Sarah & Luke — wedding site

A two-page static site: an e-invitation with a dinner-choice survey, and a honeymoon registry. No build step, no dependencies, no server.

index.html the invitation + embedded survey
registry.html the honeymoon registry (edit amounts in the script at the bottom)
create-form.gs one-click Google Form builder
SETUP.md start-to-finish walkthrough - read this first
img/willow-* the linocut artwork
img/map.svg the three places, for the menu section
.nojekyll tells GitHub Pages to serve files as-is

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Setting this up for the first time? Read SETUP.md instead — it's the same information as a start-to-finish walkthrough, including the no-command-line route to GitHub Pages. This file is the shorter reference.

1. Make the survey (10 minutes, once)

The site is static, so the form itself lives in Google Forms and gets embedded.

1. Go to script.google.com → New project
2. Delete the sample code, paste in the whole of create-form.gs
3. Click Run. Google will ask for permission the first time — click Advanced → Go to project (unsafe). It's your own script; that warning appears for anything unpublished.
4. Open the Execution log. It prints three links:
   • the form, for editing
   • the embed URL ← you need this one
   • the responses spreadsheet

If you'd rather not run a script, build the form by hand in Google Forms and get the embed URL from Send → < > → copy the src="…" value. The questions are all written out in create-form.gs.

2. Connect it

Open index.html, scroll to the bottom, and paste the embed URL:

constFORM_URL="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLS…/viewform?embedded=true";

Until you do, the page shows a small "form isn't connected yet" note instead of a broken frame. If the embedded form ends up with its own scrollbar, raise min-height on .formbox iframe in the stylesheet.

3. Put it online

cd site
git init -b main
git add .
git commit -m "Wedding site"
git remote add origin https://github.com/la424/wedding.git
git push -u origin main

Create the empty wedding repo on GitHub first (public). Then in the repo: Settings → Pages → Source: Deploy from a branch → main / / (root) → Save.

It goes live at https://la424.github.io/wedding/ in about a minute.

To email it, link that URL — don't paste the HTML into an email. Gmail and Outlook strip stylesheets and iframes, so an emailed copy would arrive as unstyled text with no survey. A short note plus the link is the way.

4. Editing the registry

Everything lives in the PLAN array at the bottom of registry.html:

{name:"Dinner at The Ebrington Arms",desc:"After the walk to St James' Church.",amount:115}

Change amount, add or delete entries, reorder groups. shares: 4 splits one big item into four equal gifts. Venmo and PayPal links are generated automatically from these two lines:

constVENMO="Luke-Arnce";constPAYPAL="lukearnce";

Before you publish: open https://paypal.me/lukearnce and confirm that handle is actually claimed on your account — PayPal.Me links 404 otherwise. Venmo links work without setup, but test one on your phone; Venmo sometimes ignores a pre-filled amount depending on app version, in which case the guest just types it in.

As written, the registry totals $3,763 if every item and every share is claimed.

5. The artwork

img/ holds the screen version. Print-ready files are in the print/ folder alongside this repo (they're big, so keep them out of git if you'd rather):

File	What it's for
willow-color.pdf	The green-and-cream design, 5×7in — a digital keepsake or a printed card
willow-block.pdf / -600dpi.png	Pure black-and-white carving guide, reads normally
willow-block-mirrored.*	Print this one to transfer to the block
willow-lowcarve*.*	Inverted — dark tree on light ground, far less material to remove

Which to carve.willow-block makes the willow negative space — you carve away the tree, every leaf and all the frame channels, leaving the background standing. willow-lowcarve inverts it: remove the background, leave the tree. Far less carving, different but equally good print.

Why there's a mirrored version. A relief print comes out backwards from the block, so the block has to carry a mirrored image for the print to read right. Which file you print depends on the transfer method: -mirrored if you're tracing through graphite paper or copying by eye, the normal one if you're laying a print face-down and transferring with acetone, gel medium or an iron (going face-down flips it for you). Only the lettering is affected — the tree is near enough symmetrical. Full table in SETUP.md.

Sizing. Everything is dimensioned for hand carving at 5×7in. Running make_willow.py prints the check:

leaf 1.44 x 2.62 mm
lino between leaves 1.44 mm
lino between strands 2.19 mm
frame channel 1.52 mm

That's about the floor for a small U-gouge. If you scale the design down, these go with it — at 4×6 the gaps drop to ~1.1mm and it gets fussy. Scaling up is free. If you want it easier still, open make_willow.py and raise LEAF_PITCH and FROND_PITCH; the whole tree regenerates.