Wedding Mapper Blog

We’ve got another batch of icons up on the site. Based on some requests from users we tried to put together another generic batch to show things like train stations, boats, etc.

Here are the new icons:

Boat	Balloons	Hospital	Limo	Train	Umbrella

If you can’t find an icon that you like please let us know. Also if you have an icon you’d like to use we can help you incorporate it into your map!

Now that the majority of weddings are rolling around we’ve added in some new functionality for the guests under a new section called “Guest Services” when you are viewing your map (will not display when you are editing your map).

1. The Guest Book (now your guests can leave messages for you on your map)
2. Guest Notifications (now your guests can subscribe to receive a notification if your map changes at all)

Hopefully these two enhancements will help your guests stay up-to-date and more involved with your wedding!

We’ve added in a quick enhancement that we hope will help people with printing. Now you can hide and show different categories of locations on your map. In the Location List, if you collapse a category of locations they will disappear from the map now as well. This way you can have all sorts of locations on your map, including hotels, restaurants, attractions, etc., and if you only want to print a few key locations you can hide the rest of them before printing.

So if you start with a map that looks like this:

And click on the expanded “Hotel” link here:

Your list will collapse:

and your map will look like this (no hotels showing):

If you collapse most of the categories you’ll eventually have a map that looks like this:

We’ve just released the latest improvement to Wedding Mapper’s offering. A lot of people like to get a custom map designed for their invitations. Although you can easily print out Wedding Mapper maps, sometimes people want to make them look more professional and print them on cards to send in their invitations.

The only problem is that your guests may lose the maps you send them between the time they receive the invitation and the wedding day. Well Wedding Mapper has a great solution to this problem. Now, if you have upgraded your account, you can upload any file you want to Wedding Mapper so that your guests can easily download and print the file themselves.

So if you have a pdf file of your custom designed wedding map then you can simply upload that file and your guests will be able to access it and print it straight from Wedding Mapper without bothering you!

We’ve received a number of requests from people who want to add additional links to their wedding map. They want to be able to provide links back to their wedding website, to their registry sites, etc.

We’ve also received requests from people who would like to be able add their email and contact information to their maps so that people coming to their wedding can easily reach them if they have any problems at all.

So we put together an enhancement that allows you to add links, emails, and information paragraphs to your map. The enhancement is available to upgraded accounts. It will allow you to add as many links as you like to your map, giving you complete control over how you would like the links to display.

You’ll find the new link section in the left hand panel of the map. From there you can easily add, edit, delete, and reorganize your links.

We’ve added in the ability to reorder categories so that they appear in the exact order you want. This has been a very frequent request so hopefully people will find it useful.

To reorder your categories simply go to the “Edit Categories” page and drag the categories into the order you want!