Facebook event or Whatsapp group for friends and relatives, a website with the new couple's special dating story and a map of how to get to the place of celebration, a mobile phone application that will help you plan every detail of the wedding and ultimately your own wedding hashtag or hashtag , to find the photos of the guests more easily afterwards Instagram – these are all things that cannot be done without at a wedding in today's digital age.

The portal Līgavām.lv has collected creative ideas on how to use digital advantages for your special day:

1. Get inspired Instagram and Pinterest ! Without the involvement of technology in wedding planning and in the wedding itself, it really cannot be done. When preparing for the wedding, a Pinterest mood board could be useful to get ideas and select photos for inspiration. The selected photos can later be shown to both the wedding planners and the photographer, as well as others involved, so that they can better understand how you envisioned your special day. Undoubtedly, Instagram , where you can follow countless Latvian and foreign wedding blogs, portals, fashion designers, wedding planners, photographers and various service providers or simply couples who are preparing for a wedding or have already celebrated a wedding, is also a great website for inspiration. We definitely recommend you to follow and get inspiration from us too @ligavam.lv , Latvia's TOP wedding photographers @janiskonons , @miks_sheels , @ainars_mazjanis , @photolienepetersone , @briinums , @sasch.me , @ratnieksjanis , @bazalyphotography , @kristinegrinvalde , @gatis_locmelis , @holdmephoto , @billijs and others; for wedding organizers – @alisekolosova , @ingaberzina , @iluta_mintdeco , @bbbettija , @caramelevents_riga , @my_chic_wedding and others, while you can get various ideas from foreign Instagram accounts if you follow, for example, popular blogs @greenweddingshoes , @stylemepretty , for magazines @brides and @bridesmagazine , @whitemagazine for a romantic boho-chic style wedding @bhldn , various DIY! for ideas @lovelybride , wedding dress designers , whose names do not require comments – @verawanggang , @reem_acra , @krikorjabotian , @inbaldrorofficial , @inesdisanto , @moniquelhuillierbride , as well as @lauredesagazan , @privatlebelweddingdresses , @shehurina , but for invitations you can look for inspiration – @weddingpaperdivas .
2. Planning a wedding on a mobile device! For those who are close to digital devices, it might seem much more convenient to plan a wedding using various mobile applications. Both iOS and Android offer various free and paid applications for planning your wedding budget, creating a guest list (using your mobile phone and Facebook friends' contact list), as well as creating a wedding schedule. In all these cases, Google Drive will also be useful, which allows you to create both a guest list and separate folders related to the wedding, and what is no less important - to share information with other participants.
3. Create a website to share your story! Although having your own wedding blog/home page with Facebook victory may have lost some of its popularity, there are still couples who choose to create a page on one of the free sites (for example Wix or WordPress ) to not only tell their dating story, I would post photos of my pre-wedding photo shoot and a wish list of gifts, but also share my feelings during the pre-wedding wait. There are couples who continue the activity of the page even after the wedding, creating a family blog site where they can share events that are important to them.
4. Facebook group or event for guests! If, however, creating your own blog seems too complicated, then one of the trends of recent years is definitely Facebook group or event creation for wedding guests. The organizer of the celebration, Inga Bērziņa/ bannte , also states that more and more often couples create their own special wedding group, where various information about the wedding day itself, locations, preferred clothes, gifts and other practical issues are posted. It is also popular to create separate groups for the guests themselves or for the bridesmaids and groom's brothers, where matters that the new couple do not need to know or need to be kept secret for the time being are discussed. There are couples who take advantage of the digital age even more and stop sending paper invitations by creating a Facebook event where they invite the Facebook friends they want to see at their wedding. Such an approach could be more characteristic of younger couples, who may not be so important to adhere to traditional values.
5. Your own logo! Digital, graphic or calligraphic, but the special logo of the new family is also one of the brightest trends of recent years. The developed logo can be used both in wedding invitations and other details, and, for example, if you have decided to entertain the guests with a photo booth at the wedding, then you can embed it on each of the pictures to make them even more special. "We create the logo of the new couple at almost every wedding. Until now, it was interesting to create a logo like a rooster, in an atypical emerald green tone. We have also created a wedding logo using calligraphy. This year, one wedding will have details that will be laser-cut in wood - inscriptions, table cards, table numbers, guest book, or everything with and around the tree," Inga Bērziņa/ bannte shares her experience.
6. Modern wedding trend – its own special hashtag ! #jurisprecsantu, #leldeprecēuldi, #zalkalniprecas, #berzinudiena and other hashtags are a way to follow your special day on social media. There are several secrets to creating a successful hashtag - first of all , you should keep in mind the saying that everything genius is simple and you shouldn't create an overly complicated or embellished hashtag so that guests can memorize it and don't have to ask the person sitting next to you every now and then what it really was. Secondly , the recommendation is to check beforehand whether such a hashtag does not already exist for other weddings - you wouldn't want to end up in another family's story and vice versa, would you? Thirdly, , it is worth remembering that it can also be a bit frivolous and unconventional. If you call each other by nicknames, then you can use them to create your wedding hashtag. Finally, one of the most important prerequisites is not only to create a hashtag in time, but also to notify the wedding guests, organizers and others involved. The hashtag can already be included in the invitation, thus allowing it to live its virtual life even before the real event. On the other hand, it should be especially remembered on the wedding day itself, by writing on the table cards, creating a beautiful chalkboard inscription, placing as small flags in drinks or even printing on the gifts intended for the guests, or anywhere you can imagine.