With more than 2.4 million couples getting married throughout the year, the "will you" to the "I do" wedding planning process is an ongoing endeavor that can span months and even years. Although there is a princess’ dowry worth of books, magazines and future in-laws offering nuptial advice, one of the best ways to plan a wedding these days is through the Web. In fact, the web is making it quick and easy for couples to do everything from finding the perfect dress to managing the guest list to registering for gifts.

WeddingChannel.com is one of the leading online wedding planning resources, and is located on the Web at www.weddingchannel.com. This free wedding service is chock full of helpful and customizable information and tools, and has proven to be a priceless resource for engaged couples, answering both practical and emotional needs of everyone associated with the big day.

The centerpiece of the site is the inventive Our Wedding area, which functions as a planning, information and communications resource. In Our Wedding, couples can create their own home page where they can tell their personal love story, as well as provide family, friends and guests with practical information such as directions to the wedding, information on hotels and even pictures of the happy couple.

Reception locations, catering halls and restaurants are even developing website so that brides and grooms can view rooms and menu selections in advance. The web pages help to eliminate locations that will not suit your event before wasting travel time and provide a head start of information on the location you really might consider. Web search by location can also help you find the best options close to home.

Among the bridal planning locations that can make the difference between mayhem and bliss is www.bridalplanner.com.

Bridalplanner.com was started in 1997 as a free resource for people planning weddings and the site has won many awards for content and design excellence, as well as having received many e-mails from satisfied visitors.

With everything you could hire a team of wedding planners for in just one, on-screen location, the site includes: an advice section where visitors can email its experts for advice on all aspects of wedding planning; free engagement announcement web pages; interesting articles and information; printable checklists for planning a wedding; a book store featuring wedding related books.

Future additions to bridalplanner.com are scheduled to include a wedding related shopping section and a directory of wedding professionals listed for each city in Canada and the United States.

Bridalplanner.com is published by a web site development company called Vision Web. Along with developing corporate web sites, Vision Web also develops on-line businesses such as bridalplanner.com

WeddingChannel.com also features a registry, accessible 24 hours a day, everyday, with on-line access to over 400 department stores that include Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, The Bon Marche, Burdines, Goldsmith’s, Lazarus, Rich’s and Stern’s. Their wedding guests can easily search for a couple’s online registry, and purchase their gift.

Dialing up www.theknot.com will also bring you to a hot, new, up-and-coming site featuring its own registry and hosted by AOL. A search engine can send you to the heart of a wide variety of feature stories to aid brides as they plan, and a push of the button will help brides and grooms create their own web pages. Guests and loved ones can then fill in the couple’s name and jump right to the page as the wedding game jump into the year 2000 and beyond.