Using a Wedding Blog to Help You Plan Your Wedding

Using a Wedding Blog to Help You Plan Your Wedding

Your big day can approach quickly. Many women are overwhelmed with planning the necessities of their wedding. The good news is there is a fantastic method for getting help planning and organizing your wedding. The solution is to use a wedding blog that has tips, guides, lists of wedding vendors and other information necessary for you to plan your big day.

A blog is the perfect format for organizing the wedding information you need, with personalized posts from former and current brides that have gone through what you are currently experiencing. Following are many of the wedding services and vendors a blog for weddings could help you to organize.

Finding the Right Wedding Vendors

Your big day would not be complete without cherished items provided by wedding vendors. Valuable items such as your cake, floral arrangements and bridal dress.

Bridal Gowns: When it comes time to walk down the aisle, every bride needs to look fabulous. Choose fantastic gowns for your bridesmaids.

Floral Arrangements: Flowers provide an excellent environment for your nuptials and reception.

Cake: A wedding cake is the centerpiece of several photographs and traditions associated with your ceremony. Find confection stores that make beautiful wedding cake designs that reflect your tastes.
Finding the Best Wedding Services Locally

Several services are crucial for a proper nuptial. Photos and videography will capture the special moment forever. A planner can assist you in scheduling out many important events connected to the wedding.

Photographers: This special day occurs only once. Capture this special occasion by using the best wedding photographers available locally and preserve this joyous event on film.

Videographers: Recall every moment of your wedding through the years by filming with the skills of a professional wedding video photographer.

Planners: These professionals will make your life easier when you locate the right planner available in your local area.
Thoughtful Ideas for Your Big Day

A wedding blog is a wonderful resource that can help you in discovering unique ideas that can make your special day memorable and talked about for some time. This is just what you should find at the best wedding blog. Understand the important issues you need to focus on, and things you should avoid. Know the average cost using our wedding cost guide, that includes videos and photo, your reception, floral arrangement, favors and gifts, the nuptials and attire. Receive interesting ideas for your special day and read important news about getting wed.

Finding a Wedding Blog

Finding the best wedding blog is easy, simply go to Google and search for “wedding blog”! Or you can utilize the blog discussed in the author resource box below.

Monetizing Your Wedding Blog – How to Earn Money With Your Wedding Blog

If you are a bride and you have your own personal wedding blog, you might want to know if you can earn some money with your blog. A lot of brides start out writing a blog to record their experiences in planning their wedding so they can share it with their family and friends. Later, they find they really enjoy blogging and want to devote more time to it and possibly even earn some money from it.

Brides always want to hear stories about other brides planning their wedding. They want to know what wedding dress you chose, what your color motif is, what decorations you chose for the reception. They also want to know how to deal with their fiances, their wedding vendors and their families and friends. A wedding blog is perfect for sharing since it is an online diary and you can share your experiences as they are happening. A blog is also very easy to setup and update.

If you don’t already have a blog, you can head over to Blogger.com to get your own blog. Blogger is probably one of the easiest blog interfaces. It is owned by Google so if you already have a Google or Gmail account, you can use the same account to log in to Blogger. You can also choose different colors and themes to personalize your blog.

You can also use other blog platforms but just make sure that you are allowed to serve ads since some blog platforms do not allow ads on their site.

Before you can earn money from your blog, remember that brides visit websites to find information so make sure you have at least 5 good articles that other brides would want to read about. Brides usually want to hear about details of real weddings, preferably with lots of pictures, as well as stories and confessions about the wedding. They also want to learn more about the different aspects of wedding planning, wedding etiquette as well as where to find the best bargains. If you are a DIY (do-it-yourself) bride, you might want to share some of your DIY techniques to your readers. A good rule of thumb is to find out what you like to read about in other wedding blogs and websites and more often than not, those would be interesting to your readers as well. After the first 5 articles, you should aim to update your blog regularly. It does not matter it is daily or weekly or monthly, just set a frequency and stick to it.

Once you have good content on your website, you can start monetizing it. There are three ways you can profit from your wedding blog: pay-per-click ads, pay-per-action or affiliate programs and product reviews.

Pay-per-click (PPC) ads These are ads that you can place in your website and you get paid every time somebody clicks on the ad. The most popular example is Google AdSense. The best thing about Google AdSense is that the ads are contextual, meaning it tries to match the ads to the content of your blog post. For example, if you are writing about wedding dresses, the ads that would be displayed would usually be about wedding dresses, thus making it more relevant to your readers. The more relevant the ads are to your readers, the more they will click on the ads and the more you will earn. Just make sure to never click your own ads and never to ask somebody to click your ads since that constitutes click fraud and it could get you banned from AdSense.

Pay-per-action (PPA) or Affiliate programs With affiliate programs, you promote a product and you get paid when somebody buys that product using your link. This is perfect for wedding blogs since you can talk about a lot of different products like wedding dresses, wedding jewelry, wedding invitations and other wedding products. This is very helpful to brides since brides are always looking for hot items for their weddings. You can also offer coupon codes for these items so your readers can get discounts. A popular affiliate program is Commission Junction.

Product reviews Some companies will actually pay you to review their product. You usually have to have a minimum of 200 words in your review. Be sure to have a disclaimer page on your blog saying that you are being paid to do the review. One of the more popular ones is ReviewMe.
Remember, it might take some time before you make some money, especially in the beginning. Just keep at it, be patient, and soon your work will pay off.

