You may have heard the buzz about the Wedding Industry’s latest obsession or seen the cute little badge on our sidebar directing you to Lover.ly – But just incase you’ve been living under a rock, and I’m not referring to the swoonworthy bling on your finger, we wanted to explain to our readers why we are absolutely smitten with the ultimate wedding search engine!
So what exactly is Lover.ly?
“Lover.ly is a new visual search engine and cloud scrapbook for all your wedding inspiration. We bring quality content, search-ability, technology and inspiration in one place. Lover.ly has an archive of over 100,000 images organized by our blogging editors and community of users– our database is updating and evolving daily.”
And within this search engine you can browse by color (blush, navy, tangerine, yellow), texture (lace, burlap, wood), detail (shoes, invitations, jewelry) and instantly be surrounded by the beautiful images you were looking for!
You can then select the images that inspire you and gather them into bundles which you can unlock to share with friends and family – or keep locked in order to keep your bundles private! Below is my very own Lover.ly Profile, which I find myself bundling to all the time! I have a few bundles that I keep locked away and others that I share with my friends and brides!
And as a photographer and content-creator, the thing that I love most about Lover.ly – one of many things that truly sets it apart… is the underlying dedication and active pursuit of properly crediting the vendors that went into the creation of a given image! In other search engines, I find myself wondering – who photographed this gorgeous bride? Where was this wedding held? Where can I find those bridesmaids dresses?
And Lover.ly enables it’s publishers – like Bayside Bride – to enter in the vendor information that we receive to photographers with each and every post that publishes to their search engine! That way, when a photographer captured a spectacular wedding – they will get the proper credit they deserve for those images! It also allows the blogs who receive submissions to get credit for publishing great content! It’s truly a win-win for everyone!
And in a time where so many creative professionals find their images being used all over the web without credit – having a search engine that works to connect brides with the products and vendors that they swoon over, gets an A+ in my book! You can also find bridesmaids dresses, stationary, and accessories for sale – which is an incredible new feature! It’s about time that brides could not only find the vendors they love and the details they desire – but actually know how to support the small businesses that went into making those images possible!
If you haven’t checked out Lover.ly yet – seriously head on over! You can also browse all of the content that we’ve published to Lover.ly by clicking on our little banner in the sidebar, or heading over to the Bayside Bride Page !
