How It Works

• To enter you need to register and pay your fee (£60 per category, £30 for the New Business Category)
• We send you confirmation and ask you to contact your customers who married in 2007 and 2008 to vote for you.
• We also have advertsiing and presence in wedding media and trade shows to encourage customers to vote of their own accord. 
• The customer will visit the website, review your service and post a comment about you.
• You will receive an email prompt to inform you which customers have reviewed you.
•  The three finalists are chosen by quantitative analysis of your customer feedback scores.
• The winners are decided from qualitative analysis of the comments from your customers and the quality of your website and marketing materials and their relavance to the market you provide.

Step 1

• You need to submit your entry before your customers can post a review.
• To be eligible for the Westcountry Wedding Awards you must have premises in or provide from home to Devon and Cornwall.
• You must supply the wedding industry in one of the 16 categories above. You may enter into more than one category (£60 per category, £30 for the New Business category). Entries may be taken from individual stores or outlets, therefore if your business has two shops and they both enter it is possible that both shops could compete against each other in the final. National Chains will not be permitted to enter.
• Your customers will judge you on demonstrating the following within your business:

Excellent Service

Excellent Product Quality

Value for Money

Outstanding Commitment

Step 2

• Select your category
• Complete the awards entry form and online payment, If you need to pay by cheque please make it payable to Westcountry Wedding Awards and mail to 13 Park St, Stoke, Plymouth, PL3 4BL
• Submit your entry final closing date 28 February 2009

Step 3

• Once we have received your entry and payment, we will send you a confirmation e-mail/letter.

Step 4

• Contact your customers who married in 2007 and 2008 to ask them to review your service online.
• You will know when your clients have reviewed you, as you will receive an email prompt informing you when they sumbit their review. You will not receive the review as this remains confidential. You will howvere receive the anonymous reviews after the awards.

• Each company will receive a score based calcuated by adding each vote score together and dividing it by the number of votes received. 
• We will select three highest scoring per category as finalists. These will be announced in March 2009, by email to all entrants and on the website. Website and marketing appraisal will then be conducted.
• At the awards ceremony in Spring 2009, one winner will be announced per category and presented with their trophy.
• The judges will base their decision on:
  i) The Customer comments
  ii) An appraisal of your website and marketing material 
• The judge’s decision is final and no further correspondence will be entered in to.

Key Dates

28 February 2009 – Entries close

15 March 2009 – Votes close

Spring 2009– Finalists announced

Spring 2009 – Winners announced at the Champagne Reception