get the information out.
You can have information and links so that guests who make a mini-vacation out of your wedding can easily find things to do while they are in town.
Many of the wedding website providers allow you to have pages that only the wedding party can see, so you can use the wedding website as a place to bring them up to date on important information.
This is just a partial list - there are so many other ways that a wedding website can be a valuable tool.
We found helpful reviews of wedding websites on Wedding Websites, although we were surprised that their reviews did not include Wedding Wire which is popular with our brides. There are great free wedding websites available, although you'll have to put up with a lot of ads and pop ups while you are building your pages. The sites that charge seem to charge around $50 for the site, and $40 for a keepsake CD.
Some couples worry that a comprehensive wedding website has too much personal information on it to be made accessible to the general public. If this is a concern, be sure to build your wedding website from a service that offers password protection. Then send the password out to your guests on the save-the-date card.
If you want to save the content of the website after the wedding, ask if the provider offers a CD of the site before it comes down.