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

Ok feel old.<p>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.<p>Still married - so get off my lawn :)

I’ve got a different format - timeline style:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.09092018.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.09092018.com</a><p>Let me know if anyone wants me to open source this :)

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&#x27;m not sure what the chances of that happening considering anyone in the world could have bought it. It&#x27;s a good thing I didn&#x27;t renew the domain name so that someone else could enjoy it for their guests. Keep that it mind when you are gobbling up domain names for important life events ;)

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.<p>Is digital invitation a common thing nowadays? Or was it more common even years ago in other countries?

Thanks for sharing. I just got married and did my own site - I forgot how time consuming even a regular HTML &#x2F; CSS static site could be when you have a million other things going on - I would have loved to have used this.

Oh nice, me too!<p>Here&#x27;s the site (hosted on my home server, so may be slow under heavy traffic): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astrid-en-sander.nl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astrid-en-sander.nl&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s not nearly as pretty as all the others here, but I am a backend developer, not a designer. You cat get the source code at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sandermarechal&#x2F;wedding" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sandermarechal&#x2F;wedding</a>

&gt; This event is no way close to ethnic. The bride &amp; groom would like to have some &quot;shots before the knot&quot;. 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 &amp; karaoke for sure.<p>The money quote. I would have loved to have gone to this wedding!

Happy Anniversary!<p>For those looking to use this, the following may help a little:<p><pre><code> find &#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i &#x27;s&#x2F;Ram&#x2F;YourName&#x2F;g&#x27; find &#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i &#x27;s&#x2F;Antara&#x2F;OtherHalfsName&#x2F;g&#x27; </code></pre> Edit: FianceeName -&gt; OtherHalfsName (some people are easily offended) :P

My wedding website from 6 years ago is also open sourced <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;potench&#x2F;shum-harden&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;potench&#x2F;shum-harden&#x2F;</a> It is not mobile optimized, whoops <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shum-harden.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shum-harden.com</a>

Nice, this is great! I did the same thing with mine a couple years back:<p>Demo: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;coryandro.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;coryandro.com&#x2F;</a> Code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;czue&#x2F;django-wedding-website" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;czue&#x2F;django-wedding-website</a> Writeup: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buildwithdjango.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;wedding-website&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buildwithdjango.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;wedding-website&#x2F;</a>

Nice!<p>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).<p>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.

Putting the placeholder for the +1(s) as &quot;Wife or kids&quot;, Yikes... Are women allowed to use the form?

How does the &quot;RSVP to google sheets&quot; work? That&#x27;s an extremely useful feature to have on a static site with no backend. It looks like it&#x27;s related to this line:<p>$.post(&#x27;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;script.google.com&#x2F;macros&#x2F;s&#x2F;AKfycbzUqz44wOat0DiGjRV1gUnRf4HRqlRARWggjvHKWvqniP7eVDG-&#x2F;exec&#x27;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;script.google.com&#x2F;macros&#x2F;s&#x2F;AKfycbzUqz44wOat0DiGjRV1g...</a>, data)<p>... how does the security work on that, or can I RSVP to your wedding too?

Wow, all these wedding websites here look amazing. Ours was a really simple static webpage which I hacked together in a single day. At least our guests loved it :) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hetalsaidyes.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hetalsaidyes.com</a><p>However, I shall say that we made the website for convenience, we still sent out letters with a formal invitation. The website was more like a place for people to quickly check details and later to distribute photos by guests.

Wow! Great timing...Getting married in a couple of days and here &#x27;s our website<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mamamami.wedding" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mamamami.wedding</a>

Cool project! Was this collaboratory between the two of you?<p>I especially love this photo [1], I wish that style of formal wear was more common in America.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wedding.rampatra.com&#x2F;img&#x2F;eng_pics&#x2F;NGP_4089-lg.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wedding.rampatra.com&#x2F;img&#x2F;eng_pics&#x2F;NGP_4089-lg.jpg</a>

Nice! One thing about the RSVP, it has a section where you can specify the number of &quot;Wife or kids&quot; you are bringing. Probably could be reworded to something more neutral.<p>Congrats on your anniversary!

I used a service called withjoy.com about 279 days ago :-)<p>I primarily went to the service instead of a storied page because I needed a system to collect RSVPs. I could have hacked one up together, but this service offered everything I wanted, in a easy way, so I made the choice.<p>All our guests liked the website.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withjoy.com&#x2F;evelynandaravindh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withjoy.com&#x2F;evelynandaravindh&#x2F;</a>

We did one quick and easy with squarespace. We had people RSVP with a form we set up there. Took about an hour. Worked awesome!

[Off-topic] I feel there is a need of many more open source projects. Most open source projects these days are backed by big cos. There are hardly any large open source projects nowadays which are not by big cos. Why is there no credible alternative to Uber which is open source ? How about open source stack for security software ?

It’s not as polished as the poster but I’ve open sourced our wedding website should it help serve as inspiration for you <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;intenscia&#x2F;Wedding" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;intenscia&#x2F;Wedding</a>

Related idea: Prediction market for how long a relationship &#x2F; marriage is going to last.<p>If most of your friends are betting against the marriage, perhaps you should call it off, and the betters get their money back.<p>Not sure how to solve the moral hazard problem though.

@rampatra Your Pull Request was approved and merged by Antara. Happy anniversary!

Hey I&#x27;m trying to RSVP but it&#x27;s rejecting my invite code :-(<p>Dude, excellent work on that site by the way. It&#x27;s incredible, really.

Wow. Someone deleted my comment without any notice or whatever. What kind of practice is this here on HN?<p>I was not offending the author or someone else.<p>I was just criticising the size of the repo and the number of tools that are required to develop this single static website in contrast to a simple html file. People started to upvote and agree with me and the reaction is to simply delete?<p>If this is the new practice here I&#x27;ll have to ask myself if it makes sense to keep participating in this community.

Nothing to add but congrats on year one of marriage, and here&#x27;s to many more. Thanks for sharing this with us :)

When buying a wedding domain, you can buy domains like .party and .dance, which adds a nice touch I think.

Thanks for sharing! I was just searching github for something like this for my own wedding.

never knew up until now that this was a thing. <i>insert &quot;but why?&quot; GIF</i>

How hard would it be to set up a backend payment service to receive $$ for gifts?

Congrats! Thanks to this I made happy mood from morning.

Nice to see a fellow Odiya trending on HN. :)

Adorable. My best to you both.

I want an invitation code!

i gave you my email address. what have i done? haha

This is cute :)

Congrats!

Congrats!

Looking at the bloated and checked in node_modules folder makes me wanna cry. Yah it&#x27;s probably all just dev dependencies but building a static website shouldn’t feel like rocket science. People were creating wedding websites in the 90s with just one html file and that’s it. Welcome to the age of total bloat.

Holding phone on engagement

Badly expressed, sorry. Deleted.

Cool!