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Personal Wedding Websites are a relatively new tradition in which engaged couples employ the use of a website to aid in planning and communication for their wedding. The websites are used for a variety of purposes including communication with guests, sharing wedding photos and videos with those who were unable to attend, and providing maps, hotel and destination information, bridal party and couple biographies. Increasingly the sites are being used as tools for wedding planning. Many do-it-yourself sites offer features like online RSVP and budget management tools to aid couples through the complex process.

You can do your website yourself or there are always local people who will host your website for you for minimal charges. If you do it yourself here are a few sites where you can do it for free and they provide you with the know how:

http://www.bravenet.com/
http://www.110mb.com/
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
http://geocities.yahoo.com/

You need an idea of what you are going to do and know you can change it as you go along. Will this be a typical wedding site, will you be writing a journal about your upcoming wedding? The more detailed and in depth your plan, the better. You can get advice from a friend or someone who has built their website already or there are people who will build and maintain your site for you for a fee.

Go on the internet and look at some other wedding websites. Make a checklist to go over while you are viewing each website that includes things like organization, colors, topics and themes, not to mention ease of navigation, URL formatting, speed, links, and other interesting information. By actually seeing what works and what doesn't work on other wedding websites, you will be able to avoid a lot of mistakes and mishaps of your own. Surfing the web is fast and easy and the perfect way to get some great design ideas as well as design inspiration. This part of your research will prove very helpfull for you.

If the majority of your guests are internet users you can save a bundle on postage by having them RSVP via the internet. Websites are really great for friends and family that live a distance away. By adding photos to your site and keeping it updated, they can see what is going on, the people involved, etc.

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