Wedding Blog

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 want a bee in Salt Lake City/Provo. And message boards instead of beehives.

So excited for the wiki’s!

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 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!

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.

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’ll make more of an effort to remember the new Bees. I would just love to read more funny stories like Miss Plum’s wedding voo-doo story, and less day-to-day stuff.

I’m pretty brand new to weddingbee so everything so far looks pretty great to me *=o) The only thing that I could think of would be to having a listing of the featured knot bios. Not by who posted it - just a listing of the bios w/links.

I remember you used to review wedding magazines- I loved that.

I feel like a lot of the weddings that you feature are very traditional- it would be nice to see more informal and personalized weddings.

.. and I agree with Mrs. Bee’s comment about how ideas are inevitably going to be recycled, but part of the reason I love weddingbee that it’s not just some cookie cutter weddding website. I know this is hard, but more original ideas would be great and I’m sure readers can always google more common questions.

i agree with everyone on keeping track of the bees. in the beginning when we got the new group i had to constantly go back and forth to keep them organized. so some way to help keep us reminded would be nice.

i can’t wait to get engaged. i want to be a bee. lol.

ooooh! i just thought of something else! is there any way to have a “where are they now” feature with the mrs. bees? that would be nice. it doesn’t have to be huge, but maybe like on their 1st anniversary they can write up something quick on what their first year was like after the wedding.

I must say that even I have a hard time keeping up with the bees. I think if I had a face to go with an icon that would be helpful. Kind of like a hover feature? If you “hover” about an icon, their pic and weddins stats would pop up? Weird?

i agreed to what has been mentioned about the everyday happenings. i just browse right through all the long posts with just writings. weddingbee used to have alot of ideas n inspirations and lately it has been lacking.

i also notice that there hasnt been a sample/trunk show listing.

another idea is bridal show reviews…there are so many and it can be overwhelming to know which one to attend.

also the beehives is confusing and it’s hard to keep track of when a question is asked and answered

I get sad to see bloggers fall off the face of weddingbee…like Ms. Ladybug was my favorite!! Can we “retire” people and add new bugs in their place?

I second the addition of non-traditional brides (non-ballroom, non-strapless ball gown, non-letterpress). Just for a variety of perspective.

I also think it would be great to get brides earlier in their planning process. There is a dearth of information out there about how to find a venue (especially ones off the beaten path), and most of the bees are past that point in their processes by the time they start blogging.

I agree about attaching faces to the bee icons.
Since weddingbee seems to be about following a bride throughout the ups and downs of her wedding planning, an interesting feature would be to have bees talk about what they pictured their weddings like, before and as they planned, and then to talk about how they decided on compromises, and ended up with their final product.

a portland, oregon bee!

I also agree with getting bees sooner in their process, currently I’m looking at venues (I just started the whole wedding process less than a month ago) and I was hoping to find some info on here, but all the bees are past that. I also think more DIYs would be great, because my wedding is going to have to be full of them.

I love the stories the bees have to tell it makes them more relatable. Pictures are helpful but links are more helpful to me. I’ve gotten some great websites off of here to start my planning process.

I think a lot of really important questions go unasked on here because the bees are so far along, like I still don’t understand the point of a grooms cake. (Then again this could be because I’m really new to the process).

I love how often updates are done, its just about perfect to me although i would never complain of more posts because it would mean more info.

I agree with the scrolling over the name and having a pic/bio flash up, that would be extremely helpful.

I really love the site, though I just recently starting looking at it, but I have found it far more helpful than almost anything else on the web and far more personable. : )

Sad to say that I used to be an avid Wedding Bee reader on a daily basis…sometimes 3-4 times per day. Now? There seems to be so much going on! Too many blogs, blogs that are too long and don’t have pictures,…and I got bored! This is my first time to WB since October!

I don’t know who’s blogging and where they are from! It would be helpful to have a link to the bloggers’ bio.

I agree about blogger bios. It’s hard to remember each individual blogger’s background and how far along in wedding planning they are.

love the knottie bios…ive found some of my favorite ideas from the ones featured here.

also, the ads inbetween the posts, they confuse me, as i think they are posts w/ pics, cuz i like posts with pics

i wish there was a way we could access some of the sites that you link here, quicker than searching for a post…maybe like a refrence section? like a section of links for “favors” or “flowers”…clear as mud?

I agree with more posts during the weekends. I think last weekend (17th Feb) there was like a day and a half with no posts — when you check the site a few times a day that’s a bummer. If you went by just the number of posts it looks like a lot Bees post when they should be at work (eek!). I guess on weekends though when I and others have more time to read the Bees are out doing the wedding planning stuff that they only have time for on weekends — so I guess it would probably be hard to have more posts on weekends.
Agree that in general there seem to be a lot of East or Southeast Asian Bees or that the non-Asian ones do not post as much - Seen a lot of posts on things like finding the right ao dai, Cheongsam, or Qi Pao but not on finding the right ghagra or sari, etc. I love the Asian posts b/c I often see ideas I would have never thought of (even if they are super typical for an Asian wedding) but would love to see it mixed up with Latin, African American or South Asian so we can get more “out of the box” ideas.

I like that there are lots of different bees, it means more posts. The posts I like the bests are ones that tell a little story and then ask a question, I like reading everyone’s responses.
I think that variety in the bees is important, so that they come from different areas, are planning different types of weddings (and different budgets), or come from different cultural backgrounds. The variety and different perspectives is great!
I agree that a local vendor review area would be nice. I know that the do that on theknot, but I find that website incredibly difficult to navigate. I know you said you weren’t interested in doing this now, but in the future being able to go to a local section and just read/write vendor reviews would be great.
I’d like more posts on the weekend, I always assumed that it wasn’t because they weren’t being written-but that because you reviewed them before they went up and you wanted a day off! (Which is fine, I need to take a day off from wedding “research”).

