Our Happy Wedding Website
September 27th, 2008 @ 11:07 am by Mrs. Green Tea
If there is one thing I do well, it is to use the crap out of any free resources. We got a ton of good feedback on our website, so I thought I’d share some snapshots. We’re not web or graphics savvy folks, but I think we left a good impression with visitors by keeping it real. (see readable versions via the ‘biggerize!’ links)
The Welcome Page - To keep it casual, we chose a photo we took of our goofy selves rather than using one of our e-pics. The text invites them to explore, with our choice songs playing in the background (more detail on the music below):
Wedding Website
July 16th, 2008 @ 6:28 pm by Mrs. Espresso
Our wedding website is almost done and I absolutely love the site we went through. eWedding really does a great job in making the process as easy as possible by providing a multitude of themes, colors, subjects, and package choices. And the best part- the basic package is free for a year- so nice! Of course, they try and get you to purchase a better plan by offering you the top package free for a limited time- but really- if all you’re looking for is the basics- then the free package is more than enough. The free package come with these page categories: Welcome Page, Polls, Quizzes, From Us, Events, Registry, Contact, Photo Albums, and Background Music.
Being that I got spoiled with the beginning Platinum Package, I upgraded to the Silver package for $4.95 a month… which I don’t think is bad at all considering we only have 3 months left until our wedding. It doesn’t offer too much more, but I wanted it for the personal domain name and Wedding Party page. I like seeing all of their pretty faces with short bios. I also love the Guest Book option with this package and a page for information for Out of Towners. Check out some of the themes:
Invite & Wedding Site Design Layouts
June 9th, 2008 @ 8:26 am by Mrs. Cherry Pie
Our invitations are finally proofed and off to the letterpress. Hopefully they’ll be back to us in a few weeks so we can make sure everyone has plenty of time to make reservations!
I was torn about whether to post a preview of the final digital mock-ups before getting the actual hard copy invites. But seeing as I’ve diligently laid them all out so I can be sure what they’ll look like, I really ought to share.
Here are the invitation envelopes and sash designs. The envelopes are letterpressed with wheat and have our address on the back flap. Our guests’ addresses will be printed on the front with Pantone-matched color on a regular printer.
The sashes will be made of Waste Not paper in red and chocolate, with our names on cotton Rives BFK (the same paper as our invites). I’m not sure whether to go horizontal or vertical, but Mr. Cherry Pie likes horizontal, so we’ll probably stick to that.
Some Bits And Pieces
April 18th, 2008 @ 5:38 pm by Mrs. Flamingo
Hey everyone… I’m back! Well I wasn’t really gone, but I’ve been sick for the past 7 days. I wanted to blog but my lack of energy didn’t help me very much, so I stayed in bed instead. But now I’m back…
Awhile ago, I decided to redo our wedding website because our previous design didn’t match the theme and colors of our upcoming nuptials. I really wanted to get the design done before I sent out the invitations, otherwise it would defeat the whole purpose, right?.
First off, I would like to thank everyone for your input on our banner.
(click images to enlarge)
Wedding Website - Makeover
March 13th, 2008 @ 4:57 pm by Mrs. Flamingo
When Mr. Flamingo and I decided that we were officially gonna set the date, I couldn’t help but to design our wedding website. Though, I wasn’t very fond of the idea of doing it from scratch… I opted for a basic template design from Weddingannouncer.com
Everyone in my family had never heard about a wedding website before, so they thought I was the most organized and smartest bride ever. Hahaha - I found that very funny. (On a side note- our wedsite needs to be perfectly bilingual so with wedding announcer there were certain things that I couldn’t translate.)
First attempt - using wedding announcer (click to enlarge)
Creating A Wedding Website With iWeb
January 31st, 2008 @ 2:09 pm by Mrs. Cupcake
Although I am a graphic designer, I focused on print design in college and never took any classes in web design. I missed the boat when it comes to html, Flash, Dreamweaver, etc. I’ve been wanting to learn, but haven’t exactly gotten around to it.
