Weddingbee Blog

To date, my most exciting project-turned-giant-pain-in-the-butt has definitely been the wedding website. You see, in undergrad, my focus within my major was Systems and Control Engineering, so I did my fair share of programming and it was something I really missed. So, clearly, I would want to code my own website from scratch. Right? Right.

However, life got in the way as it usually does. Between studying for my first set of boards last summer and attempting to juggle patients, classes, and my requisite hour of lazy time per day it became glaringly apparent that I could not spend 100 man hours making the Zeus of wedding websites.

My wedding website dreams were subsequently dashed.

I had to come up with a solution to have an awesome website, though. Finally, it hit me. I have a pretty cool MacBook with a pretty cool application called iWeb which I used to make a pretty cool HTML website and bought a domain name from yahoo.com. Mrs. Cupcake has a great tutorial about how to use iWeb, so if you are interested in going that route, I’d suggest you check it out.

Here’s a screenshot of the HTML site:

personal screenshot from my computer

It’s not the best thing ever, but it worked, and it was fun, so I sat on it a few months until I could find an easy, non-coding way to produce a flash website. Luckily, I stumbled on wix.com and was able to make a pretty OK looking free flash site and embed it into my iWeb page. Because I embedded it, I was able to also direct viewers to the HTML site, so that anyone checking it out on a smart phone would be able to actually see a website rather then a box with the blue framed question mark of death.

OK, enough talk. I’m now going to show you some screen shots from the site. The site itself isn’t some crazily aesthetic endeavor. The narration, however, is a different story. I spent quite a bit of time attempting to make our site enjoyable to read which highlights our love for our good friends/attendants. Did I succeed? I’ll let you be the judge. All photos are personal screenshots from my computer.

Front Pages:

Our About Me page.

Some of our wonderful attendants:

There are about a billion more pages, but including them would make this post extremely tedious. I’m happy with the way my website worked out, and had a lot of fun doing it, but it was fairly time consuming. I’d suggest using a pre-made site from somewhere like WeddingWire or the knot for someone who lacks the motivation to make a site from scratch.

How did you create your wedding website? Anyone not need a site (we definitely do because of the size of the wedding and amount of guests traveling)?