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Marketwire, February 5 2008

Feather Our Nest Mortgage Wedding Registry Helps Newlyweds Get Started With Home Down Payment

CORTE MADERA, CA--(Marketwire - February 5, 2008) - The traditional wedding gifts help a young couple starting out furnish their home with china, crystal, and accessories that will become family heirlooms as they build their lives together. Now, with Feather Our Nest (www.featherournest.com), family and well-wishers can present the bride and groom with the ultimate wedding gift, their first home. Feather Our Nest is the first Mortgage Wedding Registry that allows couples to register online to collect money to be applied as a down payment for a new home.

The brainchild of Carol Peterson, an experienced realtor and founder of the Travel Bride honeymoon registry (www.travelbride.com), the Feather Our Nest mortgage registry is a unique concept to help any newlywed couples get started with their first home. The service works like any wedding registry. The bride and groom register online using the simple web form or by telephone. Feather Our Nest will then provide the couple with a set of attractive Wedding Registry cards that can be given to friends and family to advise them of the registry and provide instructions on how to make cash contributions of any denomination toward a new home down payment. Gift-givers receive gift cards that can be presented to the newlyweds, and timely updates with lists of gift givers are delivered via e-mail to the bride and groom.

"Today's newlyweds are searching for innovative and different types of bridal registries, especially since many couples already have established households and don't need two toasters or more china," said Peterson. "With Feather Our Nest, we help young couples cross the threshold toward a new home. What better way to help a young couple start out?"

To help registered users find a home, Feather Our Nest is affiliated with Referral Network, Inc., which helps connect prospective homebuyers with qualified real estate agents anywhere in the United States and Canada. If the newlyweds use an agent within the referral network, the $300 registry fee for Feather Our Nest is fully refunded at the close of escrow.

For more information, visit Feather Our Nest at www.featherournest.com.

About Feather Our Nest

Feather Our Nest is an innovative, online bridal registry service for couples wishing to receive contributions that can be applied toward a home down payment as wedding gifts. Carol Peterson, an experienced San Francisco Bay Area realtor, recognized travel agent, and founder of Travel Bride, a honeymoon travel bridal registry, launched Feather Our Nest in 2008 as a concept to help young couples achieve their goal of owning their first home. Feather Our Nest also is affiliated with the Referral Network, Inc., a licensed real estate brokerage that deals exclusively with referrals to qualified real estate agents throughout North America. For more information, visit Feather Our Nest online at www.featherournest.com.