Matrimony In The Digital Age: Wedding Web Sites
There’s a new method of keeping your wedding memories alive
that is gaining popularity among the young couples of today:
the wedding web site. Wedding web sites are an online
collection of images and stories detailing every facet of a
wedding. Everything from choosing bridesmaids’ dresses to
ordering the cake and hiring the band is recorded and included
on the wedding web site. Many couples keep their wedding web
sites up and running after the wedding to serve as a sort of
interactive online wedding album, hosting pictures from the
ceremony, reception, and honeymoon.
One of the nice things about creating a wedding web site for
yourself is the flexibility that the process offers. You can
include as much or as little information about your wedding as
you like. The site can be used as an electronic go-between,
keeping family and friends updated and informed about the tasks
you’re completing in preparation for your wedding day, informing
your guests of any last minute changes in planning, and letting
everyone know details such as where you’re registered for
wedding gifts. The site can include a “blog” that you can
update as often as you like, allowing you to share every detail
of your wedding experience if you so choose. You can also offer
your guests the ability to R.S.V.P. online, put up guest lists
so everyone knows who’s coming to your special event, and post
an interesting history that describes how the two of you met,
how long you dated, how he “popped the question,” and any other
amusing or romantic anecdotes you desire.
If you choose to create a wedding web site there are a number
of ways you can go about it. There are web hosting sites online
that specialize in setting up and hosting wedding web sites.
Most of these offer easy to use do-it-yourself web site
building tools. If you’re proficient in web design or own web
design software like Front Page or Dreamweaver, you can get
even more flexibility by designing the site yourself. You can
also hire a professional web designer to create your wedding
web site for you.
The wedding web site concept is just one more way that weddings
are stepping out of the realm of ancient traditionalism and into
the information age. Modern technology has created a wonderful
way for you to be able to share your wedding memories anytime,
anywhere with anyone that has a computer and access to the
Internet. Now you don’t have to worry about whether Aunt Edna
in Sioux City will ever be able to see your wedding
photographs. You can just send her an email message and give
her the URL of your beautiful wedding web site. Your wedding
web site is timeless too. As long as you keep paying the
hosting (prices for web hosting vary greatly, but can be very
low for this type of site), your wedding web site will remain
online forever, allowing you to look back many years from now
and remember your wedding like it all just happened yesterday.