Dear Reader,

Welcome to our first quarterly newsletter aimed at keeping our customers informed of points of interest and developments at Countywedding.co.uk.

2002 was a very busy year for our team, with the introduction of many new county sign-ups to our nationwide service. Our aim for 2003 is to continue to promote our business within the Internet community to ensure continued success and expansion for all our customers.

The County wedding Group Welcomes It's New Subscribers
We would like to welcome all those companies who subscribed to our service during November and December of 2002.

La Barbe Chez Vous / Kitley House Hotel & Restaurant / Porterhouse Jazz Six / Polhawn Fort / Keith Chinn Photography / Dawn Shrewsburys Cakes / Paul Martin Photography / John Anderson Hire Limited / London Canal Museum / Tewin Bury Farm Hotel / Brian Foster-Smith Photography / Whitton Cars / David Hill - Toastmaster / Moodies / Glissando Music / Rachel Brown - Trumpet Voluntaries / Diamonds and Pearls / Majken Kruse ABIPP ARPS / PULSAR / Stromenti String Quartet / Stock Brook Country Club (Site Sponsor) / Dean McDonald Photography / Brett Sirrell, Jugglermagician.co.uk / VIP Cakes / Perfect Touch / Vale Wedding Cars Ltd / Naturally You / Courtenay Photographic Ltd / Lynprint of Bath / Jazz Dynamos / Raymond Thomas Photography / Snazz Reality / A1 Photography / Crown Celebrations Ltd / Two Hearts Videography / Northop Hall Country House Hotel / Tornado - Mobile Bar

Special Offers Available In January & February

New Referral Scheme

During the months of January and February 2003, we are offering a special referral opportunity to our existing customers. For every new customer that is referred to us by an existing subscriber and who signs-up to our service, we will reduce that existing subscriber’s next year renewal fee for one county by 50% of that new customers subscription.* Better still, refer two new customers to us and your next year’s subscription fee for one county listing, will be COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE! *

* When customers subscribe via our online form at http://www.countywedding.co.uk/form.htm they must indicate the name of the existing subscriber, who referred them to our service. This should be detailed within the 'additional information' field on the subscription form.

Half Price Sponsorship packages

Each of our sponsorship packages at http://www.countywedding.co.uk/advertise.htm are available at half the advertised price in January and February of 2003 only.

Some Half Price Subscriptions still available

Don’t forget that there are still a limited number of half price subscriptions available in various County directories within the site starting from just £17.50. If your company can also serve a nearby county or counties, why not add your company to these and boost your exposure further! There are special reduced prices available for multiple County listings, just click the following link:- http://www.countywedding.co.uk/advertise.htm#multi and our national listings (i.e. appear in every UK county) start from just £250.

Submit A Wedding Article & increase your companies exposure

We are currently accepting Wedding articles from existing subscribers for review and publication within the site*. These are to appear in a new 'Articles' page and will carry a dedication that the article has been provided courtesy of the author and company. We will also provide a direct link to their entry on our site. This page is currently under construction and the following articles have already been submitted for consideration.

1. The Wedding Toastmaster - Wouldn't it be nice (By David Hill from Kent)
2. The Wedding Speech (By David Hill from Kent)
3. Planning Your Honeymoon - (By Cathy Mumford, The Travel Counsellors from the Midlands)

This could be a great way to increase your companies exposure, but hurry as we can only include one article of each service type!

* The suitability and selection of articles to add to the site is solely at the discretion of the editors at The County Wedding Group.

Site Visitors

We are pleased to announce that, due to our ongoing investment in promotion by a leading specialised search engine registration company, the number of visitors to our site have dramatically increased over the last year. Our recorded statistics show continued progressive growth with 19,993 visits during December 2002 and 26,648 already in January 2003! (The start of the year always being a busy time!) This shows a progressive upward trend and our marketing and promotion continues.

Our site is prominent on all the major search engines under a variety of search terms. Also, as we configure the META coding of all package B entries in our directory with the companies names and relevant search terms, (Something that is rarely included in other wedding directories or even some websites) many of our subscribers can be found on the search engines more prominently than their own website!

Thank You!

Thank you for your time in reading this newsletter, we hope you have found it useful and informative. We are always interested to hear from existing subscribers with ideas for improvements in the website and the service we provide.

On behalf of everyone at Countywedding.co.uk we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy New Year and all our subscribers continued success throughout 2003, in partnership with The County Wedding Group.