An array of interactive features are now available to site users, including social networking for couples in the planning stages, engagement announcements, and a zip code search for screened gay-friendly businesses within an active online Directory of over 5000 members. High graphic appeal and fresh content focused on GLBTQ wedding trends and legislative highlights will polish the new look. Most features will be free for site users.
Asheville, NC December 19, 2008 -- Despite the November 4th passage of Proposition 8 in California and the bans on gay marriage in Florida and Arizona, says co-founder Marianne Puechl, the services through RainbowWeddingNetwork are thriving.
The national web resource, RainbowWeddingNetwork.com announces a vast update to its website as of December1, 2008. An array of interactive features are now available to site users,
including social networking for couples in the planning stages, engagement announcements, and a zip code search for screened gay-friendly businesses within an active online Directory of
over 5000 members. High graphic appeal and fresh content focused on GLBTQ wedding trends and legislative highlights will polish the new look. Most features will be free for site users.
RainbowWeddingNetwork.com was originally launched in 2000 and offered the nation'ss first-ever Wedding Gift Registry targeted specifically for the LGBTQ community. By June 2001, the
lesbian-owned company had achieved over 1 million hits to its website and had expanded its resources to include an online Directory of screened, gay-friendly wedding, travel and
home-related businesses. The website has been upgraded once previously in its eight-year history; the fresh look was unveiled on December 1st highlights an addition of diverse resources
newly available through the site.
Despite the November 4th passage of Proposition 8 in California and the bans on gay marriage in Florida and Arizona, says co-founder Marianne Puechl, the services through
RainbowWeddingNetwork are thriving. This speaks to the fact that our resources are needed now more than ever: we are a bridge for couples and advocates to find screened businesses they
can trust and likewise we provide direct opportunities for gay-friendly businesses to reach this booming target market. She and her partner Cindy Sproul designed their business plan in
1999, and this year estimate a downstream revenue through their website of well over $7 million to their advertisers. The fresh look of our site will be interactive, convenient and a lot
of fun for our website users and for the businesses who are part of our Network. Moreover, the updated RainbowWeddingNetwork.com will continue to provide a degree of legitimization for
the gay minority in America, concerning our fight for equality with regard to marriage.
RainbowWeddingNetwork also produces many of the nation'ss first Gay and Lesbian Wedding Expos and in recent years has presented twenty-five events in twelve states throughout America. The
company plans to expand its Expo Calendar to ten additional events in 2009. In 2003 the company began publication of RainbowWeddingNetwork Magazine, the first full-color glossy dedicated
to gay and lesbian weddings. The magazine is circulated throughout the nation.
For more information please visit http://www.gayweddings.us.com or http://www.RainbowWeddingNetwork.com. For information concerning national LGBTQ Wedding Expos, visit http://www.SameLoveSameRights.com and for additional same-sex wedding and marriage resources, visit http://www.RainbowWeddingNetworkMagazine.com.