SYDNEY | AUSTRALIA, August 26, 2015 – One Event announced today that it is raising funds via a rewards crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to finish the development of their revolutionary Virtual Wedding Planning software. The company set out to raise $70,000 on Kickstater to finish development and position the company to be able to offer the world first pocket wedding planner, free of charge to bride’s worldwide.
Based on the vision of providing an environment where both brides and vendors could advantage, the Sydney based company delivered their first online directory www.oneevent.com.au, in early 2014. Since the launch their have continued development and are now ready to commence the software development which wil provide a unique and personal experience for brides looking to plan the most exciting yet daunting day of their lives!
One Event CEO and Founder, Stewart Cook, has taken his family’s wedding planning experience to replicate an online design in which every detail in covered. In all brides will be guides through an A-Z of their wedding, along the journey being showcased with over 245 varying suppliers of products and services to the wedding industry. The virtual planner will travel a web of over 5,500 indivdual conversations with each bride, to ensure every detail is covered, explored, tracked and deliver to unveil the ultimate prize, the bride’s perfect wedding day.
Whilst the experience will be entirely online and conducted through scripted messages, the software will be personalised with a cast of wedding planners, with their own images, bios, experiences and styles. Brides will be provided a free planner, but will be able to select their planner of choice. From Diana with her Outdoor Wedding Experience to Jasper and his background of Classic Planning through to Katherine and her expertise for Funky Offbeat Events.
One Events software will be available 24/7/365 on all devices with an IOS / Android APP set for release to coincide with the onlne version in January 2016.
For those who support the development the rewards are quite unique, CEO and Founder Stewart Cooks says, ‘along with the satisfaction of making the planner available to over 2.5 million brides a year, our contributors will all be listed on our website and be given behind the scenes access to our web development. Something many have never witnessed, particularly on such a unique project.’
For crowdfunders out there who are looking for a low cost contribution with unique rewards, One Event’s Kickstarter project starts from as little $3. Allowing you to join real brides as their virtual wedding party, to receiving wedding albums from real couples and even a hand written ‘Thank You’ note from CEO Cook, for only $9. As he put it himself. ‘You never know I may be famous one day’.
This unique project potentially offers brides and vendors to the industry a massive improvement in their day to day life, whilst also offering contributors some fun and insight along the way … one to certainly have a closer look at.