CAMBERLEY, England, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Hitched.co.uk (http://hitched.co.uk) has officially been recognized as the UK's number 1 wedding website of 2007. The popular online wedding guide has worked hard at improving, increasing and developing its website to help brides and grooms up and down the country plan their perfect day with less stress and more organisation. Having re-launched in August 2007, hitched.co.uk has succeeded in maintaining its status as the number 1 wedding website, recognized by Hitwise.

Each day, the competitive intelligence site Hitwise provides insights on how 8.43 million UK internet users interact with more than 1 million websites across 165+ industries. At their annual awards luncheon in April, Hitwise announced that hitched.co.uk was now officially the UK's most popular wedding planning site in the UK.

The hitched.co.uk number 1 ranking falls in the category of Life-style weddings, as visited by UK internet users during 2007. Several new sections have been added to the hitched website over the past 9 months to entice even more users and suppliers to join their affiliation. A bridalwear section featuring the UK's top designers, along with a flower segment and a venues section, that highlights major hotel chains & unique wedding locations all around the country, have all helped increase and maintain the status of the hitched.co.uk site.

The top 5 wedding websites in the UK ranked in order of achievement:

1 - hitched.co.uk

2 - confetti.co.uk

3 - youandyourwedding.co.uk

4 - weddingguideuk.com

5 - weddingservices4u.co.uk

Hitched.co.uk has become a household name for couples getting married over the past 11 years and hosts an average of 13 million page impressions, created by 350,000 unique users per month.

Hitched believes that your wedding should be the best and brightest day of your life, and therefore presents the best and brightest number one wedding website to cater for it.

Site features include:

- A comprehensive wedding planner for the bride and groom

- To-do list for every role in the wedding

- Tips and advice on everything, from writing the perfect speech to organising a fantastic stag/hen party

- Wedding shop

- Bride and groomswear section

- Full directory with thousands of companies offering wedding services

- Directory with over 3500 wedding venues

- Discussion forum, plus many more useful wedding planning tools

- For further information, images or quotations please contact Francesca Moore on +44-(0)8700-112545 or francesca.moore@hitched.co.uk

For further information, images or quotations please contact Francesca Moore on +44-(0)8700-112545 or francesca.moore@hitched.co.uk