Wedding Website: Check!

Oh hiii there... remember me? Your favorite blushing, blogging bride-to-be? Contrary to popular opinion, I do still exist, and I do still carry way too many thoughts on the topic of weddings than is probably healthy or medically recommended. Fear not!

Truth be told, not too much excitement has been happening in my world of weddings as of late. [And really... Thank the Lord!] I was told early on to expect a lull in the planning right about now, and thus far that seems to be the case. Down-time is my friend. [Again... Hallejuah, sister!]

I did want to share with you something that's been up for a while but never been blogged about, and that is.... the Wedding Website! Which you can explore and test drive (and Ooh and Aah over) by going to clayandmeredith.com.*

[Intro page - clayandmeredith.com]

[Home page - clayandmeredith.com]

I'll admit now that I took the task of the Wedding Website way too seriously for my own good. Refusing to give in to the boring, cookie-cutter wedding site, I tested out an insane number of alternative website options in the hopes of finding something more unique and personal, including Wix (an awesome free flash player), Tumblr (for more of a blog-style format), The Knot (free and easy), Wedsite (most unique templates I saw), and MyWedding.com, before finally settling on the Classical template from EWedding.com (as seen above).

What started out as a fun exercise in creativity quickly turned into a frustrating nightmare in web amateurism. What do I know about customizing my own website? Very little indeed! Don't get me wrong... I'm stoked about how everything finally turned out... I just can't look at the finished product quite the same without remembering the long (and often painful) journey it took to get there.

Lesson learned: don't try to take on more than you can swallow, Miss Meredith. Gah! I have a feeling I'll be learning that lesson for the rest of my life...

* Note: Proper wedding etiquette calls for mention of the bride's name before the groom's in all wedding correspondence; therefore our wedding website really should have been named meredithandclay.com Whoops. Oh well, we didn't know that until too late, so what the hell, Clay can come first! We're going with it. At least it's alphabetically correct, right? Let this be proof that you really can do what you want with your wedding and EVERYTHING WILL STILL BE OKAY. No one will get hurt. The world will not stop turning. Things will be fine. (And in the end, you'll likely forget all about what made you so worried in the first place.) Amen.