Weddingbee Blog

Welcome to our wedding website! Having a Computer Science degree, I’ve always looked forward to this aspect of the wedding planning process. Once we decided that we would have a destination wedding in Hawaii, we wanted everyone to know as soon as possible. A lot of our friends were likely to use their airline miles and hotel points, and since airlines limit the number of seats available for point usage, we wanted to give them the heads up on the date, location, etc. My girlfriend highly recommended Wedding Window. There were so many goodies included in the $80/year price, that we didn’t mind paying. There were a ton of templates to choose from, and they were all customizable.

The Pigsters love snowboarding. Mr. Pig often claims he’s X Games material.

Some of my favorite features were:
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Ahhhh… MOO mini-cards. They are so darn… cute. And printed on the silkiest, most delectable cardstock. (I am typing this with a straight face because it’s true.)

After months of pining over them, I finally figured out a way to use them!
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Back when Mr. Spring Roll and I first became engaged, I started a wedding website at MyWedding. You see, I started, and well, never quite finished. No big deal, right? Wrong. We included the website information in our invitations, and with t-minus two days until they are to be mailed, I had to finish the website.

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After a can or two of Mountain Dew, and into the wee hours (okay, 12 o’clock, but hey I’m usually in bed by 9), I finished our wedding website.
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As I mentioned in my past post… I can’t say this enough: As soon as you set up your URL, have a few friends try to get to the site from different computers before you set up all your content. If the URL is tricky or prone to problems due to the company you chose… it’s good to know that early on, before you spend hours slaving away at your computer (but I’m not bitter).

We picked a wedding website service where I could just select a design theme and then enter text and pictures - one where we could use tools like RSVP, Guest Music Requests, etc. Mr. Snapdragon could have designed and built our own site… but that just seemed like a can o’ worms. Many props to those of you who started from scratch!!!
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First of all, thank you all SO SO much for helping us pick our monogram!! We haven’t made a final decision but we’re leaning towards #5 and #1!

So about this wedding website situation…

I can’t say I was a complete newbie. I did take a web-designing course in college—but it was my senior year, I did the assignments an hour or two before class, and it was one of those “easy” classes. So when it came time to make our website I didn’t have enough confidence in my web skills (or lack thereof) to design one from scratch, so I started the hunt for free and easy, but stylish wedding website providers.
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Of course, with the standard wedding, you have the invitations and possibly even Save the Dates to send out to your attendees via snail mail. However, with everything being digital and most of us using the Internet in our everyday lives, a wedding website is an excellent way to share information instantly!

When our planning really got started, Mr. Ballet Flat and I agreed that we definitely needed a wedding website. We are computer geeks by profession, and know how wonderful of a resource the Internet is. So, I shopped around the web for possible wedding website hosts.

Here are the websites we looked into using…

The Knot

Cost: free
Cool features:

• 40 designs to choose from
• Can include information like how you met, ceremony/reception details, the wedding party, registry information, etc.

Cons:

• You don’t get to choose your own www address
• Designs aren’t very customizable

Source: The Knot

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Mr. Pomegranate is a software developer and also specializes in web development, so I knew that the traditional Wedding Tracker, WedORama, or the plethora of other options offered on the web wouldn’t live up to his terms. This was a project that Mr. Pom would most definitely be taking an interest in. We sat down and decided on the minimal features that we’d want to offer our visitors. Once we had those features nailed down, Mr. Pom sat down to code out the design of the site and I sat down to populate the content.

The home page with our welcome note.
FOUR DAYS LEFT! Can you believe it!?

The Home Page starts out with the For Our Guests section extended to minimize the number of clicks it takes to get to the important information. In the letter, we linked to the top four pages that we thought people would want to access:
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Talk about lovely timing. When we decided to create our wedding website with Wedorama, the highest increment of time you could purchase a site for was one year. We’ve been engaged for well over a year now, so we assumed that when the site was up for renewal, we’d receive some sort of a notice. Today, when I went online to check our site, I found this:

“The website you requested is not active at this time…”

What a surprise only 25 days out from the wedding!
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I love a good DIY challenge and my first one for the wedding was to make a wedding website. I love how functional they are, but I didn’t want to pay for a site, so the gears started turning and I decided to make my own. Only problem…I don’t have any web page building experience. I do, however, have some blogging experience and a love for finding the easy way out.

Below are some simple steps on how to make a blog look and act like one of those expensive wedding websites using Blogger, which is pretty user friendly.  You can very easily just write posts about your wedding and call it a day. But if you are interested in setting up your blog so that it flows like a wedding website, then keep reading.

The first thing to do is get yourself out of the purgatory that is Blogger’s new customizable design template and make sure you are using what they call the ‘classic template’. To do that, click on the ‘Template’ tab at the top of the blogger page once you have opened your blog settings. Then choose ‘Edit HTML’ from the next menu down. (click on any of the images to see the details up close)

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Hey guys, knowing you are all pillars of information, I have a question for you:

Where do you have your wedding website? Is it free, or do you pay a certain amount? What do you include in your page?

Right now I’m using www.weddingannouncer.com, and I like it so far. Our page is comprised of the dates, the places and the people. I’m hesitant to post any pictures of the wedding party for privacy reasons. Next time I see my AWOL Matron of Honor I will ask them for permission! So even though I’m happy where I am, it can’t hurt to hear what else is out there!

Please let me know if you have a better site than Wedding Announcer, or if you are a happy Wedding Announcer couple, like we are!