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The Hills Wedding Guide

Building a Wedding Guide Around a Custom Vendor Directory

We built The Hills Wedding Guide's custom Pearl, Gold and Diamond vendor directory and now work with Swanee year-round on Bridal Jubilee, hosting and SEO.

Based in

New Braunfels, Texas, USA

Launched

December 2021

Our role

Website design, custom vendor directory, hosting and SEO

Project website

thehillsweddingguide.com

The Hills Wedding Guide's website on desktop and mobile: the homepage with The Hills Wedding Guide logo, the Find Vendors, Bridal Jubilee, Planning Tools, Video Gallery, About, What's New and Vendors menu and a photo of a bride's bouquet, beside Erin Marcin Photography's vendor profile on a phone with its website, email, phone number, location and a short description.
The homepage on desktop, and Erin Marcin Photography's profile in the vendor directory on a phone, with its contact details, description and photos.

Some of our longest-running client relationships begin with an introduction. That’s how we met Swanee Browning. Another DDC client connected us, and we’ve been working with her on The Hills Wedding Guide ever since.

Swanee started the guide as New Braunfels Wedding Guide, bringing together local wedding businesses and couples planning their big day. Today, The Hills Wedding Guide covers the wider Texas Hill Country, with vendor listings, real wedding stories, planning tips and plenty of inspiration.

A laptop and tablet showing New Braunfels Wedding Guide's website in December 2021: the homepage with the New Braunfels Wedding Guide logo, menu and a Calling All Brides To Be! sign-up form, and Wedding Inspirations photos on the tablet.
New Braunfels Wedding Guide’s homepage and Wedding Inspirations photos when the website launched in December 2021, before the guide became The Hills Wedding Guide.

A Custom Directory for Wedding Vendors

One of the more interesting parts of this website is the directory we built. Swanee can add a vendor from the website’s dashboard and assign them a Pearl, Gold or Diamond membership. That selection controls how the vendor appears across the site, from category listings to dedicated profiles and featured placements.

The Wedding Venues category page of The Hills Wedding Guide in a browser, with listings for Texas Rock House and Willow Ridge, each with a photo, logo, website, email, phone, address, social links, a short description and a View Profile button, above a listing for Mystic Quarry without a View Profile button, beside the open Find Vendors menu listing 21 wedding vendor categories from Accommodations to Videographers.
The Find Vendors menu opens all 21 vendor categories. In a category like Wedding Venues, Pearl members get a listing with their contact details, and Gold and Diamond members also get a View Profile button.

It gives Swanee a practical way to manage a paid vendor guide while helping couples explore venues, photographers, florists and the other businesses they need.

Erin Marcin Photography's vendor profile page as a tall strip, from its header and contact details through About, reviews, real wedding features and a wall of photos, beside the homepage's Diamond Hill Country Wedding Vendors section with photo cards for Blumen Meisters, Celebrations Bridal and Prom, Erin Marcin Photography, Fiancée Bridal Boutique and Heaven Sent Event Planning, and a close-up of the profile's header with the EM logo, website, email, phone, Austin, TX location, Instagram link, photos and About, Reviews, Featured In and Photos & Videos tabs.
Diamond members are featured on the homepage, and full profiles like Erin Marcin Photography’s bring together contact details, an About section, reviews, real wedding features and photos.

Bridal Jubilee, Year After Year

Swanee also runs Bridal Jubilee, an annual event connecting engaged couples with wedding professionals. Each year, we build a new event landing page and registration experience for brides and vendors, shaped around that year’s event.

Three phone screens from The Hills Wedding Guide: the Bridal Jubilee page announcing the guide's 6th annual Bridal Extravaganza with event photos and a Free Registration button, the RSVP Bridal Jubilee '27 popup with a countdown and empty fields for name, email, phone, wedding date and number of guests, and the Bridal Jubilee 2027 Vendor Sign Up page with a Pricing / Signup button.
The 2027 Bridal Jubilee pages on a phone: the event page for brides, its RSVP form, and the vendor sign-up page.

Still Building Together

Since our first project, we’ve rebuilt the website and continued working with Swanee every week on new features, content updates, hosting and SEO.

What started with a simple introduction has turned into a long-term working relationship. We love what Swanee is building with The Hills Wedding Guide, and it’s been really cool getting to be part of it!

From the client

Matt, Owner of Dragos Design Creative Ltd, delivers and then some! I invite you to check out the new homepage he designed for nbweddingguide.com. You will find the gorgeous, blazing fast and full responsive web design he promises! Thank you, Matt! I rest easy knowing you are at the helm!

Swanee BrowningOwner of New Braunfels Wedding Guide

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