One of our favorite trends is incorporation of “Here Come the Bride” type signs to announce the Bride’s arrival.  We’ve picked our favorites from Etsy.com and pinned them on our “Here Comes the Bride” board on Pinterest.  See all our favs on our pin board.

Good News!!  Pinterest has introduced private boards today — great for wedding planners and other vendors who want to share directly with a bride without making it a public board! 

Here’s the announcement from Pinterest:

 

Today, we’re excited to continue this tradition with a new feature we hope will make Pinterest even better—secret boards. Secret boards give you a place for things you’re not quite ready to share yet, like a surprise party, special gift ideas, or even planning for a new baby. We’re testing out the feature by giving everyone 3 secret boards. You’ll find them at the bottom of your profile. We can’t wait to hear what you think!

On behalf of our team here at Pinterest, thanks so much for pinning, inviting your friends, and sending us ideas for how we can improve. Most of all, thanks for sharing your inspirations. With your help, we’ll make Pinterest a little better every day.

—Ben & the Pinterest Team

Happy Pinning!!

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Pinterest recently added new categories, including changing “Weddings & Events”to “Weddings” and “Holidays & Events.”  Be sure to check out all the available category options allowing other pinners to locate your pin boards. 

For those boards that were previously categorized under “Weddings & Events,” they now seem to be under “Weddings.”  Double check your boards to make sure they are categorized correctly.

From the Pinterest Blog

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Announcing New Categories on Pinterest!

If you’re brand new to Pinterest and want to discover more pins apart from people you follow, Pinners would tell you to check out the Categories. Clicking the Categories menu lets you view whole sections of pins about your favorite interests, whether it’s “Food & Drink”, “Architecture”, or “Home Decor”.

Now, we’re very excited to announce new categories on Pinterest, including “Quotes”, “Tattoos”, and “Weddings”!

All our old categories have also been improved so you should see less miscategorized pins as you browse. We’ll always be adjusting our technologies to make them more accurate, but we really appreciate the feedback we received to get us to this point.

Lastly, we tweaked a few category names to better showcase the interests and communities we’ve seen grow on Pinterest. For example, “Pets” is now “Animals”, and “Prints & Posters” is freshly minted as “Illustrations & Posters”.

These changes will be rolling out to everyone over the next week, so don’t be worried if you don’t notice them immediately.

We hope you’ll go give the categories a look and have fun repinning or following some new Pinners. And, if you’ve always wondered how to show off your pins in the category feeds, you can read our best practices here.

Happy exploring and happy pinning!

Issue: Missing Boards & New Boards Not Appearing in Lists

Create a pin board on Pinterest inspired by the amazing designs of our cover interview subject Sasha Souza and you could win a signed copy of Sasha’s book: Signature Sasha: Magnificent Weddings by Design.

How to Enter:

1. Visit the WED the Magazine Pinterest page and follow us on Pinterest (Pinterest.com/wedbiz)
2. Click on the “Pin it to Win it” pin board for some of the amazing pins by Sasha Souza. Look at Sasha’s Pinterest page for even more inspiration.
3. Select at least one of Sasha’s pins to inspire your board.
4. Get Pinning! Create a board with at least 20 pins with your own dream wedding design.
5. Fill out the Entry form {BELOW} by August 10, 2012 and include a link to your pin board.
6. All entries will be reviewed and the winner will be sent a signed copy of Sasha’s book AND will be featured on WEDpinning.com.

Brides, we know you’re spending hours pinning away on Pinterest.  Now all those pins you’ve saved on your “New Home Ideas” board or “WishList” board can now be easily transfered to your Wedding Registry!

MyRegistry.com has just introduced a Pinterest Add-on that takes your wishlist pins and adds them to your gift registry on MyRegistry.com.  Amazing!  This is great for engaged couples, expecting parents, or anyone celebrating a special occasion.

“At MyRegistry.com, we love finding ways to make the gift registry experience as convenient as possible for our members, not to mention fun! We are very excited to announce our Pinterest feature that will enhance every members gift list.  Now members can transform any Pinterest pin into an actual gift on their universal gift registry!”

So, how does it work? You can use the browser add-on for Pinterest and/or the import tool to upload all relevant pins.

 

1. Sign up or log in to MyRegistry.com and select the option to “Add gifts from Pinterest.”

WEDpinning.com features the best of weddings on Pinterest.  Our Pin Board of the Week comes from Wedding Market - “Frank Lloyd Wright Weddings.”  Wedding Market created a wedding board inspired by the architecture and design of Frank Lloyd Wright. We’ve shared a few photos below and three of our favorite pins from the board.  Find a sneak peek below and more at: http://pinterest.com/weddingmarket/frank-lloyd-wright-weddings/

Frank Lloyd Wright Weddings pin board by Wedding Market

WEDpinning.com features the best of weddings on Pinterest.  Our Pin Board of the Week comes from Aubre’s Bridal.  We love the “I Love! Love Birds” pin board and you will too! We’ve shared a few of our favorite pins from the board as well.  Find a sneak peek below and more at: http://pinterest.com/aubresbridal/i-love-love-birds/

  I Love! Love Birds from Aubre’s Bridal

Some of our Favorite Pins from the board.