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You've made it!
Welcome to our wedding website. We're pleased that you'll be joining us to celebrate our foray into domestic bliss. Yippee!
Over the next few weeks, we'll be getting together a list of events,
recommended places to stay and things to do while in Stumptown. We'll
be tinkering with this site, adding information
as soon as we have it and removing information if it tuns out to be
wrong. Since tracking our wedding will, no doubt, be one of your
favorite past times over the coming months, we encourage you to check
back often.
The "Out of Town Guests" tab is the place to go to learn about where to stay and what to do while you're in Portland. It's a bit information heavy, but (hopefully) loaded with useful information for those of you coming from elsewhere.
A Wedding Website? For You Two? You Must Be Kidding?
We hadn't seen ourselves as the wedding website types, but it turns out
this is the easiest way to get information to people. It's also one of
the few opportunities we'll have in our lives to write, legitimately,
in the first person plural; we thought we'd take advantage of it. And, it's another opportunity to be irreverent in the face of something ostensibly important. Can't pass that up.
Want Your Own Wedding Website?
For those of you who haven't ventured into the world of wedding websites, it turns out there are dozens of companies that provide this essential service. (At least seven we looked at use the words "essential" or "necessary" in their home pages). All of the templates from all of the companies range in tackiness, from truly tacky to horridly tacky. We have spared you from some of the worst, including the flying Cupid shooting arrows at photographs of the bride-to-be over a background of roses and hearts.
Each wedding website company posts a sample, showing a happy, young, staged couple smiling fondly at each another. Oddly, in four of the twelve wedding website company website templates we looked at, the man was named Steve. There were no Stevens, only Steves. No website template had a Suzy or any variation of Suzy. The couples were all white, blond, tall and, from our perspective, a bit creepy looking.
We chose the company that generates this website because their site building program seems easy to use, and lets us upload our own music. It turns out a wide range of the music we have is fully inappropriate for this website. Try as we did, we simply could not find anything by either Frank Zappa or Ice-T that waxed poetic on the value of enduring love. While sub-mediocre singer-songwriters (think Billy Joel, Phil Collins, James Taylor) have made their livings off such inane drivel, our CD collections are happily lacking music by those "artists." The music offered us another opportunity for entertaining irony, which we just couldn't pass up.
In our company's template, Steve and Christie are getting married in September. Their wedding does not look like much fun. Ours will be more fun.
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