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Personal Wedding Websites Cater to Massive Holiday Engagement Market

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:00:00 PST

San Jose, California (IPRWIRE) Thur, December 6th -- WedShare.com (http://www.wedshare.com) states that new high-tech trends in wedding planning are on the rise, from online RSVPs to guest address books that build and update themselves. And winter, surprisingly enough, is big high-tech wedding time.

You might not realize it, but December is a hot wedding month in general. While sunshiney months like April and June reign supreme, December is not far behind. But what makes December so big in terms of the Big Day is not actually the number of weddings it hosts; it's the number of new engagements. The majority of all wedding proposals--about 75%, in fact--happen over the holidays. And when today's couples get engaged, one of the first things they do after popping the questions (and getting the "yes!") is popping onto the web.

What are couples looking for?

"Everything," says Jason Melendez, president of WedShare.com, an online wedding website and planning tools company. "Most just want to know where to start. The online bridal market is huge: couples find venues, DJs, cakes, caterers; you name it. Wedding planning takes a lot of research, and the web is research central."

WedShare.com provides one of the first things couples today look for: a personal wedding website, the home base from which to launch their planning. But WedShare.com doesn't build the wedding website for them...it provides a service that lets couples build their own and give it whatever address they like: JohnAndJane.com, for example.

Today's tech has much to offer the busy 21st-century engaged couple. There is a lot of information management when it comes to guest lists, seating charts, meal preferences, and so forth. Communication is crucial between vendors, the bridal party, and the couple themselves. All-inclusive wedding planning services that a company such as WedShare.com provides can count significantly towards making the planning experience fun and enjoyable, rather than hectic and stressed.

Laine and Dave of Seattle, Washington, say "Wedshare has been a lifesaver! We use it to keep all of our friends and family informed of plans and events. We have invited guests from all over the country and we can keep in touch so easily. Our vendors and wedding planner love it too! This was the first and best decision we made around our wedding."

Business is growing so fast, in fact, that WedShare.com is announcing significant overhauls and upgrades to its hardware network and its offered features. To meet the demands of its rising membership base, prices will also be increasing. But to accommodate the large number of holiday engagements, WedShare.com will hold off on the price upgrade until January and offer a low price promotion through December.

For more information, visit: http://www.wedshare.com to learn more.

About WedShare.com:
WedShare.com (http://www.wedshare.com) was founded in 2004 by Crystal and Jason Melendez, online wedding planning experts, married couple, and authors of "e-Plan Your Wedding: How to Save Time and Money with Today's Best Online Resources". Since its founding, WedShare.com has become a leading planning resource and top personal wedding website provider. The company is based in California's Silicon Valley and has an international client base that stretches across the globe. Its goal is to enable anyone to create their own unique personal wedding website, and to use the latest technology to streamline the many planning details with ease and confidence.

( An http://IPRWire.com Press Release )

Contact Info:

Name: Crystal Melendez
Address: 123 E. San Carlos St. #113
City: San Jose
State: California
Country: USA
Zip: 95112

Web Address: http://www.wedshare.com
Business Blog: http://iblogit.com/wedshare
Phone: 408-404-5225

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Engaged Couples Get Helping Hand From Powerful Online Wedding Website Planning Tools

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 PST

San Jose, California (IPRWIRE) Fri, Jul. 13th, 2007 --Wedding website service WedShare.com (www.wedshare.com) reports that nearly 80% of all engaged couples today use the Internet to help plan their wedding, a trend that is still on the rise. And it’s not just about information, they say. With the boom of the online bridal market, new tools and resources are emerging that can greatly ease the planning burden for today's engaged couples.

"The Internet has created a cultural revolution," WedShare.com president Jason Melendez says. "It has dramatically changed how we shop, keep up with the news, and stay in touch with friends and loved ones. It has also made changes to how we plan a wedding."

According to Melendez, the winds of change are good news for stressed-out brides.

"There are a lot of great ways to save time and money now that were unheard of just five years ago," Melendez says. "Things that used to be time-consuming and dreaded tasks are now fun and enjoyable."

One example is a self-building address book. It is a contact book for guests that actually builds itself, eliminating the hectic job of hunting down everybody's mailing address before sending out invitations. These new guest databases feed directly into the RSVP page of a couple's wedding website, allowing guests to post their event responses, list who is coming, and even make meal selections. Everything is tallied and organized by the system automatically so that a couple can view a simple report and know at a glance how their guest list stands.

Melendez says, "With WedShare.com, we wanted to take all of these great new tools and put them together in one single resource. Now when guests visit your wedding website, they can RSVP online -- a feature that is integrated with your guest database -- and update their own contact info for you."

