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I wish someone would disrupt the wedding industry itself and offer really nice, all-in-one, low price wedding services (including banquet hall, etc.) There is

I wish someone would disrupt the wedding industry itself and offer really nice, all-in-one, low price wedding services (including banquet hall, etc.) There is really no need for all of the insanity that goes on around planning a wedding. You should just be able to pick a date, food options, a decor scheme, music, and clothes to rent in an afternoon for a range of prices (with financing). I've seen some Korean wedding places like this, but nothing big. While there are many people that wouldn't appeal to, I would think there are many more for whom it would appeal to in the disruptive innovation sense.

mtw 16y ago
well you are speaking from "a guy" point of view. A wedding is really an event for the bride. She wants to be treated like a princess that day. Pricey things are better. Shiny things are better. Getting more people invited are better. Pricey bands are good. Fancy custom clothing is good. ... and standard packages and plans, like what everyone else is getting, are NOT good
- mattmcknight 16y ago
  It was actually my wife's idea. She was frustrated that things like that weren't available and she had to trot around getting looking at rooms, looking for someone to do the ceremony, getting three quotes from florists, finding a DJs, finding a food provider, getting Invitations, driving to dress places, buying a dress (she got one that was worn once in a fashion show) and negotiating separately with each one of these people on price when she was managing to a total budget. She didn't want to do it. That's not a princess thing, princesses let other people do the work! Just look at the people that get married in Vegas or Disney World- I just went to a wedding in Vegas last weekend. The couple did all the planning remotely with a full service provider there. I think you could do it as a technical supplement to a wedding coordinator service too, a web application with a federated model, where people could go on there and price out all of these options from existing providers and have it all coordinated for them.
nickpinkston 16y ago
They'd probably call it a McWedding and not authentic. Look at the diamond people - the whole thin is a racket around this "love" thing.
- tomjen3 16y ago
  Damn, how do you disrupt the diamond industry. That would be awesome.
  - bhickey 16y ago
    If murdering children across two continents doesn't do it, I don't know what will. For my part, the only diamonds I'll buy will be on a saw blade or drill bit.
    - tomjen3 16y ago
      Ha, the truth is you can murder as many people you want, as long as it happens far away so that the average consumer can forget all about it. If not the chocolate companies would have had to stop by coca from farms with child slaves, and people would have to stop visiting trafficked prostitutes. Hint: they won't.
- mattmcknight 16y ago
  I agree, but that's the nature of a disruptive innovation. Just like the transistor radio had bad sound, but it let people listen to music cheaply and portably, it took off. McDonald's and McMansions make a lot of money.
araneae 16y ago
Those exist, i.e. http://www.michrenfest.com/assets/MRF2010weddingpackage.pdf http://www.michrenfest.com/assets/MRF2010weddingpackage.pdf

mtw 16y ago

well you are speaking from "a guy" point of view. A wedding is really an event for the bride. She wants to be treated like a princess that day. Pricey things are better. Shiny things are better. Getting more people invited are better. Pricey bands are good. Fancy custom clothing is good. ... and standard packages and plans, like what everyone else is getting, are NOT good

mattmcknight 16y ago
It was actually my wife's idea. She was frustrated that things like that weren't available and she had to trot around getting looking at rooms, looking for someone to do the ceremony, getting three quotes from florists, finding a DJs, finding a food provider, getting Invitations, driving to dress places, buying a dress (she got one that was worn once in a fashion show) and negotiating separately with each one of these people on price when she was managing to a total budget. She didn't want to do it. That's not a princess thing, princesses let other people do the work! Just look at the people that get married in Vegas or Disney World- I just went to a wedding in Vegas last weekend. The couple did all the planning remotely with a full service provider there. I think you could do it as a technical supplement to a wedding coordinator service too, a web application with a federated model, where people could go on there and price out all of these options from existing providers and have it all coordinated for them.

nickpinkston 16y ago

They'd probably call it a McWedding and not authentic. Look at the diamond people - the whole thin is a racket around this "love" thing.

tomjen3 16y ago
Damn, how do you disrupt the diamond industry. That would be awesome.
- bhickey 16y ago
  If murdering children across two continents doesn't do it, I don't know what will. For my part, the only diamonds I'll buy will be on a saw blade or drill bit.
  - tomjen3 16y ago
    Ha, the truth is you can murder as many people you want, as long as it happens far away so that the average consumer can forget all about it. If not the chocolate companies would have had to stop by coca from farms with child slaves, and people would have to stop visiting trafficked prostitutes. Hint: they won't.
mattmcknight 16y ago
I agree, but that's the nature of a disruptive innovation. Just like the transistor radio had bad sound, but it let people listen to music cheaply and portably, it took off. McDonald's and McMansions make a lot of money.

araneae 16y ago

Those exist, i.e. http://www.michrenfest.com/assets/MRF2010weddingpackage.pdf http://www.michrenfest.com/assets/MRF2010weddingpackage.pdf