Where it began…

Back in 2000, future bride and groom Matt and Katrina Butterworth sat down to plan their wedding. What should have been an easy process became a nightmare with nothing online to help make the planning process any easier.

It was there in their lounge room that Easy Weddings was born! And bit by bit, night by night, Matt and Kat worked on the site to build the platform that would become Australia’s largest and most popular wedding website today.

As it happened…

2000

The Easy Weddings business plan is developed and the first version of EasyWeddings.com.au goes online

2001

The Articles, Music and Directory sections are introduced to the site

2002

The very first Victorian advertisers come online

Website design service begins

2003

Matt and Kat go on their honeymoon travelling Australia, photographing garden locations and gaining new advertisers

Easy Weddings is featured nationally on TV on Channel Nine’s A Current Affair

2004

New interactive planning tools for couples are introduced

2005

Matt and Kat both start working full time on Easy Weddings

2006

The first Easy Weddings staff member is hired!

Matt and Kat develop WeddingPages.com.au

2007

Easy Weddings reaches 1,000 suppliers in the Directory

2008

Easy Weddings becomes the No.1 wedding website in Australia – and has the celebration to match!

The team moves into their first offices at Notting Hill, Victoria

2009

The site now has 2,500 suppliers onboard

Matt and Kat develop WeddingVenues.com.au

The team develops an internal CRM and creates a dedicated client administration team

2010

Easy Weddings upsizes to Mulgrave to fit the now 18 staff members on board

2011

EW is the winner of the Victorian Business of the Year award at the Telstra Business Awards

EW wins the MYOB Small Business award (Victoria)

2012

The iPad and iPhone directory and planning apps are released in the iTunes App Store

2013

The Easy Weddings’ Wedding Planner iPad App becomes one of the top wedding planning apps in the UK, USA and Australia

The Android app is released on the Google Play Store

The Real Weddings section of the site is re-launched

The very first Wedding of the Year competition is launched

2014

4,000 suppliers are now listed on Australia’s largest online wedding directory – EasyWeddings.com.au!

The site receives its biggest makeover of all time – with more awesome features on the way.

2015

Easy Weddings launches in the UK

The team moves to their current offices in Mulgrave to fit a growing team

Easy Weddings starts running wedding industry events for suppliers

2016

The directory is re-launched and a direct enquiry system implemented

WeddingVenues.com.au is re-launched

The iPhone and Android apps are relaunched

2017

Easy Weddings launches WedCRM, a CRM powered by Easy Weddings

The EW Pro-Edu Facebook group is born

2018

The EW couples Facebook group is launched

Easy Weddings UK undergoes its largest makeover yet

Easy Weddings now employs 50+ staff across Australia and the UK