Monthly blog digest May 2010

We’re going to make some exciting changes to a couple of our blogs in the next few weeks so keep an eye on whatwherewhoweddings.com and theequestrianblog.co.uk to see what we’ll be getting up to!

Here’s what’s been happing in the Memory Gate and Redrosette world…

May has all been about Wedding venues….

• Penshurst Place Kent
• Richmond Hill Hotel
• Selsdon Park, Surrey
• Cannizaro House, Merton
• St Christopher’s Catholic Church, Cheam
• Christ Church West Wimbledon
• Queen’s Eyot, Windsor
• St Vincent de Paul, Osterley
• Cole Court
• Crewe Hall Cheshire

The Equestrian Blog

We have three new showcase galleries….

• Spring sunset at Headley
• Highlands Park Farm
• The best of 2009

Plus of course we have Redrosette promo video which is worth a look.

Podcasts

The PhotoCreative Podcast

The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 13 – What’s great about wedding Photography today?

The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 12 – The 2010 Project update, Rock and Roll bride and Free Photoshop actions.

The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 11 – YouTube for photographers week and we finished off with a little experiment that was PhotoCreative 365 TV

The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 10 – A look at the last week at PhotoCreative365 plus our new daily 3 minute podcast Business Ideas for Photographers. The Photo Creative Podcast is now shorter and weekly.

The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 9 – Get inspired week and Business ideas for photographers

Business Ideas for Photographers – The first 17 episodes of our 3 minute podcast series.

Posts

Series

What’s Great About Wedding Photography Today?

YouTube for Photographers

Get inspired Week

Most popular posts from the last 30 days…

1. Day 107 – NextGEN Gallery add-ons for WordPress
2. Day 45 – Free WordPress themes for photographers
3. Day 88 – Doug Gordon flow posing videos
4. Day 97 – Skin retouching Photoshop action
5. Day 30 – Lens Baby effect in Photoshop
6. Day 40 – Hair photo-shoot lighting set-up
7. Day 139 – Rock and Roll Bride
8. Day 138 – Lens baby Photoshop action version 2
9. Day 58 – Jerry Ghionis wedding album tips
10. The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 12

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New Memory Gate wedding websites

Here’s an overview of the features of the Memory Gate wedding websites.

All features are optional but can include:

• A fully private (password protected) or public mini site.
• A welcome message and information about your big day.
• A countdown timer to your wedding day.
• Email updates for you and your wedding guests (subscription required).
• An online guestbook.
• Online RSVP option.
• Personal blog posts.
• Information about your wedding venues including directions, maps and contact details.
• Recommended places to stay for your guests.
• Directions and information about your wedding gift list.
• Engagement photo image gallery.
• Guest pictures gallery – Guests may upload their own images from the day.
• Friends and Family Print Gallery – online ordering for wedding guests.
• Slideshow of the very best images from your wedding day.
• Online proofing of your wedding Storybook pages.
• Information and vendor raves.

To help us create your own mini wedding website within What Where Who Weddings fill out this form at whatwherewhoweddings.com/your-wedding-site. On the same page are some FAO’s but of course feel free to email or call us if you have any queries.

As your wedding websites will be hosted within our wonderful wedding blog What Where Who Weddings you’ll also have a whole host of useful information close to hand including:

• Articles and advice from dozens of different wedding vendors.
• Our wedding planning book store.
• Wedding advice Quick Tips.
• The latest wedding news from Alltop.
• Bridal Beauty tips from our resident beautician and make-up artist Deborah Shilling.
• The YouTube wedding stars.
• Wedding Quick Tips.
• Wedding vendor directory.
• Ask the Experts – Ask us questions on any wedding related subject.
• The latest wedding, engagement and post-wedding photography from Memory Gate Photographic
• Wedding storybook design ideas from London Wedding Storybooks

Changes in Memory Gate wedding websites

Due to a change in user licence agreements we’ve had to change the way we host your wedding website. In the past we have used the social network builder Ning to host all of our clients wedding websites. From July 2010 Ning are introducing a $3.95 monthly charge for these websites.

If you wish to keep your Ning site then let us know otherwise we’ll set up and brand new wedding website within What Where Who Weddings.

Here’s a video showing you all of the features in our new wedding websites.

Monthly Blog digest for April 2010

The Monthly blog digest from What Where Who Weddings, Photo Creative 365 and The Equestrian blog.

Free Wedding supplier directory

The new look What Where Who Weddings has a brand new feature. Not only have we changed the style and layout of the site (again) but we’ve added a wedding supplier directory.

If you work in the wedding industry then please submit your details to our directory for FREE!

The Memory Gate Monthly blog digest for March

March was a much busier month for us posts wise and there’s certainly been lots of great information shared.

