@weddingbeacon

Carlton Shiembo

@weddingbeaconJoined October 2026

Founder of WeddingBeacon. Building wedding websites with Django.

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London-based founder of WeddingBeacon (https://weddingbeacon.com), a wedding website builder for couples whose guests live on WhatsApp.

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Giving your caterer a final headcount when your wedding has more than one event

If your wedding is one ceremony and one reception with the same guests at both, the headcount is easy. Count the yeses and send the number. A lot of weddings don't look like that. A Nigerian or Camero

Oct 18 · 4 min readweddingbeacon.hashnode.dev

What I learned building QR guest check-in for weddings with Django

WeddingBeacon is a wedding website builder, and one of the parts I enjoyed building most was the guest check-in at the door. Here are a few honest notes from building it with Django and Python. The pr

Oct 18 · 3 min readweddingbeacon.hashnode.dev

Carlton Shiembo

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Giving your caterer a final headcount when your wedding has more than one event

What I learned building QR guest check-in for weddings with Django

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Carlton Shiembo

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Carlton Shiembo's blogs

Giving your caterer a final headcount when your wedding has more than one event

What I learned building QR guest check-in for weddings with Django