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Google Spaces wedding planning tips as seen on @offbeatbride

Mad how-to skills: Using Google Spaces for wedding planning

We love us some Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) for wedding planning. You can create spreadsheets, shareable documents, and all kinds of helpful databases for your wedding planning team to use. Google just recently launched a new service called Google Spaces which functions as a project planning tool for sharing ideas, photos, links, YouTube vids, and all kinds of documents on which to comment and share between your people. Here’s how we’d use Google Spaces for wedding planning.

how to make a wedding website alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

7 ways to make a wedding website guests will ACTUALLY use

I’m pretty sure here in 2020, we all know why wedding websites (aka “wedsites“) are so awesome. Printed invitations can only hold so much information, and it makes things easier for your guests when you’ve got a personalized website to tell them everything they need to know …

But how to get your guests to ACTUALLY read your wedding website?

Offbeat wedding registry ideas as seen on @offbeatbride

Steal these 35+ super offbeat gift registry ideas from REAL SoKind registries

SoKind Registry is also featured in our Offbeat Vendors guide!

Our kinship with SoKind Registry makes total sense when you know that they focus on gifts of experience, charitable causes, and non-stuff gifts. Not acquiring a bunch of stuff makes total sense for most couples. We decided to work with SoKind to find some of the most interesting, most “why didn’t I think of that” offbeat gift registry ideas from REAL SoKind registries.

Use a shared Pinterest board alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Use a shared Pinterest board as the visual “Shit People Suggest” spreadsheet

We all know that planning a wedding = a love/hate relationship with Pinterest. Tons of inspiration and easily searchable database, but there’s inspiration overload and it can also make you feel bad about your design and DIY realities. Offbeat Bride reader Katie had a brilliant idea to make Pinterest your ally again…