How to let guests know about your wedding website?

Question

We have a wedding website that is loaded with good stuff -- all of our registry information, information about the wedding day (calendar of events, etc), and a bunch of other stuff we'd like people to see and take advantage of.

I'm not sending Save the Dates because we only have about 80 guests, very few of them are coming from out of town, and I can't fork out $100+ for a pre-invitation invitation. I know a lot of people include their site URL on their Save the Dates. I know we can include the info in the shower invites and/or in the formal invite, but how?

Should I print the URL on the invite OR include a card telling people about the website? If I should do a card, how can I get those printed? I have cards from Bed Bath & Beyond about our registry, but we've registered at 3 places, so I don't want them to open their invitation and have a bunch of cards fall out.

Ideas? (Affordable please!)

Answer 1

I'd send out a mass email, or post a link on Facebook.

"Hey folks, stay updated on our wedding planning here: (post link)" ....Make a general statement so guests know to visit, and non-guests don't get offended and/or expect an invite down the road. (I did this and had no problems, btw)



If you decide against that, then I would ONLY include it in the shower invite. You can have it printed on a little piece of paper that's sent along with the invite. Anywhere else would come off tacky. :\



I would just buy some plain mailing labels and print them with the info and whatever message you'd like to include and stick them on little squares of decorative paper.

Answer 2

1.) For your bridal shower(s) it is perfectly acceptable that the hostess includes your registries. This pretty common, and standard.

2.) for your wedding website I would email friends and family. I did this and it worked out great! It also helped to send this out immediately even before the invites as it served as my save the date, and since I like in Green Bay and people's schedules and hotels revolve around the Packers, it helped people get accommodations.

3.) Social networks. post it on your facebook, twitter, or whatever other accounts, maybe something fun like "I am having so much fun planning my wedding! I am looking forward to this moment when I become xxx's wife and hope to share it with all my friends and family."then include the url.

4.) If you are posting your vendors on your website (say your using xyz florist,) or even have a block of rooms at a certain hotel, let them know this! Some vendors will give you a discount for "free" advertising.

Answer 3

You do not put anything in your wedding invitations about money, registers or even a website. This is simply not done. A wedding gift is not obligatory, although most give one. This is like you are asking for gifts rather than their presence at the wedding. Just not done. Registries and any other information go in shower invites only.

Answer 4

I would suggest that you consider several ideas. One, you can email your family the wedding website link. That idea is the best! That's what I'm doing since my wedding website is on Shutterfly. I too have a bunch of fun stuff on our wedding website. It's super cute and packed with goodies that people will want to read. This Idea I think you should consider. Then you know that your family and friends will look at the wedding website. Two, you can send all your family members who are on facebook a private message stating that you have a wedding website and here is the link.



Don't include your wedding website URL on the invitation. It's pretty tacky if you ask me. I'm not even including the URL for our wedding website in the Save-The-Dates or the Wedding Invitation. I really do feel that's super tacky to advertise that. You don't want too much information in the Save-The-Date or the invitation. That's one thing my grandma told me. Plus, most people don't even see the URL in the invitation. My cousin and his wife put their wedding website URL in their wedding invitation. Only a few people actually went to their website and congratulated them. It was kind of a waste for them to advertise their website that no one even bothered to look at.



Good luck! Congrats on getting married! :)

Answer 5

My stepdaughter has the email or text message number for all but 3 of her guests for Save the Date. She just emailed them all. She personally called the 3 who had no email or text messaging, chatted with them and advised them when her wedding was. Two asked where she thought she would be registered at and she told them. She'll be sending out regular invites, but everybody will already have all the info, so it's more a followup official notice.

Answer 6

I would not put it on the invitation itself. It's a personal preference, but I feel like the invite should be as clean and simple as possible. I don't know why - it's just something I've always liked. I just printed something on my computer and tucked it into the invite. You only need inserts for 80 people (max) and even just with MS Word you can put together something really pretty and just print it on regular paper. Or, if you want to go really fancy, get some fancy paper and print it out.



I would also not include the BB&B registry info. It'll be on your website and that's enough.

Answer 7

I'd put the URL on the invitation. Printing out 80 cards wouldn't be worth the money.



Keep it simple, there will be a million other things to worry about for your wedding. LOL







Regards,



Bill

Answer 8

It's perfectly ok to include this on the invitation at the bottom, as long as you don't mention the registry. Just say something like: For further information, please visit our website at url.com.



And whatever you do, please throw those registry cards away. Just because a vendor wants to use you as free marketing doesn't mean it's ok to comply.



PS - Some of these answers are downright nutty. On a shower invite, the hostess is SUPPOSED to list where the bride is registered! And this is perfectly fine, because the gifts she is soliciting are not for herself . The whole point of the shower is to get gifts off the registry and give them to the bride.

Answer 9

Definitely do not ever put registry information in with the wedding invitation in any way shape or form.



It is fine to list a wedding website on a wedding invitation.



You might write: For more information, please visit www.jennyandmattgettingmarried.com

Answer 10

You should let them know by word of mouth like posting it on facebook or sending emails or picking up the telephone.

Answer 11

why are all the answers so short these days?

Answer 12

E-mail them the link.