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 Picks – The Best Personal Wedding Websites

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.

To help save you time here, I have listed the ones below that I think stand out from the crowd and offer the best service.

ewedding.com

Ewedding is super easy to use and allows you to customise your website with a click of a button to suit your taste and personal requirements.

It also allows your guests to send RSVP’s by text and to download documents such as maps and directions from your site which could prove very useful for a wedding abroad.

Quick Facts:

• Mobile friendly and responsive
• Clean and simple template designs
• Change your theme at any time
• Includes flash intro, music, video, photo albums
• 18 standard sections and the ability to add your own custom sections.

Costs:

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

• Premium builder
• Standard themes
• 10 free text notifications
• Basic instagram integration

Premium – USD $7 per month (30 day money back guarantee), includes the above plus:

• Premium themes
• your own “.com” domain name
• 125 text notifications
• Total “RSVP” system
• Advanced guest list management
• Unlimited photos
• Advanced instagram integration
• Face finding technology
• Website rollback
• Optional SSL
• Optional SEO
• Priority Support

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The Wedding Window

I think the service this company offer is particularly well suited to a wedding abroad. They offer the most stylish designs and provide the great value for money. They really have thought of everything and have even included wedding planning tools.

• Free Accounts 12 moths – access to free themes – limited customisation
• Premium themes 10 day free trial
• Premium themes USD $79 for 12 months
• 60 customisable web pages – can you change the pages to suit your wedding celebrations
• A huge selection of stylish templates – they have something to cater for all tastes and you are bound to find one that matches your invitations or theme
• Can include video/audio, flash intro, music, multiple photo albums, unlimited photos
• Lots of extras such as a “what’s new” pop up window, links to maps, weather magnet, planning tools, multiple RSVP entries
• You can save your site to a CD after your wedding as a keepsake
• You can purchase your own “.com” domain name

To find out more visit The Wedding Window

My Event

My Event allows you to add extra pages which is really very useful particularly if you are having your wedding abroad and want to include a lot of different information on your website. One of the downsides of My Event is that there is not as much scope to tie the template in with your wedding invitation or theme.

• 7 day free trial – no credit card required to participate in trial
• Three packages – Bronze USD $99, Silver USD $149, Gold USD $199 for 12 months
• Over 40 attractive templates
• Custom header available with Gold package
• You can add extra pages and change the titles of current pages
• Includes flash intro, music, video, photo albums
• Extras such as maps, city guides, weather and online hotel reservations
• You can purchase your own “.com” domain name

To find out more visit My Event

I hope the above helps! You will notice that some the prices are in US Dollars, so you need to take into account the current exchange rate.

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