Wednesday 5 October 2011

VOWS AWARDS 2011


It gives me great pleasure to announce that for the fourth year in a row we have been shortlisted in the 'Bridal Accessories' category of the VOWS awards.

ABOUT THE AWARDS

VOWS stands for Voted Outstanding Wedding Supplier and is an awards body set up in 2005 to recognise all types of companies within Scotland that offer excellent customer service within the wedding industry.
The awards are voted for by recently wedded couples and in 2011 over 12,000 nominations were received – year on year this number is increasing.
The VOWS Awards has become the pinnacle of the wedding industry calendar, culminating in a prestigious ceremony and dinner in November where over 500 wedding professionals gather to acknowledge high levels of service.

THANK YOU

I would like to say a huge thank you to all of our lovely clients who took the time to vote for us......you know who you are :-).
It is an amazing feeling to receive such recognition for what is not only my job but my passion. I am totally committed to what I do and I will continue to design quality accessories and provide the very best customer service experience.
There are some very exciting developments happening here at Corrine Smith Design at the moment, and we are so very excited about what the future holds.

To keep up to date with all of our latest news please 'like' our facebook page

Love Corrine xx

Wednesday 10 August 2011

WIN YOUR FAVOURITE ACCESSORIES - COMPETITION

I am really pleased to announce a fabulous new competition where you can win your very favourite hair accessory or piece of jewellery absolutely FREE.

 You don't have to be getting married to enter. You may want to wear one of my designs to a special event, or maybe you've found a pretty bracelet that you'd just really love to own.

Will it be the Monaco headband (pictured below), or do you have your eye on something else?

To pick your favourite piece, just visit my website and have a browse around http://www.corrinesmith.co.uk/

To enter the competition and be in with a chance to win just follow these simple instructions:

1. Become a fan on facebook, CLICK HERE to go to my page
2. Email me at info@corrinesmith.co.uk with your name, the name of your favourite piece, and why you deserve to win (Min 50 - Max 500 words)
3. Tell us how you found out about the competition

There will be no need to canvas for votes as I want to make this as fair as possible. All submissions will be scored by a panel of four independent judges :

Annabel Beeforth of the fabulous LOVE MY DRESS daily wedding blog

Top Wedding hair stylist Gail Rankin of BESPOKE WEDDING HAIR

Dawn Mitchell, owner of CRAFTY CARDS wedding stationery company

M.T. O'Donnell of the GLASGOW GIRLS WEDDING GUIDE online directory

All I ask in return is that you suggest my facebook page to your friends (and of course they can enter too).

The closing date for entries is 10th September at 5pm and the winner will be announced on 24th September during my boutique's first birthday celebrations.

There are no catches and you have nothing to lose by entering, so what are you waiting for?

I look forward to receiving your entry and GOOD LUCK :-)

Corrine x





Monday 20 June 2011

LISTED ON VERY GOOD SERVICE


I am extremely proud to display this badge, and to be recognised for providing very good service. The people behind the VERY GOOD SERVICE WEBSITE contacted me a couple of weeks ago to ask me to become listed with them. This is a relatively new website with the aim of finding award-winning companies known for excellent customer service so you don't have to. My lovely customers were invited to leave comments endorsing my service, which you can read HERE. I am really grateful to everyone who took the time to leave a review. I always have been and always willbe totally committed to providing exactly what my clients want, and this includes providing the very best service and products. I absolutely LOVE my job, and there is no better satisfaction than knowing that my customers love what I do to!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Corrine xx

Saturday 30 April 2011

INTERVIEW WITH 'CREATE MY WEDDING'

It is our great pleasure to introduce to you the unique Wedding Planning and Directory company CreateMyWedding.com. I spoke to owners Rob & Waseem to find out more about their company and they share some valuable tips on fruitful exposure for your Wedding business.



When and why did you start your business?
Our official Royal Launch is on 29th April, however getting to this day has taken 6 months of careful planning, researching and many sleepless nights!
We started this business to provide both an easier means for couples to find providers for their wedding day and to provide a quality, value for money, means for wedding suppliers to market their business.
What is it you do and what services do you offer?
I could talk about this for hours, but I'll try and keep it short.
We provide what we like to call a "wedding marketing platform" where through combining the power of the Internet, especially social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, with personal recommendations we bring future brides and groom (but mainly brides, as let’s face it the grooms don’t tend to get involved too much in the planning of the special day!) to our user friendly site to then provide them with some informative options of wedding suppliers to make their special day perfect for them.
For Wedding suppliers we offer a fantastic platform to market their business in a variety of ways and at such an affordable price. Wedding Suppliers can have an advert in multiple counties, where they can have their images displayed across the site for free and can also get premium banner adverts for free. Perhaps most importantly we provide a great platform for suppliers to have their satisfied customers leave reviews about the service that they received. These reviews are then easily shared to all their friends throughout Facebook, raising the profile of the Wedding Supplier
What makes you Unique?
Excellent question! Well here at CreateMyWedding.com we didn’t want to be an ordinary Online Wedding Directory, we wanted to have flair and stand out from the rest. How have we achieved this? What we have done is completely decluttered the site from side ads, which when we spoke to Brides to Be said sometimes gave them too much choice or confused them!
We have made the site more visually appealing and very simple and friendly to use, but most important we have implemented a unique feature which we can proudly say no one else offers is our “Fair Viewing System”. Simply put our adverts randomise each time the page has been refreshed giving Local Wedding Suppliers a fair chance of being seen.
We also have exclusivity where only 16 suppliers from each category can be featured on the site giving the chance for fair competition and not being lost in a sea of suppliers once again confusing our fabulous Brides to be, as let’s face it choice is great but too much can drive you mad!
Another Unique feature is that we cater to both Traditional and Asian Wedding sectors allowing you to showcase your fabulous business in both areas furthermore increasing your exposure!
We have some more but will keep those for another day!
What inspired you?
Both our wives have businesses in the wedding sector and we came to recognise that although there are plenty of "directory" style websites out there, there was a lack of sites that provide the full package of user friendliness , with informative adverts with reviews and that were actually value for money.
What's your greatest achievement?
Our greatest achievements have to be finding amazing wives who are so inspirational and also have been so patient with us over the last 6 months
I think we would both say marrying our lovely wives is our greatest achievement!
What's the future of your business?
The goal and focus of the business hasn't changed from day 1, where we set out to be the No.1 wedding site, that thousands of brides visit each month to plan their perfect day.
We have some fantastic offers for your Blog Readers for our Royal Launch Weekend.
OFFER #1 : First year at hugely discounted rate of £4.99 + VAT. Not only that but you will receive a FREE BANNER (Worth £39.99) and a 2nd County of your choice absolutelyFREE for a YEAR! (Please email us with your 2nd Choice of County and we will add you automatically)
OFFER #2 : Recommend another Wedding Supplier to advertise on our fantastic site and we will give you another FREE BANNER (worth £39.99)
OFFER #3 : Yes there is a 3rd! For all your fantastic support, advertise in our Asian Section absolutely FREE of charge for 12 Months!
e: waseem@createmywedding.com ::

w: www.CreateMyWedding.com :: Twitter: @createmywedding




 




Wednesday 6 April 2011

TALKING SHOP - EVENING TIMES

I was delighted to receive a call from the Evening Times last week asking if I would like to take part in their regular talk shop feature. Of course I said yes! What a fantastic opportunity to tell people a bit more about me and what I do and also a little peek into my shop. For anyone who missed it check it out below. P.S. Yes....I know....I should've smiled more :-)
Corrine x