Websites to Wed By

Since we are having a semi-destination wedding, Mr. Cucumber Sammie and I decided that it would be helpful for our guests if we set up a wedding website.  At first the bridal side of my brain kicked in and I was convinced that I was going to build my own website from scratch!  I didn't earn that A in 7th grade typing for nothing.

I spent a couple of days googling 'how to build a website' and it just seemed way too complicated.  And there was a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills marathon on which was way more appealing.  After my realization that building a website with no prior experience was a crazy idea, I started searching for a template we liked.

I checked out MyWedding, TheKnot and Brides.  I was not thrilled with any of their templates.  I wanted something simple and that didn't look too much like a wedding website.  I wanted a wedding website that didn't look like a generic wedding website.  As I type that I realize how insane that sounds.  I also contemplated making my own template and website through blogger.  Mrs. Ostrich has a wonderful tutorial on how to build one.

Finally I found our perfect template at WeddingWire.  I was just about to give up and there it was... in our wedding colors..... and free!  Does it get any better than free when you are planning a wedding?

Glorious!

Mr. Cucumber Sammie and I spent a couple of nights adding our own content.  We wanted to get it out before our save the dates so it was just some quick pages.  We included: About Us, Directions, Accommodations, Registry, Contact Us and my favorite page Music Request.  Guests can fill out a form and send us their music requests.  Of course my lovely sisters sent things like Justin Bieber and Hanson.  They are so C U T E.

The final touch for our website was a custom domain name.  We wanted something easy for our guests to remember and short to put on the invites.  We purchased the domain through Godaddy.com.  It was incredibly easy and cheap.  I believe it was about $12 for the whole year.  And eventually I could move my blog to that name too.  Godaddy.com had instructions for how to mask the old name and direct guests from our custom domain.

In my mind having a custom domain makes it seem like we did a lot more work for this website than we really did.  Until I post this, guests might be really impressed with my computer skills!

Any projects you did that seem more ambitious than they really were?  Do you create a wedding website?