As a busy Certified Wedding Planner, there is precious little time available for keeping up with the latest news and trends in the wedding industry. To help keep you up-to-date on wedding current events, we offer a quick rundown on some of this week’s top industry stories.
As the wedding industry continues to battle the current economic downturn, wedding businesses are evolving to meet the challenge in different ways. Some businesses are merging to combine their products and services in an attempt to increase their market share. A wedding supply website has responded to its local market need for a hands-on source by opening its first brick-and-mortar location.
Other wedding industry marketing news includes a review of a wedding resources portal that bills itself as “The Future of Weddings”, an international corporate event planning group that is launching itself headfirst into the wedding planning business, and a New Jersey shore community rolling out its plans to promote their destination wedding appeal.
With many prospective clients either cutting back on their wedding budgets or forgoing wedding planning altogether, a wedding planning business owner has taken umbrage with TheKnot.com’s article on the recent survey revealing how much time brides-to-be spend at work researching caterers.
This week, weddings were challenged by unexpected military deployments, uproarious opponents of same-sex marriages, and Hurricane Ike induced venue closings. Offbeat weddings featured unusual cake designs, a swinging 40’s theme, and a mass ceremony of seven hundred couples seeking to spark a baby boom. Wedding contests offered an unclaimed $10,000 for the couple who waits and an $80,000 award to engaged cast mates of the CBS Survivor: China show.
In the world of celebrity weddings, Fergie is looking for the best wedding planner, Mena Suvari is learning about wedding planning in Italy, Gisele and Tom Brady are rumored to be game planning a run to the altar, Paris Hilton tries on glass slippers, Madonna and Adam Shankman are producing The Wedding Planner 2, and Captain Kirk and Mr. Sulu aren’t communicating well.
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It never ceases to amaze me how the internet offers you every resource you could possibly want even when it comes to planning weddings and keeping up with all the latest and greatest. A couple great examples in my opinion are "The Future of Weddings" Wedsnap.com website which offers up a wedding application for Facebook called WeddingBook where the user can post wedding details to her profile. Another information source is I Do Radio who has a profile on Myspace. http://www.myspace.com/idoradio
There is no excuse for not knowing what's going on in this day and age!
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