Glosite.com: Your First Step in Sane Wedding Planning

I often find myself having the same conversation with people about wedding planning: Pinterest wants us to believe that the key to successful wedding planning is all about aesthetics. But the truth is, planning an awesome wedding is really about organization. (I know, it breaks my disorganized little heart.) Because nothing kills your DIY buzz like realizing you have no idea where you put that pile of RSVPs. But there is hope! If you’re just getting started wedding planning (or better yet, just starting to feel like you’re in over your head with wedding planning), the easiest thing you can do for yourself is sign up with Glosite.com. At its core, Glö is a guest management tool that helps keep you organized so you can do fun things like making that surreal cloud backdrop for your ceremony. But there’s actually way more to it than that.

A More Robust Wedding Website

Glö started out as a platform to provide wedding websites with a little more oomph. Where others were focused mostly on themes, Glosite.com is all about function. With Glö, not only do you get a beautiful website (with templates from our own APW designers, and the ability to upload your own custom design), but you also get powerful tools designed specifically for weddings, such as digital invitations and targeted RSVPs. Glosite.com founder Taryn explains:

We are focused specifically on weddings, which means our entire site and all the features are designed around what is needed for this type of event. For instance, we get that your wedding celebration is probably made up of a few different “events” (like a rehearsal dinner, a ceremony, and a reception) and that every guest might not be invited to every event. So we make sure that you have a way to indicate which guests should see a specific event, along with the related RSVP questions, on your site. We don’t want anyone to have hurt feelings.

The Best of many Worlds

While Glö was designed to help modern-minded couples stay organized while wedding planning, Taryn understands that different guests have different needs, so she created Glosite.com with total flexibility. She says:

We get that you might want to mix and match paper and email invitations, save the dates, thank you’s, etc. All of the designs in our boutique feature matching paper options.

So whether your sister would just lose a paper invitation in her junk drawer, or if your grandmother doesn’t even have email, you can send them both the same beautifully designed invitation without having to do any extra work, with a digital invitation going to your sister and a matching paper one going to Nana. (Bonus: if you’re planning an international wedding, you can send a different variation of your digital invite in another language to any number of guests.) Plus, with Glö’s advanced RSVP technology, you can stay in touch with everyone on a per-event basis and make sure all your guests are in the know leading up to the wedding itself. And with Glö’s tracking feature, you don’t have to sit around wondering if your cousin got his invite, or if it got lost in the mail because Glö tells you when an invite has been opened or viewed. Score. Here’s how Glö RSVPs look in the wild:

Tons of New Features

Glosite.com has been a favorite of APWers for years now (Taryn was an APW reader herself). But last year, Glö relaunched with a brand new website, and a ton of new features, many of which were inspired by APW readers themselves. A few of the highlights include:

• A refreshed look for Glö’s email invitations and save the dates (aka Glovites)
• Completely responsive websites (yup, even if you upload your own website design—it will look awesome on a mobile phone, tablet or computer)
• Complete control over password protection on your site—you can choose to include it or not (Editor’s note: most wedding websites don’t do this!)
• RSVP summaries by event—Glö now does the heavy lifting (and by that, they mean counting) for you
• Website privacy—Glö will block search engines from finding your site if you’d like them to (no more weird friends from college stalking your wedding details)
• Numerous new design features (the best way to see ’em is to play around with a site design!)

Subscriptions for Glosite.com start at .99 per month or for a year and vary depending on how you’d like to use the site and how many guests are in your guest list. Which is a small price to pay for sanity. And never having to wonder where you put that stack of RSVPs.

No matter how much you love them (or how much they love you in return), getting your guests to respond to wedding-related activities can be one of the more challenging aspects of wedding planning. (I won’t even pretend I’m not that person who hangs onto an RSVP card until a week after it’s due.) But with Glö, you can do yourself the small favor of making the whole process a little easier, a little saner, and a hell of a lot more organized.

Get a Free 21-Day Trial with Glö when you click here.