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if you live in the United Kingdom and you haven’t yet filled out the Shiny Media survey, please take five minutes to give us your views. We’ll make it worth your while – there are MP3 players, a limited edition Star Wars phone and a portable DVD player up for grabs just for ticking a few boxes and leaving your email address.

For the full list of prizes up for grabs click here.

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Do the Shiny Media Survey – you might win a prize!

Our Shiny Media survey may not constitute the most fun you’ve ever had online, but if you spend five minutes of your life answering our questions you might just win yourself a:

Toshiba 9-inch Portable DVD player
Nokia 3220 – Orange – Star Wars Special Edition Mobile Phone
Creative MuVo TX 256MB Music Player(eight of these to give away)
Sony 1GB Bean music player (we’ve got four of these to give away)

Go on! – it won’t take you a sec and we’ll love you forever.

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[Non-UK readers: Sorry - it's not open to you. It's nothing personal, we promise!]

Wedding Bible winner

Thanks to all of you who entered the Win the Wedding Bible competition. We had a great response but could only pick one winner.

The winner is Helen O’Gorman from London and a book will be on it’s way to you asap. Congratulations!

Keep an eye out for future competitions!

Brides Race for Life

Every year Cancer Research holds Race for Life. This year, on 4th June, they will hold the thirteenth 5km race as part of One Big Day and they expect 800,000 competitiors race to raise around £46 million to help fight every type of cancer. To celebrate the launch, Cancer Research are looking for recent Brides or Brides-to-be to kick off the race in their area. They tell us who better to launch One Big Day than the brides who are already planning their own!

If you would like to start a race for Life in your area and help launch One Big Day write to brides@frankpr.it and tell them why it should be you… don’t forget to include a photo and tell them which race you’d like to start (there’s a full list after the turn!)

For further info about Cancer Rearch UK’s work or how to support the charity visit them here.

Send us a snap if you enter and I’ll put you up on Bridalwave too!

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Fancy being on TV?

This Morning are Looking for Blushing Brides!

Are you getting married in May? Are you happy for us to be part of your wedding plans and big day?  We’re looking for two happy couples, one who are counting their pre-nup pennies and planning a wedding on a budget, and the other who are splashing the cash and saying “I do” whatever the cost? So if you’re about to tie the knot, and you fit one of the criteria, and would like to be part of a This Morning wedding special give us a call us on 0870 333 0550 or email thismorning@itv.com

Welcome to Bridalwave

Welcome to Bridalwave, the all-singing, all-dancing blog for brides and weddings from Shiny Media edited by Camilla Chafer.

If you are planning your wedding, this is the site for you!

We’ll take a fun and quirky look at the best of bridal fashion, including gowns, shoes and accessories, groomwear, venues, jewellery, stationery, beauty, floral, cakes… but by no means are we stopping there!

Weekly features will include ‘Gown round up – the best of new bridal gowns on eBay’, ‘Frock horror – the monsterous creations lurking on the rack’ a regular ‘yay or nay’ slot with readers tips to help your day go off with a bang, readers questions and competitions…with plenty more to come!

We’re looking for lots of reader interaction so do comment on anything you see here or drop the editor an email here, marking your subject line ‘Bridalwave’. If you click on an item from the category list, you will find lots of posts to get you started.

About Camilla – I’m a freelance journalist who writes on a variety of topics from hair and beauty to parenting, brides and everything in between! You can see a bit more about me and who I’ve written for on my personal site here.

Don’t forget to drop in to Bridalwave for daily updates!!