OK, I know I’m risking life and limb by saying this and every woman in the world is going to hate me, specially my fiance, but why not sponsor a wedding dress?

I have just been sitting with my bride to be watching MTV’s Bridezillas and it occurred to me a lot of people spend way more than they can afford on their weddings.

A lot of the brides we watch simply want the wedding of their dreams, even though they can’t afford it.  The man in me thinks “Hmmm, how can I profit from this?”, while my girlfriend just screams, “buy it buy it buy it”.  Errr enough said…

So why not sponsor a wedding dress?

As predatory as this sounds, you could wait around the weddings dress shops and offer to purchase a brides dress in exchange for putting some signs up around her wedding.  If signs sound to tacky you could negotiate to put some of your branded stationary on all the wedding tables.

And if she’s really impressed with your offer you can ask if she’d mind thanking your business for providing her with the dress during her speech?

To tell you the truth I don’t personally know any woman that would say yes to this.  But I’m sure they’re out there.  If it was a choice for some lovely bride between an ordinary dress or a great dress, in exchange for some stationary and kind acknowledgment, she just might say yes.

You never know, we might be starting a whole new advertising industry here!

This is one I thought up the other day when I was stuck in traffic.  I have never actually done it so I can’t tell you how well it would work but I think the theory is sound.

Why not sponsor a tree?  I don’t mean you have to give it money or anything like that.  But find a great big tree that everyone can see on public ground and clean it up a little.

But why would you want to clean and maintain it you ask?

Once you have cleaned it up you can put a sign on it for everyone to see saying, “This beautiful tree is maintained by My Business and Phone Number“.

I don’t think your local council would really care because you’d be providing a public service and they’d be saving money in maintenance and you’d get some great free advertising.

Plus you might even make some waves in shock value, the old saying, “All publicity is ggood publicity” and people love things that are different and quirky.

In fact, imagine if had a whole bunch of trees stratigically place around your city in prime advertising sites.  You might be asked to take them down, you might now, but hey… thats all part of it!