Weddingbee Blog

As many bees before me, Mr. Caro and I decided to make a wedding wedsite. We wanted to create a great wedsite that would amaze our wedding guests mostly because, considering our professions, it was kind of expected from us (we both work in the online sector, I in marketing, and Mr. Caro in development).

Aside from that, we had some great reasons for wanting a wedsite:

1. Single Point of Contact: since our wedding is mostly a destination wedding we needed to have a central spot for information on the schedule, travel options and locations
2. Easy Updates: When we first changed our venue, then the ceremony, it was easy to update everyone by updating the information on the wedsite
3. Interactivity: Our guests can comment on the wedsite, answer a poll, and after the wedding they will be able to upload all their pictures on the site
4. Wedding Planning support: We decided to forgo an electronic RSVP but will have our registry on our wedsite
5. Anticipation building: Reading about us, how we met and about the wedding planning progress made many of our guests feel more close to us and has helped build anticipation for the wedding

I am very happy and very proud at how it turned out. You can see the home page screenshot here:

I think it’s very easy to use, it includes useful information for our guests and fits perfectly in our theme. We somehow managed to give it the neo-Victorian feel we were going for, while remaining within our color palette and keeping an overall playful and romantic look.

Mr. Caro used a WordPress template as a basis and built on it all the features that we wanted the wedsite to include. As for the images and backgrounds, we purchased or found online most of them (we found most of the ones we used in this collection).

However good the final result was, I wish I could say that our first shared project went easily and fluidly. What actually happened is that our first shared project was not always easy to manage and forced us to examine our weak points as people and as a couple. My feedback of Mr. Caro’s work was not always as constructive as it should have been, while Mr. Caro would get frustrated very easily and have trouble moving forward. Luckily we understood where we were going wrong and tried to adjust our conversations so that they could be more constructive.

In the end the project was a success, as we saw how far we could get by working as a team. It made us also realize that we had to both be more open and understanding with each other when working towards a common goal. I think it was a useful step in learning how to successfully manage conflict, because it’s the only way to grow as a couple and to prepare to deal with much bigger problems.

Did you have any difficulty with your wedding projects? And what do you think of our final result—was it worth the hassle?