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Creating your own Wedding Website
With most people being computer savvy and more and more with access to the internet, the popularity of using Wedding websites is ever growing. Wedding websites come in a wide variety of designs for free or you can pay to add additional services and make it extra unique to you.
Wedding websites are a great way of sharing important information, especially if you have a lot of guests travelling from a far, as you can detail travel and accommodation in advance, ensuring your guests can plan their trip.
It is very simple to set up your own site and you can make use of the RSVP management system feature to save further money, allow guests to upload their photos from your special day, guest book and much more. Most sites should also allow you keep it private but setting up a unique password so that only your friends and family can view your website.
Some of my favourite sites:
Www.weddingwindow.com
Offers a free and premium service.
www.weddingjojo.com
Free – $14.99 per month
Www.appycouple.com
One off payment – $35
Get your very own app and matching website.
www.mywedding.com
Offering over 600 designs for free.
http://en.wordpress.com/weddings/
Offering a range of free and a range of priced templates.
What to include on your wedding website
- You can decide what information you do and don’t include, but I thought it would be helpful to provide a list of everything I can think of, here goes:
A welcome message for your guests.
Photos of the happy couple.
Information and you, your love story, habits, likes, dislikes etc.
Contact information.
Basic information such as date, time and location.
The bridal party.
What will happen on the day, a mini schedule of the day.
Travel and accommodation information, you could think about local hotels (sometimes your wedding venues may offer a discount for guests attending your wedding and perhaps discounted rates), maps, directions, where to park, public transport and taxi numbers. You could even create a travel pack including all this information, so guests can download and print.
Gift list, provide links to places you have registered, charities and or a money poem.
Dress code.
Seating plan.
Menu.
RSVP management, including dietary requirements and the deadline.
Guest book.
Photo upload.
Further information for example babysitting services, if there a free bar or should they bring money or a message to inform guests that it is an adult only wedding or music requests.
You could also use a website to show engagement party and hen/stag do information.
Don’t forget to add your wedding website address and password to your save the date cards and wedding invitations.
Unique Edible Wedding Favours
Wedding favours are a small gift given to guests by the bride and grooms to show their appreciation during a wedding. They come in many forms and vary in price. It is believed that the first wedding favour was a small trinket box, known as a bonbonniere, made of crystal, porcelain and or precious stones. They were traditionally filled with sugar cubes, which showed wealth and royalty. As the price of sugar deflated throughout the centuries, the idea of provided guests with a gift became the modern thing to do and Almonds quickly became the in thing. These than transformed into what we know today as sugared almonds.
Here are some of my favourite, unique edible wedding favours:
Chocolate Wedding Favours
Yummy chocolate truffles in vintage styled tins, Ferrero Roche chocolates, white chocolate buttons with sprinkles in a small jar and a hot chocolate sachet with two heart shaped marshmallows all make the perfect chocolate wedding favour. Most of them are easy to create yourself and if you fancy it, why not try to make your own chocolate truffles!
Chocolate Wedding Favours
Sweet Wedding Favours
Cake pops doubling up as place name cards and easy to fit within your throne colour. Candy gloss and love hearts in small jars with cute material over the lid, heart shaped fudge and ice cream in a jar kept cool by placing in ice.
Sweet Wedding Favours
Cake Wedding Favours
The new wedding trend 2014 is cupcakes in a jar making the perfect wedding favour. Mini muffins in cellophane, tied with a ribbon is a cute addition to your wedding guests place setting. Danish parties in tins and cookies and milkshake also make for amazing Cake Wedding Favours.
Cake Wedding Favours
Sauce Wedding Favours
There are many different sauces you could buy or create yourself and bottle up for unique edible wedding favours. BBQ sauce, sweet chilli sauce and hot sauce are just some of the ones you could create. The mini Heinz Ketchup are so sweet and who doesn’t like ketchup? Oil infused with Rosemary and other herbs are great for earthy wedding themes. If you are a dab hand at making jam, get creating different types and jar it up for your wedding guests.
Sauce Wedding Favours
Fruit Wedding Favours
Who said edible wedding favours need to be unhealthy? All fruit can double up as a wedding favour. Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes and much more, can all be displayed in different ways from mini tin buckets, fruit baskets, paper bags etc.
organs, apples and pears are all great to use for that added touch to your place setting and can be used as a place name card a swell as fruit wedding favours.
Fruit Wedding Favours
What edible wedding favours did you have at your wedding?
