WeddingWire Introduces Wedding Planning Android App

National Wedding Site Leads the Way in On-The-Go Planning

BETHESDA, MD--(Marketwire - January 12, 2011) - WeddingWire.com, the nation's leading wedding technology company, expands its mobile offerings with the launch of a new wedding planning application for Android devices. The new application allows engaged couples to search, compare and book wedding vendors and prepare for their special day, all from the fastest-growing mobile platform. To boost the innovative commitment of WeddingWire and to further simplify the planning process for engaged couples, the Android application developed will be available to the 26% of smartphone users who said, in a recent comScore survey, that an Android device was their primary phone. The WeddingWire application can be downloaded for free via WeddingWire.com or through any Android enabled device.

WeddingWire was the first online wedding planning site to launch a completely mobilized version of its website at m.WeddingWire.com, and also has one of the top iPhone applications for wedding planning. Now, WeddingWire couples who use Android mobile devices will be able to conveniently access and manage their fully-synced WeddingWire account using the Android application. Couples can navigate to their WeddingWire Dashboard to view their personal wedding countdown, to-do list and budget status. The integrated Checklist, WeddingWire's most popular function, allows couples to track their progress and make changes to their tasks from their fingertips. Payments can be organized, scheduled and revised using the application's mobile Budget tool, enabling couples real time control over their wedding expenses. Additionally, the application geographically targets the user's location, allowing couples to search over 200,000 local wedding vendors and the largest database of newlywed reviews in the wedding industry.

"Mobile technology is indispensable for today's tech savvy brides and grooms," said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. "We have hundreds of thousands of engaged couples planning their weddings on the go through WeddingWire's mobile offerings. Our new Android application puts planning and productivity in the palms of our engaged couples; therefore, providing them with immediate access to their wedding planning details."

To download the WeddingWire application for your Android device, visit www.WeddingWire.com/wedding-planning/android-application.

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Beyond Black and White

You would think that in 2010, our world would have learned to be more loving and tolerant of diversity; of people loving those outside their race, but I find that is not always true. Being in love and being loved, is a wonderful experience.

I have had the wonderful experience of marrying numerous couples of various beliefs, and ethnic backgrounds. It is always interesting to hear how they present their facts; are they thinking that I would turn them away? No, I welcome you.

In reading the various blogs that lead me to other blogs across the internet, I stumbled upon a very interesting posting. I share with you only a portion. Please take a moment to visit her blog to read the rest.


My Story: Jumping the Broom with a White Boy
–Christelyn D. Karazin

Excerpt from Swirling: How to Date, Mate and Relate Mixing Race, Culture and Creed, to be released February 2011.

Marriage is for white people.

It’s hard to say what I felt exactly when I read that Washington Post editorial a few years ago—offended, outed, but mostly just sad. But finally, someone in the media had exposed the furtive secret, the dirty laundry. Despite the fact that my own parents had been married for 45 years, I learned early that marriage for whites and blacks was distinctly different—if it happened with blacks at all. In my pubescent, wide-eyed youth, I remember, hands clasped against one cheek, sighing my dreams of love, marriage, mutual understanding and cooperation to some friend or relative only for them to scoff...