How to Make Your Facebook Wedding Page a Showstopper

Your first step is setting up a unique Facebook Page for your wedding. Some of it should be familiar; it's similar to how you set up your personal Facebook profile.

Click on "Create a Page" located under the Facebook Sign Up form.

Click on "Artist, Band or Public Figure" and submit your page name. You can find our Wedding Page Example on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/wedding.page.example

Why Not a Facebook Group?

Facebook Groups are great for promoting interests and hobbies, but they do not have the same resources and customizable options offered with a Facebook Page.

Add the FBML Application. Facebook Markup Language uses many of the same rules as HTML, allowing you to upload your own content like pictures, maps and widgets to tabs and boxes on your Facebook Page. Type FBML into the Facebook search bar and select "Add to my Page."

Note: You will probably want to create more than one customized box or tab. For each piece of content you create after your first project in FBML, select "Edit" from the previous FBML project, then select "Add another FBML box" at the bottom right-hand corner of the page.

Facebook allows profile pictures to be 200 pixels by 600 pixels (a vertical rectangle). Say goodbye to cropping. The bigger the better, right?

If your thumbnail picture highlights your less-than-elegant bride side, you can edit the profile picture by hovering over the profile image, clicking "Change Picture" and then clicking "Edit Thumbnail."

Some of the Facebook features you already know, love, and use all the time are also great tools to take your Facebook Wedding Page to the next level.

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