Bring every detail of your wedding to the entire world through the magic of the World Wide Web!
Many services are now available to help you set up your web page. The tough question for you is: what do you put on your wedding Web page once you’ve got it set up? We visited tons of wedding sites on the Internet to bring you the best ideas out there. Follow these suggestions and your guests, friends and family, and even complete strangers will be impressed and want to offer their congratulations.
Customize Your Site
Make your web site a unique expression of you as a couple in the same way your wedding expresses your individual personality.
Name your site: Come up with a creative, romantic or personal phrase that sets the tone of your wedding and your site. It’s best if title also reflects the theme of your wedding.
Possibilities include:
* Simply interweave your first names
* Create a seal for you as a couple or coat of arms for your new family together
* Design a graphic made up of fancy initials of your first or last names
* Quote part of a poem or saying on love, for example: “This day I marry my friend,” “Love story,” “A site about us,” “Wedding wonderland,” “Welcome to a new Beginning,” “Will you marry me?”, etc.
Coordinate: Have a unified vision of your site as a whole tied into your title or theme. Design your site with your wedding colors.
Countdown to the big day: Many couples have a counter tracking the months, days, minutes (and even seconds) before the wedding. This cute device adds immediacy to your site. It also helps keep you focused on the goal ahead.
Humor or inspire visitors. Lighten up the mood with a page of jokes about weddings, marriage, in-laws, or men and women in general. Include poems, love quotes, and thought-of-the-day sections.
Make it Interactive.
Of course, your site is about you. However the purpose of putting your wedding on the web is to get other people involved. You want them celebrating with you! To do this, offer your guests and visitors a way they can express their thoughts about your big day.
Quiz your guests: About your life, relationship, or wedding trivia (like where certain traditions come from). Then, post the answers every week.
Keep in Touch: It’s usually a good idea to include your email address(es), so that visitors to your site can contact you personally.
Guest book: You never know who will sign in! People you haven’t heard from in years sometimes stumble on your site.
Discussion Group: Wedding party members can discuss details about fittings, get directions to events and communicate with the busy bride and groom about wedding business. Also friends can post their favorite memories of the couple, funny stories, and well wishes.
Update: One of the rules of web design that can help you make your wedding page a popular spot is to update it regularly. People will keep coming back if there’s something new there. Your content needs to be kept alive, current and accurate. Also, forms, scripts, and links can malfunction and should be checked regularly to ensure they are in good working order.
Pre-wedding: keep a wedding journal of big events, problems, decisions, or just your thoughts along the way.
Post-wedding: provide a wedding walk-through for guest who couldn’t attend but sent gifts. Put your pictures up as soon as you get them back. You can even include honeymoon snapshots, since everyone but you two missed that! Also give your new address and contact information.
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