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Beginner April 2018

Wedding Website Domain Name?

Liz, on January 21, 2017 at 5:24 PM

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We are looking at getting a custom domain for our wedding website, but the typical (first name)AND(first name).com is taken. Which of these choices do you think is best? 1. MrandMrsXXX.com - I like this choice, but of course the downside is that non-techies will type it Mr.andMrs.XXX.com (with dots...

We are looking at getting a custom domain for our wedding website, but the typical (first name)AND(first name).com is taken. Which of these choices do you think is best?

1. MrandMrsXXX.com - I like this choice, but of course the downside is that non-techies will type it Mr.andMrs.XXX.com (with dots after mr and mrs) and won't make it to the site.

2. (First name)and(first name).net/org/other tld. - I think it's an okay option, but again, many non-techies will simply type in .com and never make it to the site.

3. (First name)and(first name)YEAR.com - An okay option, but of course it would make the site seem outdated in the future since we want to keep it updated with births, vacations, etc.

4. (First name)-(first name).com - An okay option, but people will likely forget the dash.

Which do you like best? Or what do you think? Any other options you can think of?

28 Comments

  • MJ
    VIP April 2017
    MJ ·
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    I just did our first names name-name.com. I bought my own domain.

  • EM
    Master April 2017
    EM ·
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    Liz, you can't really come on here expecting miracles from us. Everyone has given you really good advice based on their own experience. You don't like any of it. The thing is, people will get to the website one way or another, it's really not that big of a deal.

    My wedding website is really long but I didn't really care because it's clever and cute and my guests aren't stupid. If they type it wrong the first time they would just grab the magnet and type letter for letter from that. It's very simple.

  • L
    Beginner April 2018
    Liz ·
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    Thanks everyone. I'm not trying to cause a stir, I know for many of you a wedding website is a one-time throw-away thing...but that's not how I see it. We have a lot of out-of-town folks that don't use facebook or whatnot who always ask us for pictures of everything, this will be an easy way for them to see pictures and whatnot, both now and in the future. I do plan to keep the site up and running long after the wedding, so while some may think I am overthinking it, this one decision will be with me for years to come. Which is why I am so adamant about getting the right name. I can change the website layout in the future, I can add or remove photos and change the theme, etc. But once people have your cards with the domain name or have bookmarked your page, I can't really change the domain name. But again, thanks everyone for your thoughts.

  • Holly
    VIP June 2018
    Holly ·
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    You are insulting your guests intelligence by assuming they are unable to type in a simple URL or that they would accidentally go to another person's page and not try again to type it in the right way. I don't think anyone would type Mr.andMrs.XXX.com. That isn't something a "non-techie" would do. You can do .Net, but you can't do .Org because you are not an organization.

    Don't do the year one if you think it will look outdated

    Dash is fine and everyone can read them. Doesn't matter if you aren't into computers, your guests can read and are capable of searching the keyboard until they find the dash.

    I would go with option 4. If you don't want that one, option one

  • AyEmVee
    VIP May 2017
    AyEmVee ·
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    My domain name was just [LASTNAME}IDos.com. So that's an option as well. You might also do:

    [FIRSTNAME]and[FIRSTNAME]wedding.com

    [LASTNAME]wedding.com

    I'm not sure if you were planning on using the site after the wedding...given your comment on it looking outdated with the year. But domain names are so cheap, you could buy something totally different down the line and then forward your wedding domain to the new one.

    ETA: just read that you are planning to keep the domain name. I wouldn't worry about it too much because like I mentioned above, you can just forward the old domain to the new domain if you think of something better after the wedding.

  • Elle
    Expert May 2017
    Elle ·
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    Have you tried one of those wedding hashtag generators? Maybe you'll get some ideas from that.

  • J
    Just Said Yes March 2020
    Jennifer ·
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    So what did you end up going with I am trying to create my own wedding website and wondering what you ended up with
  • Chandra
    Master May 2019
    Chandra ·
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    Could you do something like the(lastname)family.com? Or even without "the"
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