Hitched.co.uk is the UK's biggest and longest running wedding website. We have been around since 1997 and the site/company has grown from a hobby to a very influencial UK wedding business. We are proud of the company and the help and guidance it provides for wedding planning couples and their guests.
Sometimes, as with any business, we face issues and we have to react accordingly. We are constantly changing and improvng the site and therefore we are bound to find instances where the changes we make cause problems that we haven't foreseen. This is simply a small price to pay for moving the site forward and whilst one 'step back' is not ideal, the 9 steps forward are worth it. If you compare the content and functionality of the site today to a month, a year or 5 years ago you would see a massive difference.
Every so often (and it has probably been a couple of years now since the last time) I do find that I have to come onto the forum and remind the users of it about why it is here and what its function is. Sadly, following some recent activity, the time has come again...
So first thngs first...
hitched.co.uk is a wedding planning website. Please note the term "wedding planning" and "website". It is not just a forum. The forum does not generate revenue for us and by the time we take into account the running costs of it, it is a large expense. Despite common belief, the creative banners that you see running within the forum do not cover the running costs of it. The forum is there for 2 reasons:
- Firstly it is there for brides to be (and grooms of course) to help to support one another through their wedding planning.
- Secondly it is there to feed brides and grooms through to the rest of the site and make use of the other services that we offer which do in turn generate revenue.
For the vast majority of posts/threads, they are supportive and provide amazing help to the people involved.
For the 'married' brides and grooms out there that come back to hitched after their wedding day, your advice, support and experience is often invaluable to those brides who are seeking help and we (and they) greatly value your input.
What the hitched.co.uk forum is not...
- Our forum is not a hunting ground for people to air their personal arguments or track down people to have dissagreements with.
- The hitched.co.uk forum is not an advertising board. If you are in the wedding business and want to advertise with us, we'd be delighted to help you. Incidentally, the companies that do advertise with us return year after year after year to repeat their advertising with a repeat business rate of in excess of 95%. So if you do want to move your wedding business on, contact us (see https://www.hitched.co.uk/suppliers/i-want-to-be-listed.aspx)
- We are not a site/forum that accepts 'spammers' and will remove spam immediately we are made aware of it
- A site that condones or indeed tolerates bullying of any kind.
- A site thatt allows vindictive or nasty posts to be placed upon the site regardless of the reason or poster. With this point in particular in mind, please note that anyone posting anything that we consider falling into that category or if we find anyone deliberately starting threads that are going to incite unsuitable responses will be immediately removed from this forum and suspended indefinitely. Anyone using unnecessary swearing or politically incorrect content will be treated in exactly the same way.
For the most part, hitched is a happy place that helps and supports everyone however their have been a recent run of posts that have lead us to have to post this thread.
Please think before posting comments that you know are going to cause problems and save us having to enforce the suspension of your rights of access to the site.
Thanks and happy hitching,
Darren
hitched.co.uk
darren.noel@hitched.co.uk
