Twitter Wedding

Pauline Stockhausen has been using social media for quite sometime, and a few months ago she and Waiwera came up with a novel way to encourage participation in her wedding.

The Bridal Extreme Makeover began when Pauline had the idea to organise her whole wedding through Twitter. She only wanted to use business’s who she had meet online.

The concept of using social media to prepare for a wedding is something relatively new withit only being done a few times overseas, and to Paulines knowledge this is the very first for New Zealand.

By using contacts sourced solely via social media networks such as Twitter, YouTube, FaceBook, LinkedIn; Pauline Stockhausen will prepare for her big day.

Businesses have come on board for a number of reasons, some commercial, others as a show of support.

Most of people who know Pauline, know that she decided to organise her wedding through Twitter to help support the businesses that she has gotten to know over the last 6 months.

Pauline was contacted by Waiwera (www.waiwera.co.nz) to talk about having her wedding reception at their premises. Pauline says she was surprised at first because she thought Waiwera was just hot pools, she had no idea they not only had a conference room but a beautiful Health & Beauty Spa with appearance medicine, a Dental clinic, gym and a big boat.

When she was taken into the Conference room she immediately say that this was the perfect venue for her big day.

After speaking with the Manager of Waiwera and the Day Spa Manager, she told them of her vision of “My Twitter” wedding and they asked if she would be interested in participating in an Extreme Makeover; including joining their gym, working with a personal trainer, enjoying facials, teeth whitening and lots more.

Every woman wants to look their best on their wedding day but she just thought “well Jason loves me for me, and this is how I am”, Pauline was referring to having tried hard to lose weight, but with years and years of “yes I should”, but then finding that something always got in the way

Pauline started her makeover challenge at the beginning of November and her progress will be tracked through her personal blog Bridal Extreme Makeover and through Twitter and FaceBook.

Pauline will marry Jason on 6 March 2010.


Pauline Stockhausen
stockhausens@xtra.co.nz