If Microsoft Made Wedding Albums...

New Reality Wedding Show Coming Early 2011

Wedding reality shows are popping up everywhere. Not sure if this is a good thing. With the controversial show, Bridalplasty, making headlines last month, The CW is trying to gain some exposure from their newest show, Shredding For The Wedding.

From the Executive Producer of The Biggest Loser, Shredding For The Wedding features 10 overweight couple competing to lose the most weight before their wedding day. The last standing couple would be awarded with a fantasy wedding that America will attend. Below is an early trailer. Will you watch Shredding The Wedding when it comes out?

Wedding Photobomb

That horse has us cracking up!

It's Back: $20 Advertising Special!

Sweet!
To celebrate BrideTide reaching 12,000+ followers on Twitter, we're going to do a little something to show our appreciation for helping to make us one of the most influential wedding tweeps on the Internet.

If you like to advertise your wedding-related website on our blog, we are once again opening up offer spots in the “Links “ section located in the right side bar of the BrideTide blog. For a limited time, we are offering these links for only $20/month! (Two month minimum, two month max)

Our blog readers seem to love clicking around the right side area of our blog so this is a great way for us to introduce your site to a ton of planning brides! All for only $20.

Payments will be made using Google Checkout and links will start going live on 12/20.

Remember, this is a limited time thing so don't be surprised if we yank this pretty quick. With December being the most popular month for wedding engagements, this is the perfect time to take advantage of some budget-friendly advertising for your website. If your interested, send us a message to info{at}bridetide.com with "Twitter Ad Special" as the subject. Spaces are limited.

Oh, and thanks again for following @BrideTide on Twitter!
Who's in?

Hippo Bride + Groom

How cute is this clay Hippo bride and groom cake topper!

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The Bouquet Tree

Isn't that the prettiest tree you've ever seen!

State of The Wedding Industry Q4 2010

Calling all wedding service professionals....
You have been invited to participate in the State of The Wedding Industry Study Q4 2010.

The purpose of this study is to capture, from you (the vendor perspective), how much brides and grooms are spending in the first half of the year, what trends you are seeing, some basic business demographic and activity information, and what methods you use to get new customers. The information compiled within this study is a great way to monitor the pulse of the entire wedding industry as a whole.

Summary results of this study will be available on theweddingreport.com in late January 2011.

To participate in this survey, visit this link


Thank you to all of the professional wedding vendors who take part of this very important (and extremely interesting) study!

2011: The Year Of The Groom

The groom-centric pros over at Staggered have declared 2011 to be the Year of the Groom.

“What we want wedding companies to do is accept that a wedding should be a celebration of the couple and that obviously includes both brides and grooms. Unfortunately, the feedback from our readers is that grooms are still seen as a bit of an irrelevance by some suppliers." explains Staggered editor Andrew Shanahan.

This is something we can definitely support. Grooms are playing a bigger role in the wedding planning process and it's about time someone declared the groom revolution!

Read the entire article here

Snoop Dogg Writes Song For Prince William's Bachelor Party

Nope, we're not lying. Legendary rapper, Snoop Dogg, has confirmed that he has written a brand new song titled "Wet" specifically for Prince William.

“When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William’s marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something,” the rapper said. “‘Wet’ is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin’.” Prince William and Kate Middleton will tie the knot on April 29. Snoop’s new single is available on his web site.

Read the entire article here