Cyber Planning
Innovative wedding technology for plugged-in brides and grooms. — Neil Hughes
Google Does Weddings
Do it yourself and save money with Google’s suite of online tools. The search giant features some of its free Web services as an all-in-one solution to plan and promote your big day at google.com/weddings. With Google, you can create a free wedding site, personalize your announcements with Picnik, create wedding planning documents with Google Docs and share your photos with Picasa Web Albums.
Be Your Own DJ
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With a laptop loaded with a music library, you can cut out the expense of a band or a DJ from your wedding budget. But buying hundreds of songs from online music stores like iTunes can still be costly. So here’s a simple solution: Build your perfect play list with rhapsody.com. For $10 per month, you can download all the songs you want from the site’s repository of 11 million songs from major artists.
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Vendor Reviews
Wedding planning meets the power of online social networking at weddingwire.com, a website with more than 200,000 collected reviews of wedding vendors. The site also offers forums where users can connect with others, a list of popular songs for ceremonies and receptions, and a collection of wedding photos to help inspire your own unique ideas.
Broadcast Your Wedding
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Share your big day with all of those who couldn’t make it by streaming your wedding live online. Plug the Microsoft LifeCam Cinema 720p HD Webcam ($49.99 at compusa.com or amazon.com) into a computer’s USB port and go online to ustream.tv, a free video-streaming service, to broadcast your wedding event to the world. The camera shoots video as well as still photos in auto-focus mode. n