Wedding Website - About Us Section

If all of your guests know both of you, I don't think you need that section. I know that some of my family has not had an opportunity to meet FH and might want to learn a little bit about him. And vice versa.

You could write up the story of how you met, from 3rd person if writing about yourself makes you feel uncomfortable. Ultimately it's up to you!

I wrote ours in 3rd person. A short paragraph about me, a short paragraph about him, how we met, and about us as a couple. I haven't met most of his dad's side of the family, so I wanted to make sure they weren't coming in super blind.

No, you don't need it. Your guests should know you guys by now.

I felt the same way, it was so awkward writing about myself haha. I did it though, because I've never seen a wedding website without one, and just included how we met and the proposal story. I've seen some wedding websites where there is legit a biography for both the bride and groom which seems way over the top to me, so I just kept it more simple and focused on our relationship story and not either one of us individually. I saw another bride on here also include a section on "What We're Up to Now" or something like that, where she explained where they are currently living, what they are doing for work, and their plans for right after the wedding which I thought was really cute.

I only did this section because my wedding website would've just said "Our Story" and had nothing written under it if I had left it blank. If it's not going to leave a gaping hole on your website, then I would skip it.

Skip it

We did an about us - third person, a super brief overall summary on how we met and got to where we are. I personally like reading them before my friends' weddings. Just a cute touch.

I didn't write one. His family knows me n my family love him. Most everyone knows how we met. So I didn't feel the need. Want to do the photos though but most of ours are in my phone n I don'tknowhow to transfer.

We did it because he has some relatives who don't know me, and vice versa, and because we thought the more distant family (even though they know us) might like to catch up a little. We also had fun with it because we wrote the other's section. We only wrote a paragraph, though, so it's not a whole page.

From our website:

Emma is a beautiful and very confident young woman. She currently works full-time as a Legal Assistant. In her free time she stage manages Gilbert & Sullivan operettas and plays saxophone in the First Company Governor's Foot Guard Band. Her hobbies include singing, collecting everything Lucille Ball, and theatre. Anyone can see how much she loves and supports her Zack by the way her voice changes when she talks about him.

Zack graduated in December 2016 from the University of New Haven with a degree in Crime Analysis. He is an intelligent, funny, talented man, and he is always helping other people. His love for Emma is evident every day, from the way he treats her to the look on his face when she walks into the room. His hobbies include gardening and landscaping, building, video games, and learning how things work. In his spare time, he works on the lights and design for SLOCO. Over the summer of 2016, he interned with the Department of Emergency Services & Public Safety, and now works for the Connecticut Judicial Branch.

You can skip it

We didn't write an "About Us" section. I could change the page titles so I just changed it to "Welcome" and wrote: "Hello! Welcome to our wedding website. Whether you are joining us in person or from afar please know that we are so lucky to have you in our lives and we couldn't imagine them without you! Please check this website frequently as more information will be added and updated as it becomes available. If you have any questions or comments along the way please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We would love to hear from you!"

Cheesy but it is what it is. I sent STD's for our semi-destination wedding the beginning of January and literally no one I have spoken to has gone to the website, let alone read the info, so I don't think it will be missed! Echoing PP's, I'm sure most everyone knows your story/you guys, anyways!

I think it's up to you, but I personally love ours, and my friends and family have commented that they enjoyed it too. FH and I have only been together for about a year and a half, so some of my relatives haven't even met him yet, so it was a good opportunity for them to get to know him (and vice versa with his friends who live farther away; he has no extended family). We also had fun writing it together (I wrote the intro and my bio, and he wrote his bio). Yours doesn't have to be nearly as long as ours, but I am sharing it in case you are curious. I took out a few personal details.

