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When we started planning our wedding, Mr. Bruschetta and I set up a joint email account. We hadn’t previously shared an email address, nor did we have any combined finances (and still don’t).
Thanks to Gmail, we’ve been able to stay organized (for the most part) throughout the planning process. We’ve diligently labeled (and, when appropriate, archived) email conversations, created Google Docs to track vendor research and guest mailing addresses, and synched our calendars so one knows when the other is available.
We each continue to maintain our own email accounts, and use these individual mailboxes independently and regularly. We have our own passwords, and maintain a level of privacy that, despite our very close relationship, I really value.
I haven’t given much thought to what we’ll do with our joint email account — mylastname.hislastname@gmail.com — after the wedding. Most likely, we’ll forward messages to another joint account I created — myfirstnameandhisfirstname@gmail.com — so we can still take advantage of the joint calendar function, and keep in touch with mutual friends more easily.
So… do you we-mail? How have you organized your contacts and conversations with vendors?
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We also created a joint account with gmail, myfirstnameandhisfirstname@gmail.com. And I have to say, without gmail we would be so disorganized! I love it, and we use it to the fullest.
We also have our joint email everywhere, we even put it on the rsvps.
We don’t, but we do share all the important google documents with each other in our ‘with this ring’ folder-
We both have each other’s passwords. If we need to get into the other’s account, we just ask, then do it. Although I am still exploring google’s many functions and I think a joint account would be really great for a lot of purposes (like my mom always sending jokes to BOTH of us!). Maybe we’ll we-mail it…
he recently created hisfirstnameandmyfirstname@hotmail.com to use for rehersal dinner RSVP’s. I think we’ll probably create the same gmail account to use for shared “stuff” and forward the hotmail account to it. Because….well….I’m a gmail snob 
we have a wedding email address.
When we’re married, we will probably have a shared one that we will use for our family blog in CA, and we’ll keep our separate email address (though I will get a new one with my new last name when we’re married.)
I doubt it will be be hisfirstnameandmyfirstname@gmail.com because when we were looking for a url to host our wedding website–we realized how many more of ‘us’ there are the in the world! Our names are too common.
I forgot to mention like Latte we probably can’t use our first names since they are pretty common.
@MightySapphire: @Lillindy: I love our joint account mainly for the Calendar function, which has made scheduling wedding appointments — or pinpointing a time for date night — so much easier!
@ggsb: LOL! I’m a Gmail snob, too! I have four accounts, all for different purposes (professional/networking, personal, newsletters/mailing lists and wedding/joint).
No offense, friends, but I hate couples email addresses. I don’t like sending mail to them because I’m not sure who will be reading it first and the emails I’ve received from them tend to have an impersonal christmas-card vibe “WE had the best year…” I LIKE that I have separate relationships with my friends who are married or in couples - if I want them to get the same email from me, I can just send it to both of them.
Also, gmail allows you to share docs and calendars with anyone else - you don’t need a common account.
My fiance bought me a MacBook for New Year’s Day (weird I know…) and he also bought “MobileMe”. MobileMe allows us to have our email address, which he doesn’t “get” but it’s our “Brangelina” name. We also get to share the calendar (but have individual calendars within it, ie. Buck, Becky, Both) AND share our contacts which is clutch! What’s best about all of this is everything (email, calendars, contacts) automatically syncs directly to BOTH of our iPhones.
This has put me in HEAVEN while planning our wedding.
We use our separate email accounts (both gmail), and have a joint calendar that we both can access for wedding stuff. I’m kind of insane when it comes to email, so if we had a joint email - it would really just be me checking it all the time. We may set up an email address for RSVPs, but it’ll be off of our wedding website domain and just forward to my gmail.
We do have each other’s passwords, and use them mostly with each other’s permission.
We don’t share an account but we still use gmail for all of our organizing. We have a shared calendar and just share google docs with each other. There is a lot of stuff that both of us don’t need (or care) to see, so we just share what is necessary. I love the fact that gmail has so many helpful planning features.
Funny you should write about this, because I just set up our joint we-mail account this weekend (hisfirstnamemyfirstname@gmail.com). Right now we’re using it for Web sites that we set up for “us” like our photo site on smugmug and our wedding web site. I heart gmail for it’s functionability. I heart it a lot!
We don’t “we-mail”…yet (OMG that is the cutest slang)
Thank you for the idea of sync-ing calendars, I hadn’t explored much of Gmail, but I think I will look into this functionality and try it out!
we have separate gmail accounts but share the google calendar (you can do this without a common account, you just need to ‘allow’ the other user to see it. you can color code each person’s appointments to make it easier to see). it works out great because we can keep our own accounts and still see each other’s and shared appointments. not taking his last name so we’ll continue keeping our own emails afterwards too.
We have our own emails, but I recently set up a joint email account for us. It seems so much easier to just give our family and friends just ONE email to get ahold of us. I like that we have a hisfirstnameandmyfirstname@gmail.com. I’ll definitely try out the other features of google! I only mess with google reader and I think that’s the best thing ever!
Never thought of that, but the FI hates to e-mail and is not the biggest fan of technology. I just keep track of the details and show him if he needs to see them. He barely checks his e-mail now as it is!
I wish I we had set up a joint email account for wedding stuff. As it is, I have worked with some vendors from my account and he has worked with some from his. It’s a little messy.
There is a big difference between having a wedding-specific account and actually sharing an email address for general purposes. Like Jenn R, I do think it’s totally weird when couples have joint email, facebook, etc. Its something my parents generation does a lot, probably dating back to the days when you had to pay for an email address (gasp!)
yeah we actually set one up for the wedding especially for our vendors. but we still primarily use our personal accounts as well.
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Mrs. Bruschetta, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 25, Communication Professional
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Physical Therapy Graduate Student
Engagement Date: November 30, 2007
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: St. Thomas of Villanova Church & the F.U.E.L. House
About Me: I’m a self-proclaimed grammar geek who loves singing (like, really belting it) in the car. My mister and I are planning a vibrant summer soiree celebrating our passions – including food and Philly – and when we make it official, we’ll have been together for eight years! Being super competitive is in my nature, and talking excessively is in my genes. I’ve got a terrible sense of direction, but can always easily find my way into Mr. Bruschetta’s arms.
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