Have your say!

It's difficult to get perspective on something when you're standing close to it, you need to approach from a distance to see it properly. That's why we need to get all the feedback we can on our site, to stop us from losing our perspective. We can't do everything straight away, but we try to listen as much as we can.

As we've said before we're just starting out, so if you have any ideas, especially for new themes, then now is the time to think about how you can help to shape Paperless Wedding so it works for you, so please send us all your comments, both good and er...constructively critical.

Here are a few of the comments we've had recently:

“We don't like the way your example themes all use the Sky Tower, it's too Auckland centric, and what's all that latin text about?”

We're not expecting you to be classics scholars, the latin is used by publishers and designers as placeholder text so that the content isn't distracting from the design (see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum), it is possibly achieving the opposite effect in this case though, so we're going to change it to use much friendlier example weddings. We'll also soon be featuring some venues as examples from all over both Islands and some South Pacific ones too. We're especially keen to plug eco-friendly venues, so if anybody knows of one, let us know.

“Your designs are cool! Can we use them on printed invitations, not all our guests have email?”

We've always intended to allow for printing of our designs on recycled paper, next week we're going to be talking with Claire, one of our talented designers, about transferring the designs on the site into print, although this might not be as simple as you might think, so you may have to be quite patient with us.

In the meantime, if you have guests you think don't have email, try asking them, you might be surprised to find they do, even though they don't have internet at home. If they really don't, you can always add them onto another person's invitation, then they can reply on their behalf. One of our couples, Jason and Taryn, have put some of their family on their Mum's invitation, then she's going to show them the site and reply for them when they visit. Alternatively, why not send out a few invites by card (make sure it's tree friendly), our system lets you send invitations to yourself and then reply on behalf of those who use snail mail, that way you can keep tracking your rsvps.

“Can we send out thank you cards to our guests?”

This is one of the things we'll be working on soon and plan to get out there in January, along with the ability to send out reminders to your lazier mates. Thank yous will link in with the gift list which our geek team is working on now and will be released shortly. Aside from your wish to extend your gratitude, the thank you will also be a great way to remind your guests that the site is still there and they can then log back in an upload their photos of the big day (or days!).

So make sure you contact us on rsvp@paperlesswedding.co.nz with your suggestions and comments!