Author Archive for Matt
There is no point getting married – its only a piece of paper
I always feel disheartened when the latest survey is published about attitudes towards marriage. Today, the National Statistics Office published their Annual Social Trends survey which, as always, reveals that the number of marriages has been declining each year since 1972 whilst the number of partners cohabiting has increased. In 2006, there were 237,000 marriages in England and [...]
Football Wedding Cakes
The popularity of themed wedding cakes has grown in recent years and the creativity of the wedding cake suppliers has been quick to keep up with the demand. For the woman who loses her bloke to the telly every saturday afternoon and midweek match day could these cakes be the ultimate sign of her affection…. [...]
Confetti.co.uk launch new website
Confetti have been teasing us with banners promoting a revamp of their leading wedding website www.confetti.co.uk for several weeks now. Slogans on their homepage have been promising a new Confetti that has “just got more gorgeous” and it even allows you try out the new Beta website (beta is just the techy term for a [...]
Bride and Groom Passport Covers
We touched upon mr and mrs passport covers a year ago and some may accuse you of taking the bride and groom personalisation a bit too far when you emblazen it on the front of your passports. I say what the hell and think its a fab way to tell the world (or at least [...]
Win some Leia Bridal Underwear with WeddingTV
Wedding TV are running a competition at the moment to win a set of Leia Bridal underwear. In true morning TV fashion the question posed is so ludicuously easy that you may feel that your intelligence has been too badly insulted to give them the priveledge of signing up as a Wedding TV member. (a prequesite [...]
New Wedding Forum… not another one
Yes its another wedding forum…. please don’t groan. I wrote a year ago about what I consider to be the three busiest wedding forums around at the moment and after the failed attempt by the popular Foreverafter site to start a forum it goes to show how difficult it is to get a new community off the ground. [...]
Hitched go Down Under and just about everywhere else
The ever popular Hitched.co.uk site has now gone down under with an Australian version of the hit UK wedding site opening last month. Darren Noel started the UK Hitched website from his bedroom back in 1997. The site has evolved over the last 10 years and argueably become the most visited wedding website largely grown [...]
Wedvenues to review every wedding venue in the UK
A bold claim we know. Wedvenues is a new website that the Weddingo team started last year. Our aim is to list every single civil wedding venue in the UK and whilst we are a long way off at the moment we are listing new venues every day. Unlike other wedding venue sites we are not [...]
Couple list their Valentine’s wedding on ebay after split
What do you do if you split from your partner just a few weeks before your wedding? List the whole thing on Ebay of course ! This is exactly what a couple of Brighton have done when they split up over Christmas. The Ebay listing ends this Wednesday (28th Jan) and currently stands at £2200 with one bid. You dont get a [...]
Shop for your wedding in the January Sales
Christmas is behind us and many of us will be taking their Christmas trees down this weekend. The wedding season kicks in now for most retailers as couples make preparations for Summer weddings. The great thing is that this busy period coincides with the January Sales and many online wedding suppliers feel pressured to offer [...]
