You could be one of the first wedding venues in the United States to protect your wedding couple’s privacy, by providing a wedding RSVP system that does NOT sell their information. Many big wedding websites (basically all wedding adv sites) sell your engaged couples’ information to wedding vendors and national advertisers. This makes the big wedding website millions of dollars a year and yet they have the audacity to charge YOU the wedding venue to be listed on their sites. You – the wedding venue owner – have been handing your couples over to big wedding websites for decades! Remove those links and badges from your websites and provide an RSVP option to your couples that does not sell their information. Protect Engaged Couples’ Privacy & Enhance Your Wedding Venue’s Value – contact us today to receive the Wedding Guest Portal program overview with pricing, your Wedding Guest Portal can be featured on YOUR wedding venue website in under a week! Keep reading to see how this program improves your website traffic & could help you book more weddings!
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Almost every big wedding website company offers your booked couples a “FREE Wedding Website” to help plan their wedding, manage RSVP’s and inform wedding guests about wedding day logistics. This is the biggest scam in the wedding industry! This is not a courtesy, this is an effective way to get your couples information and sell it. By providing your couples with a “free wedding website” big wedding advertising companies are stealing so much value from you: taking control of your couples planning process, taking thousands of website visits away from your website monthly, selling your couples to vendors and advertiser. Wedding guests should check in on the venue website! For the first time in wedding industry history, wedding guests will get welcomed & educated by the wedding venue, as it should be!
Why You Should Avoid Big Wedding Websites
When engaged couples use large wedding websites for RSVP management and other services, their private information can be bought and sold to various vendors and advertisers. This can lead to unwanted marketing, spam, and a general feeling of mistrust among couples. By taking control of the RSVP process, you can protect your clients’ data and enhance their overall experience with your venue.
Big Wedding Websites have been stealing your SEO value for years by taking traffic from your website. The more wedding niche specific traffic you have coming to your website the higher you can rank in searching like, “wedding venue near me”. Big wedding websites benefit from diverting traffic that belongs to you, 50 to 400 wedding guests per wedding.
Wedding guests should be coming to your website to find all the relative information they need to have an incredible wedding experience. Wedding venues can provide tons of information that wedding guests need, through the Wedding Guest Portal. Venues should oversee wedding guest education and experience, ensuring happier, better informed guests, less confusion, less policy violation, potentially avoiding bad reviews. Increasing traffic to your website will positively improve SEO and help you generate leads, tours and bookings! We discuss how this impacts your SEO in our weekly Wedding Venue Owner Education Zooms in the Wedding Venue Owners & Management Community group on Facebook.
Introducing the Wedding Guest Portal
By adding our Wedding Guest Portal to your website, you can offer a secure and private RSVP option for the couples who book your venue. This tool not only protects their information but also provides numerous benefits for your business.
Benefits for Your Venue
1. Direct Communication with Wedding Guests
For the first time in the wedding industry, you can communicate directly with the wedding guests from your website. This opens up a new channel for engagement and information sharing, making the entire event smoother and more enjoyable for everyone involved. Your couples will be thrilled to see that your wedding venue is dedicated to providing wedding guests with the best experience possible. Communication is the key to success!
2. Welcome and Educate Guests
With direct access to wedding guests, you can welcome them to your venue and provide essential information about what to expect during the event. This proactive approach can set the tone for a positive experience right from the start.
3. Require Waivers and Acknowledge Venue Policies
Through the Wedding Guest Portal, you can require guests to sign a waiver or acknowledge that they have read and understood the venue policies. This ensures that everyone is on the same page and helps to mitigate any potential issues. This one monumental change to your wedding venue format, could help you reduce risk and liability. Many companies across the country are requiring their customers to sign a waver prior to attending events like concerts, entertainment venues like SkyZone and amusement parks. Your wedding guests have likely agreed to a “terms of use” or “terms and conditions” from lots of other websites they visit like retailers and social media! They are used to this requirement and now our wedding venue owners can consider how they will use this format to improve safety and reduce contract violations at their wedding venue.
4. Compile Wedding Couple Email Addresses
By managing the RSVP process, you can compile a list of email addresses for the wedding guests who RSVP. This valuable resource allows you to share a welcome email the week before the wedding to ensure that you have properly informed wedding guests about your venue layout, impeding weather issues, common parking issues or anything else your wedding guests need to know.
5. Provide a Valuable Resource to Couples
Offering an RSVP option on your website is a valuable resource for engaged couples. It simplifies their planning process and gives them peace of mind knowing that their information is secure. Participating wedding venues will be able to provide wedding guest RSVP updated to their booked couples. No one will be able to buy or sell the couples information or the wedding guest information. Big wedding websites take your website traffic away, our goal is to bring all this information back to the wedding venue website where it belongs.
6. Lead Wedding Education for Your Venue
By taking control of the RSVP process, you will be able to provide wedding education and information for authentically, directly from your venue. This reduces confusion, complaints, and the likelihood of bad reviews. When guests are well-informed, they are more likely to have a positive experience and leave glowing reviews.
In an industry where trust and reputation are everything, taking steps to protect your clients’ privacy is crucial. By offering an RSVP option on your website and adding our Wedding Guest Portal, you can ensure that your couples’ information remains private while reaping numerous benefits for your venue. Don’t let big wedding websites compromise your clients’ trust and steal valuable traffic and communication resources from your wedding venue. Take control of the RSVP process and enhance your venue’s value today.
Ready to get started? Book an onboarding session to learn how you can implement the Wedding Guest Portal on your website and take your venue to the next level. Fill out the form at the top of this article. I can’t wait to connect with you, learn all about your wedding venue & help you turn your wedding venue into a leader in wedding industry communication and elevated wedding guest experience!
I am Didi Russell, and I have been developing the Wedding Guest Portal program for the past 5 years. No one was interested in providing the technical support for this program because there is more money to be made in taking value away from the wedding venue website, not giving power and value back to the small business wedding venue website! I am the only wedding industry advocate creating programs that empower the wedding venue owner by putting powerful lead generating resources back into YOUR hands. I want to see the wedding venue website become the most powerful wedding industry resource for wedding planning, wedding education and wedding venue experience. Trust me, there is more money to be accessed when wedding venue owners work together. If you are willing to work with other wedding venue owners, I can help you thrive in 2025!
