As you plan for your wedding day, you may choose to use one or some of the many wedding resource sites available on the web. Depending on where you live, there may be some fantastic local (or what we call regional) sites that are popular. For Example, in New Jersey, the best regional site available for brides’ research is NJWedding.com. If managed properly, such as NJWedding.com, these regional websites can be very useful. However, it is hard to ignore the incredibly powerful tools available through some of the national wedding planning websites such as TheKnot.com and WeddingWire.com.

With the proper business models in place, these large wedding resources are able to develop and make available to you just about any web based tool you need to plan your wedding. How do you choose which one to use? Why not use several of them? Although you could choose to use the planning timeline tool from one and the seating arrangement tool from another, it would behoove you to stick to one resource. With the complexity of making so many arrangements for your big day, it just makes sense to get into the groove of working with one platform, mastering it’s intricacies and maximizing it’s potential to assist you.

Since it’s launch, I have been continually impressed with every aspect of the heavy-hitting wedding resource, WeddingWire.com. The following are just a few of the tools available to help you:

• A Dashboard to give an overview of wedding day and planning stages
• A variety of feature rich wedding websites templates for you to choose from and use
• A checklist tool
• A budget tool
• A guest list tool
• A drag & drop seating arrangement tool

And these are just some of the tools. One of the most important tools, which I didn’t list above, is the Find a Vendor tool. This is where I think WeddingWire has championed the other sites. WeddingWire has developed it’s web 2.0 site so that the vendor search tool is primarily user driven.  In other words, it incorporates modern technologies in a way that makes your search for the right professional easy and trustworthy.

Customer reviews and ratings are encouraged and can be very helpful as you sift through the many professionals for any service you might need. Each professional has a storefront on WeddingWire that will give you even more insight about the service you are considering and of course you have the option of contacting them directly through WeddingWire or any other way you find convenient. This original rating and review feature sets the site above the rest. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention how well the site works. It’s always quick and accurate. You will always get the info you expect. Don’t mistake it’s simplicity for a lacking of anything. Surely it’s simplicity and efficiency is by design. Give it a shot… you won’t regret it!