Comments on: It’s your wedding, don’t ask me to pay for it

By: Camilla Bridalwave

Camilla Bridalwave — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:50:36 +0000

Ugh – what really annoys me is that the English couple claim to be all about charity and that they’ll give a tiny percentage of the funds they raise over �5000 away. As if by dressing up beggign it somehoe makes it better. They should give the whole lot!

By: Dataceptionist

Dataceptionist — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:13:51 +0000

this behaviour cannot be justified IMHO. Not to say it isn’t inventive. *shrug*

By: Shelly

Shelly — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:55:36 +0000

Exactly, the meme that someone is actually succeding in raising funds through this method draws people to the site, and spreads almost like a virus. In fact, you are helping to propagate this meme right now. Viral marketing in no way needs to employ “enhanced” content as you put it, just as long as it is able to successfully spread through a word-of-mouth type of manner.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:12:48 +0000

Actually, Shelly, viral marketing is no more upfront than traditional marketing. Often, it is less so, employing stealth techniques to infiltrate social networks by word of mouth. Viral marketing also employs enhanced or entertaining content or memes to promote a product or service – and I’m not seeing that here.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:08:08 +0000

You people don’t understand marketing very well. The wedding on a penny website is viral marketing. The difference between this and regular marketing, is that they tell you what they will be using the advertising revenue for – a wedding. This is no different than if the owner of this blog site used the advertising revenue to pay for a wedding! Except, its what they are using the revenue for that is drawing people to take a look at it.

A few dollars for an advertisement is well worth a quick audience of 6000+ people!

By: Trista

Trista — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:57:35 +0000

There is a big difference between the websites you mentioned. WeddingOnAPenny is selling advertisements on thier main page, so the contributors are paying for a service – This is NOT begging.

As far as it being $20,000, you need to set some goal, I think the average wedding price their using is reasonable considering again, that they are SELLING ADVERTISEMENTS.

This is marketing, pure and simple!

By: Chaeriste

Chaeriste — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:52:36 +0000

Imagine… living within your means…

By: Nony Mouse

Nony Mouse — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:08:15 +0000

Yikes!
And to think, my finance and I have set a buget based on the amount of money we have, when we could have set a buget based on how much we could beg from other people. Yick.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:39:55 +0000

Thanks for mentioning our site (The Hopeful Honeymooners). Opinion has generally been divided on what we’re doing, but we look on it as selling adverts to help fund our honeymoon rather than begging! There’s also no way we would ever have asked people to pay for our wedding – that is going too far!

As for the Shrek/Donkey photoshopped image, Wayne originally did mock me us as Princess Fiona, but I made him change it. Donkey’s much cooler, surely? The images change from time to time anyway, so maybe the Fiona one will appear at some point.

Lynn x

By: Ninjarina

Ninjarina — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:22:15 +0000

AlwaysABride: Oh, maybe they could just go the route of Star Jones and others that have corporate sponsored weddings as NtB has blogged about before. Way to sell out on your wedding. Even that is slightly less reprehensible since there is some kind of fair exchange going on.