When to Get Fancy

When to Get Fancy

February 3rd, 2010 @ 11:17 am by Mrs. Hot Wings
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Do you struggle with deciding when to splurge and when not to?

I do! I’m the type of person who walks through a store and doesn’t buy a thing because I think I can make everything.

So what is this all about, you ask? It’s about our wedding website. I pride myself on being pretty computer savvy. So I put together a pretty intense wedding website using Blogger, which is free. We paid $9.99 for our web domain, and that’s it.

What’s the problem then?

Aw yes. It took months to figure this out, but there’s no easy way to password protect the site! At first I thought it would be great to index the page and make it easy for our guests to find it. Uh… yeah… wrong again! I’m on the job market now and people are Googling the Hot Wings left and right. What do they find? yup… personal information about my wedding plans. No likey. So now I need to find another option.

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Problem 2: I don’t want just any ol’ free site. I want the same intense awesome site that I had spent so many hours on. What is a lady to do? I’m really leaning toward WeddingWindow, but it costs $80 for 15 months (that’s after putting in a promo code). That’s a lot! Do I do it? Or do we go for the free site we can easily use from MyWedding, which is pretty nice but not at all as customizable as we want.

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What wedding websites have you had good luck with?

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Miss Spaniel (message) 6,792 posts, Bee Keeper

We just didn’t put our last names on our website, since we gave the URL out with our save-the-dates. No one needs to Google us and find our wedding!

2/3/10 @ 11:23 am (reply)

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Mrs. Mouse (message) 5,844 posts, Bee Keeper

There’s no way to make the site private through the company you bought the domain name from? It seems like such a shame to waste all that hard work!

2/3/10 @ 11:24 am (reply)

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Miss Cashmere (message) 41 posts, Newbee

I used Wedding Window because I AM NOT COMPUTER SAVVY! AT ALL! I wanted something easy to use and personally, that 80 bucks was WELL worth it!

2/3/10 @ 11:24 am (reply)

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bridecat (message) 355 posts, Helper bee

I used Wedding Announcer…it only has a certain number of templates, but was pretty user friendly and it’s FREE! http://weddingannouncer.com/

2/3/10 @ 11:25 am (reply)

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MissCamera (message) 770 posts, Busy bee

We used Wedding Wire & it worked out great. It’s free & they offer SO many add on options! (online rsvp, music requests, etc.) Their templates aren’t that spectular, but it got the job done.

2/3/10 @ 11:26 am (reply)

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Mrs. Piglet (message) 1,045 posts, Bumble bee

Huge fan of Wedding Window! We used the other tools that came along with the account, e.g., guest list mgr tool, collecting addresses, etc.. not sure if MyWedding does that, too? Anyhoo, I agree with Mousey, what a waste of all your hard work! Hopefully, a lot of it can be migrated over somehow!

2/3/10 @ 11:27 am (reply)

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bluebook (message) 206 posts, Helper bee

I used brides.com and their site iS AWESOME!!!! It’s totally free too. And has RSVP online functions AND a way to put people on tables of any type/size (rounds/rectangular). Their “looks” are limited, but I found one I liked and then built everything there. I’m SOO glad I did.

2/3/10 @ 11:28 am (reply)

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krissybee (message) 3,921 posts, Honey bee

i’m still researching how i will approach the wedding website… i’ve heard good things about wedding window!

2/3/10 @ 11:31 am (reply)

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Vitsippa (message) 1,308 posts, Bumble bee

I absolutely love ProjectWedding’s website template! I am oldskool when it comes to web design so I knew how to do it on Notebook or when you were able to convert pages in html automatically through your web browser. I’ve messed with a bunch of free blogging sites and I swear it’s not as instantly pretty as Project Wedding’s editing protocol.

Just the picture pages makes life so much easier - you can upload your pictures directly and there’s an instant picture viewer if you want it to scroll. There’s a wedding map that automatically links to google maps with the same motif you have on the side. All the pictures automatically have borders for uniformity!

It’s so easy to edit. I <3 it!

http://www.projectwedding.com/

2/3/10 @ 11:31 am (reply)

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monitajb

I really enjoyed working with WeddingWindow. It is very user friendly, and the most customizable of the websites out there, based on my search.

2/3/10 @ 11:34 am (reply)

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said8me (message) 187 posts, Blushing bee

we are using free the google space with a “wedding site” template provided, and bought a domain from godaddy.com to link to the google site. total cost… $10.87 for a year.

2/3/10 @ 11:36 am (reply)

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mox

We are using nearlyweds.com and love it. You can set it to hide from google if you’d like or make it password protected. I liked their designs and functionality best.

2/3/10 @ 11:38 am (reply)

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Miss Sewing (message) 2,701 posts, Sugar bee

i thought blogger had an option to make the blog unsearchable by google? maybe it doesn’t work when you have your own domain i guess. we just used mywedding.com since we are cheap (and lazy).

2/3/10 @ 11:39 am (reply)

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rachel_leigh (message) 1,106 posts, Bumble bee

I second Project Wedding’s sites!

2/3/10 @ 11:43 am (reply)

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iggies (message) 518 posts, Busy bee

i used my mobile me account from apple and my fiance bought a domain name and somehow hooked it up so that we could have it just redirect from that domain to my mobile me pages. it cost him $10 for the domain and my dad bought a family pack of the mobile me, so that was free for us. i love that it can be password protected, because that was totally my biggest worry too!

2/3/10 @ 11:47 am (reply)

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Londongirl (message) 19 posts, Newbee

I used Weebly and am a huge fan

2/3/10 @ 12:07 pm (reply)

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Goldilocks1107 (message) 2,504 posts, Sugar bee

We’re using mywedding.com. It’s not as customizable as I’d like, but it gets the job done and it’s free.

2/3/10 @ 12:07 pm (reply)

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Robin

we are using momentville. i liked it, seemed easy enough and is carbon free!

2/3/10 @ 12:10 pm (reply)

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Miss Pretzel (message) 1,891 posts, Buzzing bee

I swear by wedding wire- you can password protect it and their Guest database is freakin’ awesome.

2/3/10 @ 12:27 pm (reply)

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UCLAMeghan (message) 118 posts, Blushing bee

Google. It’s free, you don’t have to know HTML, and very customizable. I am no tech-wiz, but I’ve really been able to sink my teeth into our google wedding site!

2/3/10 @ 12:55 pm (reply)

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