Our Wedding advice and quick tips blog has been given a much needed Spring clean and March saw the start of our Quick Tips series.

The plan is to to a week of daily wedding quick tips at the start of every month.

Top 10 popular posts at What Where Who Weddings for March

1. Wedding Fairs/Fayres in Surrey in March
2. Promote your wedding business
3. Michelle and John Brubaker – Baby Got Back wedding dance
4. What side does the Groom stand on?
5. Why would you want all your wedding photos on DVD?
6. What are the most popular first dance wedding songs?
7. Wedding dinner buffet ideas
8. Affordable wedding cake stands
9. Wedding Storybooks designs for Spring
10. Be wary about ordering bridesmaids dresses from overseas

PhotoCreative365 has also had a bit of a Spring clean and Saturday marks our 100th post!

Top 10 popular posts at Photo Creative 365 for March

1. Trevor and Faye Yerbury Presence and Presentation
2. 189 Ideas to improve your photography business
3. Jerry Ghionis wedding album tips
4. Know your rights as a photographer
5. The £2.59 coloured gel set
6. Free WordPress themes for photographers
7. Lens Baby effect in Photoshop
8. Doug Gordon flow posing videos
9. The new look Photo Creative 365
10. Blogging for photographers

Back here at The Gatekeepers it’s been another busy month.

Top 10 popular posts at The Gatekeepers for March

1. MG Baby Club ‘Funny Baby Pictures’
2. Stuff – Croydon’s newest indoor market
3. London Mums Carnival Party
4. Couple sue wedding photographer Gareth B…
5. Photo-shoot for l’oreal colour competiti….
6. Sam Millard UK Finalist for Goldwell Tre…
7. Portfolio shoot for hair stylist Sam Mil…
8. Photo-shoot for Klass hair salon Worcest…
9. Free bridal photo-shoot at Cloud 9 Cheam…
10. Miss Wimbledon 2010..

The new look What Where Who Weddings

There’s still the great content and quick tips but we’re changed a few things at What Where Who Weddings to make things a little easier for you to navigate the site.

Magazine layout

We know that the latest posts might not always be the ones you’re looking for so we’ve redesigned the site into a magazine layout.

Featured Categories

Each month we’re have ever changing featured categories. We’ll not only showcase the new posts but some of the ones you might have missed.

The Memory Gate Monthly blog digest

I can’t believe January has flown by so quickly! Here’s what ‘s been happening on the Memory Gate blogs:

What Where Who Weddings

We’ve posted only 5 posts in January due to an extremely busy time setting up other websites and attending the SWPP convention. We do however have a brand new contributor to the site. Deborah is our in house make-up artist and beauty specialist and so far has added three posts:

• What is the perfect base for a perfect face?
• How to get the best skin for your wedding day
• How to get shed your winter skin to prepare for your wedding day!

All three are defiantly worth a look for any 2010 bride.

Our most popular post of the month has been Who are the top wedding tweeters?

We are still looking for more contributors to the site site so if you are a wedding vendor who wants to promote either your own blog or website then drop us an email.

Photo Creative 365

The launch of this new site has proved to be very exciting and we’ve averaged over 100 visits a day!

With 31 posts this month I’m not going to list them all but these are the 5 most popular.

1. Day 21 – 189 Ideas to improve your photography business
2. Day 31 – End of the Month Fun – The iPad and Twitter
3. Day 19 – Business school at the SWPP convention Part 6
4. Day 30 – Lens Baby effect in Photoshop
5. The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 1

It’s still early days for the site and the search engines have yet rank our posts very highly so thank you for everyone who has found us via the SWPP forum, Twitter and Facebook.

If you would like daily updates of our posts sent to your mailbox then feel free to subscribe via Feed-burner download the free iPhone app or subscribe to our RSS

New year = new rules

Happy new year and welcome to the….erm….. Tennies, Tenties, Teenies or if you’re Australian …. ‘One-ders’

We have lots of projects in development at the moment so we have decided to set a few rules (for ourselves at least) in terms of what we post here at The Gatekeepers.

Monday is Blog Day – Expect to see all of Memory Gate’s news mainly being updated on Monday. This doesn’t mean that we won’t chuck a few other posts in there midweek from time to time though.

First Monday of the month is our Memory Gate Blog Digest – We currently have two other blogs running at the moment and we’ll give you a little taste of them each month.

These are our two other blogs – 

What Where Who Weddings – Everything weddings. Tips, interviews, photos, ramblings and a touch of humour!

Photo Creative 365 – Michael’s brand new (and perhaps slightly ambitious) personal 365 photo project combined with daily creative posts.

We also have some new websites in development which we’re be officially launching from this blog later this month.