Time really flies. In just a blink of the eye, we are now celebrating
our second year anniversary! Singaporebrides.com was started simply
to make wedding planning easier for the couples in Singapore and as
much as possible, by providing relevant information required by the
couples.
Wedding planning can be tedious and at times very stressful. I've
been there and survived to tell the tale! The forum was started to
create an online support community whereby couples can post and share
their experiences and opinions. To us, "Matters of the Heart" was the
most important section in the forum. It is a place where couples can
post their private problems, which they may not feel comfortable sharing
it with people whom they know, and still have a place where they can
seek help and solace from others in the forum. We did not implement
compulsory registration for the usage of the forum as we do not want
anyone not wanting to sought help and solace just because they were
afraid that their identity may be compromised.
However, as the community grows, people of more varied characters
joins this community. This is to be expected as variety is the spice
of life. Everyone is welcome to join the community but sometimes it
is very disappointing and disheartening to see people who abuses the
forum for their own gains or personal vendetta. There had been incidents
whereby fake postings or the same user posting multiple messages using
different nicks with the intention to mislead people. As people surfs
the forum more frequently, the forum users have also become more mature
and know that Singaporebrides.com, like any other wedding portals,
is just the starting point for research and it is not the be-all-and-end-all
point. We should use the information gathered here as references only
and finally make our own decisions.
For the past three months, work had been real hectic. Due to the every
increasing requirement by the growing traffic, we had to upgrade our
server to another with more resources and bandwidth! Because of the
migration, there were nights where we had only 2 hours of shut-eye
and sometimes none! Detailed planning had to be carried out in order
to migrate the 250 MB worth of postings that had been contributed by
the many people who had made Singaporebrides.com part of their lives
during their wedding preparation. Even though this piece of history
is only made up of data bits of '1's and '0's, they represent the many
friendships fostered, heated arguments and views exchanged. Some of
these postings may have even touched each of us at one point or another.
It is indeed a very precious piece of our history.
In the background, we were working like Santa's little elves and there
were actually many failed attempts when we tried to migrate and we
finally managed to move successfully in the early part of the March.
But at the end, we were glad to see the thumps-up by the many users
of the Singaporebrides.com and that by itself, was reward worth more
than gold!
In celebrating our second anniversary, we wanted to do something for
the supporters of Singaporebrides.com. With the launch of membership
card, we hope to foster a stronger sense of belonging in Singaporebrides.com
as you'll always be carrying a part of it with you. We'll continue
to work towards getting more perks and privileges and thus bring more
benefits to the supporters of Singaporebrides.com. We hope that by
launching the membership card, we can help make your wedding planning
a little bit smoother.
Thank you for your continued support and thank you for making Singaporebrides.com
part of your life!