Planning your Facebook wedding

As the first generation of Facebook users gets older, Facebook applications are popping up that weren’t around initially. Now you can even plan your wedding on Facebook.

 One option is Wedding Book, which basically lets you create a profile page for your wedding as if it were a living thing. And in this weird age of the big-time wedding industry, a bride-to-be – who may spend two years or more in the planning stage – may indeed start to feel that her wedding is alive, in a scary Frankenstein kind of way. Wedding Book offers a Wedding Wall, fields where you can enter the names of your wedding party (only ten initially, but don’t worry, you can add more), and fields for basic info like location, date and, of course, registry.

Cool as it is, Wedding Book doesn’t offer a lot of help with the difficult planning stages. For that you need other applications: for example, Wedding Budget, which will take the total amount you’re willing to spend and the total number of guests, then helps you divide your budget neatly into how much you can spend on food, drinks, etc. Side note: the default budget is $25,000. And if you don’t find that a little heartbreaking, well…you’ve probably been planning your wedding for two years and are losing perspective. 

If you don’t like either of these options, you might check out My Wedding Notes, which bills itself as “the world’s first group wedding planner.” Because it takes a village to plan a wedding. “Share your wedding joy with your friends and plan your wedding night!” the app urges. Hopefully you’re not sharing your wedding night joy with your friends. Although who am I to judge?

 This application lets you share ideas and photos with your friends. Also, polls are involved, although since I didn’t want to create an account with MyWeddingNotes.com, I can’t be sure how that plays out.

 Though it sounds a little silly, probably because that’s the tone I’m using to describe it, I imagine this would actually be a useful tool. My best friend was recently a maid of honor and my understanding is that you spend several years emailing with the bride every day about everything from venues to dresses to food to dresses to guest lists to dresses. (This is where the photo sharing will come in handy.) You might as well have a wedding central you can log into instead of keeping it all stored on your email account.

As Facebook users get older, I look forward to seeing what else pops up on the site. Pre-school profiles? Groups called “I sent my kid to an ivy league school and all I got was this lousy Facebook group”? Portals to denture manufacturers? We have so much to look forward to.

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