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    ashleyjean    August 14, 2010   Denver

    Its about that time (or past time) that we get workin on a website! I'm wavering between what's easy and free, and what looks best. Which sites are you ladies doing yours through? Do you pay so you aren't on a "hosted" site? What have you found to be best?? 

    Thanks! 

     
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    Jessica22580    April 3, 2010   Charlotte, NC but Wedding is in NYC

    I have a website on the Knot for free but I must admit it's kind of cheesy.  I just don't want to pay for a site but those are the nice ones.

     
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    AzinAugust    August 2010   Sedona, AZ

    You could pay for a domain (like $10) and then use the free google sites :o)

    Edit: That's what Miss Ribbons did.

     
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    Mattel    November 6, 2010   WNY

    mine is free... hosted by Brides.com. it's super easy, you can decide which pages you want on there and which you don't... here's mine, www.metzgerlukasik.brides.com if you want to check t out

     
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    sarahnyc23    May 15, 2010   New York, NY

    We're using Project Wedding for our site.  It's free and I thought they had the nicest designs of any of the host sites we looked at.  I'm not sure they have an RSVP function, if that's important to you.

     
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    GirlWithARing    September 5, 2010   Living in NYC, marrying in Philadelphia

    I'm using Project Wedding - they have a good variety of designs and it is super easy to edit. You also get huge flexibility as to what to include on the site.

     
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    mizrunzou    June 26, 2010   Kansas City, MO

    Mine is hosted by weddingwire.com.  I chose weddingwire b/c at the time I liked the RSVP feature better than other free sites I had looked at.  I was/am planning on giving people the option of RSVP'ing online, and weddingwire allows you to enter each guest as  "group", and when guests RSVP for themselves and their +1, the +1 name comes up....so they can't add people you didn't type in!!

    I do not love the themes, but that is just because they don't necessarily match my colors. 

    Otherwise, it has been easy to work with, but I'm sure most are!

     
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    msmonicka    June 19, 2010   Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    www.mywedding.com/justinlovesmonicka

     

     
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    LadyGoodman    September 25, 2010   Baltimore, MD

    Mine is hosted by Project Wedding.  They had the best looking templates and is pretty user friendly.

     
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    KMSull    August 7, 2010   Lexington, KY (via Atlanta, GA)

    We're using WedSite... it's $49 a year but it's password protected, which is important to us since people could potentially be googling Mr. KM's name for his profession at some point.

     
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    thefuturemrsgibbs    June 12, 2010   Northern California

    This reminds me of a post I posted when I first joined wedding bee. 

    http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/what-are-good-websites-to-creat-your-personal-wedding-website-page

    I love www.mywedding.com it's free and easy to use and it's very pretty and informational all my friends and relatives thought it was cute...

    My wedding website is 

    www.mywedding.com/sandyandryantogetherforever

    it's sooo long..

    anyhow let us know when you make one.. k

     
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    Future Mrs. Martin    August 21, 2010   London Ontario Canada

    We used the knot! Yay the other ones are nicer but I really couldn't justify spending the money on something that would be just as informative on a free site!

     
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    rachelss    August 22, 2010   Fort Collins, CO

    I hosted mine like a "regular" website. It's $6.25 a month and we can keep it forever and add whatever we want. My friend did this and has added honeymoon and baby photos. Design is really easy using iWeb on a mac. I wanted my website to be unique, not a fill-in template from a wedding site. I can send the host info to anyone who wants it.

     
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    ashleyjean    August 14, 2010   Denver

    Thanks for all your help and ideas! Loving looking through yall's websites :) So fun! 

    rachelss...i hadnt even thought of iWeb! Such a good idea...I might check that out! FH could care less what the thing looks like (I love him more than anything, but he's so not into the details) so I'm just exploring the options and trying to make the decision myself! I am pretty tech-savvy, just am trying to decide if the cost is worth it...and what I can get where for free! Options, options...

     
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    bakerella    September 11, 2010   Toronto, ON

    I used wedsite.com as well. I like the password protection simply for the fact that the idea that someone could go to any wedding site, find out when, where, and how large of a wedding it is, and that seems a bit risky to me. There are more incidences of weddings getting robbed/money boxes disappearing, and hey, you never know about a crazy ex showing up or something! I really like the templates and user-friendly aspect of wedsite. It was $69 for two years and I found a $10 off coupon with a google search :) I'm so happy with it, I can hardly wait to get it done and let our families and friends check it out!

     
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    thefuturemrsjewell    August 7, 2010   Washington DC

    I just finished making my website and I decided to go with WedShare.  I love it so far, it's easy to use and we've been able to customize everything which was important to me, and we got our own domain name with it too! 

     
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    JoJo Bananas    August 21, 2010   Santa Cruz, CA

    I used iWeb to create it and dreamhost to host it. www.matthewandjoanne.com

     
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    BrianneG    June 5, 2010   Redondo Beach, CA

    My fiance is a computer science student and he wanted to make our website himself. But he's such a perfectionist and so busy with school, that it probably won't be finished by the time our wedding comes. So I started a free one with ProjectWedding yesterday and the web address we bought will just be directed there. At least we own the domain name and can use it for photos forever.

     
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    fanatic888    10/16/10   Cincinnati

    I used Mywedding.com.  It's free and has a ton of cute designs.  Some designs are based on invitations from the big invite sites so it is nice to make things match.  It allows you to do a ton of stuff.  I am leaning towards online RSVPs which it allows.  

     
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    Miss_Riley    May 22, 2010   Wedding VA / Live in KS

    We initially made one on theknot.com but it was boring and blah so I recently made one on www.wix.com and it turned out really nice!

     
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    fanatic888    10/16/10   Cincinnati

    I also bought a domain name on GoDaddy.com so it redirects to the mywedding site.  It's not complete yet but www.mattandbethtietheknot.com if you need ideas.

     
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    sloth    May 14, 2011   Philadelphia, PA

    MyWedding.com was also my favorite, because it was the only one where I could find a template that wasn't too frilly.

    http://www.mywedding.com/danaaaron/

     
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    His Barista    September 4, 2010   Spokane, WA

    we are using mywedding.com! It's free, and has some cute templates!

     
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    Sarah71710    July 17, 2010   Colorado

    Hey Ashley! I'm in Denver, too!

    I chose Mywedding.com and I love mine. I haven't seen an advertisement on my page and it was quick and easy to set up. I have heard to beware of the registry page on mywedding.com, I guess it tries to search for your registries with C&B, BB&B, Macy's, etc. . . . I didn't have a problem with this.

    If you do save the dates or invites with Weddingpaperdivas they use the same backgrounds and it looks like they match the invites.

     
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    bluebellbride    October 20, 2010   Sunny Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Hi ours is on Momentville.com and we love it :)

    Our website is www.momentville.com/kirstenandkieran if anyone wants a look :)

     
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    trugem    January 2011  

    We are using mywedding.com. It is free and there are cute designs. I was able to make custom pages and included our proposal video on our website.

     

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