26 Jul

We’ll be Indexing 3 Wedding Blogs for Free!

categories: Wedding Blog Search Engine,Wedding Technology,Wedding Trends,iPad App,iPhone App,wedding vendors Tags: ipad, iPad App, iPhone App, Wedding Blog Search Engine, wedding bloggers, Wedding Search Engine, Wedding Technology, Wedding Trends, wedding vendors —

We want more wedding blogs on our site! The more content we have, the better search experience for our brides! And we want your blog to be part of our iPad/iPhone App launch in just a few short weeks! We’ll pull down your entire blog from the day you started blogging and reindex everything on our site.

This is open to all wedding vendors who have blogs! Our engine will even display video instead of a photo if that is your first “image” of your entry.

For a chance to win, do the following 2 tasks to be entered! Leave a comment below with a link to your facebook post and your twitter name.

1. Post to your Facebook wall: “Come Search With Style for Wedding Inspiration at http://www.my-wedding-concierge.com”

2. Tweet: “Come find all of your Wedding Inspiration at http://www.my-wedding-concierge.com”

Good luck! I’ll be choosing winners on Wednesday at 5:00PST!

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Be Found by Brides in an Innovative New iPhone & iPad App – 2 Weeks Left

categories: Wedding Blog Search Engine,Wedding Technology,Wedding Trends,iPad App,iPhone App,wedding vendors Tags: ipad, iPad App, iPhone App, MTH2010, Wedding Blog Search Engine, wedding bloggers, Wedding Search Engine, Wedding Technology, Wedding Trends, wedding vendors —

Click on the above banner for more info!

Vendors – If you want to be part of this amazing launch, please contact me ASAP and we’ll make sure that your wedding business, photos, and associated blogs are on the map. Since we expect this to be released within 6 weeks, to be part of the launch, you must contact me no later than no later than August, 10, 2010. Email me at: info@my-wedding-concierge.com for pricing and details!

21 Jul

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Sneak Peek of our Wedding Blog Search Engine iPhone/iPad App

My Wedding Concierge Revolutionizes How Brides Find Wedding Vendors

We have been feverishly working on coding up an AMAZING App. We will be releasing an iPhone as well as an iPad app for our wedding blog search engine. It won’t only search through wedding blogs for bridal inspiration – we’ve added a geo-locator tool for brides. She can pull up on a map and zoom in on where she is located at that exact moment. What comes next is revolutionary for the wedding world. Pin drops will now dot the map around her to show her all of the wedding vendors who are indexed in our wedding blog search engine. She touches the pin head and up comes photographs of either the vendor’s work or photos of the reception site. She can read a caption on each photograph and click on the “More” button if there are blog articles associated with that vendor or review on reception site for brides to see the “Real Weddings” that have happened there! Here are some screenshots – I’m sure it’ll explain better:

Bride can geo-locate herself via GPS functionality and she can zoom in/zoom out to see all vendors in her area.

Vendor Locator allows brides to click on the pin drop for more information

Photo pops up and text explains photo or promotes location. Bride can click on read more button for access to blog articles about location or vendor.

Blog article that gets pulled up for bride to read - relevant and targeted content related to vendor/reception site - showcases real weddings

The blog articles that are pulled up are targeted and relevant. It will help brides find wedding vendors in her area quickly and easily. She will also get to see blog articles that are associated with you, your work, and location. Now, here’s the best part, we are making this available INTERNATIONALLY. Yes, all the vendors that have been contacting me from the UK and Australia especially, will be able to be on here! Our app will also be released internationally.

Vendors – If you want to be part of this amazing launch, please contact me ASAP and we’ll make sure that your wedding business, photos, and associated blogs are on the map. Since we expect this to be released within 6 weeks, to be part of the launch, you must contact me no later than no later than August, 10, 2010 to be part of the launch. Email me at: info@my-wedding-concierge.com for pricing and details!

Here is what our iPad app looks like:

iPad App - Landing Page for Searching

This is how blog search results are displayed.

