Your Own 15 Minutes of Fame!

So who doesn't love a personalized wedding website? ... It's your one chance to have your own personalized website, all about you and your wedding!

Better yet, it contains everything your guests could ever want to know ... all about your engagement, your Wedding Party, your ceremony & reception, After-parties, registries, directions, etc., etc.

However, there is that one touchy subject when you're talking personalized wedding websites ... those darn RSVP's. Do you dare use your website to capture your RSVP's?? Lots of brides do, but etiquette says no way. So what's the right answer?

Are you ready for my answer? ... because, dare I say, it flies in the face of all of that etiquette you've read. Here's the deal ... if your wedding is a formal affair, then by all means use the traditional snail-mail RSVP cards. It truly would not be right or proper to use anything else. If, however, your wedding is not a formal affair, feel free to throw those etiquette rules right out the window! I'm all about breaking rules when it comes to weddings. OK, not all rules, just some rules. Select rules. I'm just sayin' ...

The truth is, we're a technological society. We communicate online, we pay our bills online, we share pictures online ... we're tied to the internet. So, when being formal is not a concern, it only makes sense to allow your guests to use the most convenient way available to them to send their response to your invitation. And it will likely increase the percentage of your guests who RSVP at all (since that seems to be an issue in today's society). It will also take your guests to the one place where they're likely to get all of their questions about your wedding answered for them. It's a win-win.

So what did I do? ... While our wedding is going to have an elegant (yet rustic) look, the feel is going to be casual and fun. So for us the online RSVP made total sense.

There are many good options out there for personalized wedding websites; however, the one I loved most, the one we ended up using for our own wedding, is http://www.ewedding.com/. Love that site!! It is user-friendly (both for us and for our guests), it had absolutely everything we needed, and it allowed us to have our own domain name. How fun is that?