🥂Wedding season is upon us... We’re sincerely grateful to all Skyros brides and their grooms for allowing us to share this very special time of your life… We wish you joy, love and happiness on your wedding day as you begin your new life together! 🤍🥂🤍
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I think that Zola, an online provider of gift registries, may be harming local stores. Zola allows brides to pick things from any site, such as an indie store’s gift registry. Zola may then encourage the registrant to bypass that local store and use those gift funds with Zola. This is an issue because Zola has handled more than 650,000 registries, and its revenue is estimated to be $130m. Millions of dollars may have been diverted away from indie, brick-and-mortar stores to Zola&rsquo...
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I recently bought a pair of jeans from the bike-lifestyle company Rapha. I find Rapha's stores, emails, and mission to be inspiring to Bridge, and I'll explain why.
First, you may ask, "What is Rapha?" Rapha is a product company that sells goods for biking, including shirts, shorts, helmets, and accessories. What is unique is the lengths it goes to foster a community (and sales!) by having a coffee shop in it, organizing riding events, offering members-only clothing...
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We are so excited to be offering gift and wedding registry items to our store! Here is a easy way to look at our brides items online and pick something out. We currently do not have a credit card system set up with this site so when you place your order we will have to call you and get your credit card information over the phone. From there we will let the bride know you have left a gift or make sure it gets to a certain shower date that you specify.
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Today’s Times shares that Amazon Prime members often spend twice as much compared to those that aren’t members. This led to me ponder: What if a first step to reducing Amazon’s monopolies is just canceling a $119/year ‘membership’? Prime may be Amazon’s strength—as well as its achilles. If we can find a way to undermine it, I believe one can save money and our communities.
Pat Hensley, a sales rep for Ryan Associates, helped her store and her brands this morning.
Pat signed up Canterbury Court, a gift and antique shop in Texas. By just spending a few minutes, the retailer has a live Bridge Store with 1,800+ products. Customers and brides-to-be can shop these products. Google will rank the store higher due to these products. The store saved months of web development time and thousands of dollars in labor.
In this 5 minute video, I explain how the registry business has changed over the last 20 years.
I share how Bridge has helped hundreds of indie stores in the U.S. soak up registry sales by adopting digital solutions that service their brides, registrants, and customers.
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Come to Alioto’s to receive the personal attention and experience that you cannot get at the big box stores. We can assist you with your decision-making process for all the items you want to register for, from fine china and crystal to casual dinnerware and glasses, sterling silver placesettings to everyday silverware, frames, bar ware, home decor, and the list goes on. If you want it and it is available, we will find it for you!
See some reviews from brides:
“Sera and her ...
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There are many e-commerce platforms from which to choose. A store owner can choose from more than 30 platforms including Bridge, Shopify, Big Commerce, and Big Cartel. Unfortunately, very few software providers are easy to set up and use. Most importantly, they may not improve retail sales. A store owner is surely mindful of increasing costs and wasting time on software.
Bridge, our e-commerce platform, helps more than 700 indie stores offer a website and bridal registry that...
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Zola has added a "Home Store" tab to its site. The goal: become an online retailer that does it all...oh, and maybe does gift registries, too. Notably, this a departure from its original, registry-focused mission statement. Initially, Zola told brands that indie store gift registry services were not servicing out of the way towns and that by opening Zola, the brand would reach brides in remote parts of, say, Oklahoma. Zola didn't say that it was simply selling ...
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From all of us here at BB&G we want to sincerely thank all of our customers for an amazing year!! To all of you who called during the time we were "closed to browsing" to purchase items to be shipped to you, we appreciate you thinking of us! To those of you who have purchased from a Bridal Registry during these uncertain times, we know the brides and grooms appreciate you thinking of them during what is already a stressful time but even more so with the pandemic, we sincerely hope ...
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Bridge has a large base of gift registry data. More than 5,000 brides open a wedding registry on the Bridge e-commerce platform each year. We thought it would be helpful to our stores to look for trends in this data.
Our key finding: The best time to have an online registry ready for brides-to-be is: in January on Monday at 4 pm ?
We reached this conclusion after finding these trends:
1. The top month that future brides start their registry:
January, ...
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If you asked me what I would change from my wedding day 25 years ago, I'd say I wish I'd had a fall wedding. The cooler temperatures, the beautiful warm colors, smores by the fire pit...all of it adds up to the perfect wedding atmosphere. Our fall brides at Amelia's have gorgeous weddings planned and I can't wait! Make sure to check out their registries...their showers are right around the corner!
Kaylyn Cogburn
Holly Key
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Part of my job is to review registry software. I ensure that it works well for retailers, registrants, and gift-givers (family and friends). I also assess whether it offers good value (price vs results).
A retailer recently shared with me that it uses the service MyRegistry.com. I reviewed the retailer's site and how a customer would make a registry purchase via MyRegistry.com. For privacy purposes, I changed the name of the store in the screenshots shown.
If you are shopping one of our bridal registries and don't see what you are looking for PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE call our store for more options. Most of our brides have additional items in store that are not listed online. We would love to help you over the phone or in person.
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As a small business, we look forward to serving you. We are grateful for your patronage.
Due to the current health crisis and out of an abundance of caution, Stafford Jewelers will be closed to foot traffic. We will continue to serve you by filling telephone and online orders weekdays from 10:00 am until 5:00 pm. We will bring a beautifully wrapped gift to you at curbside.
We will work with brides to create online registries via telephone or email.
Call us at 864-585-0235, email us at ...
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March 14, 2020
March 14, 2020
We are Showcasing our beautiful Oyster Shell Candle on the Annieglass Square Pedestal Slab. This piece is available with 24kt Gold Trim. We have loved using this pedestal in Power Rooms for the ultimate Soap Dish. FREE ENGRAVING on all Annieglass purchases now until March 25th. Perfect opportunity to add a Special Engraved Message too your Gifts for many Occasions. Weddings | Bridesmaids | Graduation | Mother’s Day | Anniversary | Birthday | Housewarming | ...
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