In Celebration of the Year’s Biggest Day of Wedding Planning, OneWed.com Toasts New Brides-to-be on Jan. 4, 2010

OneWed.com, the ultimate online source for the truth in wedding planning, once again welcomes the year’s biggest day for wedding planning: Jan. 4, 2010, the day OneWed has declared “Matrimony Monday.”

According to TheWeddingReport.com, approximately 35-40 percent (550,000-650,000) of engagements in the US take place during the winter holiday season between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day*.

Thanks to the romantic nature of the holiday season, the majority of proposals take place between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, making the first Monday back at work the peak time to start searching online for planning ideas and inspiration.

“The holiday season traditionally attracts more proposals than any other time of the year,” says OneWed VP of Marketing Jennifer Napier.

“As soon as these couples get engaged, they are anxious and excited to start researching for wedding dresses, venues, wedding vendors, honeymoon locales, and everything in between.

OneWed knows that Jan. 4 is a pivotal day for online research and we’re ready to help as their ultimate wedding resource.”

To celebrate the whirlwind of wedding planning activities, OneWed.com is thrilled to treat brides-to-be with a special wedding giveaway, with a grand prize featuring items that typically aren’t included in traditional wedding budgeting charts.

The “Off-the-Chart” Wedding Giveaway, running through the month of January, provides future brides with the opportunity to win approximately $15,000 worth of wedding essentials like a honeymoon from Sandals Resorts, wedding bands from Whiteflash.com, dresses from The Dessy Group, and many more wedding essentials.

Brides can automatically enter by simply creating their own Wedding Pre-Party, OneWed’s social wedding planning tools and platform connecting the couple, wedding party, wedding guests and vendors.

Just in time for Matrimony Monday, OneWed is excited to launch several new offerings:

• Wedding Web sites: New free wedding websites that can be easily customized and personalized to reflect any couple’s personality and their specific needs for information sharing.
• Wedding Flowers: A partnership with Weddings by FlowerPetal that brings bridal and bridesmaid bouquets, centerpieces, corsages and boutonnieres direct to brides or their venues. With OneWed and Weddings by FlowerPetal, couples can browse hundreds of wedding flowers and styles, purchase online, and ship directly to you and your venue.
• Wedding Venues: A partnership with VFM Leonardo, a technology leader in online visual content management and distribution for the hotel industry, offers couples access to photos, videos and virtual tours of over 10,000 wedding venues nationwide.
• Wedding Dresses: Newly expanded wedding dress gallery searchable by designer, silhouette, neckline, length, fabric, embellishments, color, and price.
• Party Planning: Plan, manage and throw any wedding-related celebration from engagement parties to wedding showers to bachelor parties.

As always, couples can turn to OneWed’s Savvy Scoop wedding blog, which provides daily planning advice, trend reports, expert commentary, wedding fashion round-ups, and more. Find this and a wealth of helpful planning tips and tools at OneWed.com.

About OneWed

OneWed is the ultimate online source for the truth in wedding planning, providing couples with a wealth of tips, advice, and creative suggestions to help personalize their wedding experience.

The site’s newest platform, WeddingPreParty.com, is a virtual way for couples to start the celebration early and keep in contact with guests through a social wedding planning network.

OneWed boasts the largest searchable directory of local wedding vendors with over 225,000 vendors nationwide with honest ratings and reviews.

Additionally, the site features OneWed’s Savvy Scoop Wedding Blog, online wedding checklist, free wedding websites and ideas for everything from engagement rings to wedding flowers to honeymoon planning.

OneWed can be found online at OneWed.com, facebook.com/Wedding.Planning, and twitter.com/OneWed.

Facebook^® is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc.

*Statistics courtesy of TheWeddingReport.com