June 2005
Individual wedding sites
If wedding portals are not what you need or if they seem overwhelming, there are a few good, smaller sites that for a yearly fee allow you to create an individual, personalized wedding site. Such sites include The Wedding Window, Admired Wedding, eWedding.com, and The Wedding Tracker.
All four sites offer free trial packages for creating your wedding Web site, and The Wedding Window, Admired Wedding, and The Wedding Tracker offer basic planning tools, as well. These no-risk trial offers range from 7 to 14 days and are a good way to test-drive the personalized Web site design and content that's offered. Prices range from $49.99 to $89 per year. All of these sites have clear pricing policies and detailed information on their no-risk trial offers.
The Wedding Tracker, eWedding.com, Admired Wedding, and The Wedding Window have some very nice features (similar to what the larger wedding-planning portals offer), such as online RSVPs, your own domain name, and Flash animation. The Wedding Tracker, eWedding.com, and The Wedding Window offer a keepsake CD-ROM of your site.
Unfortunately, complete customer-service information (including phone number and address) is sparse on these four sites. While all do provide an e-mail contact for customer-service inquires, none provides a toll-free phone number. Of the four sites, only The Wedding Tracker and eWedding.com provide a business address or office location.
Admired Wedding, eWedding.com, and The Wedding Tracker have very good privacy policies that are easy to find. The Wedding Window's privacy policy is difficult to read because it's embedded in a small window that appears when you sign up for the site's services, and you must scroll down to read it.
While customer-service contacts could be better at the four sites we looked at in this category, if all you want is an individual wedding Web site and someone to host it, then these sites are worth a look. Just make sure you take advantage of their no-risk trial offers, and read their pricing policies carefully before giving your credit-card number.
If wedding portals are not what you need or if they seem overwhelming, there are a few good, smaller sites that for a yearly fee allow you to create an individual, personalized wedding site. Such sites include The Wedding Window, Admired Wedding, eWedding.com, and The Wedding Tracker.
All four sites offer free trial packages for creating your wedding Web site, and The Wedding Window, Admired Wedding, and The Wedding Tracker offer basic planning tools, as well. These no-risk trial offers range from 7 to 14 days and are a good way to test-drive the personalized Web site design and content that's offered. Prices range from $49.99 to $89 per year. All of these sites have clear pricing policies and detailed information on their no-risk trial offers.
The Wedding Tracker, eWedding.com, Admired Wedding, and The Wedding Window have some very nice features (similar to what the larger wedding-planning portals offer), such as online RSVPs, your own domain name, and Flash animation. The Wedding Tracker, eWedding.com, and The Wedding Window offer a keepsake CD-ROM of your site.
Unfortunately, complete customer-service information (including phone number and address) is sparse on these four sites. While all do provide an e-mail contact for customer-service inquires, none provides a toll-free phone number. Of the four sites, only The Wedding Tracker and eWedding.com provide a business address or office location.
Admired Wedding, eWedding.com, and The Wedding Tracker have very good privacy policies that are easy to find. The Wedding Window's privacy policy is difficult to read because it's embedded in a small window that appears when you sign up for the site's services, and you must scroll down to read it.
While customer-service contacts could be better at the four sites we looked at in this category, if all you want is an individual wedding Web site and someone to host it, then these sites are worth a look. Just make sure you take advantage of their no-risk trial offers, and read their pricing policies carefully before giving your credit-card number.
