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I am not sure if they are a waste, but I think we all just have to remember that no one is as "into" our wedding websites as we brides are. :) That said, I am sure more people will use your site, especially in the next month as details are needed.
Maybe it depends on your guest list... Mine has been viewed over 4200 times! And we are only inviting 400 people to the wedding! I don't know who these people are... it actually kind of worries me.
We've had 1800 hits on our website, 20 people sign the guest book, and countless compliments. We included the website in our save the dates, and I forwarded the link to our wedding party and my parents, but otherwise everyone has just gone to the site by themselves.
We've invited about 300 people. But we've only had 3 look at it and 1 sign. Did anyone else use "the knots" verison of a wedding website too????
I sent out individual emails to act as Save the Dates, and put our wedding website on there. I was surprised when a lot of people would email me back making comments about the website! Maybe because in email form it's a link that they can click on vs. a site they have to type in, more people are visiting it? I also told people that there were hotel deals on the site, so maybe that let them know that there were important details on the website?
But as long as those 3 people were really helped out by your website, it was kind of worth it, isn't it? And I'm sure more than 3 people will look at it before your wedding day.
what domains did all your bees use for your sites?
I am using project wedding, I don't know how I can see if someone has looked at my site?
oh, I see the views at the bottom of the page. But I'm sure it counts everytime I go on there because it says 384 and our invites have only been out for a few days.
I made a website for people to RSVP... the invitations have been sent for a June 26 wedding and no one has RSVP'd yet! It's so rude not to RSVP and only those who have planned a wedding understand that.
i love looking at wedding websites! i always go there to find the registry too. we had one and people had to rsvp on it, so it kind of forced them to go.
I invited 90 guests, and have over 300 hits - so yeah, I think they are useful!
kare, what i did was sent out an email afterwards to remind people about the website in case they needed any info. also, if you included information about hotels and other things in your invite, people may not feel a need to go to the website until it gets closer to the wedding and they want to plan/think more about the wedding weekend. don't worry, they'll use it! (especially to find out where you're registered)
I've always made good use of friends' wedding websites to check directions, remind myself of where the hotel blocks are, or get to the couple's registry. So as a guest, I think they're super useful! I plan to make one for our wedding soon :-)
I think it depends on how functional the site is when people first go there, and how easy it is to get to- Our kids sent out their link to a barely functional site when their invitations went out, so if someone tryed to get info, they didn't get much. Chances are, they will not return. It is working well now, so we will see if they get more hits as the time gets closer. I really like the idea of the website- all I have to do is tuck my netbook into my purse and log on in any public place to doublecheck what's current on the registry or who's signed the guestbook.
We had an engagement party a year ago and when we sent those invites out we included a link to the website. The website was also listed on my shower invites. It was great for the fact that it had all our registries on it and a donation was made to a charity that we chose everytime a gift was made to us. Since then almost EVERY gift has been purchased for us off of our bloomies, macys and bedbathandbeyond registry before we even sent out our wedding invites b/w engagement party and bridal shower. So its pretty useless now and we arent adding things to our registry and while all the info is on the website, no one is really looking at it and I think it has served its purpose well!
I had about 750 views (for 100 people invited who has the site). Unfortunately, the site seems to give a "runtime error" when I try to access it today. I'm freaking out, since it has ALL travel info on the website, and my last save the dates just went off this weekend (so a lot of people should be accessing the site for the first time today).
I think our website has been really helpful and we've gotten a lot of compliments on it. We included the address on our save the dates and also included an insert with the website information with our invitations (and my MOH added it to the invites for my shower).
not a waste! My site has had more than 1,000 hits and we put it up in March. We're having a destination wedding, so people needed know hotel blocks and airports though.
If we were having a local wedding, we wouldn't use a website. I'm using the site primarily for guest communication, and not vanity (which is fine if that floats your boat:).
i guess it would also matter if you did a "jonandkate.com" vs. "theknow.com/weddingchannel/kyrskg183/jonandkate"
We didn't include any information in our invitations so people had to go on our website for travel information and registry info. We didn't have a lot of views of it at first either.
We used TheKnot for our website, but went through GoDaddy for a shorter URL, which we included on our STDs that went out with our holiday cards. We sent STDs to about 100 people, and have had 487 views of our website so far. Most of our guests are young and technologically savvy, so maybe that has something to do with it.
I'm not sure if ours will get a lot of traffic! We haven't told people about it yet. I just decided that it's there if people want it, but I'm not putting a whole lot of effort into it. Just a good place for people to find info & deals they need.
I just finished my website today on project wedding and sent the link out to the BM's and my immediate family. So imagine my surprise when it said 512 views. I thought it had to be a mistake until I figured out that each time you click on a new tab/page, it counts as a view so this helps explain the high number.
LOL yeah it actually says I have 233 views but 230 of them are from me editing the site and adding pages and whatnot. Everytime I click anything It adds a "view".
We DIY custom made our website. I wrote out all the info on it (and theres LOTS of info on it), my fiance designed it (all the colors, texturing, fonts, patterns, etc.) and my FFIL built the website completely from scratch and did all the html code. It has a guestbook, forum, rsvp online section, photo gallery, and tons more pages of wedding info. We made a brand spakin' new for real hardcore awesome wedding website...it took months to complete. Aaaaaand I swear nobody looks at it. Ever. We put the link on all our save the dates and even my family hasn't bothered to read it. I know that once it gets closer to the wedding and the invitations are received, people will start to look at it because they need to RSVP online and since it is a destination wedding, all the hotel/restaurant/car and plane travel, etc. info is on there and people will need to see that stuff to make plans. But sometimes it really does bum me out that we put so much time and effort into an amazing website and nobody goes to it. Or at least they don't yet. Just something to consider.
I agree it depends on what information is on your website that isn't on your invitations. If everything is on the invites, then non-techy guests probably won't bother to visit the website. Also, give yourself more than a week to consider the whole thing a wash! If you have registry information on there, you will be sure to get more traffic.
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Has any brides out there who have a wedding website realize that no one is looking at it???? I have lots of useful info on mine and so far I've had 3 people look at the site. Everyones had their invites for at least a week. I'm starting to wonder if this fad is just a myth.