Wedding in the Sky
Most people spend nearly a year planning their wedding and still
get unsatisfied with the outcome. Considering the great amount of
cost and energy needed for wedding preparation, my fiancé and I
decided to take a different route – using eSobi, the intelligent
information collector and organizer – to accomplish this
bittersweet task.
As outdoor lovers, we've already had our mind set on a beautiful
and inspirational celebration outside.
What can beat a romantic and
joyful hot air balloon ride for the once-in-a-life-time moment?
Thanks to eSobi - it made our dream come true.
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Search Hot Air Balloon Provider
To find companies offering hot air balloon tours in my area – Portland, Oregon, I first indicated my search setting in eSobi Smart Search (Meta Search) as "written in English, located in the United States" and "100 items per engine across Yahoo, Google, and MSN altogether" with search term "hot air balloon wedding Oregon." With over 200 results came up, I clicked on "weddings" under [Keyword Proposition] to sort out items specific to wedding celebrations. Several hot air balloon providers were easily found to meet our needs:
http://www.oregonballooning.com/wedding.html
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Store Search Records Trouble-free
To share my findings with my fiancé, I clicked on [Save to My Search Results] in eSobi Smart Search (Meta Search) to save the entire search record on hot air ballooning weddings. After dinner on that day, we retrieved those websites with merely one click, and went over all information together!
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Look for Wedding Necessities
Although our wedding theme was casual and outdoorsy, we still couldn't skip some basic wedding necessities. Since we prefer a small, intimate ceremony, we were looking for accessories with more personal touch. We even designed our own invitation cards! Again, I used eSobi to get ideas; with search query "wedding invitation", "handmade"was listed under [Keyword Proposition]. Upon clicking it, I found a great collection of beautiful specialty handmade paper products, perfect for creating 3-D, balloon-shaped handmade cards!
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- http://travelhappy.info/thailand/thailand-backpacking-a-quick-guide/
I also typed "hotel" in [News Filter] to look for places to stay. I soon found an article about budget hotels on KhaoSan Road, backpackers' paradise in Bangkok:
- http://travelhappy.info/bangkok/khao-san-road-hotels-on-google-maps/
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Add RSS Feeds Directly from Websites Found in eSobi Smart Search (Meta Search)
The biggest challenge of a hot air balloon wedding is to find the right location, style, and decoration for our outdoor reception upon landing. Not only did I search around for reception arrangement ideas on the Internet, I also had to track advices from online forums continuously. eSobi Smart Search (Meta Search) could detect RSS feeds from websites automatically, making RSS news-adding convenient and efficient.
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Select Text-only Read Mode As Necessary
Wedding websites could be full of advertisements, resulting in lengthy load time of web pages. Thanks to eSobi RSS Reader's [Text-only Mode], I could go over articles quickly without wasting time waiting for unnecessary ads to show up. This is a brilliant feature considering every bride loves to study as much information as possible!
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Make Use of the Integrated Document Organizer
Although there are plenty of online wedding planners available, it's always good to keep a personal database in the computer. I enjoyed using eSobi Document Clipping for this purpose, as both its [Scrapbook] and [Document Filter] were perfect for document categorization. On the other hand, my fiancé was glad that I organized wedding information in advance for him. After all, wedding is always more of a girl thing, and we'd better ask our Mr. Right to offer advice, not push him to participate in every single detail, such as picking up bridal dresses, flower colors, wedding favors, all of which can drive an adult man crazy!
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In the end, we only spent less than two months to plan our high-above-the-earth celebration that amazingly fulfilled our wedding dreams. eSobi truly put our mind at ease with its integrated features yet easy-to-use interface!
If you don't have eSobi Smart Search yet, check out the free download* below. Bride-to-be as well? Then don't forget to right click the RSS PACK button to save useful wedding information in XML format and import them to your eSobi ( click here for detailed instructions)!
