Happy holidays everyone! I hope you are your loved ones are happy, safe and healthy!
When starting this wedding planning journey I stuck to the rules of etiquette. I wanted to do everything right and since there wasn’t anyone in my family who had planning a wedding experience, I leaned heavy in WeddingWire to guide me through it. My fiancé and I put everything on our wedding website that we had been designing for months. We sent save the dates in November with the link and we are now finding out that A. No one understood what a save the date is. B. No one turned the card over to find the link, which we are surprised because there’s a giant picture of us on the back as well. C. No one knows what a wedding website is. We read repeatedly that it is rude to flat out send your registry so we put the information on our wedsite and sent the link through our cards. Most cards are already misplaced because no one knew what to do with a save the date, many thought it was a formal invite (if you are still planning and haven’t sent out save the dates, go magnetic and save yourselves the stress) traditional weddings are not common in either of our families. There are many marriages but they are all court house weddings so the traditions and etiquette we are following leaves our family lost. The last wedding in my family was in 1996 I was 4 and a flower girl. And my fiancé’s was his mom, years before he was born. So I’m at a lost with how to get everyone the information. Even all of our covid safety and efforts we will be taking has not gotten to be viewed because no one visited the website so we are finding ourselves repeating the information that is already readily available on our site. My next question is what are some plan b ideas to get our guest all of this information. We especially want them to have the covid information because it’s so important and we want our guests to have a peace of mind when making the decision to attend or view virtually. We are not having a couple or bridal shower, so aside from the formal invitation there isn’t any other wedding stationary going out. In our situation and a it okay to break away from etiquette and tradition to get the information to our guests?
Thoughts and suggestions?