Website: http://www.wedsimple.com
Wedding Planning Features:
- 24 / 7 Access: make changes to your website from anywhere in the world, at anytime via an internet connection.
- 24 / 7 FREE Support: if the FAQ doesn't resolve your query you can use the support ticket system to register a query and receive an immediate response.
- Advertisement Free: you won't be bombarded with 3rd party adverts
- Privacy Guaranteed: WedSimple will never share your private details with 3rd parties.
- Budget Planning Tool: add budget entries for each vendor involved with each event and see if you're staying within budget.
- Email Shots: a powerful array of email shot tools provide you with an easy and fun way to announce your engagement, wedding details, website or anything else.
- Events: You can add any number of events to your wedding plans, such as bachelorette / hen parties, bachelor / stag parties, showers, engagement parties, rehearsal dinner, rehearsal ceremony, ceremony and reception. You can invite different contacts to each event, or have every contact automatically invited to an event.
- Exclusive Special Offers: a range of wedding-related products and services (e.g. wedding dresses, jewelry, stationery, perfume, photography, table planning software and much more) to take the stress out of planning your wedding...and staying within your budget.
- Export Data: if you don't want to send out invitations via e-mail you don't have to - simply export your contacts list (open the file in something like MS Excel) and print it out. You can also export a list of your invited guests for a calligrapher to work with.
- Facebook Application: lets you monitor your WedSimple.com account from within Facebook. You can also import your Facebook friends into your WedSimple.com contacts to speed up the creation of your invitation guest list.
- Gifts: lets you keep track of who gifted what and whether you have sent them thank you notes.
- Guest List: lets you include the names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of your prospective guests. A wide format version of list pages (including the guest list) has now been added with the intention of making navigation easier.
- Import Data: if you've already compiled a guest list, or want to add contacts from your Outlook address book, you can easily get this data into WedSimple.com through their "import data" feature.
- Invitations: group your contacts into families, couples, etc. Let WedSimple automatically set up each invitation with a mailing address (outer and inner envelope) to help you build invitation lists.
- Music Suggestions (iTunes): snippets of hundreds of popular tunes, via iTunes.
- Plan With Family & Friends: give key family and friends access to certain parts of your WedSimple account so that they can e.g. help you gather contact details, organize seating arrangement, etc.
- Reminders: get automatic email reminders about upcoming tasks
- RSVP Status: instantly see who will be attending, who will not be attending, who has yet to reply. Keep track of which contacts plan to bring the additional guest(s) allowed for in their invitation.
- Same sex marriage support: A feature that's surprisingly absent from most other websites is same sex marriage support, allowing you to choose "groom and groom", and "bride and bride", as well as the traditional "bride and groom" options when signing up! Support for same sex marriages is included throughout WedSimple.
- Statistics: Access useful statistics on your account like task completion, total contacts (+ guests), total groups, contacts grouped %, RSVP'd contacts, estimated attendance, total attending, total not-attending, budgetary figures, gift thank you note % ...and lots more!
- Table Planning: WedSimple.com supports different table shapes and will even create the table list automatically for you. You can then use third party software to create accurate representations.
- Tasks: WedSimple.com can add tasks automatically for you (very helpful if you have no idea where to begin) and will even schedule them according to the amount of time you have left until your wedding day.
- Time Zones: localize every task or event to your local time zone.
- Vendors: keep a list of your vendors' contact details so you can quickly access those details when you need them.
- Find a Couple: Using the options menu, couples can now choose to be listed in the couples directory and/or search engines. So, if you don't want to appear in public Google search listings but do want to be listed within the Wedsimple system, you can now make a distinction between these two types of search listings.
Website Features:
- Blog: keep a personal log of your wedding plans.
- Bride and Groom: introduce yourselves to your wedding guests.
- Build At Your Pace: enable parts of the site as you finish them.
- Contact Us: Your guests can contact you directly via your wedding website. You can reply to messages and even be notified by email every time a new message arrives.
- Countdown: show how many days are left until your wedding on your website.
- Customizable Web Pages: add unlimited pages & content, customize each page to suit your requirements, e.g. by re-naming or re-ordering each page.
- Designs (> 65): change the theme, color, font and content of each professionally designed page.
- Domain Name: use the free subdomain name (***.WedSimple.com) or point your own domain name (www.***.com) at WedSimple and use that instead. Use the WedSimple domain name checker to see if the domain name you want is still available, then follow WedSimple's instructions for configuring your domain name to point at your wedding website.
- Downloads: You can upload any number of files to your website for site visitors to download. Files could be a PDF document, MP3 audio file or perhaps a Word document containing out-of-town information you have already created.
- Events: show event details on your website, including the venue, date and attire. You can also add your own specific information about each event to assist your wedding guests.
- Guestbook: let your friends and family sign a virtual guestbook. You can then decide which entries to display on your website.
- Honeymoon: let everyone know where you are going on your honeymoon. Or perhaps create a wish list of possible destinations and let people tell you what they think via the guestbook.
- HTML Scripting: for the HTML savvy among you, simply click on the 'Source' button where appropriate and manually code the pages yourself.
- Maps and Directions: WedSimple.com uses event information to automatically feature maps on your website, and even allows visitors to find directions to your wedding events.
- Message Center: lets guests message you through the site. You can also use the message center to send a message to an individual contact, a group of contacts or wedding vendors.
- Music: You can add music to your entire website, or to specific pages of your website to set a mood for each type of page. Music can be uploaded in mp3, wmv, wma, wav or .mid format.
- Online RSVP: let your guests send their RSVP on-line, including details of their meal preferences.
- Our Story: tell everyone about how you first met . Was it love at first sight?
- Out-of-Town Information: provide a variety of information for out-of-towners, e.g. directions, recommended or pre-arranged hotel reservations, attractions and places to eat or shop.
- Password Protection: password protect your entire website, or password protect individual pages. Set up a password protected area for your bridal party, bridesmaids, groomsmen, or even individual vendors.
- Picture Gallery: Not only can you upload unlimited pictures, but you can sort, organize and edit your pictures using a variety of tools. You can even decide which ones to display on your website.
- The Proposal: lets you tell the story of how you became engaged. If you'd rather incorporate that information into "Our Story" then you can simply hide "The Proposal" page from your website and just put the "Our Story" page on-line.
- Unlimited Everything: Unlimited pictures, email shots, events, contacts, online RSVP's, web pages and support.
- Video: lets you add video to any website page (in .wmv, .mpg or .avi format).
- Visitor Counter: lets you see how many people have visited your site. You can reset the counter as many times as you like.
- Website Management: highly customizable, user friendly system that lets you switch features on and off, reset counter, password project pages etc.
- Wedding Party: You can opt to upload a picture of each wedding party member and even write a description about each person, e.g. how you met or what they mean to you.
- The Community Forum, where you can discuss aspects of the site as well as your wedding ideas with other WedSimple members. The forum features include:
- the ability to personalize your profile when posting to the forums by selecting a picture from your album
- the ability to add other engaged couples as friends
- email notifications of replies to your postings
- smiley support!
- categorized forums
- Order a keepsake CD after your wedding day has passed to preserve a snapshot of your web site for future offline viewing. A keepsake CD costs $30 (which includes free worldwide delivery).
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