| With the new technology and speed of internet | | | | message to the guests, a wedding website is in |
| connections these days, it is extremely easy to | | | | fact spreading the message to the whole world. |
| get in touch with our friends and relatives even if | | | | Everyone can access the wedding website, and |
| they are physically far away from us. A question | | | | the couple will be sharing the joy with the whole |
| follows when planning a wedding is that "Do we | | | | world. Although it is so convenient by using the |
| still need to physically send wedding invitations to | | | | internet to spread the wedding message, it does |
| the guests if it is so easy to contact and inform | | | | not mean that we do not need physical wedding |
| them about the details of the wedding via email?" | | | | invitations anymore. A physical wedding invitation |
| In fact some couples have already made use of | | | | is still something essential for a wedding. If we |
| the advance of the internet technology and tried | | | | think of the case thoroughly, we have to admit |
| to spread there wedding message though the | | | | that a wedding ceremony is not only a ceremony, |
| internet. A question about this, however, is that | | | | it is a memory indeed. Every detail and moment |
| "Will we lose some values of the wedding if we | | | | when planning the wedding forms the memories |
| only spread the message on the internet?" The | | | | of the couple, which will last for the whole lives of |
| answer is absolutely yes. There is no doubt that | | | | them. The memory of designing and making the |
| the speed of internet connections totally changes | | | | wedding invitation should contribute to these |
| our lives. We can send information and contact | | | | memories. Besides, human is something physical, |
| our friends or relatives with just a few clicks, and | | | | we tend to love something we can touch and |
| they can receive our messages nearly | | | | feel. A wedding message on the internet cannot |
| immediately after the clicks. Considering a | | | | be touched by hands. On the contrary, because |
| wedding, it may take a few days, or even a few | | | | of different materials for making a wedding |
| weeks for the guests to receive the wedding | | | | invitation, there are textures on the invitation and |
| invitations if we are sending them by mails. In this | | | | the guests can touch and feel by their hands. This |
| case it seems that there is no reason for sending | | | | is something that the internet cannot achieve, at |
| physical wedding invitations since we can send the | | | | least for the time being. Due to these reasons, a |
| wedding messages to the guests in a very short | | | | physical wedding invitation is still essential for a |
| time, comparing with sending the wedding | | | | wedding. However, it should be working well with |
| invitations by mail. In fact couples can spread their | | | | the internet such that the memories discussed |
| wedding message through internet by using | | | | before will be maximized. A couple can firstly |
| websites and these websites usually contains all | | | | prepare a wedding website, or even a wedding |
| the detailed information about the wedding | | | | blog to share every moment in the process of |
| ceremony. They can even put their wedding | | | | wedding planning. After that the couple can design |
| photos in the website such that the joy of their | | | | and produce their very unique wedding invitation |
| wedding can be easily shared. This is something a | | | | and send them to the guests as usual. The |
| physical wedding invitation cannot easily achieve. | | | | website URL can be printed on the wedding |
| With these wedding websites, a guest can reply if | | | | invitation so that every guest can "engage" in the |
| he or she will attend the wedding ceremony | | | | process of wedding planning. By doing this, the |
| easily, by using something call form to email | | | | guests can on one hand have the feeling of |
| computer online programs. If there is no such | | | | intimacy by holding the physical wedding invitation |
| program in the website, they can still reply by | | | | on hand and on the hand feels the joy of wedding |
| using email. This make life easier since the guest | | | | planning of the couple from the internet, or to be |
| will not need to send the RSVP back to the | | | | exact, the wedding website. |
| couple by mail. Besides spreading the wedding | | | | Jerry Leung is a wedding invitation designer. |