This is how blog articles are displayed - Brides can tweet it, facebook, or email to friends.

And this is our iPhone app:

Landing Page of our Blog Search Engine App - Brides type in search at the top.

Blog search results displayed.

Blog article displayed - Brides can email, tweet, and facebook the article.

02 Mar

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iPhone App: My Wedding Concierge Vendor Guide

categories: Wedding Technology,iPhone App Tags: custom illustrations, iPhone App, wedding planning, Wedding Technology, wedding vendors —

We have a brand new redesigned iPhone App that just got approved tonight by Apple. We’ve rebranded it so that it matches our website. The gorgeous illustrations were illustrated by the talented Astrid Mueller. It is available for download in the iTunes store for free. Just simply do a search for My Wedding Concierge and it’ll pop up. For those of you that already have our app downloaded, simply run an update from the App store and all the new graphics and user interface will change over to the new one. Setting up your app only takes a minute and then you’re ready to start searching for vendors in your area!

The My Wedding Concierge Vendor Guide is an iPhone App that allows brides to search for wedding vendors on the go. Because the iPhone doesn’t support Flash, if a bride look at a wedding vendor’s website that’s in flash, all she will see is a box with a question mark in the middle. Also, our iPhone app loads about 10 times faster than a website.

Our vendors essentially have a mini website when they are showcased on our site. All of their contact information is available as well as their company information. Vendors are able to upload up to 36 full size photographs and brides can save their favorite photographs by tagging them 1-5 stars. One touch email, phone call, and visit to their website from within the app are all available. It doesn’t get any easier than this!

Brides can very easily request information from wedding vendors by simply tapping the “Request More Info” button. There are two different screens where the bride can request information from the vendor. Since the bride had already set up her information during set up, there is no need to re-enter her information. The lead is sent immediately to the wedding vendor via email.

We are adding new vendors to our site daily. If you don’t see very many vendors in your area, make sure to check back often and feel free to click on the + sign on the upper right hand corner to suggest new vendors to be added to the site.
If you get a chance, we would really appreciate it if you wrote a review for us in the App store. Just as an FYI, any app that you delete or reinstall without rating it, becomes an automatic 1 star to the developers. It’s been a battle with Apple that has fallen on deaf ears. Thank you SO much!

02 Feb

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Welcome to Bridal Fascinations!

categories: Wedding Technology,iPhone App Tags: iPhone App, Search Engine, Wedding Technology —

I’d like to start off by welcoming all the Brides, Wedding Vendors, and Fellow Bloggers that are reading my blog for the very first time! My name is Phyllis and this site was built by both my husband and myself over the course of the last year. By the way, his name is Philip. I know…what were the chances?! We’ve been head over heels in love for almost 11 years and married for nearly 8. I’ve been in the wedding industry for almost 8 years having focused on ad sales and marketing consulting before we created My Wedding Concierge. Here is one of my favorite pictures from our wedding day:

A few things about our site – it’s the ultimate wedding search engine. You won’t need to go to any other site to search for information. And that includes google. You will be able to type in a keyword and have returned to you, the most relevant wedding vendors in your area that matches your search terms. All of the wedding blogs indexed are hand selected for relevant content. Real soon, we’ll be working on keyword expansion technology. When you type in shoes, we’ll also return in our search results: heels, stilettos, pumps, flats, etc. Images that are tagged with your keyword will also be returned as will articles in the news.

We have an iPhone app available for free to download in the iTunes store. My Wedding Concierge iPhone App – a second generation app will be released soon to include the search functionality as well. For those of you without iphones, we will be on every web enabled smartphone in the next few months.

What can you expect to see on our blog? We aim to bring you real weddings, our favorite things, the latest trends, celebrity wedding guest bloggers, and many more fascinating things that you’ll just have to stick around to find out. Subscribe to our blog. I promise that you won’t be disappointed. We aim to be on the forefront of wedding technology and welcome any ideas any of you may have. Shoot me an email. I promise to personally reply to each and every one.