Here’s your chance to WIN a wedding – and you won’t have to do a thing. The bride’s dress, bridesmaids dresses, stag/hen dos and even the first dance song will be chosen by Thomson Holidays Facebook followers!
Thomson today launches the #YourBigDay campaign – asking its Facebook community to help crowd source a wedding for one lucky UK couple this September. Once the loved-up twosome have been chosen by a panel of judges, they will hand over some of their biggest wedding planning decisions.
On #WeddingWednesdays, Thomson Holidays’ Facebook community will be invited to propose the colour scheme, style of wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses, where the stag and hen dos will be and lots more. The most popular suggestions will be shortlisted and put to the vote on Facebook before being handed over to Thomson’s wedding planners.
Jeremy Ellis, Marketing and Digital Director for Thomson and First Choice said: “Crowd sourcing a wedding is a first for the UK, a first for Thomson and a first for the holiday industry.
“In the digital age we live in, and the growing use of online websites and social media channels as a source of wedding inspiration, we thought it would be great to invite the Facebook community to share their opinions and make some of the biggest wedding decisions for the chosen #YourBigDay couple – from the style of dress to the first dance.
One in five weddings now takes place abroad, and 93% of brides use the internet as a source of inspiration for their big day. Research for Thomson Weddings, who host more than 4,000 destination weddings a year, found almost half of couples said they liked the idea of combining a wedding with a holiday. Forty two per cent quoted weather as a main reason for jetting off, while 45% said a wedding abroad removed guest-list stress, with Cyprus and Rhodes attracting the biggest overseas wedding parties.
The Facebook-planned wedding will take place at the Thomson Platinum Athena Beach Hotel, Cyprus, with flights, transfers, accommodation, all-inclusive board, plus a wedding breakfast for the winning couple and their guests included. The winning #YourBigDay couple will also put up regular posts on the Thomson blog.
WANT THE CHANCE TO WIN? The closing date for couples to apply is May 12 at noon. For more information watch http://youtu.be/IwTgtTer3TM visit Facebook.com/thomsonholidays or to apply go to www.thomson.co.uk/blog/2014/04/yourbigday
