Lance and I decided to do a website as an alternative to pocket invitations. I love pretty paper--nowadays you can hire a professional stationer to design beautiful custom wedding suites--and one popular option is pocket invitations. I think they're awesome, because they hold inserts for all sorts of information (maps, things to do, hotels, etc.) to help people plan their trips. However, they run $3-5 and up, even if you make them yourself! Lance wasn't a big fan ("That's a lot of money for something most people are going to throw away."). I couldn't argue with that, and I also didn't like the idea of killing so many trees for just one day.
I figured I could communicate most of this information with a website instead. I don't like most of the website templates that I've seen on sites like the Knot, so I decided to use this opportunity to learn to build a website on my own. Google Sites has been awesome for this project--it's not exactly intuitive all the time, but there is a lot of help available online. It also lets you click through most options or play with the html code, so you can really learn as much as you feel is necessary for your project. Kinda neat. I'm planning on adding an interactive Google map or a pretty line drawing one (which you can do at weddingmapper.com), filling in the rest of the details, and I'm done!
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