Weddingbee Blog

So, I just sort of finished our wedding website.

I rushed to finish this so I could put the address on our save the dates. It’s pretty bare bones, but it has the necessary information at least!

At first I intended to use a template from one of the wedding sites, but none matched our colors or feel. Every pink template had brown as an accent and I just didn’t want to go there. As a fake communications professional, the first rule of branding is consistency. So I needed to find something with more customization but no html. I do not code.

Oh Google, thank you.

Google Sites is absolutely all I needed. I chose a simple template, changed the background to a stripe image I created in Illustrator, and added our “logo” to the header. Then, like magic, it lets you edit pages as you see them, typing directly on the site. It’s lovely. When you want to add your “accommodations” page, you simply click “Add Page” at the top, and voila, you get to start a new page. Demon magic, for sure.

But you can’t stop there. You need a domain name. I can never remember long or confusing sites, so my guests definitely wouldn’t. Instead I purchased a short and sweet domain from godaddy.com. Yeah, I feel guilty encouraging their stupid Super Bowl commercials. But we get the name for a year at the low, low price of $7.50.

But wait, there’s more! What am I doing with that domain name, for instance? Well, I’m forwarding it to our Google site page. And, in addition to forwarding, I’m “masking” the site, so it always shows our Godaddy domain instead of the craptastic Google one.

Are you making a wedding website? How did you decide to make it?