Earlier this month Google made the headlines yet again announcing Google Wedding. This new service is aimed to help couples in planning a wedding on a budget even easier with their online tools. You can make good use of these tools by:
1. Creating a Free Wedding Website
Google Sites makes it easy to create a wedding website to share all of the important information about your big day with your guests. Choose from designer themes, upload engagement photos, and link to the reception site to create an all-inclusive resource for your wedding guests. Best of all, this service is free, so it is an unbeatable bargain for your budget wedding.
2. Designing Announcements
Google's service Picnik allows couples to create designer engagement announcements, save the date cards, and more with a variety of beautiful themes and easy photo uploads. Choose to print your design from your home computer or order inexpensive prints online. Or, if you're planning a wedding on a budget, you can even email your save the date cards to all of your family and friends for free.
3. Planning a Wedding on a Budget
Google Docs offers a variety of very useful templates for planning a budget wedding. Create seating charts, a guest list, an address book, a list of songs for the reception, an overall to-do list, and even a comprehensive estimated budget. Best of all, you can access these free tools from any computer with an Internet connection.
4. Sharing Your Wedding Memories
Google's Picasa photo sharing site offers easy photo uploads and sharing. You can use it as a place to gather ideas for wedding dresses, cake designs, or flower arrangements in a private online album before the wedding. You can also use it to create public albums to share engagement photos or special wedding memories after the big day.