Niagara Falls is a very popular place for couples to tie the knot. These couples come from all throughout North America and even the world to do so.
Your Dream Wedding And why not choose Niagara Falls? It is one of the most beautiful locations with some of the best natural views available just about anywhere.
The Problem Planning your wedding in Niagara Falls can almost guarantee a picture perfect ceremony and reception but choosing to say your nuptials in a place that my be many miles away from your home town has its drawbacks.The major one of course being that many of your guests may not be able to attend do to their own financial, time or travel restraints.
What is a couple to do? You want to have the wedding in the place of your dreams but you don’t want your family and friends to miss out on the celebrations because they can’t make it for one reason or another.
The Solution Thankfully we now live in an age where just about anything is possible and that includes sharing your special day with everyone you want to no matter where they are in the world.
The best way to do so is by creating your very own website dedicated to your wedding. Wedding websites are quickly becoming the hot new trend in the wedding industry these days.
Perfect For Your Dream Wedding Personalized wedding websites are a great idea because it allows the bride and groom to create a personal site that anyone they wish could visit
One of the main reasons that personalized wedding websites are gaining in popularity is because the technology behind them is so user friendly these days. Anyone and I mean anyone can quickly create their own fashionable and customized wedding website with absolutely no web design experience needed.
Benefits of Your Own Website There are a lot of reasons couples are choosing to put their weddings online. Some of the reasons would include…
-Giving everyone a chance to see the ceremony.
-Including photographs and videos of the ceremony and reception online within minutes of happening.
-Updating the site of any changes to the schedule like rain delays, location changes or menu options for the reception.
-Keep family and friends updated about what is going on in your life after the wedding.
The uses of your very own wedding website are just about limitless and once you start to use it you will wonder how you would have done half the planning without your own site.
There is really no easier way to share photos, videos, your thanks and your feelings about your big day with everyone you wish to see it.
Structure wise or how the site looks is completely up to you. From the sites we have seen, many couples choose to create their site as early as possible, before the wedding, in order to give their guests and other family and friends a place to find out more information.
The easiest way to get started with your own wedding website would be to use Host Gator. We feel that they are by far the easiest way to create sites online today.
For The Guests Traditional wedding invites, as pretty as they are, just aren’t large enough to give your guests all the information that they could use.Many couple will include their wedding address on the invitations with a note saying something along the lines of “please visit our site for more information on where to park, detailed directions to the ceremony and other miscellaneous information.
Some couples go as far as to include several menu options on the site for the guests to chose what they would prefer or to vote on a final meal plan. You could also include music choices, drink options or even display seating charts ahead of your guests arriving. Providing the website address to the invited guests is also a very quick and easy way for them to respond to the invitation letting you know if they are coming and who their guest will be if any.
For Everyone Who Can’t Make the Wedding We all wish we could invite all our friends and family to our wedding, whether it be in a beautiful destination like Niagara Falls or in your home town, but usually we don’t have the money for such an event, or traveling is just out of the question for some guests or even more, some family and friends just can’t be put in the same room with each other for one reason or another… We all know what that’s like.
It’s for those reasons and maybe others that you have that a personal wedding website would be the perfect solution for.
Once your site is set up, preferably well before the wedding, all that these people need to do is go to your site and see everything for themselves. To make your site as current as possible for the friends and family not in attendance you can “volunteer” a guest to take any video and photos of the ceremony and upload them to the site immediately after it happens. This is very easy and can be done from anywhere with internet access and a laptop. Anyone familiar with the uploading videos to you tube or photos to flicker could do this very easily.
Getting Started We have uses several website services over the years ourselves and have watched the technology become very user friendly in that time. It uses to be fairly difficult to set up a website and anyone doing so usually had to already have a good working knowledge of computers or have the patients of a monk to figure out all the bugs but nowadays that has all changed. Now everything needed to create beautiful websites with ease and the tools to set them up can all be found in one place.There are several sites that offer this “ease of use” site design and implementation but the one that we have used, liked and found to be very easy to use would be Hostgator.com.
For anyone who just wants to create a good looking site easily but doesn’t have the “know how” to do so, Host Gator is the perfect place to go. They are an all in one place to do everything you need including…
-Registering a Domain Name (www.your-own-wedding-site.com) for example.
-Providing an easy to use program to design the look of your site including easy to understand step by step instructions for setting every thing up and designing the site.
-Countless free website templates to choose from if you want so that all you have to do is write your information and the look of the site is already taken care of.
-Several hosting options. This is where your site is located on the internet and they take care of everything for you so don’t worry about it.
-Unlimited bandwidth. Which means you can have as many visitors on your site with as many videos and photos of your wedding that you wish without any penalties that other website hosts charge.
-Very low cost. You can have your own site, designed the way you like, being visited by all your friends and family set up and ready to go within a few hours, and all for as little as $4.95 a month! That’s a great deal. A deal that you probably won’t be able to find anywhere else.
