Post # 1
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Buzzing bee
We plan on doing save the dates by email (w/paper invites to follow) and are looking for a wedding website that can send out a matching STD with a link to the website and that also has an online rsvp tracking tool for multiple events (rehearsal, welcome party, etc.) that is limited by the guest list we give it, can track guests’ meal choices, and can track other questions we ask the guests as well (when they’re arriving, where they’re staying, etc.).
So far, I’ve found only glosite.com, which seems able to do all of these things. Their available designs aren’t necessarily the look we want and I’m not sure that I’ll have the time/energy/know-how to design our own, but it’s great that the e-STD (and anything else you send through them) “arrives” in an e-envelope addressed to the invited guests (so it serves same purpose as real envelope) and opens up with paper-looking STD/invite/update and guests can click it to go to the wedsite, which shows them only the information/events to which those guests are invited. And all of them can match each other & any paper correspondence you’ll be mailing.
I’m trying to figure out if glosite is the only all-in-one company for what I’m looking for and if we should go with them or if we should consider doing separate companies for paperless correspondence vs. wedsite/rsvp tracking. I’d love to hear any opinions:
-on glosite,
-on companies that only do paperless correspondence (that’s cute and cool w/envelopes, addressees, etc.), and
-on companies that have great wedsites with rsvp tracking that is limited to invited guests and tracks (at least) meal choices.
Thanks, bees!
Post # 3
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Worker bee
Commenting to follow along
Post # 4
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Buzzing bee
From what I’ve seen on the bee so far, it looks like this is probably a showdown of
paperless post & weddingwire website combo vs. glosite
Post # 5
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Sugar bee
I had weddingwire at first and the website option was not customizable enough. Also the text areas didn’t have the functionality I needed to make anchors in the text and whatnot. I never considered the knot because I heard it was like the most basic website, but I made a site on theknot, linked it to my own webspace and never looked back!
I sent lovely save-the-date emails that match the theme of the site, it tracks RSVPs and emails me when I receive one. I manage my guest list and my seating charts through the site as well. I really can’t think of anything negative to say about theknot
Post # 6
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Busy bee
@Shkragoldfish: I did weddingwire and I love it! You can RSVP for multiple events and ONLY the people I add can RSVP if that makes sense. You can also choose meal options, enter addressses, put in when you send the save the dates, addresses, etc. Helps keep me very organized. 🙂
Post # 7
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Buzzing bee
@Overjoyed: Interesting. So theknot worked better for you and did things weddingwire couldn’t or did you pretty much have nothing on theknot besides a link to your own website? I’m just trying to make sure I understand. Thanks for your feedback- there just aren’t very clear comparisons of these sites out there.
Post # 8
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Sugar bee
@Shkragoldfish: ok, sorry if I wasn’t clear. I built my entire site on the knot using one of their templates. I chose theknot because it had designing functionality that weddingwire didn’t have. That is, it seemed to me that weddingwire was so focused on being simple and user friendly, that there was no option for me to get a little more advanced if I wanted to. And I’m not talking anything crazy, because I’m not super techie. I just mean that in the text boxes where you enter your info, I wanted roughly the same functionality as MS Word so that I could do my fonts and text anchors (you know how you click a link in the document and it takes you to another place in the same document) for my FAQ section. Once I did this, I wanted to have my own easy to remember site name so I bought some webspace from godaddy (I could’ve bought it directly from theknot but it was slightly more expensive) and linked my wedding site to it. That way when people type in overjoyedandthem.com, my theknot.com site actually pops up.
Post # 9
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Buzzing bee
hmm- it looks like, on weddingwire, anybody who knows the website password can put in someone’s first and last name and either see how many guests that person was allowed or see how that person rsvp’d, is that right? I prefer something where guest list and rsvps are a bit more secure, so that someone couldn’t just put in someone else’s name and see that info.
for glosite, cliciking on the link in the emailed STD or evite only allows a guest to visit the website as themselves, they can’t see how many rsvps are allowed for any other guest or see the status of other ppl’s rsvps. I’m wondering if theknot also allows a guest to see hom many seats other families are alotted or see how other ppl rsvpd?
Post # 10
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Buzzing bee
@Overjoyed: ohhh, okay. got it. thanks
Post # 11
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Honey bee
I used email wedding invites and STD’s (and thank you’s for that matter!)
So I didn’t have more than 1 website, but I did have wedding website where guests were directed on the STD. (It was also where they were to RSVP) and that website http://www.weddingwire.com took RSVP’s but did not allow guests to type in names.
If your name was John Smith (and you were say, a single cousin) you would search John Smith and you could only click yes, or no… no option to say “2 people coming” therefore it 100% completely avoided guests RSVPing extra guests.
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