Wedding Website Update

I know I have been shirking my blogging duties lately, but please bear with me as I get set to re-launch into more wedding related activities after a brief hiatus. Thanks for being patient, it's been a very hectic few weeks for the future Essama family!

I wanted to keep you posted regarding our wedding webpage. In my haste to put something up when we first got engaged (lest I get harassed by The Knot and Wedding Channel stalkers--you know who you are!), I set up a page at The Knot. I have now taken that page down and switched over to Wedding Channel. You can find us here: http://www.javadandessama.weddings.com/

We decided to do this for a couple of reasons:

1. Wedding Channel incorporates most of your registries onto one page, so they're easier to find. Plus if you register at Macy's, like many do, Macy's does not show up on The Knot!
2. I want to put our wedding web page on our save the date magnets that I will eventually send out and The Knot's link was some ridiculous jumble of craziness. Wedding Channel is very straightforward with their urls, as you can see above.
3. Wedding Channel allows you to link your registries to a charity of your choice so that when and if people buy you gifts online using the Wedding Channel link, a donation is made to the charity of your choice.

Being able to link to a charity of your choice, ours being the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, was very important to us because one of Steve/Belinga's groomsmen, Gary Walton, unfortunately passed away last week after a long battle with leukemia. Therefore we wanted to do our part and see if we couldn't raise a little money and awareness for the cause as you help us celebrate our big day.

You can still however go to The Knot and search for our wedding webpage and it will lead you to the Wedding Channel page. Pay no attention to the fact that if you search The Knot, it says we are getting married in PA. I'm trying to get them to change that...it's so hard getting a hold of any of these people--it's only done through e-mail and not on the phone!

Stay tuned for more exciting updates as I seriously start to decide on bridesmaids dresses, colors, flowers, invitations, save the dates, etc!

PS: For those of you kind enough to leave guest book comments at The Knot, have no fear, I moved all your comments over to Wedding Channel!