Wedding Guide of Spain Wins Business Award!

I am thrilled to have won the Company Women Business Woman of the Year Award for Bright Idea for Innovation, for The Wedding Guide.

This award means a lot not just to me, but to all of the wedding suppliers who have supported the business over the past year. I hope that it will bring a lot of publicity for all of the wedding planners, photographers, celebrants, venues and much more who are listed in our national directory of wedding suppliers across Spain, as well as help us to promote weddings and blessings in such a beautiful country.

Everyone had a wonderful evening at the glamourous, first ever, Company Women Awards Ceremony, held at the Thalasia Hotel in San Pedro, and we look forward to attending the 2008 Awards for another glittering evening!

I will no doubt write a more complete blog in days to come, but for now am still recovering from the excitement and celebration of the weekend!

This Is Spain!

Our little corner at the This Is Spain exhibition this weekend was a great hit. We had lots of enquiries, and it was very nice to meet all of the people who stopped by.

Our free Cava was flowing, and the delicious cupcakes from Cake Magic dissapeared... well, like magic!

The dress supplied by Kristina Bridal was much admired, and two visitors even drove away from the exhibition happily on their way to visit the shop to find gowns.

We will be having a larger stand at future exhibitions, incorporating many of our wedding suppliers, so that brides can meet and talk to photographers, celebrants, entertainers and more.

Keep an eye on our events page for more upcoming events featuring The Wedding Guide.

Easier Gran Canaria Weddings

After literally months and over 100 meetings Gran Canaria Weddings and Celebrations SL has managed to persuade the authorities in Gran Canaria to make it easier for couples either wishing to get legally married or have civil partnerships anywhere on the Island

Before the changes were made, if a couple wished to be married here they would have to visit 3 separate occasions in one year to complete paperwork and fulfil residency requirements which was ridiculous, expensive and off putting

Couples of the same sex were also told they couldnt have their love for each other legally done as tourists here as they were told that gay marriage wasnt valid outside Spain!

So Gran Canaria Weddings then tackled that issue and established that people were being told the wrong information by the local authorities, and we have confirmation now that a Gay Marriage in Spain is legally recognised as a Civil Partnership in the UK and other european countries where the union of a gay couple is legally recognised as well, which is a welcome boost for an Island which is a mecca for Gay Couples as well due to its liberal views and openeess for all people

Under the new arrangements, Gran Canaria Weddings and Celebrants is able to present all of the legal documents on behalf of the couples using a power of attorney type system and thus saving the couples considerable amounts of money as well.

For more information, please visit this link.

Business Woman of the Year Awards

I have to admit that when I came up with the idea of a central place for brides to find information about getting married in Spain, I didn't realise that the project would get so big so fast.

I am quite ambitious, in that I enjoy the challenge of building something from scratch, and am a real believer that the higher you aim, the higher you get.

I am thrilled to be working with some really dedicated wedding service providers, and get a buzz everytime I get something featured in a magazine or website about weddings in Spain. I really love my job.

So it is a real honour to have other people recognize the success of the business. As the founder and editor of The Wedding Guide España, I have been nominated for a Business Woman of the Year Award by Company Women, a networking group for business women in Spain. I am happy to say that I am now a finalist in the Bright Ideas for Innovation category.

The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony, being held at Thalasia Spa Hotel in San Pedro Del Pinatar, Murcia in November.

Read about the amazing women who have been nominated in the Coastrider article:
http://www.coastrider.net/spec_feat.htm

Visit the Company Women site:
http://www.companywomen.org

Photo Galleries Now Live!

If you subscribe to our e-zine (and you should!) then you will already have heard the news that our Photo Gallery is now live.

You can see folders of images from suppliers, as well as some albums of weddings in Spain. We will be constantly adding folders to this feature, to show scenery of Spain, wedding images, and more images from our suppliers.

The Photo Gallery feature is quite easy to use... simply select a folder from the drop down menu on the right. Once the images are loaded, you can drag and drop the thumbnail polaroid images into the big screen to see the full size image.

Thumbnails of all images that you have viewed are stored on the right hand side of the menu, letting you put together images of wedding dresses, bridal jewellery, and locations to get an overall feel for how your wedding might look.

Want to show off your own photographs from your wedding in Spain? Drop us a line, and we'll be happy to add a folder for your real life wedding. Share your wedding photos with other brides on our site, and family and freinds.

Visit the Photo Galleries Now!