MyWedding.com, Meredith Corporation Vendors Avoid This Scam Castle Rock, CO Nationwide

MyWedding.com presents itself as an online wedding self-planner where a bride and groom can plan their wedding through their online boutique portal.  Which is true.  Vendors that ADVERTISE through MyWedding.com are presented to a planning couple, exlusively through their website.  That's where the truth ends and the hype begins if you're a vendor, looking for more business.  

I was called by Mywedding back in the late winter of 2015, while I was living in the Metro Denver area.  I passed their offices, daily, while driving to work.  So I knew that it was a real storefront business and thought that it was a clever URL name, MyWedding, that might attract brides.  So I was intrigued by the sales pitch that was to help me book more brides. I could not afford to sign up and we were leaving the Denver area because its high cost of living, but I told the rep that I was relocating to Tampa and would reconsider after moving there.  We discussed the wedding industry in Florida and the possible increased potential sales that I could get because of the weather, many people choose to have their weddings in Florida because of it, and MyWedding would be very helpful in bringing those prospects to my business website through their portal.

She was very good and engaging, giving me a "trial" sight to work with, which I never fully completed. I was advised at how thousands of brides would have access, through their planning website, to vendors like myself and how I'd have the potential, limited option to be one of their featured vendors at an extra cost.  This would make me more visible to brides.  She also name-dropped "Martha Stewart" as one the publications, implying that vendors' listings would be featured there, as well.  There was also a boasting of how high Mywedding.com performs in websearches, something that would also benefit me, as a vendor.

Over a year had passed, and I received regular emails and didn't sign up until I saw a 45% discount that intrigued me.  My fault was confusing MyWedding with WeddingWire & Wedding.com, which both would send daily multiple leads, but were more expensive than 45% off.  I signed on after cancelling one of the other two, thinking MyWedding was WeddingWire.  But within the first two weeks, I noticed that I wasn't receiving the leads, as I had before, and found that MyWedding was not generating any leads at all, even after I'd set up the website.  I also kept receiving emails that I needed to "get activated", even though I'd already done so.  

• After doing a vendor search, I saw every booking website BUT MyWedding in the results.  So the pitch about being high Google searches was false.
• Your MyWedding website is only visible to brides who have created a planning portal for their event.
• I received ONE email saying that someone had "viewed" my vendor sight, but there was no way of contacting them or know who they were.
• You are agreeing to an adverstising agreement, which is no different than buying a yellow page ad, in hopes that SOMEONE will call you, among many vendors.  - IF they even see your ad.
• The adverstising agreemnt is valid, since they are providing you with a form of advertising and that's it.  The sale pitch discussion of leads is n not a promise of lead services.
• You're first payment is your agreement to commit to a full year of ADVERTISING.  As I stated about the yellow pages - you know effect they are these days.
• The aforementioned "featured vendors" are limited to only a few per market and are very expensive.

Within two weeks of realizing I was not going to actually get any leads, I sent a request to cancel, which I was denied.  I have a running balance due that totaled over $500.  I advised them of a financial hardship (which included home eviction), and they still ignored my cancellation request. I deleted my website (ad) within less than 30 days and I am still being billed.  The bank account that I used for this service is overdrawn, so there is nothing being paid from the debit card I used.  

The morale the MyWedding.com story is:  BUYER BEWARE - If you are looking for REAL leads, I recommend:

GigMasters

WeDJ

GigSalad

WeddingWire

Wedding.com

The Knot

...to name a few.  But NOT MyWedding.com   You'll do just as well handing out business cards to the homeless.