Wedding Websites: You Need One!

Howdy Bride Friends!

Let me just lay it out for you. YOU NEED A WEDDING WEBSITE! I'm serious. They will save you a TON of time and heartache. Not only can you use this website to give out directions, registry info and notifications, but guests can RSVP on your site. Let me just repeat that in case you missed the excitement there: Guests can RSVP on the website! Dinner selection and all! Sure the old-fashioned way is "classy" and "sophisticated." I mean if you want to field 200 phone calls or pay an extra $100+ for the little inserts and postage on your RSVP invites. Personally, I am a forward thinker and a technophile.

Let me just show you how awesome it is. Click here to see my website and follow along.

There are a bunch of free sites that offer wedding websites that anyone can set up. I found google weddings annoying and hard to customize. And of course there is The Knot.com but they are too spamy.

My favorite so far is The Wedding Wire. I actually found a template with my color that wasn't totally hideous and its easy and quick. You can upload custom songs (yay, no bad rights free music!) and add a ton of helpful apps like hotel finders, blog links, car rentals, flights, guest books, photo albums, etc.
This site took maybe an hour of messing around and playing with the functions before I loved it. Now, you do have to manually add your whole guest list. (Boo! It took several hours). But, there are a bunch of different export options, so once all my guests have RSVPed, I just export, print and I'm ready to go!
Then you get to play with the super seating arrangement tool!

Ok, now go to the RSVP link and search for lets say 'Mike.' The guests are separated by households and then by individual guest. Click on one of the responses. Fancy right? Mike doesn't have to search for every member of his family, they all just pop up. Then they just RSVP and pick their meals! They get an email confirmation and can say a quick congrats. Now once I'm ready to give my caterer the numbers for the meals, I just look under my guest list and it's automatically tallied for me.

I am also excited about the registry link! How easy is it for your guests to shop for you now!? No printing out that colored paper list from target and trying to find the stupid item. Just click and ship!

Don't forget to check out the Map section. This saves everyone the trouble of googling the addresses on their invite. Can you see why I'm gushing over this site? Seriously, Sit down with a glass of red wine, mess around for a few hours and save yourself some stress! This website has so many wonderful tools, I can't stop using it!


The Wedding Wire