Wedding Blog

First of all, thank you all SO SO much for helping us pick our monogram!! We haven’t made a final decision but we’re leaning towards #5 and #1!

So about this wedding website situation…

I can’t say I was a complete newbie. I did take a web-designing course in college—but it was my senior year, I did the assignments an hour or two before class, and it was one of those “easy” classes. So when it came time to make our website I didn’t have enough confidence in my web skills (or lack thereof) to design one from scratch, so I started the hunt for free and easy, but stylish wedding website providers.

I think I made an account for practically every service out there, but something wasn’t right. I hated the fact that we couldn’t control everything about it. Yeah, we could change the color, but gosh did we really have to have that stock picture glaring at us every time we opened the web page?? So being the “I so don’t have time for this but I can’t stand being able to only have four font options” kind of person, I decided to embark on designing our website… from scratch. Well, that’s what I thought. I tried Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Flash, NVU, and something that started with a Q. But these were way out of my league. I was so frustrated and even read tutorials for hours online, but I just couldn’t get it. Then I found Yahoo SiteBuilder. It was “free”, easy, and so simple! I was sooo excited that I think I stayed up two nights in row making our website. Then, the death of me…

I found out, post designing, that Yahoo SiteBuilder is ONLY applicable with Yahoo hosting (meaning I had to pay a certain sum of money every month to Yahoo for its hosting services). I couldn’t believe it! I spent the last 40 some hours designing the website of my dreams and it’s not freeeeeeee?! (I found out later that one usually has to pay for hosting.)

OK, so I was furious, but Mr. Blush helped me realize that it’s not worth the stress of it all and convinced me that paying the monthly charge was well worth it. After much contemplation, and even going back to Dreamweaver and attempting yet another time to work it out, I ended up paying for Yahoo and saving myself the grief.

Looking back I am SO glad I took Mr. Blush’s advice. Yahoo SiteBuilder is very easy to use and I have gotten so comfortable with it that I can whip up a new page in no time.

Another huge reason why I’m glad I didn’t choose a “wedding website” service is because we plan on using our domain name… forever. I can’t wait to update all our family and friends about special moments in our lives (post wedding, new homes, babies, more babies, etc).

Here are a few pages from our website. I hope I haven’t hyped it up because it’s totally nothing fancy-shmancy.

You know when you check back at someone’s wedding web page and it seems like nothing has changed so you stop checking? Well, I didn’t want that to happen to our page, so I change the front picture almost every week, which is an up to date picture of Mr. Blush and me.

 Then I put whatever has been updated in that little yellow box.

Our bride & groom page - We took those pictures ourselves in DC earlier this summer.

The story of the Mr. Blush & Me

This page is the most personal page for us. We wrote letters to our families.

Guest book

As far as I know, SiteBuilder doesn’t really have an album tool, so I used www.wix.com to link the albums I made there to this page. (By the way, WIX is AMAZING!)

We’re pointing/reaching to our email addresses

This is the bottom half of the contact page.

Do you plan to use your wedding website address in the future?