Hi friends! I thought we might talk about our wedding website today. Not the most exciting topic (at least on the surface!), but I think we did something out of the ordinary, and I’d love to share. As fair warning, this is a pretty long, involved post, so if you’re not interested in making a wedding website for your very own self, you might want to skip this one :) Photo by Anna Kuperberg; overlay by Em So how did we get here? We wanted a website that would, first and foremost, be helpful to our guests in preparing for our wedding. Our second hope for it was that it would give our guests a taste of what was to come, and hopefully pique their excitement! To accomplish this, we wanted a site that fit with the feel of the celebration we’re planning, and was highly customizable. Oh yes, and as with most things, I was hoping it would be free, or at least inexpensive. However, I didn’t really want to make a big production out of it, you know? So I began checking out wedding website companies, fully expecting to choose one for ourselves and call it a day. Well, we looked at offerings from a variety of companies, including Project Wedding, Wedding Window, My Wedding, Wedding JoJo, and several others. I eventually decided on My Wedding, mostly because I liked that they offered Minted backgrounds. But as I began to set things up and enter text, I just wasn’t satisfied. The Minted backgrounds were lovely, but the formatting of the text on My Wedding was just… strange, in my opinion. Dissatisfied, I let it sit for a few days. Meanwhile, this post I had read almost four years ago popped into my mind. In it, Miss Lovebug details