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Welcome to GonnaGetWed.com, your one-stop South Dakota & Iowa wedding planning website! Please register here to create your own completely FREE bride’s page to share with your friends and family. Each month 4 brides in your area will win a Grand Prize Package of gift certificates, coupons and special offers valued at over $3500, and a FREE VOW Wedding Planner book! Congratulations on your engagement and best wishes on planning your dream wedding!

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Research & Information

We have done tons of research on the national and local wedding industries to make sure that GonnaGetWed.com and the Black Tie Bridal Showcases are offering both brides and companies what they are looking for!  Please take a look at what we have found.

Table of Contents:

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  1. The Bridal Market Uncovered
  2. Midwestern Bridal Industry Spending Statistics
  3. Email Marketing
  4. Whose on the Internet
  5. Maximizing your Trade Show Experience
  6. SD Wedding Statistics

We hope that these resources are useful to your business regardless whether you are in attendance at one of our events or place a listing on GonnaGetWed.com!

The Bridal Market Uncovered

Have you often wondered what is really going on in the wedding industry.  Curious how old the brides are, when most weddings occur, how they spend their money and more?  Now the Bridal Market is Uncovered in this report.   

Midwestern Bridal Industry Spending Statistics

Are you curious how much couples are spending on their weddings?  The average wedding in South Dakota is now $21,990!  Now you can compare Sioux Falls with other cities in the Midwest by viewing this Spending Report

Email Marketing

With the Internet the fastest growing medium in the world, advertisers are quickly learning that having no presence on the web is a big mistake.  Consumer reports are now showing that they prefer marketing messages delivered to them via Email.  In fact, 67% of US consumers said they liked receiving permission email marketing.  58% of consumers said they opened those emails, while 53% said that such emails affected their personal buying decisions.  To learn how to Gain more Customers with Email Marketing please view this form.

If your company is currently utilizing email marketing, or you would like to learn how to make it effect, we can help.  Getting your Emails Opened and Read is half of the battle.

Whose on the Internet

Curious who is on the internet and what they are doing on it?  Research shows that 91% use search engines to find products and services they are interested in purchasing.  View this complete Internet Usage Report to find out exactly how the US residents are utilizing the web on a daily basis.

View this Adult Internet Usage Graph to see how many adults are learning the ways of the Internet and using it on a regular basis.

Wedding Facts

Did you know that a Brides typical top 3 priorities are as follows:  attire, reception & catering, photographer.  Did you know that 63% of couples report spending more money then they planned & budgeted for on their wedding?  For more Fun Wedding Facts view this fact sheet.

Maximizing your Trade Show Experience

Weddings shows are a great way to market your business directly to your customer.  It give you the unique opportunity to meet and sell yourself, your services, and products first hand to those most interested.  If planned for properly, Bridal Shows can make you dozens of sales and thousands of dollars.  Black Inc. has written this guide to ((Making the Most of your Trade Show Experience))). 

SD Wedding Statistics

Weddings are projected to grow 22% over the next 15 Years due to the Echo Boomers, who are the Baby Boomers children which are all getting married.  Based on an average of 6320 weddings a year in South Dakota, the South Dakota wedding industry will see $10,214,603 in additional Wedding Revenue in the next 5 years alone!  What is your company doing to capture your share of this increase?

For more statistics and information please print out this SD Wedding Industry Research sheet.