Wedding websites - a good idea?

Hi,

I personally think that wedding websties are a great way of giving your guests more detailed information. It also means that you don't have to include lots of inserts etc in our invites. More and more people are using wedding websites instead of all the inserts and seeing as most of your guests are internet savy, you shouldn't have any problems.

Some of the sites also include photo gallerys that you can share with your friends and family and the chance to take a poll from your guests. Gettingmarried.co.uk is one of the better websites out there!

All the best with the rest of your planning.

Hi

Being a bit of an eco nut I've decided the whole invitation thing will be done via a website or online. Second time round I don't feel such a need to be traditional, and sadly most of the older generation in our families, who would appreciate a 'proper' paper invite, are no longer with us. As we're paying for it all I feel it's easiest this way as well as being cheaper and not using extra paper.

Though a bit of me would like the fun pf making them and putting all the bits together in a little 'welcome' pack explaining the day, accommodation requests, directions, parking etyc, but with all that it would bump up the cost of postage lol.

Have no idea about websites, so will be reading replies with interest ?

Fine if you are absolutely certain all your guests have access to the internet and are able to use it. Some of my older relatives wouldn't have had a clue or the confidence to try to access a wedding website, so it wasn't even an option for us.

And I personally prefer the aesthetically pleasing invitations we had - we had lots of comments on them - and the written replies on cards or letters which we kept too!

I'd never heard of this idea before and so googled it and it looks fab. Can anyone reccomend a good site and are the sites 100% secure etc?

I think i'll still send out nice pretty invites but is much easier for people RSVP'ing :-D

I'd never heard of this idea before and so googled it and it looks fab. Can anyone reccomend a good site and are the sites 100% secure etc?

I think i'll still send out nice pretty invites but is much easier for people RSVP'ing :-D

Ive used getting married.co.uk and ive got to say its brillient, my guest love it too. i gave them the option of formal rsvp or online ive had 14 online since sunday so i say go for it!!

xx

Ive used pingg.com (2 gs is correct) before for various things and they are a very easy website to use for electronic invitations and management. They have some very nice free designs and are quite an easy website to use.

Great! than ks for all the responses - i think i wil go along this route then, saves money on lots of inserts and is probably more convenient for most people to use as well!

For our September 2013 Wedding we are using gettingmarried.co.uk after some friends used it for theirs a few years ago.

We are in the process of setting it up, and I am looking forward to writing the "about us" section. I think its a really nice way for people to find out about you and about the place you're getting married without having to worry about posting everything to everyone.

Obviously we know not everyone in our guest list has internet so we will be asking them if they can access it, if not we will still make sure they get all the relevant information.

We were also considering using the site for people to "donate" money to us for something like a honeymoon. My only concern with this is that apparently the site takes a cut of this money. I dont know if guests would want to use it if they realised this and may find it better putting money in a card so we actually receive all the money they plan to give us.

This is something worth bearing in mind, and I didnt know this when we "donated" money to friends through the site for their honeymoon- towards an elephant ride or something I think.

I think its a great idea but not if you expect everyone to use it and dont take into consideration those people who dont have access to it, and may feel alienated.

Hi,

We've found our wedding website to be working really well.

The site we're using is new but it's very inexpensive (only £25 for the year) called the wedding website group (http://www.theweddingwebsitegroup.com).

We've been able to send our invites through the website and receive guests RSVP's with any additional messages from them which has been very handy....and a saving. There is an option to password protect the site too which i might do at some point but for now you're welcome to take a look at what we've done so far:

http://rupertandjan.theweddingwebsitegroup.com

Users do seem to be visiting the site so i think in the long term it's going to save us making loads of phone calls and answering loads of phone calls with the same questions. We haven't uploaded any images as yet, well only to the gallery area just to test it out really but we've found the whole thing very easy and quick to set up. All in all i would recommend a website...it's useful and it's good fun.

Hope that helps

x

Hi,

we've set up our site at www.invitavi.com and I must say that it was a great idea. We printed link to our website on traditional invitation. Our guest knew almost everything about our wedding (how to get there, RSVP, contact info to us, gift list) so they didn't ask many questions (phones, emails.... I hate this What I like the most, was a guest book where everybody could write something nice to us Another cool thing is a photo gallery where after wedding you can place photos in photo album.
So do not hesitate - it's really practical thing, and you'll have a lot fun making it

I think they're great for extra information like nearby hotels, taxi numbers etcetc but I wouldn't send invites like that... I have got people who haven't got the internet