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WEDDING & EVENTS COMPANY | SOUTHERN UK
VJ Weddings
& Events
website audit
lead generation strategy
form design
UX review
copywriting
Review Pending
VANESSA HUDSON, OWNER
VJ WEDDINGS & EVENTS
The Challange
Vanessa Jane has been running VJ Weddings and Events for over a decade. In that time she has built a strong reputation in Hampshire for venue styling, floral design, wedding planning, hair and makeup, and event decor. Her portfolio is impressive. Her testimonials are glowing.
And yet, until this project, her website was doing almost none of that justice.
The site had the right pages and broadly the right structure. But the content across almost every page amounted to little more than a price list. There was no warmth, no copy that reflected the quality of the service, no reason for a couple browsing on a Sunday evening to feel confident about getting in touch. Pages opened directly onto prices with no introduction. Services were listed without context. The most capable supplier in the room was letting the room do all the talking.
Three specific problems emerged clearly from the initial audit.
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The site needed copy. Not more pages or a redesign, but words that gave every service the context and warmth it deserved.
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The site needed a lead generation strategy. The only mechanism for capturing email addresses was a mailing list pop-up with no offer, which almost nobody signs up for.
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The site needed structural improvements. The homepage was too short, the packages page was difficult to read, Etsy shop links had stopped working, and the form situation was fragmented across the site.
None of these required starting again. But solving them properly meant working through the site page by page, section by section, without losing what was already working.
The Strategy
The starting point was a full website audit, a Mintly Digital proprietary process covering technical health, content quality, UX, SEO, a competitor snapshot, and a prioritised action plan. This was delivered as a formal branded report. From there, the project unfolded in eight distinct workstreams.
1. Rewriting the Copy Across Every Service Page
Every page on the site received new or revised copy, written in British English and in Vanessa's voice, at a consistent warm-professional tone. The approach was always the same: understand what a couple at each stage of wedding planning actually needs to know, and make sure the page answers that before presenting prices.
Before and after documents were produced for every page, with the original copy preserved exactly and a clear change note explaining each edit. These serve both as a client handoff record and as a rollback reference if needed.
2. Rebuilding the Homepage Content
The homepage had a strong hero image and a clear headline. Both were kept. Below the fold, however, there was a single short paragraph and a photograph. That is not enough to hold a visitor, or to give them a reason to explore further.
We added a services section with six icon cards, each with a short description and a from price, giving first-time visitors an immediate overview of the full range without requiring them to navigate. Six custom SVG icons were drawn in VJ's brand palette, sage green, olive, and warm brown, and optimised for upload to Wix. Each icon represents one of the six service areas: venue styling, wedding planning, on-the-day coordination, event decor, hair and makeup, and stationery.
3. Replacing the Mailing List Pop-Up with a Lead Magnet
The existing pop-up offered a single call to action: join our mailing list. It had no value exchange. Sign-up rates for generic mailing list pop-ups are a fraction of those for lead magnets with a genuine offer, and this one was no different.
We created '10 Questions to Ask Every Wedding Supplier Before You Book', a ten-question guide written to help engaged couples navigate supplier meetings with confidence. It was produced in two formats: a print-ready branded PDF and an editable version with a logo placeholder for Vanessa to apply her own branding. The pop-up itself was redesigned with a new headline, benefit statement, email field, reassurance copy, and a warm dismiss link.
A well-executed lead magnet does two things at once. It gives the visitor something genuinely useful, and it gives the business an email address it can market to. The old pop-up was doing neither.
4. Transforming Price Lists into Service Pages
Several pages, including Packages, Hair and Makeup, and the Stationery section, presented their full pricing with no context whatsoever. Some were formatted as a single unbroken paragraph. The Packages page had four packages grouped together in a way that made the page look as though it only offered two options.
Each page was restructured. A proper introduction establishes the service and what makes it worth considering. Each section is given its own space. Pricing is presented after the copy has done its job. On the Packages page, each of the four packages received a one-sentence descriptor so couples can self-select in seconds rather than reading every bullet point.
