1st post for a while as I’ve just got back from my wedding and honeymoon. I’m still in the US clearing up a few loose ends before coming back to London and kicking off some new Microsoft Advertising initiatives.
While I was away from the hustle and bustle of online advertising and drinking Mai Tai’s on the beaches of Hawaii it struck me how easy it was to have organised and executed our wedding and honeymoon all online.
We got married in Seattle and had to plan it from London with the occasional trip back to finalise some details.
The venue was the family home, but everything else was done online.
The catering, tables and chair rentals, DJ and music selections, wine, beer and champagne ordering and even the invitation design was all done on the web and I won’t go into details, but with a bit of work we managed to halve the cost of a regular wedding back in the UK with a bit of bartering and price comparison.
Ashley even bought her wedding dress from an internet store never having tried it on and she looked fabulous on the day!
Just makes me wonder about the mark up some venues charge for taking the “stress” out of organising a wedding – we didn’t really get stressed at all. Just some forward thinking and help from some friends and we had simply the best day.
So before all this interweb stuff, how on earth did people manage it?
Probably the biggest day of our lives all slotted neatly into place thanks to essentially technology and a lot of savvy folks providing tools and accessible information to make the few hours with our family and friends a day I’ll always cherish and never forget.
Now....back to work for the next 40 years!!!!!!
