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With the birth of the Worldwide Web, people used this graphical media to share pictures of their happy occasion. These days, there are services where you can easily setup space to share photos with friends and relatives. Many photo development sites, such as http://www.ofoto.com or http://www.photoworks.com/ , will allow you to mail in your undeveloped film and then store some of them in personal webspaces. As companies expanded onto the Internet, it was inevitable that so too would the registries. Many stores offer online registry viewing and purchasing, for those out-of-town guests. Some, such as http://www.weddingwishes.com.au/ or http://www.eventsgifts.com/ even allow you to create your registry on the convenience of your home or work computer. Most major department stores today offer online registries as well. With multimedia, not only could one share pictures but also videos and records from the wedding. With free homepages, like http://www.tripod.com and http://hometown.aol.com , one could create their own websites and online photo albums. Sites such as, Funtigo Online Photo Album and Snapfish, help you create those online albums. Or you can purchase software like Virtual Album or PhotoImpact and DVD PictureShow to make it more professional. Many local and popular magazines and newspapers offer a variety of online advise services. If those fail, there are some personal sites started to offer advise of what others have gone through. From the proper way to address an invitation to the latest fashions in bridal gowns, a bride-to-be can find all they need online. As the wedding draws closer, the couple can easily setup travel and hotel arrangements for their guests. If you’d like to have your wedding in some romantic remote location, you can check out Weddings Abroad or similar sites. And as the day arrives, most airlines provide online, up-to-the-hour, information on flights arrivals. Finally, there are some new places that offer online viewing of the wedding as it happens. Recently, I "attended" a wedding being conducted at Little Chapel of the Flowers of two Internet friends of mine. One of the features they offer is the ability to watch the wedding online. Through streaming video I was able to participate in the wedding. The image came across at the same quality as most video chats these days, with jumps every couple of seconds to advance the images. So no, it wasn’t like actually being there but when traveling wasn’t feasible, this was the next best thing. In fact, we had so many friends there, we ended up crashing their server. The site also offered the ability, after the wedding, to purchase a downloaded and thus much cleaner copy of the video for preserving this important day. Go To Page: 1 2 |
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