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About this Edition:

After days of sleepless nights, it’s finally here: a spankin’ new Bride’s Yellow Pages (BYP 2007-2008 edition). This is our fifth release, and since we’ve been at it since 2003, we naturally want to deliver a better edition each year.

Just how much work is involved in coming up with a new BYP edition? While it’s our faces you see in this book, the hardwork is actually shared by many.

While our scheduled release date has always been September, actual work starts as early as May. That’s the time our W@Wie volunteers (this year’s batch include Anna, Anna Marie, Cielo, Jacque, Jenki, Jyn, Kristine and Sharon) starts emailing, texting and calling all the listed suppliers in WeddingsAtWork.com (W@W) to verify and update their contact info. If they get no reply from a particular supplier the first time, they try again. Around June/July, the updated list will be forwarded to a lead volunteer (like in the previous edition, Mari again took care this). She then makes her round of calls, texts or emails to all the non-responding suppliers. Believe it or not, the entire database will only be 75% updated at around this time. But we aren’t the types who give up easily. By August, the list finally falls in our lap, and another two rounds of text messages and emails are sent; if we still get no response, we finally take the entry off the list. To make the job of our book designer a tad bit easier this year, we sought the help of Gladys (Impromptu) to format the entire database (that’s thousands of contact infos!) ready for layout. The ‘final’ list is then forwarded to Jaymie – our book designer — to start layout for each page. Of course, the whole thing is never final until we see actual yellow sheets run in the press.

Around the same time the W@Wies are doing volunteer work (happily or otherwise, depending how notorious the suppliers are in the category assigned to them), we also start our ad campaign. Admittedly, we hardly go out and meet potential advertisers to sell a space or do some presentation. We have been very fortunate that most reply to our emails, calls or texts when we invite them to place an ad. Some we casually meet during bridal fairs, and there are even some who are the ones to contact us to express their interest. In the first few years of doing this, we personally do the follow-ups and ad pick-up from the offices of each advertiser. But since their number has increased through the years, the whole thing has gotten so overwhelming (not that we’re complaining). So our friend Clarice (An Event to Remember) — who has helped us proofread our drafts in the past three editions of The W@W Wedding Primer – has now gotten her team on board to assist us. Ms. Au and Ms. May helped follow up ad submissions, while Michael and Jorge do the arduous task of picking up ads materials. Indeed, they are heaven sent!

We know we’ve been truly lucky. The network of support we get out of W@W is truly amazing! We are forever grateful for all the success of our every endeavor; knowing fully that Someone up there is making all these fall in their proper place. Undeniably, He made things happen.

P.S. Knowing how hard we work for each edition, please don’t get the wrong idea that BYP will be error free. We’re just human and that’s what the fineprints below the Table of Contents are for. 🙂

Contact Info:

for ad placements, circulation & book orders, please contact:
0917.850.1026 (Benz) or email: mail@WeddingsAtWork.com