Are there any other websites besides the knot for planning a wedding/making a cute wedding announcment webpage?


PLEASE GIVE YOUR OPINIONS, if you've used other sites...

We had a site through myevent.com and I don't like it. The HTML is effed up, and the knot is gay.

[Edited on July 18, 2006 at 11:08 AM. Reason : You've got to be kidding me.]

7/18/2006 10:53:53 AM

i just googled "wedding planning" and got about 47,800,000 results...the first page has 9 other sites other than the knot that does this.

7/18/2006 11:05:24 AM

I was kind of looking for sites others had used. I also know how to Google.

7/18/2006 11:06:20 AM

well you didn't ask for opinions on those other sites...you just asked for sites

ohhhh don't be so sore about it...

anyway...my brother and his wife had a family member that bought a site that they designed on their own to announce the wedding, have a guestbook, and keep friends and family updated on what was going on. they had the site for about 6 months (3 mo b4 and after the wedding)...it was a site where it was easy to design, but they had their own domain name as their names versus a number attached to "theknot" or "blisswedding" or whatever .com

might want to look into that if you want it to be more personal to you and your fiance's taste etc.

and she did the old fashioned way of having a big notebook with her ideas for what she wanted (cutting out pictures from magazines or that she found online) and went to a bunch of bridal shows to get names of caterers, bakers, florists, etc...

[Edited on July 18, 2006 at 11:20 AM. Reason : ]

7/18/2006 11:07:05 AM

Thanks

I have a huge notebook too and thats kind of what i've been doing but this wedding unfortunately might be larger than i wanted Weddings are hard...

7/18/2006 11:33:33 AM

how much time are you giving yourself to plan it?

7/18/2006 11:36:57 AM

Its next August.

7/18/2006 1:13:44 PM

http://www.theknot.com/

My wife used that site and a book she picked up. Worked great... she was very organized in how she put me in massive debt.

7/18/2006 10:17:54 PM

http://www.weddingchannel.com

7/18/2006 10:19:12 PM

weddings are easy if you have that much time - how can you say they are hard if you have that much time - mine is next june and we have way too much time - minus location the entire thing could be done stress free in 3 months using just the weekends

7/18/2006 11:01:03 PM

Seriously, my wife planned our wedding during her 4th year of vet school. Getting started early is huge. The only thing we didn't get that we wanted was our rehearsal dinner location: wanted Caffe Luna but they were booked 1 year and 3 months out when we checked. Other than that we got first pick of every vendor/date.

7/18/2006 11:12:16 PM

I'm trying to plan a wedding from 6,000 miles away on a $6,000 budget. He wants 200 people. It's not going to happen.
Weddings are stupid. Everyone should elope and just let that be that.

7/18/2006 11:51:31 PM

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"weddings are easy if you have that much time - how can you say they are hard if you have that much time - mine is next june and we have way too much time - minus location the entire thing could be done stress free in 3 months using just the weekends"

Hmm..I could spell this out in a number of ways. I have 13 bridesmaids, he has 15 groomsman. The wedding is being held in Charleston SC, The guest list is expected to reach about 1800. The wedding site has to be BUILT...there are a ton of reasons thats not enough time. We're both in the Real Estate field, and I don't even have time to eat most days, let alone plan a wedding. YOUR wedding might work that quickly, ours won't....

7/19/2006 11:23:30 AM

expected cost?

7/19/2006 11:24:39 AM

haha woah, 1800 people?! that's going to be a HUGE wedding. Even if you get 25% of those to show up you're going to get a hellofa lot of awesome gifts

good luck with the planning and congrats on the marriage

7/19/2006 11:25:31 AM

Where in the hell in charleston are you going to hold an 1800 person wedding.


Even the Francis-Marion's largest ballroom wont hold 1800 people.

7/19/2006 11:26:07 AM

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"The wedding site has to be BUILT."

7/19/2006 11:26:42 AM

$275,000 is our budget for the actual wedding.

A local architecht is building the wedding site and getting it down there. That will be something that is paid for between his dad's company and that firm, and I have no idea the estimated cost of that.

7/19/2006 11:27:12 AM

you are ok with spending 275 thousand dollars on a wedding?

7/19/2006 11:28:11 AM

that sounds like something my parents would do. i'd be content with having a small wedding with only a handful of people (close relatives and friends)

7/19/2006 11:29:17 AM

i didn't know anyone that rolled like that wasted time here - what kind of house are you going to live in after this is over with?

7/19/2006 11:29:22 AM

I'm not spending that, his father owns an investment firm, and due to the fact that you "HAVE TO" invite certain people, thats our budget. It won't dent my pockets any because I'm not involved in the spending.

7/19/2006 11:29:40 AM

Thanks for quoting david. I read what she wrote, but I live down here, and dont even know of a land site in charleston big enough for that.



Since its the biggest wedding ive ever heard of, it made me more curious.

7/19/2006 11:29:57 AM

We already have our house

^it's being held on the beach. The site is still being negotiated with Charleston, we've gotten approvals ot hold it on the river- using a portion of a hotel's space...but i don't think we're interested in that.

it's going to bring a lot of IP Investors to Charleston, so they've been really accomodating.

