It’s foolish to deny that modern technologies captivate us more and more every year and it’s already difficult to imagine our life without gadgets and the Internet. We advise all future newlyweds to use the benefits of global virtualization to the maximum: choose a wedding dress and all the contractors for your celebration online, get the best ideas on The-Wedding.ru and, of course, don’t forget to create your own wedding website!
This format of communication with guests before and after the wedding is gaining popularity. What tasks will your website help solve, what information is convenient to place on it, and what services to use to create a wedding website yourself - we’ll talk about this in today’s article. Stay trendy!
What information can be placed on a wedding website?
A thousand and one questions from friends and relatives that you have to answer again and again... This is the fate of all brides and grooms. You can again minimize endless questions using the website. Just post all the important information there and share the link with internet-friendly guests. So, what should be on your website?
- Love story. Everyone wants to know the romantic history of your acquaintance, the place of your first date, where and how the proposal was made. Tell us about it! You can make a beautiful video with the help of specialists or a cut of joint photos with captions, or you can simply record a video on your phone in interview format.
- Wishlist. Envelopes with crisp banknotes have long become a universal gift for any occasion. But for a wedding, people often want to give something memorable, rather than banal cash. Especially for such guests, we advise you to think over a wish list or a list of gifts. Publish it on your website so guests can view and book the gifts you actually want. How to create a wishlist correctly, read our article.
- Information about the wedding. Include everything your guests need to know in one section of your wedding website:
- Place and time of gathering of guests
- Place and time of the ceremony
- Place and time of the banquet
- Walking route
- Evening program
- Dress code
- Road map. It will be useful for those who will travel to the venue using their own transport.
- Form to confirm your presence at the wedding. Paper invitations and RSVP cards for RSVP are stylish, we don't argue with that. But the most progressive and economical couples prefer not to transfer paper, but to use the fast and reliable Internet to instantly send out invitations. And guests simply send confirmation of their presence at the wedding in any instant messenger or fill out a special feedback form on the wedding website.
- Time counter. You are counting the days until the wedding, anticipating the happy moment of marriage. Start a countdown on your website and let all your guests wait for this day with you.
- Questionnaire for guests. Do you have questions for the invitees? Ask them in a short questionnaire that guests must fill out. You can clarify who will come to the holiday with children, who needs a transfer, who plans to come only for the banquet, and who will be present at the ceremony, as well as find out the guests’ preferences in cuisine and alcohol, separately note vegetarians and people with allergies to certain foods etc. Questions can also be of an entertaining nature. For example, ask your family and friends to remember some funny stories related to the bride and groom.
- Weather forecast. It would be a good idea to place a weather widget on your website so that guests can check meteorologists’ reports in one click and prepare for snow, wind, rain or extreme heat in advance.
- Gallery. After the holiday is over, post wedding photos and videos on the website, and send guests a link where they can view the full photo report and download the necessary footage.
- On-line translation. Why not? You can broadcast live online from your own wedding so that all distant relatives, colleagues, acquaintances and friends from other cities and countries who could not come to your holiday also feel involved.
When creating your wedding website, choose blocks that are interesting to you and combine them based on the tasks you want to solve with the help of the site.
It's cheaper to create a wedding website.
Not only cheaper, but also completely free - Happy4ever does not charge money for the site. You can choose from a larger number of design themes, upload photos after the wedding, or provide links to the bride and groom’s social media accounts if you take the Premium plan. But you can make a decent website without it.
Wix.com
Cost: basic options are free, additional templates and features must be purchased.
The largest website builder in RuNet with a large selection of free templates. The design for them was created by professionals, so you will definitely choose something suitable for yourself. Adaptive layout, a gallery for photos and videos, the ability to add cards with tags, and a form for inviting guests will make your wedding website informative and easy to use.
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Why do you need a wedding website?
- keep a diary about preparations for the wedding, note interesting and funny moments, help other couples with advice, post photos and video reports about the preparations.
- send invitations to guests in the form of a link to a page on your website.
- inform the date, time and place of the wedding celebration and the plan of the day.
- post a printable driving map for drivers. This is especially true for walking routes and how to get to the banquet if it is outside the city.
- tell guests about your dating history, interests and hobbies of your couple.
- tell guests about each other and show the seating plan.
- make a list of gifts and distribute gifts among guests.
- give recommendations and reviews about wedding companies and specialists.
- inform others about an interesting wedding topic and maybe even attract interested specialists.
Onelovestory.pro
Cost: free for a simple presentation website and up to $6 per month for full functionality.
A website in 20 minutes – this is exactly the kind of quick solution the creators of this resource promise. Three different designs for the website and more than 20 for invitations adapt to different devices. The site will send out invitations in one click via email, SMS or instant messengers. Confirming their presence at the wedding, guests fill out a questionnaire, and the “smart” table then automatically calculates the required amount of champagne, seats on transport, and much more.
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Justinvite.ru
Cost: from 900 rubles (there are discounts, the current price of the minimum tariff on the date of publication of the article is 450 rubles).
A very simple Russian-language designer with which you can easily create a nice invitation card, make a convenient wedding website with all the necessary information and send out newsletters to guests via instant messengers, social networks and email. The website design from the Just Invite service is adaptive, that is, it looks equally good on the screen of any gadget.
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Wedinvent.ru
Cost: from 3190 rubles.