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Wedding Blogs

Why Do An Article On Just Wedding Blogs?

Simple, wedding blogs are the only type of blogs I view, so these are the only types of blogs I can comment on, and also I have come to realise that many people do not realise that wedding blogs are another form of web directory of services/vendors.

How Are Wedding Blogs Like Business Directories?

Wedding blogs come across to the uninitiated as an individual raving about a particular service or image or venue, or they focus on the personal aspect of the actual couples involved. This is seemingly as it seems, someone expressing their passions on their chosen subject matter, but is it?

How Wedding Blogs Work.

Wedding blogs are a business! There is a reason why any particular wedding blog looks stylish and professional, and this is because it is a business. The successful well known blogs can sell advertising spaces in various sizes and prevalence. Some blogs will insist on a certain style of image to be used for a vendors advert but in most cases, an advertiser has a free hand.

So? So what you are asking?

Well, the really interesting bit is not the adverts on the wedding blog, but the actual blog posts. Look over any wedding blog post and you will see a reference to a wedding vendor of some description, some times this can be due to just copyright, but in the majority of cases the actual URL or website/company/vendor mentioned in the blog will be the vendor who has paid for that blog post to be made!

Hold on your saying, if a vendor is paying for a blog entry, surely they would want their name/business/website mentioned many times and also a thorough breakdown of who they are, what they offer etc?

Yes of course they will want all that, and so a vendor can pay for that type of blog entry, which is called a “sponsored listing”. In sponsored listings the vendor can go to town with a fully detailed explanation of who they are and what they offer, and in most cases the wedding blogger will opt for the “interview” with these types of “sponsored listings”. But more often and not, wedding vendors will opt for the more normal blog post.

Why Do Wedding Blogs Do this, And Not Just A Traditional Detailed Advert?

Well advertising works at its very best in this particular field of weddings, because Brides to be and Grooms to be are looking for vendors via a referral method. If a third party writes an excellent referral about a wedding vendor, then a Bride to be or Groom to be will be satisfied that the vendor in question there for must be a safe bet.

In the world of weddings, this type of subtle advertising is seen as working really well, and also it is priced cheaper in real terms than a simple advert.

Why Do Vendors Choose To Pay For Blog Posts And Not Just Adverts?

An advert will be removed once the contract time has passed, where as a blog post will remain on that blog forever, or until the blogger ceases to pay for their server/quits blogging.

The aspect of a blog post remaining for a long time, over the short term of an advert is very important to a vendor. Because any vendor website wants to be higher in Google, and one of the main very important factors in promoting a website to Google is gaining links to that vendors website.

But lets be clear about this, not just any link, Google’s algorithms are looking for quality link backs to a vendors website, and there is no better quality link for most wedding vendors than a link from a wedding blog which is specialising in their chosen field of weddings! The only other type of links that would be fantastic for a wedding vendor or any business, is a link from a big website, such as BBC for instance.

Blogs have been around for only a short time, and they will massively increase in numbers and in time people will realise that a blogger is there, just as a business directory is, to sell, sell, sell, but in a informative, entertaining, possibly stylish way.

The most successful wedding bloggers will write in

Wedding Blog: Getting your Thoughts and Ideas on the Internet

You have certainly heard about blogs – unless you’ve been hiding under a rock. They are a growing medium of communication on the internet. A simple measure of the growing popularity of blogs is to do a Google search of ‘blog’ which fetches around 1,400,000,000 pages. The keyword ‘wedding blog’ fetches just under 24 million pages. Compare this to a well known sport brand search for their trademark word and it only fetched 84 million pages. Blog is simply short for ‘web blog’ and is simply an online journal about anything – could be about your personal life, your business, about products, your hobby, etc. If you are thinking of getting engaged, are engaged and planning to get married or had your marriage you can think about getting your own wedding blog.

While other people may blog about their personal lives or their hobbies you will be blogging about your full time pursuit of your wedding planning or your wedded life – from the stresses and strains between your partner and yourself, to the beautiful aspects of choosing a reception location and wedding dress and writing out your vows. You can write about your feelings and emotions in your wedding blog as well as vent out your feelings of anger, angst, frustration, happiness and excitement.

You may be asking ‘What would the purpose of your blog be to other people and more importantly me?’ Well there are many advantages – especially for the couple that is planning their wedding. It could be used as a communication tool between the couple to their family and friends about the progress of their wedding. Your wedding blog can act as a guidance tool during your planning as well as well after your wedding for other couples that are planning their wedding in your locality and worldwide. Imagine having your blog acting as a wedding reference for those couples being wedded years after you have.

Finally, you do not need to be a computer nerd to be able to setup your own blog. You can choose from a variety of free online services to setup your wedding blog. There are many places to find the free blog service and there are too many to choose from to list here. However, if you want to setup a wedding blog it would be nice to group your blog alongside with other wedding blogs so internet visitors that are in the business of wanting to know more about weddings can easily find you at the same website. See details below to find out where to get your blog grouped with other wedding blogs.

So while your busy planning your wedding or enjoying the life of being married think about setting up a wedding blog. You would be joining the growing number of people blogging on the internet as well as adding knowledge and wisdom to the internet. You will also reap fro the benefit of being able to easily communicate your feelings and plans with your friends and family as well as advise other couples going down the same road. Good luck!

Janey McKenzie is a staff writer for BetterWeddingIdeas.com, a free wedding planning guide providing couples with hints and tips to enable them to plan every aspect of their wedding effectively.

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