At the same time, a couple planning their wedding can use their wedding website's planning tools to slice up their wedding budget, get recommended amounts for various wedding items based on their budget, and even get emailed when payments are due. Gift registries are all linked up and in one place, making them easy for guests to find and easy for couples to maintain.

Ernie, a groom-to-be in Baltimore whose delegated wedding duties included setting up the couple's wedding website, found that the integrated guest and event tools became a major cornerstone of their planning.

"The main thing that impressed me about WedShare was the guest and event management tools," he says. "They are very well integrated and impressive. Guests update their own contact information, which makes mailing out invitations so much easier. In terms of event management, you choose which guests see which invitations. So if you have a rehearsal dinner or brunch with separate invitees, this is all taken care of for you."

With their hectic schedules, it is easy to understand how these online conveniences and timesavers are especially appreciated by today's brides and grooms.

"Couples planning a wedding today are older, on average, than those just five or ten years ago," says Melendez. "The average age of today's bride is 28, where it once was 18. Engaged couples today have careers, they're busy, and time is in short supply. Mom and Dad may have traditionally footed the bill, but today's brides and grooms usually pay most or all of their wedding costs themselves."

To learn more about WedShare.com and personal wedding websites, visit www.wedshare.com.

About WedShare.com:
WedShare.com was founded in 2004 by Crystal and Jason Melendez, online wedding planning experts, married couple, and authors of "e-Plan Your Wedding: How to Save Time and Money with Today’s Best Online Resources." Since its founding, WedShare.com has become a leading planning resource and top personal wedding website provider. The company is based in California's Silicon Valley and has an international client base that stretches across the globe. Its goal is to enable anyone to create their own unique and personal website, and to use the latest technology to streamline the many planning details with ease and confidence.

( An http://IPRWire.com Press Release )

Contact Info:

Name: Crystal Melendez
Address: 123 E. San Carlos St. #113
City: San Jose
State: CA
Country: USA
Zip: 95112

Web Address: www.wedshare.com
Business Blog: http://iblogit.com/wedshare
Phone: 408-404-5225

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WedShare.com Introduces Cultural Wedding Website Options That Marry Tradition With Technology

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PST

San Jose, California (IPRWIRE) Thurs, Mar. 15th, 2007 -- WedShare.com (www.wedshare.com) proudly announces their cultural wedding website series, part of their service that lets engaged couples share the big day the way their grandparents and great-grandparents would have done, if only they had the Internet.

A personal wedding website allows any couple to easily share things like maps, directions, photos, and gift registries. Guests can even RSVP online. A service like WedShare.com lets couples put their site online in minutes, with no technical experience required. However, an element that has been missing until now, according to WedShare.com president Jason Melendez, is cultural tradition.

"The web is a visual medium," Melendez says. "Different cultures have very specific imagery and colors associated with the wedding celebration. A couple’s website should be an extension of the wedding itself, and that includes the wedding’s cultural aspects."

WedShare.com designers worked closely with couples of varied cultural backgrounds to create the first installment of what they anticipate will be a one-of-a-kind collection of cultural wedding website themes. Couples can customize those themes with their own personal touches and preferences.

Such cultural integration was exactly what Karishma and Ankur of Ann Arbor, MI were looking for when they wanted to build a website and share it with their family and friends. Karishma says, "Wedshare.com helped me design a website that was unique to our culture. They allowed us to design a site that was unique to us. It was the only site that provided so many options."

Those options, according to Melendez, are what more and more couples are seeking. "For today’s brides, weddings are all about personalization," he says.

WedShare.com started the project after they were approached by various couples who were looking to integrate the imagery of their cultures into their personal wedding websites. The results have been an instant success, and continue to grow in popularity.

Ongoing releases of additional cultural themes are anticipated, and WedShare.com plans to continue offering what they see as an overlooked need for many engaged couples today, and a hot trend in the ever-changing online bridal scene.

Visit www.wedshare.com to learn more.

About WedShare.com:
WedShare.com was founded in 2004 by Crystal and Jason Melendez, online wedding planning experts, married couple, and authors of e-Plan Your Wedding: How to Save Time and Money with Today’s Best Online Resources. Since its founding, WedShare.com has become a leading planning resource and top personal wedding website provider. The company is based in California's Silicon Valley and has an international client base that stretches across the globe. Its goal is to enable anyone to create their own unique site, and to use the latest technology to streamline the many planning details with ease and confidence.

