Wedding website?

bopple321

What's a wedding website and how do you use one?  I kind of like the idea of having one place where people from OOT (we have quite a few) can find information, but then I think some of my other family members might think: "She has a wedding website?  Who does she think she is, Princess Kate?"

Jen4948

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[QUOTE]What's a wedding website and how do you use one?  <strong>I kind of like the idea of having one place where people from OOT (we have quite a few) can find information, </strong>but then I think some of my other family members might think: "She has a wedding website?  Who does she think she is, Princess Kate?"
Posted by bopple321[/QUOTE]

This is why I would use one, and to anyone else who might have snide thoughts about it, don't worry about what they would think. They're not worth it.

AddieCake

We made ours on Weebly and put the address on our STDs. We put information about the wedding and reception, who our bridal party was and why, how we met, hotel info, weather info, local things to do, etc on the site. 

misssunshine17

I'm doing one with imperative info for OOT guests. I'm not doing the bridal party page or photo galleries, as I do see it as a little AW but either way, you're fine to have one. 

jessicabessica

Everyone was from OOT for our wedding, so we made a wedding website with travel information (closest airport, plus train and bus options, and hotels and things to do around our wedding location).  We also had a BBQ and brunch during our "wedding weekend," so we put that information on the website so that guests could plan to be at the other events, if they wanted.  We had 5 rotating pictures of us on the welcome page, but other than that, no "about us" sections.  We had a page with our registry information.  

I generally don't care to read about bridal parties, but when I am going to a new location, especially one with complicated travel, I appreciate not having to spend an afternoon on Google trying to figure out if it's feasible for me to get to the wedding when the bride and groom could have easily told me a little more info about the destination.

unchatenfrance

I don't think there's anything wrong with a wedding website as long as you don't go AW with it - a page on how you met, a page about your first date, a page about the proposal, a page about your fur babies..... a few pictures and a basic "about us" page and the relevant info for the day of is all you need (and all I did on our wedding website since 95% of our guests were from out of town).

AdeleDazeem

We didn't make a wedding website.  Our wedding was destination and our AHR was over 50% out of town people.  I really didn't understand the point of one.  I've never visited anyone else's website, either. 

The Save the Date and invitations have the important info and I can easily look up what I need if I'm traveling.  I guess they're nice, but I put them on the same level as out of town bags - nice, but not necessary.

Loopyseven

I agree with the nice but not necessary.  We also used Weebly for ours and it just included some basic information about the ceremony (it was outdoors, had complementary valet parking), our registry information, and some of our favorite restaurants and things to do in Cleveland.  Our wedding was Friday night, so we didn't know if any of our out of town guests would want to play tourist on Saturday or Sunday before heading home.

mlg78

One of the first things I did was create a wedding website and I've added to it as more and more planning has been done.  I may be one of those brides who puts too much info on it as mentioned above (bridal party stuff and whatnot) but if you don't want to read about a certain section, then skip over that tab.

I think having a website is helpful when it comes to registries.  I was able to put the website on the STD and my mom is listing it on my shower invitations since you cannot list registries on invites.

bopple321

Thanks, Everyone!  I might just include an inset with the STD cards that has hotel info, etc.  Otherwise, it might just be a one-page website with this information.  Thanks for the info!

zantster

We've got one with just the essential info on accommodations, ceremony, reception, out of town info, registry, etc.  It just made sense.