www.ourweddingmemories.co.uk was launched on 6 June 2001 by Dacan Internet Services to assist in the promotion ofwedding photographers websites designed by Dacan and wedding albums the Bridal couple, Our Wedding Memories gradually developed into a nationwide directory for all wedding photography providers.
From basic beginnings which can be viewed at http://web.archive.org/web/20001018150718/http://www.ourweddingmemories.co.uk/
From our records we believe that the first listing on the site was added by Chris Painter Photography in June 2001, with the first paid link going live in December 2001 for Mike Shinners based in Essex.
The enhanced listings option was added in early 2002 with the first paid enhanced going live in February 02 by Mark Anderson
At this stage all listings were added manually.
A new design was launched in November 2001 and can be viewed at http://web.archive.org/web/20011129090727/http://www.ourweddingmemories.co.uk/. The site still had the same basic functionality and listing options. It continued like this, with listings and overall site traffic increasing year on year until March 2005 when the only alteration was to split the paid and free listings into 2 seperate pages due to the numbe rof listing requests we were receiving. As this created extra content pages it also saw a larger than usual increase in traffic to the website.
The look of the site remained the same until September 2006 when a complete redevelopment of the site took place and remains the same to this date. The main changes were the look of the site, the ability for photographers to create an account so that all listings were automated, including the payment and renewal process and enhanced listings displaying on a rotational basis. This allowed all photographers with an enhanced listings to have equal time in the top positions.
Further small alterations have been made to the site including the addition of banner adverts on the home page, most of which were snapped up within a matter of days of the launch.
Since its inception www.ourweddingmemories.co.uk has seen consistent year on year increases in traffic and continues to go from strength to strength. to date we have never seen a drop in traffic from the corresponding month of a previous year!
