Promoting your business
There are lots of different ways to promote your business, whether it be paper, online or face-to-face. This section provides information on which format is right for you and how to ensure it is successful?
Venues: Win a Promotional Media Package worth £8,000
Venues, here’s your chance to win an exclusive prize perfect for promoting your wedding venue thanks to our new partners Motion Real Estate Media. If you are wanting to update your current promotional videos, virtual tours and more to really enhance booking opportunities, this is your chance!
Read more ‘This or That Tuesdays’ Marketing Feature with Guides for Brides
Want to boost your exposure and engagement? Or perhaps you want the opportunity to do some market research? Guides for Brides can give you a feature in our weekly ‘This or That Tuesdays’ Instagram Story to do just that! Read on to find out more about what it is […]
Read more What Factors Affect the Instagram Algorithm in 2021?
The Instagram algorithm is tricky, there’s no doubt about that. The level of visibility you have will of course directly affect your audience interactions and engagements. In the world of weddings on Instagram, there is a very high competition for visibility. So, if you’re finding you’re getting a lower […]
Read more Venue Enquiries Leap From Boxing Day 2020
We’ve known that there was a huge pent up market of couples yet to start their wedding planning, and with many more couples getting engaged over Christmas we’ve seen a huge leap in couples looking for wedding venues online from Boxing Day onwards.
Read more Writing a good auto-responder
It’s a fact; more wedding enquiries are sent between 8-10pm on a Sunday evening than any other time of the week and more between Boxing Day and 2nd January than any other week of the year. Couples are more likely to book the first suitable business to respond, so […]
Read more Kickstart Grant – suitable for Oxfordshire Venues
If you are applying – and it is well worth it – time is short! If you haven’t applied for grants in the past the following should be helpful: The application portal opens and closes on Tuesday 8th December 2021. You’ll need to have all the information […]
Read more Why it’s Important to Audit your Social Media
All too often, many businesses tend to go for a last-minute approach with their social media and strategy. When it comes to using these tools to your advantage, this approach never works. While reactive marketing on social media can be an important element to include in your strategy, relying […]
Read more Training resources for your Wedding Business
November is traditionally the month that wedding businesses and venues invest in training and development to fine-tune their marketing ready to attract new enquiries during proposal season.
Read more How To Host An Asian Wedding
We spoke to LaToya Patel from The Asian Wedding Club about how Asian weddings are changing to work within COVID regulations and why this is now relevant to so many wedding venues.
Read more Letter to Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC MP from the Wedding Sector
*** DEADLINE 3 pm TODAY – TUES 6TH OCTOBER *** Please see below the letter to be presented to the Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC MP by Natalie Lovett of Whitewed. If you would like to add your signature it needs to be by 3pm on Tuesday 6th […]
Read more Add or Edit a Wedding Fair Listing
If you are hosting a Wedding Fair, Open Day or other similar event you can ensure it is a success by attracting quality exhibitors and plenty of couples. Over 13,000 couples search the Guides for Brides Wedding Fair Diary every month so it is the most effective way to […]
Read more CMA Guidance on Refunds and Cancellations for Wedding Services
Updated Monday 7th September 2020 In almost all cases, where guidance or restrictions have prevented a wedding from going ahead as planned, the couple has been able to move the wedding to an alternative date. However, in a few cases, disputes have arisen and it is helpful to know […]
Read more Live Streaming for Weddings
Our wedding live streaming allows venues, planners and couples to involve guests in the wedding day through remote participation, when they are unable or unwilling to attend in person. All you need is a wifi connection, a mobile phone and someone to start the live stream on a laptop […]
Read more Current changes to the ways couples look for wedding venues
Over the past three months, couples have adapted the way they look for their ideal wedding venues, month by month. We’ve been looking at user behaviour to help venues understand the best way to position their venue for maximum enquiries and bookings as we come out of lockdown. From […]
Read more Case Study: Live Venue Showcase – Applewood Hall
Wedding Fair Live and the venue focused event, Live Venue Showcase, have been incredibly popular and successful for both businesses and couples. We have now hosted two events focused on Wedding Venues which have resulted in some fantastic feedback from those involved and those who watched. This case study will […]
Read more How 360° video tours can help you market your venue
360° virtual tours been a significant help to wedding venues for some time now and we are expecting to see a huge increase in the use of these videos over the next weeks and months. With the current lockdown and social distancing regulations in place, now is the perfect […]
Read more 5 Tips for Going Live on Social Media
Over the past couple of months, the wedding industry has needed to evolve rapidly. Guides for Brides is no exception. We have relied upon the social media marketing tools that are at our disposal more than ever before. Every Thursday since the beginning of April, we have been hosting […]
Read more 5 free opportunities to market your wedding venue
We are here to help wedding venues in any way we can. We’ve seen an increase in venue searches over the Easter weekend. Here are 5 free opportunities to help your venue reach these new couples, available right now. We have a free wedding venue marketing webinar for […]
Read more Wedding Marketing Webinar from Alan Berg
Alan has been called “The Leading International Speaker and Expert on the Business of Weddings & Events.” He regularly works with our team and speaks at our conference, as well as consulting and speaking for other great wedding portals around the world including The Knot, WeddingsOnline, Hitched and Bridelux. […]
Read more The current situation for wedding suppliers… and what you can be doing about it
To all the wonderful suppliers we represent on Guides for Brides, whether you’ve recently started working with us or would have been celebrating 25 years with us next month, we are here for you at this challenging time.
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