Personal Wedding Website

In my opinion, a personal wedding website is a must have for a wedding abroad.

If you’re getting married abroad, I think they’re invaluable and the best and easiest way to provide your guests with all the information they’ll need to know about travelling to and attending your wedding abroad.

By choosing to have your wedding abroad you will need to provide your guests with a lot more information than you would if you were having your wedding at home, and a website is an easy and effective way to do this.

When inviting guests to a wedding abroad you will need to give them extra special attention and make their experience of coming to your wedding as effortless as possible. I believe a personal wedding website is a great way of achieving this. When you send your wedding abroad invitation simply include the details of your wedding website.

A website can also be a great way to develop a growing sense of excitement in the build up to your wedding. By providing, and continually updating, lots of interesting and enticing information you will effectively sell your wedding to your guests, getting them excited at the prospect of attending your wedding in an exotic location.

An alternative to a personal wedding website is to send an information pack with your wedding invitation. I believe however a wedding website is a lot more effective and has a number of advantages over a written information pack.

Top 10 Reasons for Creating a Personal Wedding Website

1) Fun

A website is a simple, easy and fun way to provide your guests with all the information they will need to come to your wedding abroad.

2) Visual

A website is visual and interactive.

3) Set the Scene

You can use your website to get your guests excited about your wedding and wedding destination by describing what will await them and showing them fantastic pictures of your chosen location.

4) Extra Information

A website makes it easy for your guests to find additional information about your wedding and wedding destination. You can provide them with direct links to other websites, such as tourist information sites, recommended accommodation, airlines, car hire companies and your wedding gift registry.

5) Up to Date

With a website you can continually update the information you provide your guests about your wedding abroad.

6) Reminders

You can use your website to make special announcements and send out reminders. This will further build momentum and excitement about your wedding day.

7) RSVP

Your guests can RSVP electronically through your website. Your guests will probably find this easier than walking to a post box and it will allow you to easily capture any information you need, such as special dietary requirements, their flight arrival and departure times, accommodation arrangements and participation in extra celebrations and activities.

8) Inclusive

For guests that can’t make it to your wedding, a website will help make them feel part of the celebrations, they can follow the build up to your “big day” and afterwards they can view any pictures you put online.

9) Easy

Setting up a personal wedding website is simple and easy. There are a number of excellent companies who specialise in providing personal wedding websites. Even if you are a complete novice with no technical skills you won’t find it difficult, you just add the information and they do the rest.

10) Cost Effective

It is cost effective. In most cases setting up a website will be less expensive than printing out and sending written information packs to each of your guests.

My Top Pick – The Best Personal Wedding Website

There are lots of companies online with whom you can set up personal wedding websites. I have spent a lot of time looking at the different companies and some are certainly better than others. Below I have detailed the “Quick Facts” of  Say I Do, who in my opinion provide a service that not only stands out from the crowd, but is also excellent value for money.

Say I Do

I think the service this company offer is particularly well suited to a destination wedding abroad. They offer stylish designed themes, and a suite of wedding planning tools, which will help you stay on track.

Quick Facts:

• Mobile friendly and responsive
• Clean and simple template designs
• Change your theme at any time
• Can add text, videos and images
• Multilingual ready

Features:

• Customisable wedding website
• Guest list and RSVP management
• Digital announcements including; wedding invitations, RSVP reminders, save the dates & thank you cards
• Custom wedding planning checklist (items arranged according to how long away the wedding is )
• Drag & drop seating planner
• QR code to link to your website and print on invites
• Private events to be able to invite some guests to one event and not others
• Ask guests custom questions
• Both open guest list and closed guest list.

Costs:

A one time payment in four pricing bands starting with a Basic Free Account: – See cost here

Basic – Free no credit card required to participate, includes:

• Up to 85 guests
• Custom wedding website
• Guest list & RSVP manager
• Digital save the dates

Standard –  One time payment

• All of the above features
• Up to 150 guests
• Dietary requirements collection
• Guest address collection
• Password protected website

Premium –  One time payment

• All of the above features
• Up to 250 guests
• Seating planner
• Digital invitations, thank you notes and RSVP reminders
• Unlimited RSVP questions
• Conditional custom RSVP questions

Platinum –  One time payment

• All of the above features
• Unlimited guests
• Wedding QR codes
• Hide Say I do Website logo

I’m really happy with it. My webpage is super cute, I’ve been able to collect all the guest’s contact addresses through there, I’ve made it so guests rsvp online and it keeps track of everything. I’ve added dietary requirements and song requests to the rsvp too which is super handy. You can send out email announcements and I had a scrolling banner for my covid postponement. And I love that it links to maps when you put in your venue address, and you can put your order of the day online with the your different venues if you’re having things in different places. I also like that you can get guests to rsvp to individual events, and they can only see the info for what they’re invited to. Overall I’m happy with it and I don’t mind paying for the features, because I wouldn’t have been able to make a page like that myself.  – Hannah B