Today I’m breaking out of the normal ‘professional’ mode and using our blog for what blogs were originally intended for, personal opinion.

I can’t believe that in this day and age, we still have so many so called wedding know-it-all's who are telling today’s Modern Bride & Groom to cut back on their guest list to save money.

Yet once again, TheKnot.com has published their “10 Ways to Save Big on Your Wedding”.

2. Cut the Guest List We know it's tough, but one of the fastest and most effective ways to lower your wedding cost is to pare down the invitees. Get out that red pen! At $100 a head, taking 10 guests off the guest list saves $1,000! Also consider the size of your wedding party: Gifts, hair, and makeup are cheaper for two than for ten.

Knot Note: Having trouble figuring out which guests to cut? Make a rule and whittle away. Rule #1: If you have never spoken to, met, or heard the name of a particular guest, they get cut. Rule #2: Anyone whose bedtime occurs before 9 p.m. will miss the cake cutting anyway, and probably won't have the best time. (All under-12 year-olds get a no) Rule #3: Significant others? Consider someone worthy of an invite if he or she is currently living with or has been in a relationship for more than one year with the friend you want to invite.

This article was just appalling. Do these people NOT take anytime whatsoever learning about NEW and innovative ways to do Weddings? Are they just so stuck in the past with Old School ways that they are so out of touch with today’s technological advancements that they just don’t know or just don’t care?

Whether you use our service offering or one of the half dozen competitors for the wedding broadcast in today’s world you don’t have to cut back on your guest list at all. In fact, you can even expand on your guest list and even invite those that maybe you hadn’t thought of inviting and now end up with more wedding gifts for doing so. Use one of the live wedding broadcast services online today and use the money that you were going to spend on a hundred guests to show 30 or so a kicking good time!

Or how about using any ONE of the live wedding broadcast services out there to save money and put that aside for a honey moon or just invite 10 or 15 of your closest friends and family members to an exotic destination location and then invite 200 or more online. Do the so called leaders in the wedding industry even bother to keep up with these things?

We let TheKnot.com and the WeddingChannel.com and just about every wedding organization online offering new information for brides and grooms know about us and what we do.

Yet they all seem to still embrace the old school mentality that you should tell some of your closest friends and family members…”ehhh…we can’t afford to feed you so you’re not invited.”

With our offering or anyone of our competitors such as Idostream.com, you do have other options besides telling your friends and family they can’t come. This is the very reason we have chosen to advertise and have openly embraced the wonderful modern age people at GetMarried.com and why we will continue to do so.

GetMarried.com understands today’s Bride and openly accepts the fact that world and the ‘wedding’ is changing. If my wife and I were doing it all over again, I sure wouldn’t use TheKnot.com or the WeddingChannel.com for any information for our wedding concerns but then I always have enjoyed cutting edge technology. I was the first in line to get a new iPod for example.

Harmony Walton at GetMarried.com truly gets it and new technology for today's weddings!
She wrote an article about LiveWeddingBroadcast.TV and it really sums up our service offering so well.

Oh well, I guess it’s ultimately up to the real important people in the wedding business. THE BRIDE AND GROOM, and we’ll just have to see how long it takes these OLD school bridal know-it-alls to jump on the new modern age of technological advancement called the INTERNET. Yep that’s right so called bridal experts; it’s not just for websites anymore. Now you can actually broadcast your wedding live in real time and your guests can actually leave you video messages; believe it or not.

My question for you, Bridal Experts, is where have you been for the last two years that you don’t know this??????

Okay, back to professional business mode again.
Brian Pike

Founder
LiveWeddingBroadcast.TV