This service in Russian provides a wide range of possibilities. In addition to the standard options that all other website builders provide, here you can connect an Instagram feed using your unique wedding hashtag. This means that photos from Instagram with a certain #tag will automatically appear on the site. Sending out invitations and feedback from guests in the form of a form to confirm their presence and a small questionnaire are also included in the functionality of the service.
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Personal wedding website: why you need it and how to create it
If you have already started preparing for your wedding, then you have probably learned about personal wedding websites that have not gone out of fashion for many years. How to create them, for what purpose to use them, and most importantly, do you need such a site?
A personal website is far from new in the field of wedding services, but it does not lose its relevance. Nowadays, the Internet is the fastest and easiest way to communicate and obtain information, and when preparing for the main day, you want to optimize all processes as much as possible. The couple’s personal website, which contains all the useful information about the wedding, helps with this. You just need to give a link to it to everyone you want to see at the celebration, and you will be spared many hours of calling guests on the list and many identical questions.
What can you put on your wedding website?
Your couple's story.
Surely not all guests know the details of your acquaintance, romance, marriage proposal.
Or maybe one of the invitees knows only the bride or only the groom. Post a story on your website and decorate it with photos from your archive so that guests can better understand your feelings, learn about your interests and hobbies, and become even closer to you. Information about the wedding.
To avoid unnecessary questions and not rack your brains about who you told or didn’t tell important information, indicate on the website: - the date and location of the celebration (or the time of arrival at each point, if several locations are planned); - directions to the site or sites (by public transport, by taxi, by private car - indicating parking spaces); — a short wedding day scenario (registration at the registry office, walk, photo shoot, dinner in a restaurant, etc.); — dress code (if planned) or the main colors of your wedding, so that guests can support them in their costumes if desired; — a seating plan at the tables for the gala dinner (this will help avoid confusion when entering the banquet hall).
Guest information.
If not all the guests know each other well, they will probably want to get to know better those with whom they will have to sit at the same table. Place a little information about each guest and his portrait so that a friendly and cozy atmosphere reigns at the holiday from the very beginning. It is also convenient to arrange surveys on the site if you doubt whether all guests will like the banquet menu or what music to choose for the dance part of the holiday.
Information about contractors.
Are any of your friends planning to get married too?
Tell them about the contractors you found - this will be very useful information. Or maybe you just want to please the professionals who prepared the celebration and write a few words about their work. Wedding invitation.
The website can completely replace paper invitations.
Using modern services, you can send electronic invitations to guests, and they will confirm their participation by clicking on a link. Of course, if there are older people among the invitees, you will need to make classic paper invitations for them. List of gifts.
On your personal website you can place a wishlist with a list of desired gifts: simply list them or make an interactive list where guests can mark what they will give.
This is very convenient and saves time and effort for both the heroes of the occasion and their loved ones. Diary of preparations for the wedding.
Of course, your friends and relatives will be interested to see how the preparations for the wedding are going.
You can maintain a special blog on the site and post there footage from wedding salons, hair rehearsals, jewelry stores, as well as video broadcasts from wedding venues that you choose. Photos from the celebration.
The site will be useful even after the main day.
This is where it is convenient to post numerous shots from a wedding photo shoot, as well as videos edited by camera operators. You don’t have to send photos and videos to your guests - each of them can come in and download the pictures they like at any time. You can also use this gallery as a memorable wedding album, reviewing the photos on your phone, tablet or computer whenever you want, and showing them to friends and relatives who were not present at the celebration. Report or book of wishes.
A wedding website may have other useful features: here you can post a report on the preparation and conduct of the wedding for the edification of couples who are just preparing for the main day. Or make a guest book where everyone present at the holiday can leave their warm reviews and wishes.
How to create a personal website
If you feel strong enough, you can create a personal wedding website yourself, using special services. The most popular of them: https://ru.wix.com, https://tilda.cc, https://www.zankyou.com, https://www.weddingjojo.com, https://onelovestory.pro . They all offer ready-made templates into which you can upload your information. Some immediately contain services for sending out invitations and compiling a wish list, while others offer this as separate paid options. There are few downsides to a free website: firstly, you will have to spend your time creating it, secondly, it will not be unique and special, and thirdly, it may not have some functions that you need.
The second option is to order a website from professionals. In this case, you will be sure that no one else has such a site. The design and execution will be unique, in addition, specialists will be able to add any services to the site according to your wishes. Yes, and you won’t spend a single minute on such a site, all you have to do is enjoy the result. The only point that needs to be discussed right away is that you have the opportunity to independently upload photos and other information to the finished site, or that a technical specialist is in touch with you around the clock, every day.
Mywebwedding.ru
Cost: 500 rubles for a standard package and 8,000 rubles for an individual one.
This modest Russian-language designer cannot boast of a variety of templates. However, the functionality is enough to create a decent website with basic information, a wishlist and maps. The service will also allow you to send invitations to guests. When purchasing a premium package, a personal manager will help you create your own special website with categories and adaptive design.
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Provide the most important information
Romance is great, but don't forget that the wedding website should also provide the necessary information about the event. There are many online services that will help you provide all the data as accurately as possible, for example, you can add a location map using Google map.
Wedding templates on the Wix site allow you to add a contact form 123ContactForm app , with which you can send invitations and your guests can clarify the information they are interested in. Another useful app is MyRegistry , which can help you create a gift registry.
