For couples, web wedding is latest fad

Brides and grooms post profiles on the Net to keep relatives posted about marriage

Devanshi Joshi. Vadodara/DNA
Thursday, November 13, 2008

With the days of grand and glamorous wedding season at doors, interestingly, it is not just the show of affluence. Rather the novel concept of 'Web wedding' has caught the fancy of would-be couples who want to make their weddings memorable in a special way.

So, today, more and more 'net savvy' marriage aspirants in the city are attracted to the trend of making personalised wedding websites for 'Web wedding'. Aspirant brides and grooms in the city and NRGs are opting for personalised wedding like www.firstphera.com, www.bestweddingsites.com and www.wedstudio.com which not only make the weddings live virtually but also connect the near and dear ones in their wedding journey virtually.These websites have different formats, starting from memories of first meeting to the journey of wedding through photographs, videos, blogs and tips for honeymoon places, too. Interestingly, the websites offer the tools of making personalised wedding websites free of charge to the users.The homepage includes various wedding articles. The website includes wedding schedule, guest book, celebration mode, blogs, picture, videos, notes and also profile of bride and groom. Brides and grooms can design their own wedding websites by decorating them with different themes, including wedding ceremony pictures, videos, blogs and invitations too.Sandip and Divya, a 'would be' couple in the city, have created their personalised wedding website. "A personal wedding website is a unique form of memorising wedding moments. The journey leading to our wedding is similar to a film story. I have been sharing pictures and videos of our engagement ceremony and courtship with close friends through the website. I have already uploaded our wedding invitation card on the site. This way, one can have a nice collection of wedding memories and that too live on internet," Sandip Kanojia, a software engineer, told DNA.Not only the marriage aspirants but many couples are also creating personalised wedding websites and create the wonderful memory tool after several years of their weddings. US-based Nikita Parikh, an NRG and education professional from Vadodara, is now creating her personalised wedding website after two years of her marriage with Vishal. When she got married, she had no chance to make her wedding live virtually; that is why, she is now making a personalised website. "I found this concept really exciting. Being married for two years, I had no chance to celebrate my wedding virtually, so I planned 'the post marriage' personalised wedding website that would feature our profiles, details of the journey from our first meeting to wedding. My husband doesn't know about it and I am going to gift this website to him on our third wedding anniversary in January," said an enthusiast Nikita.