Planning a wedding can be time-consuming. The internet comes to your rescue to invite and share information with friends

Marriages are made in heaven, solemnised on earth…and now stored on the internet! Apart from video compact disk (VCD), cassettes and photo albums, people have found a novel way to store their wedding memories-the internet. Storing wedding ceremonies in the form of a website or web pages is the ‘in’ thing. And to help the uninitiated, some Indian and international portals offer their service to design wedding websites and web pages.

www.weddingsutra.com is such a portal that provides you a chance to create a personalised domain of your wedding ceremony on the internet. The company entered the matrimony business in 2001 and began to offer its portal service in 2007. Says, Parthip Thyagarajan, director, weddingsutra.com, “Earlier, people were scared to share their personal information on the internet. But now with emergence of various safety measures they are comfortable

with the idea of uploading personal information on the net. That’s why the trend to store wedding memories on the internet is picking up.”

Usually, a marriage ceremony is a time-consuming affair which begins with inviting friends and relatives. With a wedding website you don’t need to call or visit everybody’s place with invitation cards. All you need to send a link (and password if needed) of your wedding website to all through email. A wedding website has all the information you choose to put-from wedding rituals to venue and a map to reach the place. In this way, you can take care of out-of-town guests by listing hotels, flight details, local attractions and car rentals or just about any detail you think might be of use to them. “In that regard, wedding websites help save time which is most important in today’s busy life,” Thyagarajan says. Another advantage is that the wedding website can be updated with new pictures and information which makes it a different from other memory storing methods.

Building wedding websites cost nothing as some portals create them for free. www.ourwedding.in from Technoweb Technologies is such a portal. Natesh Babu, CEO, Techweb Technologies

says, “Our thrust area is offering wedding websites for couples in India.” “www.ourwedding.in is a template-driven portal. You select the template of your choice and the system is designed to present your content using that template,” he adds. The website also provides the list of marriage halls in three cities-Chennai, Banglore and Delhi.

Response to the service is very encouraging. Rajiv Arora, who is in the media sector, whose brother tied the knot in September, opted to have a wedding website for his marriage. Rajiv says, “In our case, time was the biggest problem as my brother is an NRI and he reached here just ten day before the marriage. So the wedding website we got built helped us a lot. With the help of the website we sent invitation cards by email and that saved us time.”

Others have different reasons to have a website. As Nitin Basera, a banking professional said, “For me, presentation is most important and wedding websites open cards and photographs using Flash, which looks very nice. Apart from this, it provides you an opportunity to share marriage stories and pictures with so many others which no other means gives.”

Go ahead, use the limitless internet space to your advantage.

Nidhi Sharma/ DNA-Daily News & Analysis Source: 3D Syndication