5. Rebranding and Expanding the Event Decor Section
The Event Decor page was titled 'Balloons', despite the shimmer wall being the first product listed. The page also made no mention of flower walls or glitter walls, despite Vanessa offering both. The page title was costing the business visibility and underselling the range.
We renamed the page 'Event Decor', created a 'Statement Walls' section housing all three wall types, and wrote individual product descriptions for each item on the page. A dedicated enquiry page was also designed for this service, with a tailored eight-field form, header copy, introductory body copy, and a confirmation email for the Wix autoresponder.
6. Fixing the Stationery Shop
The stationery page was built around an Etsy shop, with 30 product images linking through to external listings. By the time the project began, those links had stopped working. A visitor landing on the page could browse 30 product images but had no way to purchase, enquire, or contact Vanessa about stationery.
We reframed the page entirely. Etsy references were removed, links deactivated, and the gallery repositioned as a portfolio showcase. A category list was added alongside a pricing guide using confirmed prices from elsewhere on the site. Five items with no listed price anywhere were flagged for Vanessa to confirm before publishing.
7. Writing Copy for the Trusted Suppliers and Venues Page
Eleven recommended venues and fourteen suppliers across six categories, all with external links, and not a single word of copy explaining what the page was, why these businesses were recommended, or how Vanessa's relationships with them worked. The page was a list. It needed to become a resource.
We wrote a full page introduction, a descriptor for the venues section, a note for couples whose venue is not listed, a page-level intro for the suppliers section, and a short contextual paragraph under each of the six supplier categories. A visual layout mockup was produced to show the proposed structure before implementation.
8. Consolidating the Form Strategy
Wix limits sites to five forms. Across the project, we had designed two bespoke enquiry forms and identified the need for a new Contact page, which meant the limit was at risk of being exceeded.
We redesigned the form strategy around a single universal enquiry form, housed on a new Contact page, with a service dropdown covering all eight service areas. Every service page now links to this form rather than hosting its own. The five available slots are used as follows: lead magnet pop-up, universal enquiry form on the Contact page, Wedding Planning call-back form, existing booking form, and one slot reserved for future use.
We also designed a full-width CTA strip in dark sage green to sit above the footer on every page. Visitors who had browsed through a service page, read the copy, looked at the prices, and decided they were interested now had somewhere obvious to go.
What We Deliberately Did Not Change
This project was scoped as a copy and structure improvement, not a redesign. Several things were left exactly as they were, because they were already working.
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The site navigation, which was clear, well-labelled, and needed no improvement
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The photography, which featured strong real-wedding imagery throughout
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The pricing, which was transparent and detailed, a genuine strength of the site
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The testimonials, all preserved verbatim, with only two minor corrections flagged for approval
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The overall page structure, as the right pages already existed
The goal was to make the content match the quality of the service. Everything that was already doing that job was left alone.
Deliverables
The following documents and assets were produced and handed over as part of this project.
Deliverable
Description
Website audit report
Branded PDF covering technical health, content, UX, SEO, competitor snapshot, and action plan
Before and after copy documents
10 individual .docx files, one per page, each with original copy preserved, revised copy written, and change notes
Lead magnet PDF
10 Questions to Ask Every Wedding Supplier Before You Book, print-ready and VJ-branded
Lead magnet DOCX
Editable version with logo placeholder for Vanessa to apply her own branding
Pop-up mockup
HTML/CSS visual mockup of the redesigned pop-up for Wix implementation reference
6 SVG service icons
Hand-drawn, pure-vector, Wix-compatible, optimised from original uploads
Page mockups
Trusted Suppliers layout, Event Decor enquiry page, and footer CTA mockup
Enquiry form specs
Field lists, field types, dropdown options, and rationale for every form on the site
Confirmation email copy
Autoresponder copy for Packages and Event Decor enquiry forms with merge field annotations
Form strategy document
Five-form limit analysis, universal form design, and implementation guidance
Results
The site changes were implemented in April 2026. Results data, including organic traffic, enquiry form submissions, pop-up conversion rate, and lead magnet downloads, will be added to this case study following the scheduled four to six week post-launch review. This section will be updated at that point with Google Search Console and Google Analytics data.








