Weddingbee Blog

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Today, hive, I’m going to share my journey on how to make your own, one-of-a-kind wedding website…the easy peasy way.

I bypassed the other wedding website options—Wedding Channel, Wedding Wire, The Knot, etc.—since I knew of another site that could make our website exactly how we wanted it:

Blogger

I see some of you cringing, and there’s nothing to be nervous about!

I was just like you and thought you had to be an html guru to build a pretty website, but after some trial and error, I saw that Blogger made website building super, duper, simple.

Are you ready???

* for the blogger bees out there, skip steps 1-5 and proceed directly to THE GOOD STUFF *

BUILD IT:

Step 1: Create Your Wedding Website…Blog…You Know What I Mean:

Head over to Blogger, login using your Google ID and click on the link “Create A Blog” at the right side of the page

Step 2: Name Your Awesome Wedding Blog!

You’re in! Now, what do you wanna name this baby?

Step 3: Style It Out

This is where, if you’re an HTML wizard, you can wave your html wand and custom a fancy template. I didn’t do that. Instead, I picked the “Ethereal” template…it’s super cute, right?

Step 4: Press the Magic Button

Woo hoo! Your awesome wedding website is up! Now let’s head over and start making stuff!

Step 5: Let’s Make Some Pages

We made a Page {tab} for every subject we thought was important to cover for our beach wedding. By clicking the “New Page” button, you can add the pretty pictures and important stuff you want to tell your favorite people about.

And here’s a glimpse of the type of good stuff we wanted to share….

THE GOOD STUFF:

The Homepage: An Intro Letter

This is the main blog homepage. You don’t need to create this one, only the ones that fall behind it.

We wanted to write a personal note to our fam and friends, welcoming them to the site and telling them how thrilled we are to share our special day with them.

Page 2: Fly + Drive + Sleep - travel info at your fingertips!

Airlines, airport shuttles, accommodations and special wedding guest hotel rate info—this is the closest thing to a travel agent we could get. A few clicks and the entire trip is booked from this page.

Page 3: Maps, maps, everywhere

We included a Google map of the island and a star where our resort’s location is located.

We also included a resort map, since the place is so freakin’ huge {see resort map below}

Page 4 & 5: See + Do + Chow

This is the Ostrich Guidebook to Oahu—a laundry list of our favorite places to check out, do and grub!

Page 6: Let Me Help You Pack

We included this as a helpful reminder of some stuff we always bring for our tropical getaways. This will save some time for our guests who’ve never been to Hawaii before and don’t know the tropical weather and crazy microclimates of the island. Oh, and so they don’t have to spend $15 on sunblock when they get to the hotel.

Page 7: Will You Join Us?

We set up the option to R.S.V.P via email for our tech savvy friends…and for our guests who wanted to keep our R.S.V.P card, because they loved it {no lie}

Page 8: Hey DJ, Could You Play That Song?

Our favorite page!!! Since Mr. Ostrich and I are iPod DJ-ing our wedding, we wanted to take special requests from our peoples to get them booty shakin’ on the dance floor and yelling, “OMIGOD THIS IS MY JAM!”

MISC Pages:

We have a few more pages on the site that I didn’t want to bore you with…a page of our Save the Date and invitation, a page of our registry info, our welcome cocktail hour info, a day of wedding schedule and a page that’s kind of like a guestbook.

PHEW!!! Holy guacamole, I think that’s everything. If you’ve made it this far…*HIGH-FIVE*…you’re awesome.

Now let’s talk about your wedding website! Are you making your own or using a pre-designed site? What “good stuff” are you including?