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

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Post by Y7ZCQtNo39 »

rampatra wrote: post #49
Y7ZCQtNo39 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always found the concept of a whole website, domain name, etc dedicated to a wedding to feel a little... heavy. I understand it's a big occasion. It just feels like a lot for a single event and domain that will become irrelevant after the event is over.

The project which I have linked here won't cost you a dime to set up. It will be hosted on github.com for free. My site is hosted on github too. No servers needed. Github also provides you with a default domain which you can use (and it recently started supporting https as well). You only pay around $10 if you need your own custom domain.

I wasn't questioning the price --and I get that static sites are fairly trivial to create and host-- just the idea of a full-blown website for a wedding.

I know they're very common.

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

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Post by setr »

Y7ZCQtNo39 wrote: post #42
osrec wrote: post #7

Happy Anniversary! For those looking to use this, the following may help a little: find /path/to/folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/Ram/YourName/g' find /path/to/folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/Antara/OtherHalfsName/g' Edit: FianceeName -> OtherHalfsName (some people are easily offended) :P

I always found the concept of a whole website, domain name, etc dedicated to a wedding to feel a little... heavy. I understand it's a big occasion. It just feels like a lot for a single event and domain that will become irrelevant after the event is over.

Eh, I’ve built websites for much stupider reasons than a wedding and its not like a domain name is expensive/difficult to acquire/unacquire.

I mean hell the wedding invite card is going to require much more work/thought than this site, and it’ll be used even less (assuming the site is intended as an informational reference; the card will be used exactly once: to formally invite

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

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Post by laurynas-s »

Nice!

Had an idea to make a website for my wedding too (married one year ago), but in the end, decided to go with traditional paper invitations as would be difficult to explain to older people how to RSVP and paper invitations would be more cost-efficient (By comparing the time needed to build the website with my hourly rate).

For big Indian weddings with hundreds of people, I do see that the website can benefit by not needing to contact each person about RSVP status.

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

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Post by organsnyder »

Walkman wrote: post #6

I still find the idea of a digital wedding invitation pretty strange, because here in Hungary the bride and the fiancé invite everybody in person together. Maybe distant relatives are invited by mail or something. Is digital invitation a common thing nowadays? Or was it more common even years ago in other countries?

The tradition for many in the US (in my experience, at least—it's far from universal, of course) is that the paper invitation is considered "official"—often even more-so than an in-person invite. In-person invites are still welcome, of course, but they're often seen as informal.

Since a mailed invitation is already considered by many to be the most formal route, it makes sense that electronic invites have gained popularity—especially for those looking to save money (printing fancy invitations and mailing them easily costs hundreds of dollars).

When I got married in 2006, we sent paper invitations with postage-paid RSVP response cards. They were custom-printed by a local printer. Between printing and postage costs, we must have spent over $500 on invitations alone. This was for a very traditional wedding in Michigan.

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

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Post by dominotw »

laurynas-s wrote: post #55

Nice! Had an idea to make a website for my wedding too (married one year ago), but in the end, decided to go with traditional paper invitations as would be difficult to explain to older people how to RSVP and paper invitations would be more cost-efficient (By comparing the time needed to build the website with my hourly rate). For big Indian weddings with hundreds of people, I do see that the website can benefit by n…

> For big Indian weddings with hundreds of people, I do see that the website can benefit with not needing to contact each person about RSVP.

Indian weddings don't care about RSVP count, there is no assigned seating :D.

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

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Post by tathougies »

laurynas-s wrote: post #55

Nice! Had an idea to make a website for my wedding too (married one year ago), but in the end, decided to go with traditional paper invitations as would be difficult to explain to older people how to RSVP and paper invitations would be more cost-efficient (By comparing the time needed to build the website with my hourly rate). For big Indian weddings with hundreds of people, I do see that the website can benefit by n…

At a traditional indian wedding, you don't invite people. You tell your aunts and uncles and friends, and they tell their aunts and uncles and friends, and they tell theirs, etc, until you end up with 800 people at your wedding.
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