What is a Wedding Website and Why should you get one?
6 min readA wedding website is not only fashionable but essential for a hassle-free, organized, and joyful wedding.
As much as you want to get married to the love of your life, it is equally important to realize that planning a wedding, especially an Indian wedding can get pretty stressful and chaotic. An Indian wedding can span over a week, with several rituals and ceremonies taking place each day. The modern bride and groom are therefore turning to online tools to assist them in the process of wedding planning.
It is highly probable that you must have heard about one of the hottest wedding trends: wedding websites? Allow us to take you on a journey that explains what a wedding website is, what it includes, and why you need to have one!
You must be thinking, is a wedding website worth the extra effort and time? Already there are so many things to plan and care about at a wedding. The truth is a wedding website makes the planning process smoother, less chaotic, and more systematic.
What is a Wedding Website?
A Wedding Website is an online tool, which acts as a digital representation of your wedding. It includes all the important information related to the couple, the wedding, and everything that the guests will need to know. While most wedding websites serve a similar purpose, the wedding website can be completely customized and personalized to suit the needs and preferences of the couple.
What does a Wedding Website include?
The most important and basic information on the wedding website is the name of the couple, the wedding date, time and venue. This portion should be highlighted and thoroughly explained. The more the information you provide, especially regarding the venues for the different events and timings for the different ceremonies – the easier it gets for the guests. Including a wedding countdown on the homepage adds the element of excitement for your big day.
Jab We Met: It is time your family members and guests hear about how the two of y’all met, who proposed to whom & how, and snippets of your most beautiful moments together.
Visual Gallery: It is time you pull out the cutest pictures from the early days of your relationship to the gorgeous photos you took recently at your engagement. Have a video of the proposal? Upload that too! Other images you can consider adding to the website are of the venue, especially for guests coming from outside the city or country.
RSVP: With one click, your guests can RSVP for the event. RSVP questions such as whether the guests will make it to the wedding do they have specific dietary requirements and any particular requests during their stay at the venue.
Wedding Schedule: If you have a wedding timeline prepared, it is highly recommended you include it on your website. Let the guests know what time they are expected to reach for several ceremonies such as the cocktail party, Haldi ceremony, the main wedding, and other notable occasions throughout the wedding.
Wedding website creators such as The Wedsite Company have taken their passion for creating personalized wedding websites up several notches. They provide services such as LIVE BROADCAST of the wedding ceremony. This way friends and family that cannot make it to the wedding too make it to the wedding, but virtually. It’s the thought that counts, right? Apart from the normal services provided by all wedding website companies, The Wedsite Company creates special hashtags out of the couples’ names and even has a special section for you to upload your pre-wedding photoshoot images and proposal video.
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The Importance of having a Wedding Website:
Acts like a wedding information desk: A wedding website can contain much more information than a normal wedding invite. From the map of the location to the event dates and nearby hotels and travel suggestions, websites do not have any word count. This way, the guest does not have to make thousands of calls to the couple asking for clarification and the couple is saved from sending individual emails to guests.
Information regarding change of plans: Even the most perfectly planned wedding may hit a few road bumps. Change in venue, date, and timing are common and instead of wasting time in sending individual texts, the couple may simply update the existing information on their site. The guests get notified every time there is a change in plan and they can act accordingly.
Insight into the life of the couple: Sure, you know who is getting married, but do you know their story? Give the guests a sneak peek into your relationship through anecdotes and pictures. You can choose a template according to the theme and colour scheme of your wedding. As a bride, your guests from the groom’s side may know nothing about you, and vice-versa. Giving a small insight into you as a person will help the guess connect with you better on your wedding day.
Always accessible: A wedding website is a digital portal that can be accessed from anywhere around the world at any time of the day (or night). A wedding website stores all the essential information about the wedding such as guest lists, their travel and accommodation details, and RSVPs safe and secure. RSVPs are super important since it makes the catering and decoration arrangements convenient and non-wasteful. A wedding website is optimized to be accessible on laptops, iPads, and mobile devices.
Pocket Friendly: Weddings cost a bomb! Smallest expenses add up and can throw your budget out of the window. Printing of wedding invitations, RSVP cards, and postcards for guests living abroad add up to the expenses, significantly. A wedding website eliminates all these costs and makes managing of guests and their details much easier. An e-version of the above stationery prevents wastage and hassle.
Weddings are a joyful occasion and as overwhelming as the planning process may seem, it gets simple and enjoyable once you have the right resources at hand. A wedding website is like a memento, which will last forever. So throw away all those journals and notepads, and hop on the wedding website bandwagon.
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