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Collects RSVP's by email?
Suggests accommodations and books them?
Has city guide information for out of town guests?
Provides maps of your event locations?
Has pictures, video, music, and info about you and your wedding party?
Allows you to tactfully provide gift registry info - and link directly to it?
Is completely customizable?
Requires zero risk to try (7 days free) and is cheap to maintain?
Requires no technical or computer expertise - just the ability to fill out forms?
Why did we list all of this stuff? For two reasons:
1. You will see lots of personal wedding web sites offered- even free ones (be careful with those - ever get a free screensaver? Have you been able to get rid of all the spyware and garbage it put on your machine?). Check out personal Wedding Web Sites by MyEvent.com or The Wedding Window and compare them to others. They are among the most user friendly, feature packed, inexpensive combinations anywhere.
Generally speaking, the features available, ease of use, and pricing are similar for these two companies. However, the design templates are different, which may be the single most important factor for you.
Key Differences:
The Wedding Window
Templates
Links to suggested hotels
Links to Mapquest
Allows you to have files for guests to download
MyEvent.com
Templates
Hotel booking on your site
Puts maps on site
Flexible payment (no contract required)
2. When these websites first came out, we thought that this was about vanity. You may be thinking this too. But, like us, you will quickly change your mind. We think you will see as you read the features above and scour the website that it is ALL ABOUT COVERING THE DETAILS.
We know that you are a detail minded person because you're here and that's what this site is about. Nothing sends a clearer message that you…
- care about your guests
- that you want them to attend so much that you addressed their every need for information, and
- have thought of everything
- like personal wedding web sites.
Even if you don't think personal wedding web sites are for you, we encourage you to look at the Wedding Websites by MyEvent.com or The Wedding Window sites for a different reason - You will get a good idea of the information needs your guests have, especially those from out of town. This is the type of information you may want to send with your save-the-date cards or put together in a welcome packet for your out-of-town guests (to give upon their arrival).
As is the case with many good ideas, once you try using personal wedding web sites, you'll wonder how anybody got by without them. The feature sets get better and better all the time, allowing you to actively communicate with friends and family before, during, and after the wedding events.
So count us among the converts to personal wedding web sites and we're confident that you will find them indispensable as you see how easy it is to:
- communicate lots of information to your guests without a thousand phone calls.
- assist your guests with their planning needs.
- set it all up without a big time commitment, and...
- get everyone excited about your big day.