[soontobeRTR] grew up in [hometown], and went to [college], where she studied psychology. A professional writer since age 15, soontobeRTR worked as an editor for several years during her 20s and maintains a blog about punctuation. After a few years in the publishing industry, soontobeRTR went to grad school to get a degree in school guidance counseling and now works at a test-prep company where she helps train tutors and advises parents about standardized tests. soontobeRTR enjoys hiking, playing softball, running, volunteering with Amnesty International and local non-profits, going to the gym, and relaxing at the beach. Among her past accomplishments, soontobeRTR has won a karaoke contest in Somerville, summitted Mount Rainier, and served as the only female member of the Fenway Park grounds crew.

DKR grew up in Florida and attended boarding school in [town] — a town he has now lived in on three separate occasions. At [college], he changed his major and his graduating class several times (each) before earning his first of three music degrees. He has worked as a church music director and organist, conducted choirs and orchestras, and taught music at the graduate, undergraduate, and high school levels. His voice has been featured in blockbuster movies and video games, as well as on opera, concert, and karaoke stages around the world. He has sung with Helmuth Rilling, Dave Brubeck, James Taylor, and Sting, and is also a published and commissioned composer. Like most musicians, his colorful, somewhat meandering career path has afforded him expertise in a wide range of useful and worldly skills, including flipping burgers, cleaning toilets, ghost-writing memoirs, providing daycare, selling steak knives, tutoring, working with the disabled, financial planning, and reviewing tax returns. His past avocational adventures include parasailing, sky diving, bungee jumping, scuba diving, and running marathons, and his diverse passions include rollerblading, yoga, ultimate frisbee, and the finer points of grammar.

STBRTR and DKR met via the phone app Tinder. Nothing if not efficient, STBRTR once went out on five Tinder dates in one week, but as soon as she met DKR, she stopped using the app because DKR was clearly a unicorn. DKR likes to say, "We won Tinder!" Their first date began two hours and 45 minutes before DKR turned 40, and they got engaged 10 months later. Not usually one to believe in signs, STBRTR could not help but notice that the song "At Last" played twice (once at each bar they went to) during their first date. A couple of weeks later, when STBRTR went to visit DKR at Tanglewood, a woman sang "At Last" at a cabaret, and STBRTR decided that this was definitely not a coincidence. Later that night, they sang Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston songs together while watching a meteor shower. And that pretty much settled it. They share a love for the Oxford comma but are still in negotiations regarding the correct number of spaces after a period (goodness, how will they raise their children??). Meanwhile, STBRTR has been helping DKR cultivate an appreciation for hiking, the beach, and baby goats. DKR, in turn, has introduced STBRTR to the joys of classical music, as well as the intricacies of sales-tax policy, which it turns out is a sure-fire cure for insomnia.

I wrote a short section on how we met and FH wrote a short section on how he proposed. So you get a story from each perspective and I like it because we included how we were feelings, etc. His is better since it's a more interesting story

It's optional for sure. I also HAAAAAATE writing about myself, my section reads more like a resume than anything else lol. The easier part was writing about how FH and I met and when he proposed, that stuff. For me, my family members have always written an "About Us" section, and not everyone in my extended family knows a lot of our story or FH. Writing in the 3rd person helped me a bit, it was still awkward as hell and the section about me is the shortest one lol.

Those are always so awkward.

Just skip them.

I hate writing about myself as well. So future husband wrote about me and I wrote about it him. It was really nice to see what he wrote!

We skipped it initially, but the most common feedback about the wedding website was that people wanted to know more about us and our story. So, I don't think it's necessary, but some guests do like to read these. I love reading wedding websites when I'm a guest. Perhaps it's the millennial in me.

I just put a picture of the proposal

I actually enjoyed this part. I wrote how we met and the proposal in 3rd person. About him I wrote from my heart and About me FH surprised me with an email, a paragraph he had written for me. It gave me the feels and still makes me smile when I read it. I have had some friends and family compliment our writing and express how sweet our paragraphs for each other are. I'm having a DW, so I love having the website, so family and friends who can not attend can still follow our little adventure if they wanted.

You can definitely skip it.