Editor’s note: This article was first published in February 2011. The Google Weddings portal no longer exists, Picnik closed in 2012 and Picasa was retired in 2016; the article describes the services as they were then.
Google wants to be there on your wedding day and, above all, it wants to help you save time and share your wedding through its online tools. On the Google Weddings portal you’ll find tools to preserve the memory of your wedding with Google Sites, and you can also design your own wedding invitations very easily with Picnik.
Google has brought several services together to make this big day easier, using Picasa albums to store your photos and giving you the chance to put together your wedding gift list and share it in Google Docs itself.
On top of that, you can find the best deals on wedding dresses, shoes and suits through Google Maps, where, as a new feature, you can compare prices, make bookings and so on.
Google is becoming more and more present in our lives, to the point that 80% of people don’t know the full range of Google’s services. We’ve talked before about the profitable wedding business, and now Google is entering it the way only Google knows how: by offering its services to users completely free of charge.
The only drawback of the platform for Spanish speakers is that, for now, it’s only available in English, but with the help of a translator it’s very intuitive and the steps are easy to follow.
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Featured image: Fin Fahey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr.
