This year’s wedding season got off to a grandiose start with the big Royal Wedding and the nuptials of Kate and William were seen by many as something other couples might aspire to. A survey of singles now shows that a dramatic white wedding is not a big dream for the majority.

Most of the singles who took part in the survey want to get married eventually. In fact, only 20% would not marry if they had a choice. However, the numbers who wanted a white wedding are much lower. Despite 78% of respondents saying that they dream of marriage and 44% saying they expect their wedding to be ‘the best day of my life’, most singles describe their dream wedding as an intimate affair, with “our closest family and friends, a fancy dinner and a small celebration”. Only singles under 25 are keen on the big white wedding, while all other age groups prefer something quieter.

Over 65% would only marry if they had found “the One”. Obviously, that level of caution might be related to the fact that 85% of respondents think marriage changes a relationship.

Whatever their opinion on marriage or ideas of a dream wedding, an online matchmaking site is a good place to start looking for the right partner to marry. A recent Which? survey found that over one in five singles who used online matchmaking went on to marry somebody they met through the internet.

>>>Do you want to get married? Find the right person for a happy and long-lasting partnership now!

This love quote is a piece of beautiful advice from a mother to a daughter. Happy Mother’s Day!

“Never grow a Wishbone, daughter, where your Backbone should be!”

- Clementine Paddleford

Bloggers love quotes, because they let you publish something, even when you don’t have anything to say

The love quotes we publish here on the be2 Blog are a case in point. The love quotes blog category is one of the most popular regulars. Every week, we try to find a love quote that reflects the topics we have been writing about. In future, other bloggers can also use those quotes, but not by simply copying them. Instead, bloggers can use our Love Quote Widget.

Doesn’t it look great!

Bloggers can get these love quotes for their own blog, either by installing the
WordPress Plugin

…or by copying the code to embed the widget anywhere on a website, for example in a blogpost like this one.

All it takes is a click on the small + below (see right), to show the embed code.

This code can be copied and embedded in the HTML code of any website – or in a blog post.

Enjoy!

At be2, you can register free of charge, take the free personality test and view partner recommendations for free. However, to experience all the advantages of be2, you will probably want to upgrade to a be2 Premium Membership sooner or later. Here, we offer you all the advantages and conditions of the be2 Premium Membership at a glance.

Advantages of the be2 Premium Membership:

• With a be2 Premium Membership, you can read all the personal messages you receive and write messages to other users. Non-Premium Members can only send pre-written, generic messages.
• As a be2 Premium Member, you can see all pictures that partner recommendations have released for you. Pictures are blurred for non-Premium Members.
• Any be2 Premium Membership of 3 months or longer comes with a full success guarantee. We promise that you will establish contact with at least 10 of our partner recommendations within the duration of your Premium Membership. If you make less than 10 contacts, your Premium Membership is extended free of charge.

Conditions of the be2 Premium Membership:
You can pick the be2 Premium Membership that suits you best:

1. The 1-month trial offer is great for people who are not yet sure if they want to commit to a longer Premium Membership. It’s a lower price than the longer Premium Memberships, but it does not include the success guarantee. Also, 1 month is not a lot of time and you may be disappointed if you haven’t found your perfect match in such a short space.
2. 3 months is a far more realistic time span and many members choose this option when they first buy a Premium Membership.
3. The 6-month Premium Membership is our most popular product and promises the highest chance of success, at a lower monthly price.
4. If you really want to take your time to search for the right person, then choose the 12-month Premium Membership. The success guarantee ensures that you will get the most out of this Premium Membership.

Check the payment page in your personal be2 member area for the current Premium Membership prices.

• If you already are a Premium Member, you can check your Premium Membership status and find out how long it is valid, by visiting your member homepage and clicking “Personal Profile/Settings/Premium Membership”.
• You can end the automatic renewal of your Premium Membership at any time. Find out about cancelling your Premium Membership here.

>>>Become a full be2 Premium Member now and see the advantages for yourself!

Have you ever wondered how be2 brings so many happy couples together? Well, now the secrets out, and our love searching heart is running around a television screen near you.

The be2 dating heart is our new mascot, fresh off the drawing board, and appears in a new TV commercial currently being screened. The running little heart is shown tirelessly searching out true romance for one of our customers, comparing interests and values, just like the system does in real life.

It’s a hard working heart: Watch our new advert and you can see our heart walking, our heart running as pigeons fly away, our heart with an iPad and even our heart riding on a scooter! – Clever little love searching heart!

TV commercial with heart

Nobody likes a disappointed heart, that’s why we’ve made sure our advert has a happy ending! Sure enough our heart finds partnership and love for the two protagonists and ‘as the curtain falls’ they are walking heart to heart through the park. be2’s cute heart makes it happen!

Heart and Whistle TV spot.

Not just a dating heart it is also a whistling heart, humming out a catchy little tune that you can find more about in my previous blog post. We think it makes for a sweet advert that will bee too much for our customers to resist!

