Wedding Web Sites

[Amanda.Rx]

Hey ladies!

Do any of you have a website up for your guests? If so, which site did you go through? Also, did you pay for one or use a free one? How do you feel about it? Right now, TheKnot.com is offering their $60 website for $30/year, which I feel is worth it, but I''m just not sure what that offers over a free site.

 

[jstarfireb]

Yup...used a free site, weddingannouncer.com. It worked well for me as well as 2 of my friends. Another of my friends used Wedding Channel, but I thought the Wedding Announcer ones were more polished and easier to navigate. Wedding Announcer is free and fairly well customizable. It''s not the most user-friendly interface, but once you learn it, it''s easy enough to work with. You can upload pictures, links, maps, etc. and customize your layout. Hope that helps!

 

[havernell]

We used a free website from www.mywedding.com. I thought they had a pretty good selection of backgrounds for a free site and setting it up was really simple. They give you a few customizable side tabs so that you can add your own info if something about your wedding weekend doesn't fit in the side tabs they provide. You can lso upload photos to each page as well if you want and upload music to play when your page is opened.

I'm not sure what a paid site would offer that mywedding.com didn't, but I didn't think our site was lacking anything necessary. Good luck finding a wedding website template that works for you!

 

[Inanna]

Amanda - Is the discounted wedding website you're talking about called Wedding Tracker? If so, I did the same thing back in January (same discount code, Knot50).

Overall, I'm kind of so so about Wedding Tracker. It does get the job done - I like the custom web address and the fact that our website can be password protected. However, the templates are very limited. I'm having a beach wedding and there was literally only 1 template that worked with a beachy theme, and I consider it pretty cheesy. Editing the website was a PITA also since I wanted to add lots of pictures and non-default font colors to each page. Their HTML generator is not the best, so it'll help if you know HTML fairly well and can just plug in the HTML code yourself rather than relying on the generator to get it right. Setting up each page took WAYYY longer than it should have because the Wedding Tracker site design tools are so clunky and unintuitive.

If Wedding Tracker is still offering a free 30 day trial, you might see if it works for you and compare it to what else is out there. I do wish I had tried out other wedding websites out before I paid for Wedding Tracker.

 

[Luckyeshe]

We used the free one offered by brides.com and it''s working great for us.

There''s my .02 deposit

 

[MakingTheGrade]

I also used mywedding.com, I love it, very user friendly and does everything I wanted.

 

[ams0124]

We''re using the free one through weddingwire.com and it''s worked out great! It''s really easy to use (and I''m not very computer saavy) and everyone seems to love it.

 

[sugarjo]

Project Wedding has a great one..
That what we''ve used and also purchased a url...
check it out
www.paulandjo.com

(not complete yet)http://www.paulandjo.com

 

[sugarjo]

of yes... and the site was free... we just paid for the url. otherwise it would have been www.projectwedding.mywedding.paulandjo.com

we just wanted something easy and cute.

 

[ficklefaye]

my friend used http://www.mywedding.com as well, i really liked the format and themes you can chose from and it''s free

 

[elrohwen]

I used xbuild.com. It's not wedding related in any way, so the templates are very generic, which is what I wanted! I felt like many of the wedding sites were just too wedding-y for my tastes. A friend used xbuild and recommended it, so I used it too. I pay $30 a year to get it ad free, which I feel is worth it for the one year before my wedding. Though my friend just used the free version and it was nice. I think the ads changed to reflect the content of her site, so they were mostly wedding related which made them less annoying.

It was very easy to add content, pictures, etc.

eta: You get a semi-customized address like this: http://mywebsite.xbuild.com

 

[stephbolt]

We just set up a free blog on wordpress - we are able to have different tabs about details like location, registries, hotels, etc, but also to blog about the wedding planning process which both of us enjoy.

 

[katamari]

If it is Wedding Tracker, I am also "meh" about it. Our top priority was having an accessible URL, a password, and something that is private enough that if someone googled either one of us, it wouldn''t pop up. Wedding Tracker offered all that. I even liked the templates. To me, most sites only offer very feminine templates and I also wanted a relatively gender neutral site (if I want to say this is "our" wedding instead of "my" wedding, I have to include him at all stops, right?) and Wedding Tracker also had that.

The hang up for me has been that their support is REALLY slow. Like maybe a week to answer a support e-mail. And, the online guestlist and RSVP is not at all user friendly, at least in my opinion. But, since this is our only site, I cannot really compare it to anything else.

 

[Rock_of_Love]

I''m so glad you posted this topic, Amanda...I''m looking for one, too!

I''m gonna check these out...

 

[brendaman]

I found a helpful post from weddingbee.com which provides a comparative analysis. It didn't include what I finally selected -- weddingwindow.com, but if you searched it on weddingbee.com, you'll find that it's another fee service. We wanted one which was more flexible (the free services are less so) in terms of having RSVP, pics posted, a blog, etc., but not quite the freehand as a design your own site (e.g. weebly).

Oh and I forgot the most important fact is that weddingwindow.com allows for password protection (also able to upload our songs, etc.)

 

[Bjedifish]

Date: 7/26/2009 6:38:14 PM
Author:Amanda.Rx
Hey ladies!


Do any of you have a website up for your guests? If so, which site did you go through? Also, did you pay for one or use a free one? How do you feel about it? Right now, TheKnot.com is offering their $60 website for $30/year, which I feel is worth it, but I''m just not sure what that offers over a free site.

mine from the knot was free!