Online Wedding Planning

The internet has help to revolutionize the way in which couples can carry out their wedding planning. From personal websites, to receiving your RSVP’s online, the World Wide Web has helped many couples breeze through the minefield of wedding planning with a range of virtual solutions to help them stay organized. So what planning tools are available? Here are a few suggestions which you may want to research further.

Wedding Directory Sites

These infinitely useful sites will include a variety of features including articles on wedding planning, honeymoons & anything else wedding related. As the name implies they will also carry a directory of wedding services, vendors & professionals for you to search through. The larger directory sites will cover a whole nation, whilst you may also find regional sites which are often linked to a paper based directory which you can purchase from local retailers. The national sites will include adverts & features from the major retailers such as renowned jewelers, wedding dress designers & travel companies. They will also include regional listings, but may not be as in depth as the smaller regional sites.

My tip is to use a combination of both so that you get the best of both worlds. These sites can provide you with an infinite number of tips & ideas to help you with your wedding planning.

Personalized Wedding Websites

This is a customized website set up by yourselves to not only help your wedding planning, but to also keep guests, members of the wedding party & vendors informed of how your planning is progressing.

There are many sites offering wedding website services, some will charge you a monthly fee, some may charge an outright fee & others may offer a variety of packages, including a free website service. The style of site you choose will depend on how many features you you’re your site to have. They can come fully loaded with online RSVP’s, photo galleries, blog pages & more. They are often set in such as way as anyone can build one in an evening & it will come with it’s own domain name (web address) which can be chosen by you.

You will need to set aside some time each day or at least twice a week to update the site. You will probably find some over eager guests logging in each day just to see what you’ve been up to & if there is anything new to see!

Online Wedding Planning Tools

There are many websites that can offer you a variety of wedding planning tools, these include an online RSVP service – where guests can email you back their reply to your wedding invitation; help with producing your thank you notes, budget planning tools, seating charts, invitation trackers & event management.

All of these tools will help keep your wedding planning in an organized state & without the risk of loosing important bits of paper, phone numbers, dates & prices.

Gift Registries

You can even set up your gift registries online. Many of the large high street stores & those that are solely online retailers will offer this service. Simply register with the site & select the gifts from their product ranges that you would like to receive.

An online gift registry will give you the option of logging in to see who has bought what, what is left on your list & will give you a list of all gifts bought & by whom, which can help with your thank you note writing.

There are of course, those of you who would prefer the old fashioned method of notebook & pen for your wedding planning. For many is may be a preference to feel in control of their wedding preparations, rather letting a cyber world do it for you & there are those who would like the chance to create a keepsake of all the wedding planning in the form of their wedding notebook/scrapbook.

Whatever your personal preference, I would advise you to consider using at least one online wedding planning tool to help make your life easier & less stressful.