Wedding Forum

Ever since the old "UK Wedding Forum" closed down we've been working on a new improved forum and we've finally got to that, ready to launch stage. The biggest difference this time round is we're branding the forum as part of the new Bridal Gems information portal and it's hosted on the bridalgems.info domain. We'll also be heavily promoting the forum to customers on bridalgems.co.uk and to start the ball rolling a 25% discount promotion code will be available for all newly registered members.

Bridalgems.co.uk Site Updates

Over the past couple of weeks we've been doing some major work on the the Bridal Gems website, hopefully we've not caused too much disruption and as most of the work is on the back end of the site it shouldn't be too noticeable. For anyone who's interested, the main bridal gems shopping site runs on a heavily modified Oscommerce shopping cart. The cart has been constantly updated and modified since it was first installed way back in 2003, the latest updates are designed to make it compatible with the newest versions of PHP and mySql, which is the software which keep the site going. The next couple of weeks will see us move the entire site to a new faster server, located here in the UK which should considerably improve the performance of the entire site. The plan is to serve the site from our UK server and keep a mirror back up on the US server we currently run from. This will give us a good solid back-up plan should anything ever go wrong with the main server, and because of the big geographical difference between the two servers it's unlikely that any network problems which might affect one could affect the other.
The new server will also host several of our other website too, but as they're not all live yet I won't post details here, but as soon as they're up and running I'll let the world know. It's been a really busy time on the technical side of things, and we've loads of new plans and features coming along over the next 6 months, with new products, and some great website features and deals. As soon as we get the server move out of the way we'll be working flat out to get them all rolled out.

Bridal Gems Auctions

We've been selling on ebay for the past 4 years and usually have 80-100 items available at any one time. Over the past few months ebay have been making changes, which quite honestly are making it almost impossible to successfully sell on their site. Because of this we've now started to list on the UK's fastest growing auction site www.ebid.co.uk. Ebid have a much fairer auction system which costs us a fraction of what it costs to list on ebay. As our fees are much smaller on ebid we can pass the savings on to the bidders, and on average our ebid prices are between 10%-15% cheaper than ebay.
Currently we have almost 300 items listed on ebid, a figure we could never match on ebay. If you want to have a look at our current auctions our ebid shop is at the link below.

Bridal Gems Ebid Shop