Weddingbee Blog

Mr. Dolphin immediately started building us a wedding website the day after we got engaged (a whole 2 years ago). So, at the time, we quickly picked some wedding colors (blue & green) and he got to work. Now that our invitations are out in the mail (eek! I’m jittery with excitement!), we felt we needed to update our wedding website, since we are referring our guests to our website in our invitations, for further details (directions, detailed menu, registry, etc).

Okay… so I have to tell you—Mr. Dolphin and I have been putting off the wedding website redesign for weeks. As I like to say, we were avoiding it like the plague. This past weekend, Mr. Dolphin took matters into his own hands and forced both of us to sit down and redesign the site. I was kicking and screaming the whole time, as I felt watching my recorded shows, Grey’s Anatomy and Keeping Up with the Kardashians, were more fun.

With the redesign (well, it was more of a color change, and landing page change), our new color scheme (aqua & yellow), and our new design palette I developed over winter break, were incorporated.

Before: our old design colors and fonts…

The picture the slide show is currently on is from Mr. Dolphin’s 21st Birthday Party. Mr. Dolphin’s Mama surprised him by flying in from Arizona for it! Of course, Mr. Dolphin said he wasn’t surprised and said that I gave it away because I kept saying, “We have a super big surprise for you, for your birthday!” over, and over again, for the week leading up to it. What can I say? I get really excited about surprises!

After: our beautiful color and header change!

Do you recognize that picture? Yup, that would be from our UF Engagement shoot, shot by the wonderful Ben and Amy of Starks Photography. Umm… do you totally love the little ’love birds’ kissing on our header? I DO!!! (Wait, let me practice for the big day…)
I do, I do, I DO!

The changes included:

• New header
• Color change and font change on each of the pages
• Slideshow of our Engagement Pictures and Blue Springs pictures on the main page (it was originally a mash-up of pictures of the two of us over the 7 1/2 years we’ve been together)
• addition of the “Videos” page
• addition of the “Registry” page (my new favorite page, but not my favorite for reasons you’d think… check it out below!)

I absolutely love the palm tree on this page, and the little wrapped gifts. Can you guess who made those? Mr. Dolphin!! I feel so lucky to have such a creative and talented sweetie. It’s by far one of the prettiest pages on our wedding website!

Did you have to make any changes to wedding stuff you had already done/created because of a wedding color/theme/style change?