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    aliona123    09/06/2009   Buffalo, NY

    Hi, everybody! 

    My F and I are choosing a wedding web-site for communication with our guests. I like to rely on the web-site for all RSVPs and communication with the guests, but my F thinks we will confuse people. We will be sending traditional invitations as well, but I thought we could ask everybody to RSVP online. 

    Have you used a wedding web-site for your planning?

    What did you end up using it for: information for the guests, a point of contact with you, RSVP tool? Was it easy for your guests to figure out RSVP feature?(Majority of our guests are comfortable with the Internet).

    Which web-site provider did you use and were you happy with the service? 

    We are looking at wedsimple.com as it seems to provide many planning tools on the back end of the web-site, that will be very helpful for organizing all types of information for the wedding: guests, bridal party, vendors ... 

    Looking forward to your recommendations! Please help!  

     
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    Mrs. Spring    May 10, 2009   California

    We chose www.ewedding.com because it had all the features we wanted.  The pages are customizable, so we can pick which ones we want and don't want.  There is an online RSVP feature where we can actually export all of our RSVP's and menu choices into an Excel spreadsheet.  We can also communicate all of the information we need to  (directions, events, accomodations, pictures of bridal party/family, etc...).  We also have a custom web name (like www.[mylastname][hislastname].com) so it's easy to find.  The thing I like best is that we didn't want to pay for a whole year, so we pay on a month to month basis.  You can buy year memberships (or longer) if you want, but we wanted the option to do less time.  Although we don't use it, there is also a vendors/planning section as well.

     
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    tchris09      

    www.mywedding.com

    I think it's very popular on this board as well.

     

    My bridesmaid thought it was professionally done, but really it's just fill in the blank.  You do have the option of adding custom pages, rearranging pages, adding music, etc.  Our wedding isnt until next year so I havent used the RSVP feature and don't plan on doing so, but it seems easy enough to "turn on" an rsvp page through mywedding.com.  They offer several different pages that you can turn on or off depending on whether you plan on using them.  

     

    Hope that helps!

     

     

     
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    ac-ny    may 23, 2009   nyack

    I have a wedding website. I am using it for info only. I am getting married about an two-four hours outside of NYC(depending on where people live) so it is a semi-destination wedding. I have general wedding info, travel, hotel, area info, registry, map, a faq, guestbook and an email page. I created an email account just for the wedding. 

    I use a service called squarespace. It has a monthly fee. I used it before and found it really easy to use, so I did that rather than a free site. You can customize an email RSVP on this site. 

    I was going to do the email rsvp but decided against. I felt it would end up being a hassle. Most people are internet savvy but enough aren't to cause headaches I don't need headaches this close to the wedding. I ended up doing a fill in the blank RSVP. I'm happy I did cause now I am getting them back and it's nice to see the envelopes in the mailbox. Plus I'm getting some nice notes on the RSVPs. I am going to do a polaroid guestbook. I will probably do an album with the pictures and the rsvp next to them.  

    If you want to see my webpage, jackandalisa.com 

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    Sparkles    ~*A June 2009 Bride*~   Ca

    We are using www.ewedding.com. But you know what I did? I set up a trial account with about three websites, I tried them out, and whichever I liked towards the end of the trial I set up an account! Give that idea a try!

     
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    MissEdamame    July 2009  

    We're using mywedding.com

    Originally started at theknot, but be definitely wanted more options for personalization.So that's definitely the link we're going to include in the invites

     
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    bearcub    September 2009   Portland / La Serena, Chile

    this isn't wedding-exclusive, but you can always make a website (free!) at weebly -

    www.weebly.com

    I made one, and it looks just like any other wedding website.  It's all graphical interface, so you don't have to do any coding if you don't want to! 

     
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    meggles    June 6, 2009   UK

    We're using www.mywedding.com

    But - I wasn't happy with their RSVP (I wanted to add RD & Brunch options).  So I made a form on Jotform.com  and then linked it.  Easy peasy!

     
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    Surgie      

    Another vote for www.mywedding.com - it looks so professional, but super easy to use and it's FREE:)

    After creating our site there, I bought a domain name from godaddy.com ($7.99 for a year) and linked it to the mywedding website. That way we could have a shorter, personalized URL to include on our invites - again - all very easy.

     
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    aliona123    09/06/2009   Buffalo, NY

    Thank you so much, Ladies!

    It looks like www.ewedding.com and www.mywedding.com are the most popular. And since you are using them (and I trust your experience :)), I'll try both and pick one, that I like. @meggles: Thanks for the tip about creating forms. I didn't know about that one! 

     

     
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    aliona123    09/06/2009   Buffalo, NY

    An update: after trying all the services, decided to go with wedding window. The back end of the site is very simple and EVERYTHING is customisable there: colors, photos, fonts ... I am just hoping that any troubleshooting and support will also be good.

     
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    Miss Pinot Grigio    March 21, 2009   Indianapolis, IN

    I love Wedding Wire! Go to www.weddingwire.com

    It was a great resource, and allowed us to relay info about lodging, directions, reception (food, etc), and registries. 

    It even lets you receive song requests from guests. Loved that feature.

    And of course, guests may sign the guestbook. Those comments are always fun to read. =)

    Check it out!

     
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    bluedec       Chicago

    We use weddingwindow.com, primarily for information, guest requests, polls and quizzes. We have not decided whether to use it for rsvps.  Our website has been getting rave reviews from everyone, including those most hesitant about our use of a website to provide so many details.

    Aliona123, support has been great and fast.

     
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    worriedaboutmywedding    Oct 26,2009   houston

    another vote for weddingwindow.com

    We're doing the rsvp's the old school.. card and stamped envelop. 

     

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