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10:15 pm
October 7, 2009
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This time last year we were witness to the "tweeting groom" which shocked the world (sort of) with the prevalence in our lives of social networking and the internet in general.
If you're reading this, chances are you are a devotee of social networking yourself, and you therefore know what an indispensable tool the internet has become in our modern lives.
How best can we exploit the power of the internet when it comes to the planning and execution of weddings?
Can we save paper and money and send e-vites?
Can we tweet our vows to each other?
Can we host an online conference call for guests who are unable to attend the wedding in person?
And if we can, should we?
10:37 am
May 26, 2009
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Love it – even with a band of green that song is still beautiful.
There's a hellish amount of snobbery about regarding tech and weddings. The (dull) implication being that technology is fleeting and unimportant and dead trees are great and show you mean it.
It's just a generational thing. If I got emailed a sweet invite on PDF, or an amazing Save The Date on YouTube I wouldn't think it was tacky. Likewise the Tweeting Groom made the news because it somehow seemed to be saying that his online friends were as important as his IRL friends. So what? I barely see any of my IRL friends (love it when I do obv) but the people I meet and chat with on email and Twitter are as meaningful to me.
And to seal this pact of internet love take this emoticon: most powerful of all smilies 
8:17 pm
October 7, 2009
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I think the fact that I met the love of my life on twitter speaks volumes, so you can probably imagine my stance on the subject.
In fact, the distinction between social networking and so-called IRL is fast becoming redundant (although don't get me wrong, I am very grateful we do our socialising in person these days)
The internet, social networking, browsing etc. aren't antithetical to physical social activity, they're a part of it;they facilitate it.
And I still text, call and tweet her whenever we're apart.
2:34 pm
That's Mr Groom To You
January 12, 2011
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I think e-vites might be the next big thing, my future mother-in-law said she'd handle the invitations for us as she quite a crafts woman. Didn't expect the Facebook invite to "The Wedding of the Year" (obviously sent months before Kate and Wills got engaged) in our inboxes 2 days later.
It was just a joke luckily, as my fiancee was not impressed.
10:34 pm
October 7, 2009
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I think it's a good way to be environmentally conscious. I've been known to keep particularly nice wedding invitations along with any other stationery in the past, but they get stuffed in a drawer for a few years before getting binned.
Plus you could do a really cool, creative, animated, musical e-vite that might be more memorable and revisitable anyway.
3:42 pm
September 14, 2010
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Having had to contend with this recently, I've opted for a bix of mixed medium:
Save the dates were piggy-backed on Xmas cards
Invites are being done via an online printers, with a design we've tailored to our taste. It's a mix of nice quality and prudence – A5 double sided rather than having half a side of organza glued to it
Invites then have URL to Google Sites site that I set up relatively easily and quickly (only limited by just how poor google sites is for custom CSS)
Site then has all accomodation details, email contacts for RSVP, map to venue etc etc.
I think Sharon has set up a twitter feed for those who are desperate to find out what's going on but I doubt that will be used really.
She had to start sending out update emails to some of the family as they were getting neurotic (thinking of using it as my next blog post actually) but once some more things are settled, I should be able to feed updates into the site and then they can go look for themselves!
9:52 pm
That's Mr Groom To You
November 2, 2010
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Loving the green ideas of e invites but I think social networks are a wealth of ideas for your wedding and stag night. There are lots of wedding people on twitter and you can use it to talk to them and strike a deal. Also you can see what other people did for there stag nights and weddings. On twitter there is a whole community of wedding planners just wanting to talk to you. Some offer promotions and discounts to the followers and facebook likers. Use social networkig to get yourself the best deal possible
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