Tech-Savvy Weddings

You often IM - ING everyone you know, your whole life is stored on your PDA, you think your iPod fifth limb. If you already have the technical rules of your daily life - even if you are shy high-tech - a look at the progress of these wired, in a pleasant world forever.

Get talkative
High-tech trends: coordinating all the parties about dress and evening availability of telephone conversations can be full-time job, especially when you are busy maid is spread across the country. The advantage of the fact, whether it is during business hours along the coast, you are very aware of your girl is. Arrangements at lunch time meeting with their online, or use mass function to be time, to facilitate them and their busy schedule to go out the girl's business.

How it works: to do an online chat, pick a mutually convenient day and use the instant messaging program, free chat rooms, discussion of the moment. In your AOL's IM, into the "people", then select "Send an invitation to chat." Maids, please enter your screen name, look - Network Town Meeting. MSN's IM, a bridesmaid start chatting, and then click on "invite" icon into the rest of the crew of the conversation.

In addition, with the mass function on the portal such as Yahoo (using Yahoo group), you can plot all the maids and around a busy schedule. This group allows you to create a custom list of all the important participants in e-mail account. You can choose email as their waiter came, or once a day to digest. Either way, we are in the details and re-schedule, you can upload photographs of candidates dress, and really enjoy the time at your desk!

Hello from cyberspace
High-tech trend: to maintain circulation, to ensure that at any time from work connected to the Internet anywhere on the planet, they can log on to your wedding website, and get the details of your event, choose to view your hotel guests, or even of RSVP. Use, will save you and other default, to the people, the mother of the bride's overworked, hours better spent gown shopping. Do you need peace and justice orientation ceremony scene? His e-mail your URL. Is your father's secretary, trying to find you registered? A few clicks, and her purchase of your chrome toaster.

How it works: One thing is certain, you do not need to hire dedicated IT departments have their own websites. Many companies provide professional quality wedding website site that allows you to create multiple pages, photos, quizzes, interactive book, or even write back. We like a few:

TheKnot.com (free): We offer a wide range of lovely illustrations chic, modern website design tailored to your wedding theme or season. Kick off your site, you can get your guests to RSVP online, you can upload your own image. We also allow guests to send you by e-mail, you have already made an important online update, the site will send save the date. And we mention it is free?

eWedding.com ($ 89 a year): eWedding.com give you many options for your website style, ranging from traditional newspaper fonts and design kitchy artificial fall leaves. And even some design features, flash animations, when you first arrive on the home page.

For your annual fee, you will get a personal domain name (BobandMary.com, for example), you can upload your own music and video, or choose from their selection, you can include up to 1000 photos. (This is a lot.) The site also includes marriage ceremony as the investigation of interesting things ("I should be white or chocolate cake?"), And quizzes. Your friends and family will stay busy for hours.

WeddingTracker.com (70 U.S. dollars a year): This company provides a range of different designs to choose from, tends toward the elegant side. You get a personalized domain name, where the ability to upload and many albums.

In addition to the usual information page, you can also get bonus page, you can dedicate themselves to the bachelor / unmarried party details, or the family Basset Hound photo essay and other important topics. Also thrown in a pile WeddingTracker.com easy to use planning software for your annual fee - the guest list, and thank you note manager particularly useful.

Is a movie star
High-tech trends: Personalize your Parties (rehearsal dinner, cocktail party, reception) screening customized video - including your photos, video of your baby and live together, until this point - all the musical settings. Of course, you can get your DJ announce the name of marriage, when you walk to the dance floor, but think how much more meaningful, it will dim the lights and treat your guests, an emotional five-minute film of your journey this day instead. We are committed, grandmother, and even the groom's new boss, the credits will be in tears.

How it works: There are two ways to it. A simple slide show, you can run basic photo program pre-installed on most home computers. Upload photos, you want to use, set them to music (or your DJ to play something, and watch the guests), burn to a CD image, and the use of any white on the surface of a laptop computer and a rented digital projector, project the slide show (walls work great).

Fancy yourself a budding Sundance Film Festival winner? Try your hand at editing a short video. User-friendly video editing software like iMovie (on a Mac) or Dell studio to take these 8-mm tape, and into their own masterpiece and music complete the process, you can walk through. All that remains is to burn it to disk (and programs to help too). Projector slide show video works the same way: to find a pure white wall, hook a laptop computer, digital projector (you can rent them), the DVD, then press play.

Gift to the digital
High-tech trend: given in the first place, and ultimately forgotten in the back seat of the complicated idea is not worth it. To the digital gift, the guests from their desktop to access the comfort of home soon after, and let you forget.

How it works: a Web site offers a small envelope (which can double as a seating card) and access code or gift card, receive their download support. They get you - from Audible.com, the book album from iTunes.com, or cell phone ringtones from Ringtones.com.

End Note: With these, packaging is everything. (On their own, gift cards are not so attractive.) Investing in some of the petite large flap of the envelope or the envelope to decorate your logo or identity.
Beam their
High-tech trend is: Do not let people wait for the edited version. In contrast, in a real-time web site (or better, but they do) your destination wedding photographer flow. Let your colleagues, when you walk in the Florida Keys to stay in their shells scattered on the desk aisle, a good look, sand and sun - oh, and your dress, too.

How it works: Some hotels and resorts now offer this high-tech service options as a ritual in their wedding package (included or extra cost).

If you do not get in one place, providing real-time video to your friends and family back home to marry into your own hands to consider the issue. Central station somewhere - perhaps at the top of the aisle a video camera, on the arch or huppah - companies like MultiMediaPros.com or StreamAce.com.au stream live video on the Internet work. (Prices are generally around $ 200 to $ 300 per hour starting.)