Wedding planning is more virtual than ever before, and therefore wedding websites are now a crucial element of your big day. I read what Marissa Gibbons, Chief Executive of to the luxury wedding website company Riley & Grey, to share what she said is her top dos and dont’s when creating your wedding website!
1. Do embrace the engagement shoot trend.
Before wedding websites, couples usually selected a single shot from their engagement session to feature on their save-the-date. With a wedding website, you now have a beautiful platform to share your otherwise wasted “outtakes,” and ultimately get more bang for your buck. To further showcase your engagement photos, consider a photo-based wedding website design. What’s more, if you’re including a wedding party page, you may even want to invite your bridal party along to your shoot. This way you won’t have to dig up great photos of them yourself — plus, it’s a nice little “thank you” gift for your bridesmaids or groomsmen for being a part of your day.
2. Don’t be afraid to get creative.
If including your bridal party during your engagement shoot just isn’t possible and finding pictures for your wedding party page proves difficult, use our trusty #TBT (Throwback Thursday) trick. Just grab cheeky childhood photos of your friend off their social media accounts. Not only will your guests get to know your wedding party members pre-event, old film photos can add a chic vintage vibe to this section of your site. Bonus tip: throw a filter on any images you’re looking to spruce up using online photo editor apps like PicMonkey or Pixlr!
3. Do keep your name simple.
This doesn’t mean you can’t get playful. Go ahead and use “beachorbust2016.com” for your seaside ceremony. In fact, a creative domain name can be even more memorable, which is the key concern here. Just remember to keep length at a minimum to make things easier on your guests. And if your new last name is too tricky to spell, use firsts names. We used JoshandKristenGreen2015.com! For insight on nailing down your wedding website domain name, consult this guide.
Another helpful hint: Have a wedding hashtag? Then you’ve got a domain name, and vice versa. You can sync up your site and social media even more with an Instagram Gallery that feeds hash-tagged photos right onto your website.
4. Don’t go TMI (too much information) on your guests.
We both know your website isn’t just there to look pretty. First and foremost, it’s a great tool for sharing important wedding day details as well as travel tips with your guests. That being said, don’t go overboard. A few accommodation and restaurant recommendations will do as a ton of choices can feel overwhelming. Plus, if someone wants to vet a list of twenty hotels, they can just as easily use Google. We recommend three options total: one budget, one splurge and one in-between.
Do you have any tips for creating a awesome wedding website? Please send them to me in the contact section of this site.
Till next time...stay sweet!
1. Do embrace the engagement shoot trend.
Before wedding websites, couples usually selected a single shot from their engagement session to feature on their save-the-date. With a wedding website, you now have a beautiful platform to share your otherwise wasted “outtakes,” and ultimately get more bang for your buck. To further showcase your engagement photos, consider a photo-based wedding website design. What’s more, if you’re including a wedding party page, you may even want to invite your bridal party along to your shoot. This way you won’t have to dig up great photos of them yourself — plus, it’s a nice little “thank you” gift for your bridesmaids or groomsmen for being a part of your day.
2. Don’t be afraid to get creative.
If including your bridal party during your engagement shoot just isn’t possible and finding pictures for your wedding party page proves difficult, use our trusty #TBT (Throwback Thursday) trick. Just grab cheeky childhood photos of your friend off their social media accounts. Not only will your guests get to know your wedding party members pre-event, old film photos can add a chic vintage vibe to this section of your site. Bonus tip: throw a filter on any images you’re looking to spruce up using online photo editor apps like PicMonkey or Pixlr!
3. Do keep your name simple.
This doesn’t mean you can’t get playful. Go ahead and use “beachorbust2016.com” for your seaside ceremony. In fact, a creative domain name can be even more memorable, which is the key concern here. Just remember to keep length at a minimum to make things easier on your guests. And if your new last name is too tricky to spell, use firsts names. We used JoshandKristenGreen2015.com! For insight on nailing down your wedding website domain name, consult this guide.
Another helpful hint: Have a wedding hashtag? Then you’ve got a domain name, and vice versa. You can sync up your site and social media even more with an Instagram Gallery that feeds hash-tagged photos right onto your website.
4. Don’t go TMI (too much information) on your guests.
We both know your website isn’t just there to look pretty. First and foremost, it’s a great tool for sharing important wedding day details as well as travel tips with your guests. That being said, don’t go overboard. A few accommodation and restaurant recommendations will do as a ton of choices can feel overwhelming. Plus, if someone wants to vet a list of twenty hotels, they can just as easily use Google. We recommend three options total: one budget, one splurge and one in-between.
Do you have any tips for creating a awesome wedding website? Please send them to me in the contact section of this site.
Till next time...stay sweet!