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Mrs. Bee here… and can I say TGIF! 
We’re doing a little pre-spring cleaning here at weddingbee, and could really use your feedback. We want to refocus the site, share more ideas, add new features and make weddingbee better than ever.
It’s been an exciting year of ups and downs, and we’re going to continue to grow and evolve. As readers, you’re an integral part of this community, so thanks for joining us on the journey thus far. 
Now please tell us, and try to be as specific as possible - what do you love or hate about weddingbee? What would you like to see added, changed, or eliminated?
Maybe it’s just my laziness talking. . . but here’s my idea: A Weddingbee that we can log into and personalize. That way, if there’s a specific article that we think may be relevant down the line, we can put into our “favorites” section.
i’d like to see more vendor reviews from different cities. i’m from the bay area, and while i love miss plumeria’s thoughtful posts, i want to see more suggestions and tips on where to go for what. to me, that’s the most helpful tool. maybe weddingbee can have a section where readers can post their thoughts and reviews on vendors in their city….?
I want a bee in Salt Lake City/Provo. And message boards instead of beehives.
Can someone talk more about finding a place for the new couple to live, decorations for the new home, tips on saving money and so on? : )
emma - i know brides really value vendor reviews, but unfortunately most reviews can’t really be done until after the wedding, and we only have so many brides.
in order to support reader reviews, we would have to host a messageboard type feature. users in the past did not wanted a messageboard to be added to weddingbee because there were already so many out there, and it would detract from the blogs.
now i must admit that another reason we haven’t supported vendor reviews is related to issues of slander. things just can get really complicated with reviews sometimes ya know?
there are boards like labridezilla.com that only host vendor reviews.
we won’t be hosting a specific vendor review section in the near future, but we will be launching a wedding wiki feature very soon. All readers can write, edit, and contribute to the entries (just like wikipedia). Links to reviews will be one of the sections in each wiki entry, so hopefully that’ll prove to be a most helpful resource in finding reputable vendors. 
i hope that helps!
i never got to see pics from mrs. caterpillar’s wedding. she had such great ideas so i was sooo looking forward to her pics.
this may sound very kindergarten-ish but i rarely read the L-O-N-G posts especially if they don’t have photos to go along with it.
it’ll be cool to get more advice on DW.
maybe a guy’s point of view on things.
So excited for the wiki’s!
graciette, that’s a feature we’ve always wanted to build. it will require a reprogramming of the site, but is something we hope to add in the near future.
in the meantime, you can sign up for a bloglines account which allows you to subscribe to blogs through it and keep them all in one place. sub to wb, and when you want to save a blog, you can just click “keep new” and it’ll keep them all in one place.
or you can sign up for google notebook which lets you save all kinds of snippets, images, etc off the web in a google notebook. i played with it last night, and it was pretty cool!
hope this helps!
I agree with ocicats’s comment about the long posts without pics. I rarely read through those.
Also, I have to say that I’m having a harder time keeping track of certain bees (mainly because there are so many now). I love the different points of view that I get from all over the place, but I have to admit that it’s not as “personal” as it was before… I used to remember certain color schemes for certain bees and had fun following their progress.. but now I don’t remember who’s who… (I guess it’s not as bad since most “Mrs” don’t post as often anymore…) I miss some of the Mrs posters though.. =(
I’m no longer a bride but check in almost daily. I love pictures - I’m much more likely to read a post if it’s accompanied by beautiful pictures. I also really like seeing creative flowers, ceremony sites, stationary, whatever. I’m less interested in the bee’s personal day to day stories. I would also love to see more diversity either in the bees or in the ideas posted. There hasn’t been much on non-Christian weddings or cultural traditions other than Asian ones.
I guess it is the natural evolution of weddingbee to have different generations of posters sort of phase out, but I miss some of the personalities of the bugs like mrs. ladybug, firefly etc. (What ever happened to mrs. rose!?!?) I also think some of the topics and questions are redundant as WB the first generation already addressed and answered but new readers or posters don’t start reading from the beginning. I would like to see more “after the wedding” types of posts. Maybe the life span of readers tend to be only a year because this is a wedding/honeymoon only site?
Keep the sale stuff coming btw!
To chime in on the point about remembering which bee is which - I would prefer being able to click on a blogger’s name at the top of the post and getting a quick bio - wedding date, city, any other notes they would like to share. (brief being key, I don’t really want a Knot-style bio with everything you ever wanted to know and then some) I could click from there if I want to see all their posts. It would be easier to remember who is at which stage of planning that way.
Also, it really slows down on the weekends… I would love to see more activity when I have more time to read.
Thanks!
Sorry guys, I’ll try to “talk” less and take more pictures!
Kate, our wedding isn’t Christian or in any way asian- unforuntately we really don’t have *any* religion set to ours. I’m agnostic. 
I agree with V. I have a hard time keeping track of who is who. I too really miss the Mrs. posters. Mrs. Daisy was such a great writer. Mrs. Ladybug was hilarious and she always put together these helpful lists like the florist directory. processional and recessional music lists, etc. I sill remember Mrs. Grasshopper’s post about the run around with her wedding dress.
v, we’re slowly paring down the number of bees as they get married. we were so excited to add new cities and new bees, but i do think the site works best when you really get to know each bride.
kate - someone recently asked “why are there so many asians - bees and readers - on weddingbee?” so i thought about it and think it’s due to a couple of reasons. i think our asian bees definitely tend to post more pictures of themselves/their weddings while our nonasian bees are more camera shy so it seems like there is a disproportionate skew. 
we definitely look for diversity in our brides, but i’ll admit most of the brides who apply are asian. so my desi, latin, african-american brides… we’d love to have you on the site!
miss kiwi, you’re one of the new bees i actually remember. i remember the post about how your breast made a special appearance. that was hilarious!
i was also thinking the other night, that a lot of people have been reading weddingbee since the beginning. inevitably some of the ideas (ok a lot of them) are going to get recycled. But they’re new ideas to the new brides writing about them.
Before planning my own wedding I never knew of magnet stds, or flipflops or any of those ideas that may be considered “overdone.”
so it is a challenge to try to keep the site fresh and new. while ideas may be recycled, each bee’s point of view is new, and most wedding guests haven’t been as immersed in the entire wedding planning process as we all have. to them the ideas are still new too!
now i know that some of the original bees were and still are very popular, but i think we have an awesome bunch right now too! i guess it’s harder for them to stand out because there are so many bees now, but we’re all working hard to make the site even better.
I would like more “guest” posts–examples of invites, diy projects, talks about what they did wrong or right as the wedding comes in. I like getting to know each bride, but I’m sure there are wedding bee readers out there who can tribute once or twice about their wedding “special” projects.
Also, I find the beehive overwhelming at times. Sometimes I feel questions get lost because there are so many to answer.
I love the featured knot bios.
I love when people talk about their diy projects.
I check this site about ten times a day. I love it!
And, I almost want more bees because I want to read more posts–but that could just be me being selfish.
Miss Kiwi - awesome! We also had a totally religion-free wedding and were really happy with our decision.
Mrs. Bee - that’s a good explanation. I love seeing everyone’s pictures, and wouldn’t want to hinder anyone. I just often think it would be great to see more kinds of brides, and families. It always made me happy to see brides that are size 10, 12, + looking beautiful. Plus, I love seeing beautiful pictures of colorful Indian weddings, sophisticated Jewish weddings, etc. etc.
I LIKE the long, text only posts! And I like the day-to-day events of each bee… helps me remember the bees easier… so don’t change Miss Kiwi! You’re my favorite!
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