Special sloppy kisses and inappropriate reception dance floor fondlings to mywedding.com, Offbeat Bride’s sponsor for the month of August. I’ll be poking around mywedding.com this month and writing about my adventures, starting this week with their free wedding websites.

Most of us Bride 2.0 types make wedding websites (aka wedsites) packed with totally TMI for confused and curious guests. But let’s be fair here: just because you’re a geeky bride doesn’t necessarily mean you want to host and build a fucking website. Who has the time to muck around with CSS and javascript when you’re trying to put the beat down on pushy vendors who insist that no, no you simply MUST have cake: no one serves pie at a wedding? Enter mywedding.com.

Just because you’re a geeky bride doesn’t necessarily mean you want to host and build a fucking website

Now, there’s no shortage of wedsite options out there, but way too many of them are are grossly pink and frilly. The first thing I always look at is the templates — are they all roses and curly-qs and scary white ruffles? It gives me great pleasure to report that mywedding.com’s free wedding websites offer definitively non-sucky templates. I mean sure: I saw a couple floral themes and curly fonts. But as I was poking around with their tools making a test page, here are a few of the offbeat templates I found …

This design is technically called “Hip Wedding,” but I thought of it more as the perfect design for benign, cocktail-loving alcoholics. You’ll notice only a thin line of pink.

This template was clearly designed for Vegas-bound couples, but I think it would be just perfect for an urban rockabilly wedding. Love the fonts! And no pink!

This one is totally the Ikea of wedsite templates. I’m a fan of the mod styling, so this one was a close call for me. And again: no pink.

Ultimately for my test page, I went for a template that’s called “Mountain Lake,” but which I simply thought of as the hippie template. Because really, when you strip it down, that’s what our wedding was. The template might have flowers involved, but I like the font and there’s (say it with me) NO PINK.

But wait wait wait: what about the FEATURES!? Well, I made a point to use almost all the tools mywedding.com offers for their free wedding websites, and man. Why wasn’t this around when I was making my chinzy wedsite in 2004? They have a photo gallery tool, RSVP tool, a wedding party page, accommodations, guestbook, attractions, and gah! I have wedsite envy. You can explore their tools by looking at my experimental page, and then you can go make your own.

Thanks again to mywedding.com for sponsoring this month. Offbeat Brides, please oh please show your support for offbeatbride.com by giving mywedding.com some lerv.