Planning and managing a wedding is a challenging and stressful job. You have to keep track of to-dos, guest lists, invitations, menus, transportation and many more logistics issues makes wedding planning really a cumbersome task.
Maintaining Excel sheets and paper diaries can be quite exhausting and unmanageable. It can lead to mistakes and things being missed. Moreover, you also can’t enjoy the joyous moments of your wedding fully. Can something help you manage the wedding efficiently and smoothly?
There are various software tools available in the market which can help you to efficiently manage every detail of your wedding plan. Here are some of them:
Wedding Websites
You can get a wedding website custom built or use one of the several tools freely available on the Internet. A well designed website can ensure easy communication with your guests. Websites like www.mywedding.com, www.theknot.com and www.ewedding.com allow you to create a free wedding website of your own.
By putting all the necessary information on your website, such as the local travel information (airport, ground transportation, maps, directions etc), the hotels where the guests will stay, wedding events’ dates and timelines etc., you can keep your guests updated on every minute detail regarding your wedding.
Your guests can also give you feedback on your wedding events. Guests who may not be able to attend the wedding can also send you their greetings from any corner of the world through this website.
Moreover, you can create a mailing list of your guests who need to be informed whenever your website is updated. Also, you can share the wedding photographs on your website enabling the guests to relive the experience.
Online Wedding Planning Software
Online Wedding Planning software can be used for efficient organisation of all the wedding related information at one place. These applications help you to collaborate with your friends or family members involved in organizing your wedding as well as vendors and service providers.
Further, you can easily access these software on your laptop, tablet or mobile. One such software for managing and planning Indian weddings is WedPlan.
Wedplan lets you do the following and much more:
- Guest List Management with full contact details
- Events, Ceremonies with gifts to be given
- Email and SMS invites
- Guests’ arrival and departure schedules
- Hotel rooms, car management and venue coordination
- Samagri lists for the different ceremonies
- Extensive task management
- Invitation cards, gifts & sweets distribution support
WedPlan combines various event planning tools such as budgeting, guest/attendee management and many more into a single platform, thus, sparing you the time spent in fidgeting with different tools and easing your learning curve.
Invitation Management Websites
Your wedding invitation card gives your guests first peek into your style of wedding. With the advent of technology in the wedding planning industry, various invitation management websites have come up. Now you can send electronic invitations of the wedding to all you friends and relatives across the globe.
Further, you can plan the invitation cards for any of you wedding events, be it the cocktail party, engagement, wedding, reception or any other event. Even if your budget is a concern, you need not worry because there are various e-invitations websites which help you design your e-invites for free and charge very less for printed counterparts.
These websites let you design your own invitation cards by offering various features such as choosing your favourite colours, base design, customizing text on the card and size. Additionally, you can choose whether to request an RSVP or not. Digital invitations can be sent embedded in emails to the guests and the guests can RSVP from the invitation or directly from the mail.
Paperless Post offers 500 free invitation designs out of 3,500 invitation designs. It also provides ability to track RSVPs and other convenience features.
Gift Registries
Weddings are incomplete without gifts. Often, guests wish to congratulate and bless the couple on their wedding with gifts and the couple’s families may return the favour as well. However the guests are always worried that their gift may be a duplicate or not to the liking and hence lie unused.
A gift registry can come in handy in such situations. The engaged couple can make a list of gifts they are happy to receive and list these in the gift registry. The guests can then select one or more from these as per their budget and order them. This eliminates chances of duplicate and disliked gifts. While this was not considered polite in the Indian culture, people are accepting this slowly in view of the convenience for both sides.
Some of the common gift registry websites are MyRegistry, All My gifts, Zola, Thankful, Knack etc.
With the growing popularity of Internet, wedding planning industry has come of age. Stop struggling with outdated tools when you can manage the arrangements with the help of the above software and get much more free time to spend with the family and guests.