Little Book For Brides

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Today we launch something new –  something that will change the way our readers interact with, discover and use the internet to discover and book their wedding suppliers.  A lovingly created, and brand new sister site to Love My Dress that is waiting to be explored by you, right now. We are beyond excited and cannot wait a second longer to introduce you to Little Book For Brides – our beautiful new supplier resource.

Little Book For Brides, our beautiful new supplier resource, is now live! Visit littlebookforbrides.com.

Little Book for Brides is a project that is very close to my heart and one my team and I have been working on intensively for months now.  Our readers and industry colleagues have been asking us for years to produce our own directory, but prior to now, I’ve shied away from the idea.  The word ‘directory’ alone just didn’t float my boat, and I couldn’t at first visualise how it would enhance our brand and offer something of true value and usefulness to our readers.

But after the hugely successful launch of the rebranded Love My Dress in June 2014, I felt newly encouraged to look at how else we could support our community of sponsors and industry suppliers. It was important to me that if we were going to create a directory, we produced something that not only suited the tone and style of Love My Dress, but that allowed every single business listed a chance to truly shine.

Little Book For Brides, our beautiful new supplier resource, is now live! Visit littlebookforbrides.com.

 

As a small business ourselves, we appreciate how difficult it can be to stand out from the crowd. We’re also witness on a daily basis to the talents of some truly brilliant suppliers, artisans, designers, craftspeople, organisers, planners – people who commit so much energy and love into helping to create meaningful and memorable wedding days.  I really wanted to create a beautiful space on the Internet that brought together all of these hard working people and businesses and make it a pleasure to be able to browse through their details at leisure.

Little Book For Brides won’t follow the conventions of most directories already out there – we want to avoid the ‘click here for Photographers in the Midlands’ maps, forcing you into an inappropriate and narrow region,  though location and map services exist if you require them. Instead, we want to emphasise the product or services our Little Book For Brides members offer, and above everything else, let you discover brilliant new wedding suppliers in a far more natural and organic way.

You won’t in fact hear us refer much to the word ‘directory’ very much at all, because we believe Little Book for Brides is so more than that. We’ve worked really hard to build a sophisticated and elegant resource, full of handpicked and carefully selected suppliers, whose values and visions align with with our own, and who are keen to make a genuine and authentic connection with you – our smart and stylish community of blog readers.

Little Book For Brides, our beautiful new supplier resource, is now live! Visit littlebookforbrides.com.So what can you expect from Little Book For Brides?

Hundreds of Handpicked Businesses

Well, we already have over 320 businesses listed, with many more on the way.  You will be able to explore over 20 main categories and additional sub categories too.  Some of our categories are a little light on members right now, but don’t worry about that – we’re busy liaising with some brilliant brands, and are reviewing and processing applications as you read this very sentence. We will be publishing new members to our Little Book For Brides every day.

Little Book For Brides, our beautiful new supplier resource, is now live! Visit littlebookforbrides.com.

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Your Own Little Book

We have also built in a facility that will enable you to shortlist your favourite Little Book For Brides suppliers to a special ‘My Book’ section of the site – allowing you to print off and slip a hard copy of the details into your wedding planning files.  This shortlist will currently expire when your browser session ends, but soon, you’ll be able to save these details and log-in to Little Book For Brides, to view and add to your shortlist at your convenience.

Little Book For Brides, our beautiful new supplier resource, is now live! Visit littlebookforbrides.com.

This is just the Start

We have lots of plans and developments in the pipeline to enhance Little Book For Brides over the coming months. We’ll keep you notified via social media of all our new developments and enhancements.  Of course as with any new project of this size and scale, we expect a few teething problems over the next few days or so as Little Book For Brides adjusts to all the love and attention we anticipate it will receive. If you spot something amiss or want to let us know of something you feel is missing, you can report details via our ‘Help’ page.

Free Listing For Suppliers

Suppliers, if you are interested in learning more about becoming a member of Little Book For Brides yourself, we are offering a completely free listing up to the end of December 2015. Scroll down to the end of any page on Little Book For Brides and you will find a notice for suppliers, directing you to a form to complete. We very much look forward to hearing from you.

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I truly hope you love our Little Book For Brides – take time to explore and get to know our pages, but most of all, enjoy reading about all the many brilliant and hard working suppliers we have listed.  Enjoy their photographs, watch their videos, email them any questions you might have about your wedding.

My huge love and thanks to Ian Davenport of Swash and Fold, Tamryn Lawrence of Candid Apple, Lyndsey Nicholson, our incredible Administrator, my husband and business partner Philip and all our many friends, family and industry members who believed in this project from the start and have shown nothing but support, love and patience.

That just leaves me to say that, I truly hope you love Little Book For Brides as much as we do.

Love Annabel x

Annabel

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Founder of Love My Dress. Passionate Podcaster and Editor. Annabel lives in rural North Yorkshire with her husband and business partner Philip, their two daughters and menagerie of furry hounds. She loves photography, meditation, walking, being outdoors and star gazing. She is fierce when it comes to championing talent within the wedding industry and when she's not working on Love My Dress, she supports her husband Philip in the running of the family's sustainable flower farm and floral design business, Moonwind Flowers. In 2013, she became a published author.

15 thoughts on “Little Book For Brides

  1. Annabel this is AH-MAAAAZING. I will be looking through immediately for all my last minute needs! Big congratulations to all the team for another great innovation from LMD. xxx

  2. Congratulations Annabel and the team! Incredible achievement. You should be very proud and I am very proud to be part of the Little Book For Brides! I’ll carry on browsing through it now (thank God I have a day off today :o)

  3. Oh Annabel, just WOW. Elegant and beautiful and as always thoughtfully curated. Thank you so much for your support and I am so proud to be in the Little Book For Brides. Shout out to Ian at Swash and Fold , super design work as always x

  4. WOW Annabel, what a beautiful idea, so well put together so professional and super-pretty too, a huge well done to you, you really do just keep going from strength to strength. Helena x

  5. Ah Annabel, congratulations lovely!! This has absolutely *made* my lunch break! So pretty and very chic, and such a fab concept! A massive well done to you and your team! xxx

  6. Congratulations on such a beautiful new site. Love the layout and the personal and genuine recommendations. Excellent work Annabel. Xx

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