Get Your Groom Involved in the Wedding Planning Process

Are you frustrated because your future husband doesn’t seem interested in helping to plan the wedding? Don’t worry. You’re not alone. Unfortunately, wedding planning is an area that brides have had a hard time getting their husbands involved in.

There are many theories about why grooms tend to shy away from the wedding planning arena, and no doubt many of them have merit.  But the real question at hand is, what do we do about it?

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Fortunately the solution in many cases is as easy as getting a wedding website. Seriously. By getting a wedding website you can give him something to do that he will enjoy doing in the wedding planning process because it caters to his strengths and interests. After all, boys do tend to love their toys – and the more high tech the better in most cases.

But how can a wedding website help the planning process?  And ultimately, what jobs from your massive list might you be able to shed if you get him involved with a wedding website?

Instant Communication with Your Guests

Think about it. A website devoted to your wedding plans will save you time and hassle because it provides a centralized place that anyone with access to the internet can go to find your wedding information. That means that you can get rid of the hassles of worrying about making sure that your cousin John or Aunt Debbie has the date and time of your wedding because once they have the web address and password for your wedding website they can check on the latest changes whenever they want to.

Instant Access to Your Planner

Imagine being able to access your wedding planner anytime of the day and anywhere you can get an internet connection.  Wouldn't that be useful?  Wouldn't it be helpful to be able to pull up a list of the people that have RSVP'd when you are at your caterer office?  Wouldn't it be nice to pull up a copy of your facility agreement's list of do's and don'ts while you are at your florist? Wouldn't it be nice to have all that information without hauling your entire folder around and running the risk of losing something?

You can, as long as you get one with a double layer of password protection, you can put all of your wedding plans - including things that you don't want other people to see - on your website.  Then you can access your wedding planner anywhere and anytime you have an internet connection. 

Share Stories

Not only that, but he can post stories about how you met, how you proposed, etc. All those things that everyone wants to know – and not only does it save you from having to tell the same story over and over, but it’s just enough honey to convince most of your high tech phobic relatives to keep checking back on your website so they won’t miss anything.  And all this will save you time to devote to your wedding plans.

Post Maps & Out of Town Information

Furthermore, your groom can put maps and directions on the website along with all the pertinent information about your wedding plans that out of town guests need – things like hotel reservations, flight or shuttle information, whatever is appropriate for your wedding party. The important thing though is that you won’t have to worry about all those extra phone calls and letters because all that information will be on your website.

Online RSVP Management & More

Even better, with a website devoted to your wedding you can save money on postage on all those RSVP cards because you can have your guests simply go to your website and RSVP online – even for multiple events! Your future husband can even set it up to ask questions and collect responses from the people who RSVP. And if you choose a good provider the site itself will keep track of all the responses you get. It can even list your gift registries – saving you the worry about whether you should put that information in your invitation since they’ll find it when they RSVP. He can even put up fun quizzes or post polls if you need to get your wedding party’s opinion on something.

Post Music, Pictures, & Video

Another job from your wedding planning stack you can give your groom is posting pictures, audio, and video to share with your friends and family both before and after the wedding. Think about the time and money you will save if you can make your pictures of your bridesmaid’s dresses, for example, available on your website instead of having to reproduce them and mail them or drive across town to show someone the picture in the magazine!

Password Protection to Protect Your Privacy

Just one thing: Be sure you get provider that offers password protection (preferably two tiers of password protection - one for your guests and family, and one for those who really need access to your private planning information). You want your friends and family to have access to your wedding website, but you might not want the whole world to see it, if only for security purposes.

Easy to Use

Of course, there is one final reason, as if you need more, to adopt this strategy to get your future husband involved in your wedding planning process: Simply put. Because if you choose well and find a good provider you will have not only gotten rid of all the jobs I listed above (and more) you will set your man up to look like a hero, which could make him more interested in helping you in other ways as well. You see, a good wedding website provider will offer a wide variety of templates that will make it easy for him to put up an amazing looking site – all while taking some of the load off your shoulders.

Get Your Groom Involved in Wedding Planning