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Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by ArrayList »

pokstad wrote: post #106

I just went to my old wedding domain name to see if it was still up (www.paulandtessa.com) and it turns out another couple bought it for their wedding next February. Amazingly, they are from the same city as us (Long Beach). I'm not sure what the chances of that happening considering anyone in the world could have bought it. It's a good thing I didn't renew the domain name so that someone else could enjoy it for thei…

You should RSVP and crash their wedding! I'm sure they'd get a kick out of it!

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by danesparza »

bmsleight_ wrote: post #30

Ok feel old. 20.5 years ago I sent out a link to a party celebrating our engagement. I spent more time explaining how to get to the website, than people finding website helpful. Still married - so get off my lawn :)

I feel older. I sent dead trees. Only dead trees.

And that was just 23.5 years ago. :-)

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by Gruselbauer »

briandear wrote: post #18

> This event is no way close to ethnic. The bride & groom would like to have some "shots before the knot". With booze flowing down the floor and the western attire on, everyone would be busy showing off their new moves on the stage which they have finely honed. Lastly, expect some beer pong matches & karaoke for sure. The money quote. I would have loved to have gone to this wedding!

Indeed. The whole site exudes a nonchalance and cultural pluralism that just makes me think I'd have had heaps of fun attending, despite being from the other end of the globe and another background entirely.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by sumeno »

dylan604 wrote: post #99
bronco21016 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As others have said, in the US the formal paper invite is considered official. When my wife and I married we still did this but we encouraged people to RSVP via the website or email. No sense in sending more paper. It’s sad to me that we felt so pressured to do the paper invites. They’re ridiculously overpriced and all of that paper and emissions for delivery for something that can easily be delivered electronically…

How do you let people know about the website? Social media posts? How do you contact people not on social media about the website? A mailer? A phone call/text? These are just questions I would ask to understand why paper invitations are still a thing. Rather than providing a self addressed stamped envelope for the RSVP, just put the website into it. Also, people love to hang things like invitations on their fridge as…

> How do you let people know about the website? Social media posts? How do you contact people not on social media about the website? A mailer? A phone call/text?

Someone should invent some kind of electronic mail for these things!

> Also, people love to hang things like invitations on their fridge as a constant reminder of an event that's somewhat far into the future. Rarely is that something printed off of a website, but a card received in the mail will pretty much get placed there straight away (or maybe after sitting on the counter for a period of time).

My wife and I did email invitations because we didn't consider it worth $500 for someone to have something to stick on their fridge. We were able to automatically send an email reminder a week or two ahead of time instead.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by black-tea »

tugberkk wrote: post #141
black-tea wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but men basically go insane when trying to impress women. The entire concept of a wedding is insane. That much time, effort and money for something that essentially amounts to a few photographs, most of which are fake and posed. A man wouldn't buy this for himself.

I don't think we do it "to impress", but rather to "not disappoint".

That's even worse. I was giving them more credit but maybe you're right. The wedding industry thrives by sowing the idea of a perfect and unique wedding into the minds of little girls and later some man will come along and fulfil that dream.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by michaelt »

pjc50 wrote: post #142

How does the "RSVP to google sheets" work? That's an extremely useful feature to have on a static site with no backend. It looks like it's related to this line: $.post(' https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbzUqz44wOat0DiGjRV1g... , data) ... how does the security work on that, or can I RSVP to your wedding too?

  How does the "RSVP to google sheets" work?
I don't know how the wedding website works, but I've done some basic recording data to google sheets like so:-

1. Create 'google forms' one-page survey, gathering outputs into a spreadsheet.

2. Use browser debug tools to figure out form field names, which will be things like 'entry.1150050082'

3. curl "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/ 1xFOZk3D1...wnIjGAf0/formResponse?ifq&entry.1150050082=FOO&entry.1477423851=BAR&entry.592766186=BAZ&submit=Submit" or the appends a row to the google sheet with the values FOO, BAR and BAZ.

I assume if your site embedded a form that sent the same request as that curl query, it would do the same thing.

Obviously, this isn't going to win you any awards for highly maintainable professional design at work. But if you want something quick and you aren't fussed about whether it works a year from now, it can get the job done.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by emdowling »

yoongfook wrote: post #44

I’ve got a different format - timeline style: https://www.09092018.com Let me know if anyone wants me to open source this :)

I love your wedding date. 09 + 09 = 18. It's beautiful. I know I'll probably get downvoted for a "Reddit-style" comment but it's worth it.
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