Engagement/Wedding Announcements

[Chef Diane]

I have some post cards (from nancys) for our registry, I was thinking about going through the announcements pages in the paper and sending them out. Has anyone done this and how did it work out? Is it a waste of time and postage?

I need the bookings and was hoping to get 1 or 2 out of it.

 

[raebates]

I did it. I didn't get any response. However, I live in a little, out-of-the-way place in rural Indiana. Your experience may be vastly different.

 

[jenniferknapp]

I haven't done it, but if I was on the other end of the wedding announcements, I don't think that I would appreciate people looking me up and finding out my info to try and "sell" me something..

 

[raebates]

I agree, Jennifer. Mine was a personally written note of "Best Wishes." I told them that I would be glad to tell them about our registry and wedding showers if they contacted me, but wished them well either way.

 

[Chef Diane]

exactly!

I agree, Jennifer. Mine was a personally written note of "Best Wishes." I told them that I would be glad to tell them about our registry and wedding showers if they contacted me, but wished them well either way.

That was the plan, I want to wish them luck and at the same time let them know about the options we have.

 

[gilliandanielle]

In my humble opinion I think it looks pretty desperate, and would rather spend that money/effort on advertising at a local bridal shop or something more targeted.

 

[yummy4tummy]

I feel that way too. Kind of like an ambulance chasing lawyer.

 

[jenniferknapp]

Unless I went to a bridal show or started handing out my info, I wouldn't appreciate it..and it could even give me a bad taste for the company...

 

[pamperedharriet]

I have sent letters out on the most part to people that I know when I have seen the engagement in the newspaper. Unfortunately no one has taken me up on the wedding registry and I don't want to come across as pushy or invasive so I just have let it be. I know that I wished them "congratulations on your engagement", I let them know that I sell PC and that we have a wonderful rewards program for our wedding registry. If they don't want to take advantage of it that is there choice. I feel that I have done my job. Hopefully down the road they will remember how I didn't force them into it and come to me.

 

[Paige Dixon]

Last year I sent over 100 packets out to the bride list from a fair I did. I thought a 9x12 envelope would be less likely to get looked over as junk mail. I put in the letter from this site, and a flyer or two from Pampered Chef. No response. Of course, I should have followed up better with phone calls, but still...

 

[DebbieJ]

Doesn't sit well with me.

 

[Chef Diane]

ok ok I get your point LOL

Harriet I read your letter on cancelations, Love It, definately going to use that one. Has anyone gotten upset when you ask for the $15 check?

 

[pamperedharriet]

ok ok I get your point LOL

Harriet I read your letter on cancelations, Love It, definately going to use that one. Has anyone gotten upset when you ask for the $15 check?

So far I haven't had to use it much and only one host complained. Needless to say I "blessed and released" her from my contacts as she was not someone I wanted to do business with for more than one reason.

Most hosts are great and you don't run into problems with. If there is an emergency than it is understandable, I just don't like the constant changers who do it all the time like it's their hobby.

 

[pamperedgirl3]

I tried this last year when I got the idea from our wedding registry training booklet. Never got a thing from it. I also just recently did a bridal fair & got a list of the brides that attended. There are 100 of them that I don't have drawing slips for & was thinking of sending them a wedding registry brochure, but I don't even know if I want to do that. I'm tired of paying postage for nothing!

 

[jenniferknapp]

I tried this last year when I got the idea from our wedding registry training booklet. Never got a thing from it. I also just recently did a bridal fair & got a list of the brides that attended. There are 100 of them that I don't have drawing slips for & was thinking of sending them a wedding registry brochure, but I don't even know if I want to do that. I'm tired of paying postage for nothing!

Does that list happen to have email addresses? That would at least be free!

 

[pchefmommy]

In my humble opinion I think it looks pretty desperate, and would rather spend that money/effort on advertising at a local bridal shop or something more targeted.

i have done this, so in my & others defense...when i got engaged, i signed up for so many free mailings / drawings at wedding shops, bridal fairs, etc...i didn't think about someone "stalking / looking me up / chasing me"...that's is just what naturally happens when you get engaged - you get lots of marriage "literature" in the mail. the key is to be tactful & different from the rest.

 

[OhmyDLM]

i have done this, so in my & others defense...when i got engaged, i signed up for so many free mailings / drawings at wedding shops, bridal fairs, etc...i didn't think about someone "stalking / looking me up / chasing me"...that's is just what naturally happens when you get engaged - you get lots of marriage "literature" in the mail. the key is to be tactful & different from the rest.

Being a recent bride... I TOTALLY agree!

 

[vwpamperedchef]

As a recipent on the other end, someone mailed me something regarding formal dinnerware they were selling. First of all, I was appalled that they would have the nerve to find my address and secondly I was offended because I did not put my engagement in the paper for people to reply to for their services.

I think it is a bad idea all around. Why not try to attend a fair and set up a table for Registries??

Personally, I've done a few Wedding Fairs and have like 15 registries, but NO sales has come from them...YET!

 

[OhmyDLM]

I still think there's no harm in it. Especially since you are not selling anything but offerring a service that will do nothing but benefit them, and costs them nothing. I think it's a little bit different than trying to sell them stuff, not that I'm all that disturbed by that either. People get a lot of mail and I can almost guarantee that there is something in their that they like dislike receiving more (ie, bills, credit card offers, etc.) than receiving a wedding brochure flyer from a local Pampered Chef consultant promoting their services. If I was worried about how everyone would react to my promoting my business and offerring my services, I would have no business at all and certainly wouldnt have a downline of 20+ consultants, (alot of which I randomly approached and shared the word to)

Just my two cents

 

[finley1991]

Just be sure that if you do it, either you follow up or find a REALLY unique way to make your mailing stand out for the dozens of others they are getting from every kinds of services.

 

[OhmyDLM]

Just be sure that if you do it, either you follow up or find a REALLY unique way to make your mailing stand out for the dozens of others they are getting from every kinds of services.

Very true!