Lover.ly Gets To Know Users, Vendors Better With New Features: My Style And My Portfolios

Jordan Crook

Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn. Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech. She is now a writer for CrunchGear. Hello → Learn More

Friday, August 3rd, 2012
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In the newly crowded wedding space, Lover.ly has found a way to not only make money but also connect brides and grooms with the best possible vendors for their wedding. If you have yet to dabble on the platform, it’s much like a Pinterest for brides, offering a curated imagery-based interface to market wedding bloggers and vendors while helping brides plan for the big day.

But founder Kellee Khalil had a broader vision for the startup: to become a bride’s one-stop recommendation platform. And that’s just what Lover.ly has done.

The platform just got a brand new feature called My Style, which takes into account all of the user’s “loved” and “bundled” items to recommend more excellent products, ideas, venues, etc.

But any entrepreneur knows that pleasing the vendor/merchant side of your business is just as important as delighting consumers, and so Lover.ly has added a new My Portfolios tab. This allows vendors (photographers, bakers, florists, etc.) to create a centralized Lover.ly page showing off all their wares.

Users can then bundle vendors, or love them, if they find a specific cake maker that calls out to them. Just like with Lover.ly’s other brand partners, users can book vendors through their portfolio page.

Lover.ly has also added a handful of new brand partners, so if you’re getting married (or wish you were), head on over to the website and check it out.

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Company: Lover.ly
Website: Lover.ly
Launch Date: January 7, 2011
Funding: $500k

Lover.ly is a vertical search engine focused on all things bridal. We help brides and their friends find ideas, people to hire, and things to buy for their wedding.

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