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So Mr. Joey and I went back and forth about a wedding website for a long time. While we liked having a central place for travel suggestions and wedding information, he was not too excited to have his information in a searchable place.
Mr. Joey has some devoted but nosey students. It’s the reason he doesn’t have a Facebook or MySpace account, and the reason he’ll never tell them my last name (it’s pretty unique). He’s OK with a blog where his name wouldn’t be in searchable text, but he’s not OK with a website designed to give out info about us and our relationship that his students could find.
Yes, it seems a little crazy, until you have 3 students show up at your apartment one Sunday afternoon. Yes, it really happened. He teaches at a small private school, so keeping info from the kids can be hard. We’ve even had a few kids threaten to crash the wedding. Luckily, it’s in the summer when no kid wants to be at school (the ceremony is at the school chapel) and few other teachers who are invited have sworn themselves to secrecy.
So what to do about sharing info? Local guests are easy. They don’t need travel info, and essentially everything they need to know is on the invitations. Out-of-town guests need travel info and suggestions for visiting the city. What to do?
Well, I came up with an idea I stole from the back of Blueprint Magazine (R.I.P.).
I love the layout, and the play on the “Want Ads” section of the newspaper. To make it more inclusive, we emailed friends and family asking them for suggestions on what to do, see, and eat here in Seattle. About half replied with great suggestions.
It took about 6 hours over several days, but I put together our version of the Blueprint spread. There were suggestions I couldn’t fit in, but on the whole, I love the way it turned out. I sent the spread to our contributors and everyone loved it.
Are you doing a wedding website, or have you come up with an alternative?
That’s so creative! I actually started a blog intending to post wedding-related information — parking, directions, etc. — and little snippets of information about both of us, so all our guests can hopefully get to know us better!
That’s very cool! But most wedding websites allow you to have a password. We gave everyone the address and password in our save the dates.
LOVE it, Miss Joey. So sad about Blueprint magazine 
I loved that one. Same with Domino. sigh 
Haha I love the “portland - it’s not really oregon”!
Now you’ve got me craving banh mi and shanghai garden!
We did do a website because it’s a destination wedding for our guests and there was lots of info to give everyone, but I really love your cute idea!
Love this!! Very cool! And yeah, I’m sad about Blueprint too!!
We have a wedding website. I’m a teacher too so the web address is linked to my fiance’s last name so even if my students tried to find it they wouldn’t know what name to look for.
ONce you loss your privacy it is gone forever. Scary thing about the interenets.
lose (sorry)
We did a wedding website as well since all but like 4 of our guests were from out of town. But oh my goodness your idea is amazing! I’ve never seen anything like that before! 6 hours of work paid off great!
That looks amazing!! What did you use to make it? I think it’d be super cute to include in OOT guest bags. Most of our friends are in KY for the wedding, but our families are coming in from VA so this would be a great resource and much more personal than just a regular map of Louisville!
If he really doesn’t want the students to know details, you might want to reconsider even the info that you have made available here. If you google seattle teacher wedding 2009, all of this comes up. Without any details snooping children would use what they know.
I love your idea! We also wanted to maintain some privacy, since my FI is in a very public profession, but in the end we just did a passworded website. We were also very careful about the information we actually put on the website — it’s more about hotels, transportation, etc. than it is about us. Sure, someone could hack our site and get the info about our wedding, but fortunately the site we’re using doesn’t seem to publish to the web. I’ve googled both of our names with “wedding” and “married,” and nothing comes up…so we’re just hoping for the best, and will take down the site immediately after the wedding. Your idea is a really great alternative, though!
I ditto 2009cndbride, though, that you might want to remove any details about your FI’s school, ceremony location, etc. Maybe also be a little less specific about his job title in your bio?
That is so awesome! I am already thinking of how to incorporate it into my invites! I LOVE it! Thanks for such a fun idea!
That looks so great!! I love how you incorporated your colors.
Miss Joey, did you email that to your guests or send it via regular mail?
I’m wary against a website, I’m hoping to keep wedding info. private and even with passwords, I don’t like the idea of it being saved somewhere in the universe. I’m trying to think creatively on how to get our guests the info (since more than most are OOT)
@Miss Perfume: @Gerbera: As yo ucan tell, I don’t know enough about weddings!
@Miss Quiche: I know! All my favs are going away.
@Steph921: I used InDesign to make this.
@2009cndbride: He’s actually ok with it now. The kids have finally realized they have lives too!
@Claire: I sent these out regular mail with the invites for Out-of-towners. We’re not doing OOT Bags.
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Mrs. Joey, Seattle Age and Occupation: 28, Project Administrator for Public Health NGO Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, High School History Teacher Engagement Date: June 24, 2008 Wedding Date: August 2009 Venue: Eastside Catholic Chapel and Lake Union Cafe About Me: I'm a Seattle girl through and through except for the fact that I don't drink coffee. I love my job most of the time because I get to travel and work with brilliant people who are trying to prevent Malaria. I love DIY projects of all sorts, cooking, and watching sports. I'd wear anything at Anthropologie and could spend all day on Etsy. I love to travel but shouldn't because I always get myself into unbelievable situations!
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