Bee, you did a fantastic job with this website =) This website is not only for soon-to-be brides but single gals like me love reading them.

I really like that weddingbee is community-oriented. I do agree w/ previous comments that if there’s a bio picture or description of each bee, it would be really helpful b/c I’m confused sometimes. I’m sure we’re all interested in their history and their wedding process.

I second on where are the Mrs now? I would love to hear how they’re doing and I enjoy reading their posts.

I hope weddingbee will have the option to save the post. Since I’ve been an avid reader, I do come across many recycled posts which I don’t mind, but I would like to save the post I enjoy and I have a hard time relocating them.

I admit I do skip through long text entries and tend to read entries with pictures. And I like to see actual pictures and less magazine pictures. One of the reason why I love weddingbee is b/c it’s different than other wedding websites, it’s more personal =)

Overall, no matter what, I love weddingbee =)

i think weddingbee is a fun, personable tool to use while wedding planning. my friends and i love it. but as for suggestions, i do agree with jane that sometimes the more personal posts from the bees can be overdone. since this is a general, communal site to assist other brides, i think all posts should be something that brides can relate to or can benefit from, and the posts about the bees’ day-to-day angst should be left on their personal blogs.

I love weddingbee! I’ve been reading since before Mrs. Bee got married and now I am married, but I am still areader (mainly because I am trying to get into the wedding industry).

I think this would be a cool feature: I would like to see you feature wedding with a specific budget, $5,000, $10,000, $15,000. It would be nice (and encouraging) to see what could be done with a specific budget.

As far as message boards go, I hated going on the knot message boards… people were so catty and mean. I like the way you have it set up now.

Keep up the good work!

Here are my thoughts–trying to be succinct here:
What about Married Bee, which could be like The Nest for The Knot. When you’re married (if you want) you graduate, as do the married bees? I know that a new website is tremendous to generate, but it seems like a lot of poeple want to keep up with the married ladies!

Please no message boards! Being able to comment is enough. The Knot is all about message boards and some women on there are crazy. I like that the Wedding Bee is different! And, message boards aren’t nescessarily about sharing ideas like WB. Guest writers would be great for sharing ideas that the bees don’t get to (as I know you’ve pulled a post from my blog before–that seemed to work just fine).

Short posts that have relevant websites and pictures that are mostly wedding related. I think we have a lot of visual people here. If you do post about day-to-day things, keep it short and sweet!

See, I’m not really concerned with knowing the bees¢¢â€š¬”I think most of us just want ideas and since the site is kind of generational I don’t really know if something’s being repeated from 8 months ago. ¢‹Å“º I also agree with Beta¢¢â€š¬”I would rather have more bees. If you want to get to know the bees, you can subscribe (for a lot of them) their personal blogs. Strawberry’s and others’ ideas about a hover feature or quick click feature for recognizing the bees would be GREAT.

Love: Knot bios, DIY posts, and I like how the site is organized. I think you’ve done a great job, Bee! Although I can’t afford it, I do like seeing posts about Tiffany and Very Wang and weddings out of my budget–because they are still ideas that can often be modified or emulated.

I don’t mind the number of bees, and I like reading about plans in different cities. But I’d say in the future, I’d try to keep it to 6-8 bees getting married in any particular year. So, maybe by 1/1/08, you’d have 6-8 “Class of 08″ bees, and perhaps even be working on a few for “Class of 09.” Such as, you could hold an audition every few months or so of 08 for a new bee for the 09 freshman class until you had 6 by the start of the new year, and then hold out 2 spots, just in case some really great bee comes up whose wedding is less than a year out.

Yeah, what did happen to Mrs. Rose?!!

1.example when you vote for three questions within the same post, that you don’t need to click the different vote buttons three times to see each result.
2. after you leave a comment, it would be nice not to have to click the rewind button to get back to the main body.

sorry, another suggestion.

you know how xanga has a daily digest? well you should try one of those with an email list. that way readers wont have to continously check back to your site to see if anyones posted.

hey to make it easier to navigate old posts…maybe a calender feature where u click the date and then the posts come up so that you don’t scroll back again and again

Maybe a FAQ page, since a lot of people don’t know the history of weddingbee or don’t know all the tricks to navigate it. The FAQ page can contain your disclaimer about blog posts NOT being advertisements, and more info about how to subscribe, work the tags, etc

Adding to my earlier comment, another possible suggestion would be to have each bride answer the question: what they would have done differently if they could do it all over again. It would be interesting to see how each bride differs in their response.

i look back at my own wedding and can list so many things that I would have done differently! Learning from other bride’s mistakes and good experiences could be helpful to future brides.

ooohhh, some great ideas have been posted!

I like the idea of having a “store in my favorite” type deal.

I heart weddingbee an awful lot, despite the fact that I’m not engaged (YET!) (although everyone I know is–10 weddings this summer! ). There is nothing that I really dislike. But I think it would be nice to be able to click the “Read More Right Here” and get not only the rest of the post but also the comments and the comment box.

I’d love to see more bees! It gets kind of confusing (I had Miss Blueberry and Miss Bluebell mixed for a while!), but I love to read about other people’s ideas. Maybe a bee from a not so large city. I love reading about the venues and such, but my wedding will most likely be in a church with the reception possibly being in the church. I don’t see much stuff on weddingbee like that.

Keep up the great work! I read weddingbee 3 or 4 times a day!

Like what others said..I’m also married and I love looking at the site. I think having a married bee website or a section on your site would be a great idea. We can offer tips to those who are engaged…

Love your site!

i would definitely like to be able to search user comments. i tried to find an older post about dieting and all i could remember was that i commented about nutrisystem. i never found it

please have expanded search features!

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