Webcasting Your Wedding

You've heard of webcasts for business meetings. It cuts down on travel expenses and allows everyone to partake in the meeting activities. Apparently, webcasting has made its way to weddings!

A few companies and a handful of videographers are providing wedding webcasting services to their clients. This allows couples to elope but still include their wedding guests in the event. The difference is the wedding guests enjoy the wedding in the comfort of their own homes or offices.

This is a great idea for relatives and friends who can't afford to travel or can't make it to the wedding for some other reason--illness or having to work. It's also a great way to throw an environmentally friendly wedding because it cuts down on the travel emissions, food production, and more.

One company that handles destination weddings in the Destin, Florida area is www.LiveVows.com. They'll either handle the webcast for you or provide the raw wedding footage on DVD, which you can then share with your virtual guests. Another company that handles various locations is www.WebCastMyWedding.net. You can either handle the webcast yourself for a fraction of the cost, or they'll send a company representative to handle the webcast for you--for a higher price than if you handle it yourself.

Several Vegas wedding chapels also offer the webcasting service, which takes the pressure off couples who choose to elope, but still want to share their special day with friends and family. And it may just be a great way to keep those relatives at bay that you don't want to have to deal with anyway!