It’s no secret, today just about everyone has a Facebook account. It’s a great tool to help people communicate and generally be more social. So why not use it to make your wedding planning process more social?
Recently wedding website The Knot purchased the Facebook application Weddingbook, an online wedding planner and community. We’ve played around with it a little bit and it’s a pretty neat tool.
When you add the Weddingbook application to your Facebook account you can start by creating your wedding profile. You can add an image, wedding details, your wedding party, link to your gift registries, and have people sign your guestbook.
One feature allows you to add guests to your guest list, however due to restrictions with Facebook, the Weddingbook application can’t send those invitations to users. That being said, a story may be published to your friend’s news feed that you created the guest list for your wedding. There is also an option to prevent those people on your friends list who aren’t on your wedding guest list from seeing the story in their news feed. This can help you to avoid those embarrassing moments when some of your Facebook friends get hurt because they aren’t invited to your wedding.
Weddingbook users have access to message boards and forums to discuss wedding related topics. There is also a tab titled “Planning” that has a Google search bar programmed to find only results from TheKnot.com and WeddingChannel.com. The search feature is no doubt designed as a way to monetize the application by sending targeted traffic to The Knot’s websites. But hey, The Knot offers a pretty good service, so you can’t fault them for trying to make a buck off of it.
Finally, Weddingbook offers a cool feature in the form of a wedding countdown that we have also seen added to people’s Facebook profiles. It serves as a constant reminder of how long you have until the big day and makes all the visitors to your profile aware that you’re actually getting married (if the engaged status didn’t tip them off).
So have you created a Weddingbook account for your wedding? What are your experiences with it? Do you have any ideas as to how they can make it better?
Please share your thoughts
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