Website - Wedding Party Descriptions

mabapunta

I'm probably overthinking this, but thought I'd ask anyway -- What's the best way to "present" your wedding party on your wedding website? I was just working on it and kept the description pretty short and sweet - a couple sentences with a broad overview of how/when we met. But it's in the 3rd person (Darcy and Rachel met...etc) and it sounds weird to me. Is there a "proper" way to handle this?

I feel like just listing their names out is too plain - they deserve recognition! I also realize my FI will have to write something about his wedding party (as yet to be fully decided...that's another story).

Thoughts?

Loopyseven

I think you could write it out first person - everyone realizes you're writing it.  Writing it in 3rd person doesn't fool anyone - haha.  It is a little awkward to refer to yourself in 3rd person though.

HeidiWard04

We decided not to do bios on the website.  We sent an email to everyone involved in the "day of" with little bios about each other, so they could "meet" a little over email.  But I've seen it done a multitude of ways that were cute and worked well on websites.

DramaGeek

Coming from the theatre world, I'm used to everything being written in third person.  It would actually really bug me if it was first person.  I think you're right to keep it short and simple.  You could even do "Darcy and the bride met when..." if it feels better to you.

mabapunta

I like the idea of using 'Rachel and the bride met...' instead of listing out my name. Thanks, ladies!

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

I honestly wouldn't do it at all. I think it infringes on the privacy of your WP members, unless everyone agrees in advance to be on your website. I wouldn't want someone putting my name, possibly photo, and information about me on random places on the internet.