Wedding Woes

Stressed, Frustrated, and Upset - I need your ideas!!

Okay,
So...  at this moment I am beginning my planning (will be married in Jan) so actually I am a little behind (I haven't really done anything.. not even found a church or anything yet!).  My FI and I are doing the long distance (6 hours!) until Aug (hopefully!!!) and all my BM & my MOH live 2 or more hours away.  So I am basically going at this by myself - since my mom is so clueless about this stuff.
I want to keep everyone involved in the planning process and love having my BM's opinions and my groom's opinion on details, dress, everything!  Until now, I have been posting on my BM's FB walls links to stuff I want them to look at.. but it is seriously getting ridiculous!  Plus, I don't really want *everyone* to see those details/ideas.  I found this application called OneWed Pre-Planning Party where you can invite your wedding party and it's almost like.. a little facebook.  You can post pictures, they can post pictures, and comments to keep everyone in the loop.  Sounds great, right?  NO.... I can not get it to work right, I have done everything and somehow only half of my party can connect to my wedding, so if I can't do that then what's the point?
So, at this point.. I am SO frustrated.. because I feel overwhelmed (already!) and I don't know how to connect with my girls via online in an easy manner! 
So.. I was hoping for your ideas and advice on this matter!  Has anyone had this problem?  Is there *anything* out there that would be useful for this situation??

Thank-you!!  And, I apologize if this was long.

Re: Stressed, Frustrated, and Upset - I need your ideas!!

  • TheDuckisTheDuckis member
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    edited December 2011
    What's wrong with email? Or Google Wave? You're making this a lot more difficult than it has to be.
  • orangenmaroonorangenmaroon member
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    edited December 2011
    There are several problems with e-mail:
    1.  I don't want to bog down my girls and my guy's email accounts - they are students so they have a lot going on in their inboxes already (been there done that!)
    2.  I want my girls to be able to see everything at once and comment so that we can all interact with each other.
    3.  I don't like to open e-mails with 1000 KB which is what you get when you start attaching pictures, and I doubt anyone else likes to open e-mails that big either.

    I haven't done Google Wave because I haven't heard about it before.

    I'm asking for help/advice on tools to use.. not to be told that I am making things more complicated.  But thank you for your help.
  • edited December 2011
    When my friend was getting married and I was a BM we planned via a Yahoo group.

    I worked GREAT.

    One of the BM lives in Denamark!  You can post pics, have discussions, everything.  Check it out.  Go to Yahoo.com.
  • orangenmaroonorangenmaroon member
    10 Comments
    edited December 2011
    That is such a great idea!!  Thank-you soo much!
  • Nidia61210Nidia61210 member
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    edited December 2011
    you might also try skype get togethers
  • nic0ll3tt3nic0ll3tt3 member
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    edited December 2011
    Hey hon!  I actually have the same problem (NONE of my bridesmaids live in the same city as each other, and none of them live anywhere close to where I am).  What I've been doing is utilizing Photobucket to upload photos and then e-mailing the girls links to the site.  You can add descriptions of pictures, too, so your girls will know exactly what you think about each picture/idea and whatnot.

    The website is: www.photobucket.com
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