Let us know what you think, we’d love to know…

be2’s new dating commercial has hit the screens as we introduce our little heart to the nation. It’s a light hearted story of boy meets girl with the help of the hard working be2 heart and a few mac books. All accompanied by a gently whistled melody…..

Dating commercial with a nice tune.

But what is that tune? We wanted to create a commercial with a nice tune that would help people understand what be2 is all about. A dating commercial with nice music that conveyed a relaxed, cheerful service with a serious intent. When we first heard our be2 tune, we just loved it. It had all the right ingredients for a jingle on TV and we thought just suited our approach to bringing soul mates together.

be2’s whistling tv advertisement.

So we had our nice music, but we still couldn’t decide how to present it. be2 is the online matchmaker for people serious about looking for long term love, but it’s also a place where people have a lot of fun. We needed a sound that reflected this. We tried all sorts of ideas, with singers and musicians, but nothing quite gave us the mood we needed. The last thing we wanted was for people to feel this was just another annoying jingle on TV from some dating company. Then it happened! George, our head of customer care, walked into the office on Monday morning, he’d been thinking about our problem all the way to work and he was still whistling the tune as he came in and sat at his desk. The rest of us just looked up at him and we all had the same thought at once….. and so be2’s whistling heart was born.

Commercial with a whistle

Whistling is about dreaming and distraction, but also about getting on with life with a cheery resilience. Just like be2’s heart whistles as it works as a busy matchmaker. Best of all, anybody can whistle, and we already know how catchy our new jingle can be. In fact sometimes it can bee too much as more and more staff get the bug and the whole office becomes a din of our whistling TV advertisement!

You can find out more about the be2 heart and b2 story elsewhere on this blog as well as a full description of our be2 commercial with a whistle.

be2’s new mini dating TV commercial, featuring the new animated be2 heart, has been launched. If you haven’t seen it on TV yet, have a look here. It’s a light hearted TV commercial about dating with a Mac computer and a little help from be2.

The advertisement opens showing a girl with dog and computer, browsing. It’s morning in the city and there’s this girl, online, dating. Then things liven up when out pops the be2 heart to scuttle off and find our princess the man of her dreams.

Once the be2 heart is done chasing pigeons in the park, his first stop is the local café, where he spies a nice looking man, about the right age with a full head of hair, reading a comic. But our hopes are dashed as a blond lady shows up and gives him a big kiss.

… undeterred, the resilient little heart jumps aboard a passing moped and speeds off into town, hunting for more single men. It doesn’t take long before another candidate comes into view, this time in a nice car and with a dog of his own. It turns out they have a great be2 index too! Men and girl fitting 100% means they are a perfect match.

Job done, our little heart heads back home to point the girl to the right online profile. Next thing we know our two hopefuls are a dating couple walking by the lake with dogs. Another happy ending from be2!

It’s nice to see a few animals in a TV commercial about dating. A lot of people with dogs are online dating and we wanted our dating TV ad to reflect this. It’s also a nice way of conveying the b2 system that’s not just about the personality test but is also about shared hobbies and values.

You can find out more about our TV commercial, about the new heart mascot and the whistling tune on this blog.

We know that our readers enjoy the quote about love that we post every week. People search for quotes about love on occasions like birthdays, weddings, Valentine’s day and Christmas, so we post a new quote about love every Friday. If you don’t want to wait until Friday to get our quote about love, in future you can get your daily love motto on Facebook.

Daily Love Motto is a free App on Facebook that we created for our fans.
The Daily Love Motto application automatically selects the best quote about love of the day for you and allows you to share with your friends on facebook, or even to share it with a special friend.

What’s your favourite quote about love from the Daily Love Motto app? This one is our favourite:

Get your free Daily Love Motto now!

The best love song of the year 1990:
Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U

The complete list of the best love songs is here.
If your favourite love song isn’t on the list, let us know in the comments!

Trust the Americans to come up with this: We all know Coffee is an aphrodisiac, due to its stimulating qualities. We wrote about aphrodisiac foods before on this blog and there is no shortage of natural aphrodisiac foods. But in the land of bigger is better, that wasn’t enough, so an American company came up with the aphrodisiac Power Magic Coffee that is allegedly even more effective than your regular cuppa.

If this Magic Power Coffee really works, it might help convert a lot of British tea drinkers to coffee drinkers in a very short time!

However, excitement about the “aphrodisiac coffee” has already been dampened, because the American FDA (Food and Drugs Administration) already issued a warning about some dangerous substances contained in Magic Power Coffee, which, in combination with some medication, can cause dizziness and lightheadedness.

But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the aphrodisiac qualities of regular coffee. Going for a cup of coffee on a first date with a potential partner is a great, casual way to break the ice. Once you have found someone through an online dating site, exchanged a few messages and found out that you have a lot in common, the next step is a first date, so why not meet over a coffee?

>>> Find the right partner for that casual first date now at be2!