( An http://IPRWire.com Press Release )

Contact Info:

Name: Crystal Melendez
Address: 123 E. San Carlos St. #113
City: San Jose
State: CA
Country: USA
Zip: 95112

Web Address: www.wedshare.com
Business Blog: http://iblogit.com/wedshare
Phone: 408-404-5225

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New Personal Wedding Website Service Offers Fantastic Advantages for Those Planning That Big Day

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:21:00 PST

San Jose, California (IPRWIRE) Tue, Jan. 30th, 2007 -- WedShare.com (www.wedshare.com) is pleased to announce their new wedding website service, providing unique, yet easy to use features that allow couples to plan, manage, and showcase their engagement, ceremony, and honeymoon. This remarkable service is a must-have for anyone planning a marriage. Couples not only receive their own Internet space to showcase their event, but they are also given a myriad of other useful tools and services to assist in the creating and managing of the site and the many details associated with their wedding.

Crystal Melendez, CEO, stated recently: "Planning a wedding can be a major undertaking. The engaged couple must inform and stay in touch with vendors, family, and friends, many of which may be scattered across the country or even the world. A lot of information needs to be managed and organized."

"Today, the Internet is bringing people together and streamlining communication like nothing else. Personal wedding websites are becoming such a popular trend because they let busy couples take advantage of this powerful management and communication resource."

WedShare.com customer Sabrina W. of Danville, CA says: "What started out as a way to ease RSVP's and save a few dollars on invitation inserts turned into the central repository for everything related to the event. I love it! My big day wouldn't have been the same without it. The designs are great, and the flexibility and ease of use is awesome. I would recommend it to everyone."

The development of WedShare.com was undertaken by Crystal and Jason Melendez, wedding industry and technology professionals. They are the authors of the new 2007 book, "E-Plan Your Wedding: How to Save Time and Money with Today's Best Online Resources," and have put a lot of their research into their new online service. Their goal was to develop a superior wedding website service backed by industry experience and research.

Visit www.wedshare.com to learn more.

About WedShare.com:
WedShare.com was founded in 2004, and is steadily becoming a leading online wedding planning resource and top personal wedding website provider. The company is based in California's Silicon Valley and has an international client base that stretches across the globe. Its goal is to enable anyone to create their own unique personal wedding website, and to use the latest technology to streamline the many planning details with ease and confidence.

( An http://IPRWire.com Press Release )

Contact Info:

Name: Crystal Melendez
Address: 123 E. San Carlos St. #113
City: San Jose
State: CA
Country: USA
Zip: 95112

Web Address: www.wedshare.com
Business Blog: http://iblogit.com/wedshare
Phone: 408-404-5225

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New York Cruises Launches Brand New Luxury Vessel, Atlantis

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:34:00 PST

Brooklyn, NY (IPRWire) November 1, 2006—New York Cruises (www.nycruises.com) is proud to announce that it is now operating the newest dinner cruise vessel in New York City. This new vessel is called the Atlantis and was designed from top to bottom to provide the utmost in comfort and luxury for its guests. One of the most distinguished features is a well-designed dancing and dining area.

According to a company spokesperson: “Most of the commercial vessels that are geared for parties are unable to accommodate a large number of guests on one level with a dance floor and no obstructions. Most of these types of vessels have to split the party and have seating on one level and dancing on another. The Atlantis was built to resemble a fine catering hall or hotel on the interior, with the capability of seating a large number of guests. We can seat up to 250 guests and maximum capacity is 300 guests.”

In addition to having a superb set up for wedding receptions, parties, and corporate events, New York Cruises totes some above average amenities as well. These include a state of the art, built-in sound system to deliver the best in music and speech presentations, three plasma screens, a custom aquarium and a lighted fountain to compliment a smooth ride, and quiet operation.

Chartering the Atlantis for your next big event is much like having your own private yacht from which the Manhattan skyline becomes your backdrop. The vessel has a professional staff, which includes an executive chef. There are a total of three decks, two of which are entirely enclosed. The vessel also has a large bar, a lounge area, and a bridal suite. The Atlantis was delivered in the spring of 2005 to provide luxury, comfort, and modern technology to clients who expect nothing less than the best.

New York Cruises accepts all major credit cards. By calling ahead, Kosher meals can be arranged.

About New York Cruises:
Family owned and operated for over 20 years, New York Cruises is known for taking pride in their work and a personal interest in their clients Emerging as an industry favorite amongst meeting and event planners in the greater NY area, the Atlantis of New York Cruises strives to meet the expectations of its clients. For more information about NY’s newest dinner cruise yacht visit www.nycruises.com.

An http://IPRWire.com Press Release

Contact Info:
Name: Anthony Gallo
Address: Pier 9, Emmons Ave at Ocean Ave
City: Brooklyn
State: NY
Zip: 11229

Web Address: www.nycruises.com
Business Blog: http://iblogit.com/nycruises
Phone: 212-633-1231 / (718) 646-8083

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