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Live site examples:

• Standard Wedding Website
• Random Save The Date Email (refresh for more examples)
• Sample Personal Invitation Page

There is alsoa longer writeup on this project here.

This includes everything we did for our own wedding:

• A responsive, single-page traditional wedding website
• A complete guest management application
• Email framework for sending save the dates
• Email framework for invitations and built in RSVP system
• Guest dashboard

More details on these below.

The standard wedding website is a responsive, single-page, twitter bootstrap-based site (using a modified version ofthis theme).

It is completely customizable to your needs and the content is laid out in standard django templates. By default it includes:

• A "hero" splash screen for a photo
• A mobile-friendly top nav with scrollspy
• A photo/hover navigation pane
• Configurable content sections for every aspect of your site that you want
• A set of different styles you can use for different sections

The guest management functionality acts as a central place for you to manage your entire guest list.It includes two data models - theParty and theGuest.

TheParty model allows you to group your guests together for things like sending a single invitation to a couple.You can also add parties that you're not sure you're going to invite using theis_invited field, which works great for sending tiered invitations.There's also a field to track whether the party is invited to the rehearsal dinner.

TheGuest model contains all of your individual guests.In addition to standard name/email it has fields to represent whether the guest is a child (for kids meals/pricing differences),and, after sending invitations, marking whether the guest is attending and what meal they are having.

The guest list can be imported and exported via excel (csv).This allows you to build your guest list in Excel and get it into the system in a single step.It also lets you export the data to share with others or for whatever else you need.

See theimport_guests management command for more details andbigday/guests/tests/data for sample file formats.

The app comes with a built-in cross-client and mobile-friendly email template for save the dates (seesave_the_date.html).

You can create multiple save the dates and send them out either randomly or byParty type (useful if you want to send formalinvitations to some people and more playful ones to others).

Seesave_the_date.py andSAVE_THE_DATE_CONTEXT_MAP for customizing your save the dates.

The app also comes with a built-in invitation system.The template is similar to the save-the-date template, however in addition to the standard invitation content it includes:

• A built in tracking pixel to know whether someone has opened the email or not
• Unique invitation URLs for each party with pre-populated guest names (example)
• Online RSVP system with meal selection and validation

After your invitations go out you can use the guest dashboard to see how many people have RSVP'd, everyone who stillhas to respond, people who haven't selected a meal, etc.It's a great way of tracking your big picture numbers in terms of how many guests to expect.

Just access/dashboard/ from an account with admin access. Your other guests won't be able to see it.

You can easily hook up Google analytics by editing the tracking ID ingoogle-analytics.html.

It's recommended that you setup a virtualenv before development.

Then just install requirements, migrate, and runserver to get started:

pip install -r requirements.txtpython manage.py migratepython manage.py runserver

I recommend forking this project and just manually modifying it by hand to replace everything with what you want.Searching for the text on a page in the repository is a great way to find where something lives.

This application uses Django's email framework for sending mail.You need to modify theEMAIL_HOST,EMAIL_PORT and other associated variables insettings.py in orderto hook it into a real server.

Thisthread on stack overflowis a good starting place for learning how to connect to a real mail service.

To customize the email addresses, see theDEFAULT_WEDDING_FROM_EMAIL andDEFAULT_WEDDING_REPLY_EMAIL variables insettings.py.

If you want to use this project for your wedding but need help getting started justget in touch or make an issuefor anything you encounter and I'm happy to help.

I haven't built out more complete customization docs yet because I wasn't sure anyone would be interested in this,but will add to these instructions whenever I get questions!

-Cory