Weddingbee Blog

I was surfing the liweddings messageboards yesterday when I came across a post that caught my eye. I saved the link but the author or site administrators have since taken it down because I couldn’t find it today.

Basically, someone called a bride’s vendor and left a message cancelling her contract. The vendor contacted the bride because she knew something was off. The bride had made no such call so she suspected that another bride on the messagboards was the culprit. Luckily nothing happened but she warned other brides who post personal information on messageboards to be careful.

Not to downplay what happened, but I think that was probably an anomaly; or it could even have been someone she knew in real life. It’s easy to think that the internet is a scary place. Brides have voiced their concerns to me about strangers “crashing” their weddings. But if you just take a few basic precautions I think you’ll be fine.

Besides… how can we live without the internet?

I think these are some simple steps you should take to protect yourself when you participate in a wedding blog/messageboard:

• Don’t post your last name.
• Refer to your fiance by a nickname like “Mr. Bee” instead of by his real name.
• Don’t post your wedding date if you post your wedding venue.
• Don’t post your wedding venue if you post your wedding date.
• Block out addresses and identifying information when posting pictures of things like invitations.
• And if you really want to protect yourself, you may want to tell your vendors that you’re keeping a wedding blog/posting to a wedding messageboard and to notify you of any “changes.”

I’ve been blogging for 3 years and currently update 3 sites regularly. I’m not particularly protective of my identity and I’ve never had a single problem. For the most part I feel safe on the internet.

But I wanted to put this out there for you ladies just in case.