Open Laptop, “Attend” Wedding

Ms. Goodings’s friend, Ms. Lusk, exchanged vows with Eric Ruettinger on April 6 in a small wood cabin in Breckenridge, Colo., with 25 people in attendance. “Eric has been a firefighter for many years,” says Ms. Lusk, 33, an area manager for a health-care company. “He knows just about everybody in town, so the idea of inviting everyone was just not feasible. We wanted the wedding to be small and intimate, with close friends and family, but we wanted everyone to be part of the day.”

And the way the couple could include everyone on their wedding day was to live-stream it on the internet. The Ruettingers spent $200 to connect their videocamera to a streaming server, but there are also streaming services that provide professional videographers at a cost of $800-$3,000, according to this WSJ story. Of course, you could always just skip the whole thing altogether.

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