Respecting the bride's privacy

Today’s brides are more and more sensitive to what happens to their names when they register for bridal shows or to receive wedding planners.  Many, because of the fear of their name being passed on to people without their permission will opt out when they sign up for anything.  The downside of that is they don’t receive special money saving offers and other great opportunities that may come their way, like invitations to open houses.

At  Bridal Spectacular, we are very careful how our lists are used, we only share them with the vendors that the bride has agreed to by signing up for our show or Free Wedding Planner.  Our vendors agree to not share them with third parties as further protection of the brides right to privacy.

We also always suggest to our brides that they get a temporary e-mail address to use during their wedding planning.  It is so simple to secure a yahoo or gmail address for this purpose.  Also with our system, as soon as the wedding is over, their  name drops off of our list.  Anytime the bride is uncomfortable with how her e-mail or other information is being used, we are very happy to change her to an opt out at her request.

If wedding professionals  get too lax with how brides names are used, brides will start opting out more and more and then we all lose a very valuable asset.   There are laws protecting the brides privacy and we recommend everyone take those laws very seriously.