Wedding Invitation Checklist – Working Couples Plan Wedding On E-globalfocus.com

A lot of work and planning goes towards making wedding preparations. There is the guest list to make, the venue and decorations to look into, shopping for appropriate clothing and accessories, the wedding reception to be planned for, the bridal car that must be rented from somewhere and a holiday getaway for the honeymoon afterwards. All these and much, much more for the frantic couple to make within a limited budget and with time racing against them.

But there is help, and it is freely and easily available, in the way of one-year-old local portal, surfwedding.com, owned and operated by Web and application solution company, e-globalfocus.com dotcom Sdn Bhd.

Working couples, who have the opportunity to plan for their Big Day only after work hours and on weekends as they recuperate from their hectic work schedules of the week gone by will find this website of great service.

This one-stop wedding information site will answer "troubling" questions plaguing brides and grooms-to-be such as the nearest bridal houses and where to turn to for food catering and rental of music sound system. The website's resources corner has useful contact numbers of brick and mortar establishments offering wedding related services. Very handy for couples holding nine to five jobs with limited time to run around town.

An added advantage of making a purchase or using the services of these brick and mortar establishments advertising on this link is that you may be offered special discounts or free gifts. All you need to do is to print out the e-coupon available on the site and redeem it at the establishment.

"We've a comprehensive resource with more than 350 pages in English and Chinese and that's what makes us different from our local competitors, says the gung-ho co-founder and chief operating officer Jason Yap Terng Sheng, 28. "We have plans in the very near future to include Bahasa Melayu and Tamil language to reach out to the Malay and Tamil speaking population in this country." Currently, this site receives about 350,000 page views monthly, the majority of which are locals. This is a vast improvement from the first six months after its launch on February 14, 2000 under the name weddingbell.com.my. "Then we used to get about 100,000 monthly page views," said Yap.

Goodies on the site includes tips on planning for an engagement and reception, beauty tips for the big day, a wedding checklist and articles on what marriage life is all about.

A new addition to the site which will be ready early this month (June) is the wedding planner link which provides a calculator for users to plan their budget and a guest planning list. Once the latter has been prepared, wedding invitations could be auto sent via email, provided the recipient has an email account, of course.

Look out for the "D-I-Y wedding" link which should also be ready this month. Here, registered members can create their virtual wedding albums and wedding stories on the site for free. Here's proof that not all good things come with a price tag.

For couples in need of legal advice, the site's Q&A hyperlink located at the bottom of the homepage may come in useful. Questions posted related to the legal aspects of a marriage will be answered by the Assistant Registrar of Marriages.

Yap, who holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration, expects the portal to break-even by the end of next year. So far, RM 500,000 has been invested and the portal's main revenue is generated from business listings and banner advertising.

Yap, who is still single, says that when he decides to make his wedding plans, he will definitely be logging onto the site for information. "There is no way I can do without it."

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