Weddingbee Blog

Since Mr. Eggplant’s occupation specifically involves email marketing, we decided to put his skills to work and send out the bulk of our “save the dates” as html emails. Most of our guests spend their time in front of a computer at work so it’s convenient and interactive to receive emails. The email was actually more complicated than it looks. Mr. Eggplant created code for it, linked it to a jpeg that’s hosted on our friend’s server, and sent the email via smtp. </ nerd talk >

Here are a few shots of what we sent out last month:

Gmail subscribers saw this. For viewers that opted not to display images, Mr. Eggplant coded the text to read: “PLEASE DISPLAY THIS IMAGE. Save the date for Mr. Eggplant and Miss Eggplant’s wedding. October X, 2007. If you are reading this, it means you’re not displaying images which imakes us sad. =( Please allow this image to be displayed so you can experience our full dorkiness. Thank you! And if you’ve read all of this, kudos to you, our detail oriented friend! - Mr. Eggplant and Miss Eggplant”

After the recipient selected to view images, our STD poster would appear (modeled after the “A Lot Like Love” movie poster because Mr. Eggplant is a movie buff). Details of our wedding were posted at the bottom of the email along with a link to our wedsite. We also ordered postcards on Vistaprint to send snail mail STDs to our guests who don’t spend as much time on the ’net.

The email provided a link to a teaser page for our wed-site that Mr. Eggplant’s college friend helped to design for a small payment of a Nintendo Wii. The page linked to wufoo, a website with online forms that we used to gather our friends’ and families’ addresses.

We also finished our “About Us!” site page. We’ll be working on creating more content for our wed-site within the next months.

This is a screenshot of the form that Mr. Eggplant and I created on wufoo.com. We uploaded an image of our wed-site background and incorporated our wedding colors so that it had a cohesive feel. The form was used to gather address information, music requests, and other guest input. In one of the questions, we asked our friends: “What do you want to see at our wedding?” Reading their replies was quite a hoot. If our guests have their way, we’ll be choreographing an interpretive dance piece.

Almost all of our email recipients have completed the wufoo form. I recommend wufoo.com if you want an easy way to collect information from your guests and a fun way for them to participate in your wedding. Plus, you get three free forms as a trial!