Ok so that’s not our actual wedding website address but you won’t be surprised to know that this post is all about our wedding website. After deciding on the date and location and then determining our venue, it was the perfect opportunity to find our internet home base.
We knew we wanted something simple but it needed to have at least one of our colors and preferably…be (our favorite wedding word, which coincidentally is also our favorite four letter word - mind out of the gutter people) free.
I searched through all of the usual suspects (allow LMGTFY to help, click here) and ultimately found that mywedding.com was the best choice for our needs. Not only do they have a variety of unique templates but they offer customization options and it’s all….ding, ding, ding – FREE. Cue the choir of angels.
Behold our welcome page
What I loved most about mywedding.com is the amount of pages you can have within the site. In case anyone is taking notes, here are all of the pages that come with your site:
- Home page (welcome page)
- Our Story
- Wedding Party
- Wedding Events
- Accommodations
- Attractions
- RSVP
- Photo Galleries
- Guestbook
- Registries
- Contact Us
- Blog
- Music
Add to that the 6 customizable pages and you’ve got one heck of a free site. I can’t tell you how thrilled I was to find this and how easy it has been to use. We just plug in our information, upload pictures and let it do the work.
One of the wedding weekend events – our rehearsal party!
The only drawback we found is that mywedding.com will give you a predesigned web address (such as http://www.mywedding.com/MissFrogandMrFrog) that takes you through their hosting and can be quite long to include on invitations, etc. and it’s even more difficult for guests to remember when trying to find your site.
We decided it was worth the $9 to go ahead and purchase a domain that was easy to remember. We then just did a simple redirection of the web address and “cloaked” it so that our guests would only see the simple site name that we purchased and not the long one we were provided by mywedding.com. It was easy, inexpensive and allowed us to personalize the experience without having to pay a fortune. Aside from the research and content for the site itself, it’s been a cinch! And I have to admit, it’s really fun to log-in and find new RSVPs for our rehearsal party while our site visit counter continues to go up.
Our RSVP page for the rehearsal party
We are thrilled with how it turned out. We’ve even had friends and relatives ask us if we hired someone to create it – they all thought it looked very professional. Did you create a wedding website? How did you narrow down the many site options available?
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