Mary Lee Herrington is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Reverie Magazine, an online wedding magazine based in London, England, and founder and Chief Wedding Designer & Planner of Forever & Ever Events, a wedding planning and design firm based in London.
The bride is the membership director in New York for the Knot, an online wedding site.
WHEN I first started the online wedding resource business, TheKnot.com, back in 1996, it was really tough to raise money.
Simone Online wedding invitations are far from taboo, but they do lack the aura of a special occasion that comes with paper versions arriving via snail mail.
The newlyweds joined the Martha Stewart online wedding registry, selecting such items as a $68 set of silver-plated Saint Hilaire cocktail picks with elephant tops.
She says that poor user experience on many wedding websites has led to a decline in what could be called "traditional" online wedding directories.
She owns NJWeddingPlanner.com, an online wedding guide for New Jersey, and is an editor of Style.com, the Web site for Vogue magazine in New York.
But whether received in hand or viewed online, wedding invitations that reference gifts annoy the people who receive them: too much focus on gifts instead of an enthusiastic and sincere invitation to come to such a special event.
Mr. Smith is retired, and his son, a former refinancing specialist, started kicking around the idea of a gift refund site, and looked at online wedding etiquette sites for insight.
We received a multipage online wedding invitation from friends we are not close to, stating that they don't require a gift but listing many pricey restaurants from which they would like gift certificates.
The co-founder of another end-of-life planning company, Everplans, formed the basis for Everplans by drawing on her own experience planning her wedding with The Knot's online wedding planning tool.