When it came to creating a wedding website, I knew that this was something I wanted Mr. Cupcake and I to have, but I didn’t know where to begin. I wanted something more than what The Knot has to offer, but I wasn’t thrilled with all of the template options out there. Either the designs weren’t customizable enough or representative of my taste, or the prices were ridiculous. The main purpose of having a wedding website was to be a source of information for our guests, but was it too much to ask to have it look cute without putting a dent in my bank account? I knew I could put something together on my own, I just had to figure out how.
Enter iWeb. (Insert the sound of angels singing.) This handy Mac program was included with my MacBook Pro, and it is as fool-proof as they come. It took me a few evenings of tinkering with the features and pre-made templates to figure out how to create my own design template, but once I did it was super simple. Below is the step-by-step of how I did it, and hopefully it will help some of you create your own fabulous wedding website!
How To “Hide” Your Wedding Website From The World
January 17th, 2008 @ 11:56 am by Mrs. Penguin
Weddingbee reader EastportBride posted a message in the Boards last week wondering how to keep her wedding website a secret from the rest of the world. Why would you care if anyone (aside from your friends and family) got ahold of your wedding website, you ask? Well, there are a myriad of reasons. Aside from wanting to keep your wedding details private from, say, your coworkers, you’d also want to consider identity theft. Any personal information you leak out onto the web, even if it’s just your full name and address, can fall into the wrong hands. For instance, if you’re getting married in your hometown, your mother might be throwing you a day-after brunch… your mother has kept her maiden name… you get where this is going? Someone now knows your full name, your hometown AND your mother’s maiden name… and what are the most common questions your bank/credit card asks you when you’ve forgot your password? Exactly.
With This Blog, I Thee Wed
January 15th, 2008 @ 10:28 am by Mrs. Lovebug
Back when Mrs. Corn was still a single stalk, she wrote about hosting a wedding website on Blogger. Well, I took the Corn Challenge, and I thought I’d share some of the fun stuff I did to personalize our site:
These are the header and footer I knocked together to represent our Sweetest Type of Love theme. I also gave the site a cute matching favicon (like the bee in Weddingbee’s URL):
Wedding Website Exhaustion
October 31st, 2007 @ 2:56 pm by Mrs. Penguin
I’ve been posting lightly lately, because for the past few weeks, I decided that it was a fabulous idea to teach myself Dreamweaver and build our own wedding website. Let’s just say that its a vicious little program, and while I’m sure it’s 100% easier than outright learning HTML coding, it’s still pretty tough.
Anyway, while my skills as a web designer are poor, I still feel like I have a nice creative eye.
I wouldn’t know the first place to even begin a Dreamweaver tutorial, so I’ll spare you those details, but I did want to share with you what programs/materials I used, and what the final outcome was. I didn’t seek any professional web design help so I hope that some of you web-savvy brides will be inspired to build your own website, rather than pay for one.
Even if you don’t build your own website, I do think its REALLY worth it to register for your own domain name, that way you can spare your guests the lengthy free web address that sites like theknot.com and weddingchannel.com give you. It’s only around $6-$10 a year, depending on who you use, and you can easily set up that site name to forward to your free, long-named wedding website.
Wedding Websites
September 20th, 2007 @ 11:30 am by Ms. Dahlia
Being fairly technologically savvy- (Well, Mr. Dahlia is, seeing as he works in IT; me, well, I’ve taken Introduction to Java, and have taught myself basic html using this excellent tutorial- really, it is, if you ignore the blinking things and really bright colors)- one of the first things that we talked about was a wedding website. We knew that we wanted one, and absolutely didn’t want to use a premade template.
Now, if you are looking to take the path of least resistance, MyWedding.com and WeddingAnnouncer.com both offer free wedding websites. If you register with Bed Bath & Beyond, you can get a free website from them as well.
But like I said, the easy way is not the way for us.
To gather ideas, I dug around in places like google and indiebride for websites that I liked. And I did find some that really stood out to us:
