After the pic on your personal wedding website comes the text, and here you would like to make your first impression - one that lasts forever!
Why?
Because your Welcoming Note sets the tone not only of your personal wedding website but also of your wedding. It spells out 'stylish' or 'fun-loving' or 'formal' or 'elegant' or 'romantic' ... whatever message is perfectly you.
Getting it just right is a challenge. Some ideas http://www.ourweddingpage.co.za/ knows work well:
Start off with a quote. A romantic quote is easy to remember and usually contains a lovely truth worth carrying into your relationship. We collect romantic quotes - just scroll down on our blog.
Do a poem. Write your own poetry, or check the web or blogs for poetry. The lyrics of your favourite love song is often pure poetry!
Do the newspaper report. Choose a striking heading, followed by text answering the who, what, where, when, why and how. What for a heading? You've so often surprised and amazed us ... so go ahead and be creative!
List it with stars in your eyes. Invoke all the romance you can! Choose a slogan or catchphrase and expand on it, listlike. You need examples? How about 'We dream of ....' and list your dreams of the future
Another one? "With you ...." and list how you enrich each other's life. Quotes are often good starting points.
Do the formal announcement. 'We, John A Johnson and Christie-Anne Brinker, intend to be married on the first day of May 2007 at 5 pm at .... We are pleased to share this joyful occasion with you on our wedding website.'
Write your love history. Tell how long you've known each other and why a wedding has become the next step. Keep to the headlines with just enough to tantalise your guests. You want them to read your love story and how the engagement happened on your further pages.
Saying thank you. Thankfulness is as part of love as romance. You may feel like thanking your fiancee, and everything/everyone who co-operated in getting you together
Make it a letter. Write a personal letter, starting off with 'Dear Friends' or 'Hi All' or something similar, and inviting them personally to your wedding.
Do the informal thing. 'Hi! Guess what? ...'
Just add your wedding invitation. Of course you could be (will be? may be? should be? are? it depends on your take on etiquette!) sending out real wedding invitations. But a virtual wedding invitation is actually a very green, eco-friendly option. If you go virtual no trees are lost, no poisonous gasses emitted into the stratosphere and no extra waste material ends up corrupting our overburdened Mother Earth.
A personal wedding website with http://www.ourweddingpage.co.za/ offers all the MS Word Lay-Out Tools. This means if you invest a little time you'll be able to create a stunning web wedding invitation. Or you can have an on-line card created for you, to copy and paste onto your personal wedding website.
How about a compromise as the most satisfying option?
Have a small number of wedding invitations made up, say 20 instead of 200 (or 500!) and give them only to those guests who really will treasure them as keepsakes ... like both the mothers, bridesmaids, sisters and grannies. The rest of your guests can get your dates and detail (and more) on your personal wedding page.
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