Wedding Planning Tips

• Use a google spreadsheet or zoho sheet (or equivalent) to store your guest list. this means everyone (bride, groom, parents of each) can view it no matter where they are and updates can be made without confusing which draft just ended up in your inbox
• We wanted to try out both weddingchannel and theknot but found that it was confusing to have 2 homes on the web. It might be worth setting up a fake wedding (don't use your real name or email address) on each and see which you like better (after a couple days you'll probably know). The advantage of using a fake name is that when your friends go searching for you they won't find the wrong info. We ended up going with the theknot because the free wedding web page seemed better but the checklist from weddingchannel was way better.
• If you need to post more text than will fit in the dialog box on theknot use the spammers trick of linking to a jpg of the text (we were able to get theknot to accept some basic html)
• If you're psyched about the music at your ceremony (friends performing or whatever) look into recording the audio from the church's sound board -- I wish I had an audio recording to go with slide shows and so forth. (Not to mention I think the priest's sermon was pretty good but I can't remember any of the details...)
• Buy thank you cards at the same time as invites -- you can get 'em cheaper and it's one less thing to worry about later. (Unless you are using post cards of wedding photos as thank-you cards - I've seen that work pretty well for some of my friends)
  

Welcome aboard

Apparently my years at sea have had more influence on me than I would have guessed -- who knew that the first thing that popped into my head for the title of the first post would have a nautical ring to it.

And I guess the nom de blog is nautical too. Though it has more to do with the fact that Moby-Dick is the most visibly prominent title on the bookshelf across the way. If a computer asked, "What should I call you?" with a copy of Moby-Dick staring you in the face what would you answer?

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