First Fruits of our Labor

We just launched our wedding website and I love it. I think it's so much fun! Of course, the back story is so much more interesting than the end result.... which is why I'm about to divulge.

I get this phone call while I'm out with Khalyn one day. And it just so happens to be Chase on the line. He'd just recently purchased a domain name for $10 a year to create a website to attract employers and showcase some of his work. The best part is the name he chose - http://hirethatredhead.com - 'hire that red head'.

So he called me that fateful day to ask if I wanted him to buy another domain name to host a wedding website. I wasn't interested. I'd fooled around with some free websites for a possible wedding deal and didn't like what was there and just canned the idea all together. So when Chase calls about actually spending money on this thing, I was like naaaaah. But he was like, oh come on, Leigh Ann. And I was like, well... if its something you want to do, then do it. I just want no part of it.

A few days later, Chase says to me, "hey Leigh Ann, come look at what I've got going so far for the wedding website." And I mosey on over to take a gander... and he's created an entire website with all kinds of different pages for RSPVing, 'our story', maps and directions, and other fun, useful stuff. And I was impressed! He had everything there.... but the eye candy. That's right, folks... pictures. :-) I mean, I'm all about some illustration. ABCs are fine, but you know what they say about a picture. You could save yourself a lot of time typing out those thousand words if you'd just post a picture!

So I knew what I had to do. Sitting beside Chase on our love seat (that reclines!), with our laptops cradled in our lap, I went to work. On each page, I inserted a picture of us taken during a different trip or activity. And I really liked it. Then I created a whole new page of just pictures of us and family. And I really liked it. Then, when we were finished, the website was posted for public consumption and the address shared on facebook. And I really liked it.

I'm thinking about future pages that I might add to the website about up-dates and more pictures of some of the showers and wedding-type stuff. But for now, the website is done and up there for the world to see. And I love it! Mostly because Chase did such a great job on it and all I did was make it pretty. Not saying it was ugly before.... but it was plain. ;-) And now it's decorated....

So go check it out if you want to... http://www.chaseandleighann.com/ and enjoy the fruits of our labor!