There are now so many web sites devoted to wedding planning that you could spend weeks just trying to separate the helpful information from the junk and the ads from the honest commentary. So here's my list of good web sites devoted to wedding planning (knowing the allure of bridal magazines and their online twins -- glossy bridal e-zines -- I couldn't resist including some, but they're clearly marked!).
General Wedding-Related Websites
WayCool Weddings --
features a new wedding every week
Weddings
101 -- a comprehensive, practical, and totally non-commercial guide
to planning your wedding, by recent bride Jennifer Rosenberg
WWWedding Resources
-- a great list of wedding-related resouces, helping you from engagement
through the wedding (and afterwards!), compiled by Mary Jane Shroyer
Rachel's
Wedding Frugality Page
Yahoo
-- Society & Culture: Weddings -- here you'll find everything
from wedding products and services to personal wedding pages
Denise & Alan Fields' Page
-- includes updates to their fabulous cost-saving bridal books, Bridal
Bargains and The Bridal Gown Guide
Ultimate Internet Wedding
Guide -- is a commercial site, but also has lots of good wedding
links, including the Ultimate Wedding Song Library
Wedding Newsgroups
There are two wedding newsgroups --
alt.wedding and soc.couples.wedding. They're great for getting ideas,
inspiration, and feedback, but they can also be addictive, tedious, and
occasionally downright mean-spirited.
Alt.Wedding
Homepage
Soc.Couples.Wedding
Homepage
Ceremony Resources
Celebrity's Wedding
Ceremonies -- This neat site allows you to create a personalized
wedding ceremony by clicking on readings, vows, and passages that you'd
like to include in your own ceremony. Click on the pieces you'd like to
include, hit the submit button, and you've just generated a ceremony which
you can print out and use!
Wedding
Vows Gallery
Nontheistic
Humanist Wedding Ceremony
Examples
of Non-Standard Wedding Ceremonies -- compiled by Carrie L. Leonard
Simple Wedding
Ceremony -- from Judge Carolyn J. Hayek, Retired
Matt & Kate's
Civil Wedding Ceremony
Donna &
Daniel's Wedding Ceremony
Laura
& Jeff's Wedding Ceremony
Honeymoon Resources
Arthur
Frommer's Outspoken Encyclopedia of Travel -- travel tips and
secrets from one of the world's foremost travel writers
Epicurious Travel --
weather, maps and help with airport navigation, as well as booking
capabilities
The Mining Company Travel
Hello America -- a
tourist bureau for American travelers
Thomas Cook -- Find out
about foreign currency and exchanging money
Traveling with Ed and Julie
-- They've certainly been to a lot of places!
TravelZine Online
CyberCafe
Guide -- Find CyberCafes all over the world, in case you feel like
keeping in touch with the people you've left behind while on your
honeymoon...
European Travel
Rick Steves' Through the Back
Door Europe Home Page -- all sorts of advice from the
budget-conscious travel guru Rick Steves
Eurail &
Britrail Passes
Rail Europe --
Interactive European rail map
CyberCafes in
Europe
Welcome to Heathrow -- If you're
travelling to England, you'll probably find this page helpful
Italy Links
A Taste of Florence
The Ultimate Florence
Website
Online Bridal Guides & E-Zines
Okay, all of these are commercial --
they're beautiful sites with varying degrees of helpfulness...
Bliss
iBride
The Knot
Modern Bride
Today's Bride
unGROOM'd -- "the
man's perspective on engagement, marriage, and what follows"
Wedding411
Wedding Bells
Wedding Channel
Wedding Wire
WeddingLine -- a wedding
site by Macy's department store
