3 Awesome Uses For A Wedding Website
COVID has made gathering difficult and many people are going through great lengths to limit their exposure. Though wedding websites feel like a thing of the past or a luxury afforded to brides with extra spending money, this tool should not be overlooked especially now when everyone is contact-conscious. Below are three great uses for your wedding website. Read to the end and I’ll reveal a fourth use that no-one ever considers. I’ll show you how you can get started!
1. Central Hub - Consolidate interactions to one space
This is the biggest reason and convenience for a wedding website. You don’t have to constantly update guests on an independent basis of any changes, or spend hours hunting down responses to rsvps. With Covid making bookings and availability unstable you need to be able to effectively communicate changes if something occurs. Wedding websites provide a central location where you can send and receive information by inputting the names of guests and sending email updates through your central hub. A wedding website is always present and accessible to all. When COVID started and the world went into lockdown many clients had to change the date. They had to manually update everyone and some guests fell through the cracks. A website minimizes this stress.
2. Entertainment - Make it fun
Wedding website don’t have to be all utilitarian. You can add fun games quizzes, stories, and videos to increase guest engagement. You want to make the site enjoyable for guests so they want want to come back and check in. This is more work for you, and is completely optional, but these fun personal elements does help people to know what you’re like as a couple and keeps them coming back for more information.
3. Showcase - Heighten the experience and create anticipation
Where the last tip was optional, I would consider this tip a must. Add your personal story to the site! How did you two meet, what was a memorable date you both had, what are the weird quirks you love about your significant other. All of this would add dimension and intrigue to your wedding website. You can add photo galleries from past dates or memorable events. It is also the PERFECT place to share your wedding photos and videos. A power move would be to book an engagement session with a documentary-style wedding videographer who can creatively tell your love story. Then you can use the video as an introduction to your site to completely blow your family and friend’s minds. The video can also be used during the reception of the wedding, or, even more creatively, it can be used during the ceremony before the bride a walks out.
Bonus - Extend its use beyond the wedding
One thing you might be concerned with is what will you’ll use the wedding website for after your big day is over. Your initial feeling might be that the shelf life of your site will be really short but that’s far from the truth. The site can be eternal. After the wedding, if you own your webpage, you can update it with your family’s life events. You can add stories about your achievements and favorite holiday celebrations. You can add pictures of your growing family and include videos from fun moments. The site now serves as a history book starting from your wedding (or engagement) all the way to your retirement. This is a life long opportunity with high sentimental potential. And it’s a website. So its accessible everywhere and can be password protected.
How to get started?
Okay here’s the obligatory product plug. Normally, if you’re interested in a website, you may have to search around for this service. But as a convenience, we offer wedding website creation along with documentary-style wedding videos. We can set you up from end-to-end and give you the smoothest and best experience. We will run your website for you and make updates up until we deliver the final wedding film. Then the site is completely yours to expand how you wish.
Neat right?
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