[Edited on July 19, 2006 at 11:32 AM. Reason : dgfsd]

7/19/2006 11:30:10 AM

well with that budget, I'd reccomend hiring a wedding planner. I mean, you have the money, don't have the time, and you'll most likely need someone who can diffuse the 80 people trying to get people on the guest list and such.

7/19/2006 11:31:18 AM

We have discussed a wedding planner, and have a "wedding consultant"...one thing I don't want is to be alienated from my own wedding.

[Edited on July 19, 2006 at 11:32 AM. Reason : Its bad enough that it has to be this big, I would prefer a lot smaller.]

7/19/2006 11:32:37 AM

Coolness, if you have it on the water somewhere, you should announce in the papers and let people in boats come up and watch from the water.

7/19/2006 11:34:18 AM

Understood. You can define the terms of your contract with them as such. (Meaning that you can be totally involved in the parts you can and want to be involved and can let them handle the crazies.) I don't know your relationship with the family, but I'm pretty sure the last thing you want is to be stressing about the things you can't control. But if you have a consultant, they should be able to direct you to the most useful websites and all of that.

[Edited on July 19, 2006 at 11:35 AM. Reason : Wolfmarsh I remember your wedding ]

7/19/2006 11:34:52 AM

That'd be kind of cool, its happening right at sunset...so that should be interesting, and the boats would all look really neat!

Kiawah Island would probably be really cool also, I just don't know about getting a pre-built wedding structure out there.


My dream is to actually have the water underneath us...lets see if this firm can accomplish that

[Edited on July 19, 2006 at 11:39 AM. Reason : sdfgg]

7/19/2006 11:37:50 AM

TWW should never be used for advice when dealing with anything that costs nearly $300,000.

Honestly, a wedding of this size is well beyond your capabilities, no matter how much time you have.

7/19/2006 4:57:07 PM

We have consultants...

and two momzillas....

So I think things are well taken care of, I was just curious about making our webpage lol!

7/19/2006 5:00:23 PM

who the fuck spends nearly 300 thousand on a wedding? Do you know how much real estate you can buy in Thailand for that? Or any poor nation. Christ, Americans are so fucking stupid.

7/19/2006 5:00:59 PM

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"who the fuck spends nearly 300 thousand on a wedding?"

Whoever taught you to read neglected to emphasize reading comprehension.

7/19/2006 5:04:25 PM

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"and two momzillas...."

That sounds like it won't end well. They disagree on one thing and then it's all over, and only one is left.

7/19/2006 5:05:04 PM

Not me, if it were up to me, we'd get married on the beach, with like 20 people there and have a huge kegger, BUT ITS NO LONGER UP TO ME

7/19/2006 5:05:45 PM

I understand the pressure families can exert

but did your fiancee volunteer you for this mess?

It's your wedding.

(by the way, be glad you're planning a wedding from here. While not this scale, my aunt will be doing a lot of it from Nairobi, where the dialup internet is spotty and worthless. She has two weeks left here, just started, and then goes back)

[Edited on July 19, 2006 at 5:12 PM. Reason : iancee]

7/19/2006 5:12:04 PM

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"Whoever taught you to read neglected to emphasize reading comprehension."

275 thousand = nearly 300 thousand

7/19/2006 5:12:24 PM

That's not what I'm talking about, and you know it.

7/19/2006 5:13:40 PM

Yea, thats going to suck....I can't even imagine that.

Its really kind of a thing were its a matter of buisness relations...it won't look good for his fathers business (which he now has a similar firm)...to not go all out, and invite everyone. Its kind of a PR thing I guess...which sucks b/c its supposed to be the "happiest day of my life"...


But, from what I hear, you don't remember it anyway...so i'm just going to have fun with what i'm being given I guess.

7/19/2006 5:14:35 PM

yeah but that's a 75k difference...that's an avg or 2 or 3 more weddings

7/19/2006 5:15:39 PM

You and your police officer dad should drive around in your m3 and find a wedding planner.

7/19/2006 5:16:38 PM

I'm confused?

7/19/2006 5:17:20 PM

My dad actually died about 3 years ago.

7/19/2006 5:17:41 PM

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"Its kind of a PR thing I guess...which sucks b/c its supposed to be the "happiest day of my life"... But, from what I hear, you don't remember it anyway...so i'm just going to have fun with what i'm being given I guess."

Why not make the reception the PR event, and let you have your wedding your way? That'd still be "acceptable"

The only reason I've never considered eloping (I'll have one momzilla, for sure, and the other...well...that's yet to be determined) is because I want/expect my grandfather to officiate. If he croaks before I'm married, we're pissing everyone off, and getting married elsewhere, and throwing them a reception.

7/19/2006 5:17:54 PM

Yea, thats always an idea I suppose Either way as long as I get married on a beach, I'm fine.

7/19/2006 5:18:53 PM

CONGRATULATIONS SAROSE!!!

7/19/2006 5:19:32 PM

If i harass you will you call the cops and cry like last time?

7/19/2006 5:19:41 PM

ahaha what a dumb cunt

7/19/2006 5:24:04 PM

hey BobbleHead, I'm actually an event planner! We actually do very few weddings and the ones we do do, are large so if I can give you any advice, I'd be happy to!

7/19/2006 5:36:20 PM

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7/19/2006 5:39:17 PM