All you need to do is login to your account and navigate to the ‘Vendors’ tab in website mode or the ‘My Vendors’->’Recommend’ tab in planning mode.

If you recommend and review 5 of your vendors you’ll be eligible to win! To apply just send an email to contests@momentville.com , make sure to include the email address you use to login to your MomentVille.com account. Please look at the terms and conditions below to make sure you qualify. Please note the contest is for U.S. and Canadian citizens only.

The lucky winner will be announced on August 10th, and will be able to choose any items they want from AllModern’s iitala All Steel Collection, up to $100 worth.

iitala cookwear

Terms and Conditions:
1) Any recommendations must include valid vendor email addresses.
2) The participant must submit at least 5 recommendations.
3) The participant must enroll by emailing contests@momentville.com and must include the email address used to login to their MomentVille account.
4) The winner will be chosen at random from all eligible participants on August 10th and will be informed if they are the winner.
5) The winner can choose up to $100 worth of merchandise. The merchandise will be shipped free of charge to the winner’s residence.
6) The contest is only open to residents of the U.S. and Canada

Good luck!

The MomentVille Team

About AllModern.com - All Modern has a fantastic selection of modern furniture and home accessories from many leading designers.  Part of CSN Stores, All Modern is just one of over 260 retail sites that offer a diverse array of products from Herman Miller’s popular Aeron Chair to cookware by Rachael Ray.

A wedding checklist is at the center of the new wedding planning tools.  We’ll get you started with common tasks, but you can easily add, edit, and remove tasks to fit your own planning.  You can also assign tasks to categories, occasions, and owners and then filter those tasks so that you can focus on what needs to be done.  Tasks can also have dates and times associated with them, meaning your task list doubles as an appointment calendar.  Your  checklist tasks can also be linked to vendors or budget items so it’s easy to see how everything is related.

Our wedding budget tool is just as innovative.  It makes categorizing budget items easy.  The wedding budget tool allows you to track estimated and actual costs, and when you provide us with a target budget we can give you some estimates on how much certain things might cost based on industry averages.  Having experienced this with our own weddings, we also realized that tracking payments is just as important as tracking your budget.  A budget allows you to see how much you are spending on different parts of your wedding, but payments allow you to keep track of what money is due when, and how it is getting paid.  For example, many vendors will require a deposit up front, and then the remainder at some point in the future.  With the payments integrated into our wedding budget, managing these is a breeze.

We’ve also made big updates to our wedding vendor area.  With tens of thousands of wedding vendors to choose from, you’re sure to find the right vendors for your special event.  To make it easier, we now let you search and sort vendors by various criteria, such as number of reviews, average rating, alphabetically, etc.   This means you will spend less time searching, and more time comparing the ones you are interested in.  We also let you save vendors, and give them personal notes and ratings.  For example, if you like a vendor you can save them to your personal list and write a note explaining why you liked them.  If they aren’t available then you can make a note of that and not worry about forgetting that.  You can also write down any quotes or pricing they gave you so at a quick glance you can easily see and compare all of the vendors you are considering.

You’ll notice we’ve also made some changes to our site navigation and the ‘My Account’ page in this launch. To start planning for any event go to the ‘My Account’ page and click on the ‘Start Planning’ link in the top right corner of the event.

As always, we’d love to hear how we can improve these tools - so let us know what you want to see!

Happy planning!

The MomentVille Team

Now you can send messages to all your guests after the original invite has been sent. We even help you by giving you shortcuts to message only guests that will be attending, or ones that haven’t RSVP’ed yet.

This is a crucial feature we felt was lacking from our invite system, and the feedback we got from our users reflected that.

Happy Messaging!

- The MomentVille Team

To add captions to any photo gallery element, go to the ‘Manage Gallery’ area and you’ll see a space to add a caption beneath each photo.

Enjoy!

The MomentVille Team

Premium websites can request a zipped version of the site anytime, and you can download versions of your site before, during and after your wedding to take “snapshots” of your site at various points in time. To request a zipped copy of your site go to the Upgrades->Keepsake tab of your wedding website.

Enjoy!

The MomentVille Team

UPDATE - the maintenance is now complete.

We also changed our invite page, you can now archive old invites so they don’t clutter the page anymore. Many users had been requesting that feature.

Happy site building!

Paul

- The MomentVille Team

You asked, we listened! Presenting two great new features.

Music

Anyone with a premium site can upload MP3s to their site. Uploading music directly to your site allows you to:

• Play music on your site without interruption. Music will no longer stop and start every time your guests view a new page on your site.
• Bypass music widgets. Most music widgets are complicated to setup and their service can be unreliable. Save yourself the pain and hassle!
• Control how you want your music played. Setting playlist options like repeat and autoplay are a click of a button away.

Check out an example of our music player at work on our premium example site (password is momentville). To upload music go to the Settings->Music tab once you’ve logged into your site.

Personal Domain Names

If you’ve wanted a special domain name for your wedding website this feature is for you. Finding and buying a domain name can be done easily without having to leave your MomentVille site! It is also available for both free and premium sites.

Step 1 involves logging in and going to the Settings->Web Address tab. Step 2 involves seeing if the domain you want is available. Step 3 involves choosing how many years you want the domain for and filling out a single secure payment form on our site. All of it takes less than 5 minutes.

Although buying a domain through MomentVille is the easiest and most convenient way to setup a personal domain name, you can also buy a domain from any seller and transfer it to our site. You will need a premium MomentVille site to transfer it though.

These 2 features along with the 70 new wedding website themes we released earlier in the week have kept us busy. We hope you enjoy using them!

Cheers,

The MomentVille Team

Now you can get a whole range of modern, stylish wedding stationery that match the theme of your wedding website. You can get save-the-date cards, invitations, thank you cards, and other stationery all in the same color and style as your wedding website. There are a lot of designs to choose from, and most of the designs come in a range of colors.

If you see designs on ModernGirlInvitations.com that you really like, but you don’t see in our themes, be sure to let us know!

We’d like to introduce a few basic concepts that will help you to use these great new planning tools for your wedding website.  The first is the idea of an occasion.  Weddings and other special events often have one or more particular occasions around them, such as bachelor parties, showers and of course the wedding itself!  You can track each of these occasions using the same wedding website.

For each occasion you can create an invite.  Once you are ready the invite is sent in a stylish email to your guests.

Guest names and emails can be imported from online email accounts like Hotmail and GMail to make adding guests fast and simple.  You can even arrange guests into groups, so you can have a bridal party group, a family group, or any other group you choose.

You can also associate an invite with an RSVP.  Not all invites need to have an RSVP. For example, you may want to send a ‘Save The Date’ email out to your guest, but may not want to track their responses quite yet.

If you add an RSVP to an invite, the response of the invitees will be tracked, and displayed nicely for you to make your planning even easier.  You can request your guests to give you their mailing addresses and ask custom questions in your RSVP too.  This is a great option for tracking meal choices or any other burning questions you need to ask your guests.

Finally, in the admin area of your website, you can view and export all the responses into a spreadsheet file that will let you do things on your local computer such as mail merges, etc.

For a full description of these tools and how to use them, see our How To section for both RSVPs and Invites.

Happy planning!

- The MomentVille Team