Personal Wedding Website
A personal wedding website is the perfect way to provide your guests with all the information they will need about your wedding abroad.
If you are getting married abroad I highly recommend you set up a personal wedding website, I believe for a wedding abroad they are invaluable.
By choosing to have your wedding abroad you will need to provide your guests with a lot more information than you would if you were having your wedding at home, and a website is an easy and effective way to do this.
When inviting
guests
to a wedding abroad you will need to give them extra special attention and make their experience of coming to your wedding as
effortless as possible. I believe a personal wedding website is a great way of achieving this. When you send your
wedding abroad invitation
simply include the details of your wedding website.
A website can also be a great way to develop a growing sense of excitement in the build up to your wedding. By providing, and continually updating, lots of interesting and enticing information you will effectively sell your wedding to your guests, getting them excited at the prospect of attending your wedding in an exotic location.
An alternative to a personal wedding website is to send an information pack with your wedding invitation. I believe however a wedding website is a lot more effective and has a number of advantages over a written information pack.
- A website is a simple, easy and fun way to provide your guests with all the information they will need to come to your wedding abroad.
- A website is visual and interactive. You can use your website to get your guests excited about your wedding and wedding
destination by describing what will await them and showing them fantastic pictures of your chosen location.
- A website makes it easy for your guests to find additional information about your wedding and wedding destination. You can
provide them with direct links to other websites, such as tourist information sites, recommended accommodation, airlines, car hire companies and your wedding gift registry.
- With a website you can continually update the information you provide your guests about your wedding abroad. You can use your website to make special announcements and send out reminders. This
will further build momentum and excitement about your wedding day.
- Your guests can RSVP electronically through your website. Your guests will probably find this easier than walking to a post box and it will allow you to easily capture any information you need, such as special dietary requirements, their flight arrival and departure times, accommodation arrangements and participation in extra celebrations and activities.
- For guests that can’t make it to your wedding, a website will help make them feel part of the celebrations, they can follow the build up to your “big day” and afterwards they can view any pictures you put online.
- Setting up a personal wedding website is simple and easy. There are a number of excellent companies who specialise in providing personal wedding websites. Even if you are a complete novice with no technical skills you won’t find it difficult, you just add the information and they do the rest.
- It is cost effective. In most cases setting up a website will be less expensive than printing out and sending written information packs to each of your guests.
When creating your personal wedding website ensure you cover everything your guests could possibly need to know. To help get you started I have compiled a detailed list of the type of information you should include on your wedding website.
Click here
to view the list.
The Best Personal Wedding Websites
There are lots of companies online with whom you can set up personal wedding websites. I have spent a lot of time looking at the different companies and some are certainly better than others.
To help save you time here, I have listed the ones below that I think stand out from the crowd and offer the best service.
The Wedding Window
This company is my personal favourite and I think the service they offer is particularly well suited to a wedding abroad. I think they offer the most stylish designs and provide the best value for money. They really have thought of everything and have even included wedding planning tools.
- 7 day free trial
- USD $79 for 12 months
- 37 customisable web pages – can you change the pages to suit your wedding celebrations
- A huge selection of stylish templates – they have something to cater for all tastes and you are bound to find one that matches
your invitations or theme
- Can include video/audio, flash intro, music, multiple photo albums, unlimited photos
- Lots of extras such as a “what’s new” pop up window, links to maps, weather magnet, planning tools, multiple RSVP entries
- You can save your site to a CD after your wedding as a keepsake
- You can purchase your own “.com” domain name
My Event
My Event allows you to add extra pages which is really very useful particularly if you are having your wedding abroad and want to include a lot of different information on your website. One of the downsides of My Event is the limited range of templates.
- 7 day free trial – no credit card required to participate in trial
- USD $99 for 18 months
- Limited selection of attractive templates – not as not much scope to tie the templates in with your wedding invitations or theme
- You can add extra pages and change the titles of current pages
- Includes flash intro, music, video, photo albums
- Extras such as maps, city guides, weather and online hotel reservations
- You can purchase your own “.com” domain name
ewedding.com
If you are a little more technical and know html ewedding allows you to customise your website to suit your taste and personal
requirements. It also allows your guests to download documents from your site which could prove very useful for a wedding abroad.
- 10 day free trial – no credit card required to participate in trial
- USD $89 for 12 months
- Clean and simple template designs
- Includes flash intro, music, video, photo albums
- Extras such as wedding countdown, custom html, provide visitors for files to download, maps & directions
- No fee to have your own “.com” domain name
I hope the above helps! You will notice that all the prices are in US Dollars, with the current exchange rate for the Pound and Euro this makes the prices even more attractive and affordable.
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