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The vendor tab wont even open for me :(

It says, "Sorry, this link appears to be broken"

boo!

*cough* Where do I request that they add an area? The Idaho tab bothers me because it includes TWO southern Idaho areas, but does not include the other large cities in the state aka Lewiston and/or Coeur d'Alene which is on the other end of the state. I had hoped that wb would understand that not everyone lives in the southern half of the state...

no canadian vendors? sigh. oh well.

Ummm...actually I was wondering if you could put any vendors up for Idaho that are NOT in Boise or Pocatello...there isn't a single one listed under the Idaho tab...please let me add some or something, I know of soo many that could be listed.

I really like this as a resource, I've been looking FWD to using it but I think the set up is a little confusing at 1st.

I'm not sure if it's listed by town/city or region. Larger places like Albany cover more areas while lower NY - New Rochelle, Mt. Vernon & Yonkers in Westchester for example - I think it'd be easier if most of these vendors were lumped in together. Could just be that it's new and I'm just learning to navigate it too.

Thanks everyone for the feedback / comments! 

@amariem25, only vendors can add themselves to the directory.  Next week we'll be launching that feature, so once it's live you can definitely suggest that they add themselves so you can review them!  

@Toffee, I will definitely pass along the request to flesh out Idaho!  I'm sure you're not the only Idaho bride who wants more options.   

Thanks Lorienne. If you need vendor suggestions or anything just let me know. I still have a lot of stuff from bridal fairs and whatnot and know of most of the vendors in this area.

Oh, I also wanted to mention that if you're looking for a particular city, you mouse over the "vendor search" link in the green bar and search that way....you'll probably see other locations in Idaho that way.  We just had to limit the size of the list of cities we put up because it could have been veeeeeeeery long otherwise!  

Also, we have not forgotten about our friends to the north, you search Canadian cities that way, too!  

@ceamoste, I mentioned in my previous post but wanted to make sure you saw, you can find Canadian vendors by using the "vendor search" feature linked from the green bar.  

Ummm, the search isn't working correctly I don't think...I searched for Coeur d'Alene and Spokane from the Idaho tab, but wasn't able to find anything. When I went to Washington -> Spokane, I found places in Hayden, Hayden Lake, CDA, Post Falls, etc. If nothing else you could link it over to the Idaho tab or something along those lines, because otherwise there is nothing to tell you to look there for it when in fact there are many vendors that should be listed there.

@amariem25, the reason they don't have brides add vendors (and we learned this lesson the hard way on our sister site, Project Wedding) is that we'd end up with lots of duplicate postings with different spellings, contact information (sometimes outdated), etc.  which can be SUPER confusing / frustrating to brides trying to find a vendor.  We'll be adding a link next week where you can suggest that we add a vendor, but for now if you'd like to PM me the vendor's name, I'll pass that suggestion along to the team!  

@Toffee, that's weird - when I searched for Couer d'Alene and Spokane (from the Idaho tab, though you can search from anywhere) I did get results:  one vendor and one photographer.  You got a message saying no results? 

@Lorienne It wouldn't find anything for me. Although I would suggest migrating those over to the "Idaho" tab because they are Idaho cities. When I searched for Coeur d'Alene it would make it look like: Coeur d\ instead in the search bar. Maybe it's just me lol

@Toffee, did you happen to copy/paste the name?  I wonder if funky/special characters are what caused the search to fail.  I typed it in which might be why I got results and you did not?  

I typed it in just like normal. So it's not that.

@bellenga, thanks for the thanks!  So glad you like it! 

@Toffee, curiouser and curiouser....I will ask our QA tech to have a look into this!   

Meanwhile, here are direct links to both of those vendors, I hope that helps you out in the meantime:

http://www.weddingbee.com/wedding-vendor/coeur-d-alene-golf-and-spa-resort

http://www.weddingbee.com/wedding-vendor/coeur-d-alene-wedding-photography

@pren79, thanks so much for the detailed feedback! 

As a further test, I searched for Vancouver, B.C. and I did get a bunch of results: 

http://www.weddingbee.com/reviews/search?name=dress&location=vancouver,+b.c.

Although the directory does include some vendors in Canada, anything outside of the US is likely to be less plentiful, but hopefully as our international Hive brides send through recommendations for new locations (that feature will launch next week!) we'll be able to expand the areas covered with this directory.   

Also, you should be able to change your location either by clicking on another location in the pulldown or by searching for a new location - is that giving you problems? 

Thanks Mr. Bowtie for the reminder about that!  

For those of you who haven't met Mr. Bowtie yet, he's one of our programmers who helped make the vendor directory a reality   

Yay, Mr. Bowtie, thank you!

OK Hive, sadly I have to run to the gym so my personal trainer can kick my butt for a while.      But your questions, etc. are important to us so I'll check in on this thread when I get home from the gym, which should be around 730pm PST!