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Creative registry item of the month
This month our winner is Janice, who's created a registry to send her parents on a cruise to Europe for their 50th
anniversary! Janice explains in her email below:
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"Just wanted to let you folks know we are so excited about being able to utilize your site to
set up a registry for Mom & Dad's 50th wedding anniversary.
We've been wanting to send them on a cruise for a long time, and after 50 years of marriage,
they certainly don't need any more "items" for the home. This site is a blessing to us.
I have to tell you, I just sent invitations out 3 days ago and we've already had 1 purchase.
I am very excited and hope the site is a huge success so you can use us an example for
other couples celebrating 25th or 50th anniversaries. Again, thank you so much and we'll keep you updated.
Kindest regards,
Janice"
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New premium wedding websites
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In March, we launched an alternative to our one-page wedding websites.
Our new Premium websites are powered by MyEvent.com.
We found many of our couples were creating really first-rate wedding websites with MyEvent.com,
so we decided we needed to form a close partnership with them, and offer our customers a new choice!
We're continuing to offer our original one-page wedding websites for free, and the new Premium
wedding websites for $9.95/month or $99 for 18 months.
Click here for more info & samples, etc.
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Premium Wedding Websites Include:- A website address like: www.michaelandmelinda.thebigday.net
- A huge range of styles and colors
- Flash intro, music, and video
- Planning tools to manage guests, invitations, RSVPs, etc.
- Photo albums - more than 150 images!
- Bride and Groom bios
- Wedding party bios with photos
- List of gift registries
- Quizzes and polls for your guests
- Event details and maps
- Guest book
- Visitor counter
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TheBigDay on the Travel Channel
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In her article HONEYMOON TRENDS: Honeymoon Registries, Valerie Conners writes:
"Honeymoon registries are offered by various companies (thebigday.com, ...)
and allow couples to register for the cost of things like airfare, a night at their hotel,
a guided tour, a snorkeling trip, a massage."
Read the entire article here.
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Update on Cathy & Irving
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We're pleased to announce that comic strip characters Cathy & Irving have raised $23,565
from their Big Day registry
for the Pet Orphans of Southern California, a pet shelter where cartoonist Cathy Guisewite
and her daughter volunteer.
Thank you all very much for your generosity! Cathy Guisewite tells us she's signing and mailing the last batch of autographed
wedding cartoons for the donors this weekend.
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Wedding bands & engagement rings
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We're big fans of Blue Nile--they're the #1 online jewelry site for good reason: not only
do they have excellent prices and high quality, but make extraordinary efforts to educate their
customers. Their engagement ring guide and their wedding band guide do a superb job of helping
brides and grooms evaluate rings and diamonds to make an educated decision.
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With Blue Nile's permission, we've provided their wedding band and engagement ring guides on TheBigDay.
Click here to see the guides.
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New features at TheBigDay
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In the last month, we've made a number of changes to our services:
- Linking - have a wedding web page you've created somewhere else? We have
a new page full of tips on how to link directly to your registry...use our e-postcards to announce
your wedding website...and graphics to use for your link. Simply log in to your registry and look for
the link that says "See our tips on linking to your registry".
- Online booking - if you'd like to book your own travel online, we now have online booking available
for Hawaii and Mexico...and Las Vegas is coming soon! On our
Hawaii and
Mexico travel sites, you'll now
see a button that says Book Online. Click that button and explore your options!
- Confirmation numbers - when we send you the money from your registry gifts, we always send you
a note that tells you exactly which gifts the money was for. We now display the confirmation numbers for
those gifts in your Thank-you Notes list as well. If you haven't seen the thank-you notes list yet,
you're missing one of our customers' favorite features! Login in to your registry and look for the
link that says "View our thank-you notes list.".
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Free wedding classifieds
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Stephi Stewart, author of Fire Your Wedding Planner, has
just launched a free wedding classifieds website.
It's a place to connect with thousands of other brides looking to buy or sell
wedding stuff at bargain prices. Whether you're trying to find something
great before your wedding, or trying to recoup some costs after your big day,
this is definitely worth checking out.
www.freeweddingclassifieds.com
It was just launched 2 days ago, and there are already 95 ads in the wedding
dresses section!
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Tell a friend about us
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We're pleased to have grown our honeymoon registry to be what it is today largely through word of mouth--a big thank you
to all of you who've told your friends and family about us!
If you would like to tell a couple how easy it
is to take the honeymoon of their dreams with TheBigDay, just click here.
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