Oh So British Wedding Website

I started this copy from wedding-invites repo (thanks Alistair and happy wedding!). I have customized to match my needs a bit better and also let me store most of the content outside the actual code.

It's obviously not "production" quality, but that's OK, it was hacked together over a few hours on a cold weekend in December.

How it works for guests

• guests all login with the same username/password.
• they provide their names, email, phone number and any dietery requirements they might have.
• we automatically calculate the number of guests in the party.

For Admin

• You login using the same credentials as your guests..
• then you go to /admin and login using your admin password
• view your guests and set the content for the main index page from here.

Requirements

• MongoDB for storing the data.
• Sendgrid for sending notifications to yourself about a new RSVP.
• Vercel for deploying.

setup

• sign up to MongoDB and setup a free cluster, setup a DB called wedding with two collections called rsvps and content.
• sign up to Sendgrid and set up an API key with send permission.
• setup your environment variables in .env.local (copy env.example to see what you need)
• we used Dall-E 2 to generate an image for the background/header, set this in the environment variables too.
• add the main wedding content via the admin page - I suggest editing place_holder.json locally to the data you want and storing it under 'my_copy.json' for future reference.
• once you are happy that it works locally, deploy it to Vercel.com
• make sure you have:

1. added the environment variables in vercel,
2. added a suitable DNS CNAME if using your own domain,
3. add the domain to vercel