Our Wedding Domain! shortynme.com
Since there seem to be plenty of time till the wedding day (14 months), I thought I’d work on the website first because I know I’m slow with the creative work and even slower when it comes to coding it. For a few days I was wracking my brain trying to come up with a domain name that I liked for the website. Both Al and I didn’t like using the common “bride’s name and groom’s name dot com” but coming up with a unique yet relevant domain name was not easy.
Originally my brother had thought of using the date, which was “julytwentyfifth” (this was the first wedding date) but when it doesn’t quite work for June 18th since most of the variations are taken. Also I wanted to use the domain for after the wedding and using the date just doesn’t have much of a meaning.
So we tried using our pet names. It sounded weird. Maybe use our last names? That’s even more weird. ChanChau? (lol) It just doesn’t go well together. Finally we came up with the name Shorty and Me. The reason is Al is slightly shorter than me hence he’d be the “shorty” and since I’d be the one updating the site, the name make sense – ie. it’s about the two of us. Now the irony is that in our prewedding photos, which I’m planning on putting on the wedding site for the guests to look at, Al is taller than me in every shot (that’s because he cheated!). So now it seems that I’m the shorty instead.
Anyways, while I work on the final look of the wedding website, I’ve designed a very rough parking page for the site which contained the graphics I’ve designed (see previous post), a counter for the wedding date and how to contact me. Check it out at shortynme.com and let me know what you think.
Making Our Wedding Website [Part 1 - Graphic]
The past week I’ve been brainstorming with Al about our wedding website. I wanted to create some graphics that I can use for the website and maybe for the wedding as well (like for the games and such). After a bit of doodling, here’s what I’ve come up with:
Double Happiness Seal
The bride icon (me).
The groom icon (Al).
I used Adobe Illustrator to hand draw the characters and seal. At first I wanted to make a monogram using our initials but I just can’t make J and A work together. So in order to keep it to the Chinese theme, we decided to use the double happiness character.
Ceremony Venue Can Only Hold Half Of The Guests?
Our guests list is growing with no end in sight. We had removed some but have added more than what we’ve taken off. Now my concern is the fact that Minoru Chapel, if I remember correctly, has a sitting capacity of 120 people. It definitely can’t fit everyone on our list. We know that some people might not come to the ceremony but to be on the safe side, I think it’d be best to send out specific invitations to those who we know are probably not going to come to the ceremony. For example distant relatives who we hardly see but still keep contact with my grandparents occasionally (like once a year). These invitations will only contain details for the banquet. I’m also thinking of giving priority to out of town guests since they came all the way to Vancouver to celebrate with us. What do you think?
