I started Weddingbee because I felt like brides could use honest, personal feedback about the wedding industry… and I felt like wedding magazines just weren’t doing the trick. There’s something about blogging that’s just honest and personal.
I just want to clarify: we at Weddingbee would never do anything to jeopordize the editorial integrity of the site. We’ve received many offers for “pay for play” advertising, where advertisers would pay us to write positive reviews of their products. We turn them all down, because that would totally violate the founding premise of Weddingbee.
The Bees that write for the site are equally scrupulous. Our Bees are all volunteers, giving their time freely to share their honest and real thoughts with the community. They also never receive any payment, kickbacks or discounts from vendors! In the vast majority of cases, most vendors don’t even know that a bride writes for Weddingbee until after the wedding. The very few exceptions are usually when copyright is involved - so if a bride blogs about a photographer she’s selected, she will usually request permission to post some of the pictures.
But I totally understand that not everyone is familiar with Weddingbee’s origins as a personal blog, and our focus on integrity and honesty. So we’re trying an experiment: starting today, whenever a bee posts about a vendor… we will post a small editorial note at the bottom, mentioning that there’s no financial relationship between the vendor and the bee (and linking to our vendor policy).
I know most of you already know that we really value integrity here at Weddingbee… but we do get occasional questions about this, and I think it’s important to let new readers know where we stand. I was concerned that a written disclosure might get a bit intrusive, but I just looked over the last 50 posts and only a very small handful have vendor reviews. So I thought we’d try it out.
I hope that this addresses some of the concerns raised by a few recent commenters! Please let us know what you think.
Thanks,
Mrs. Bee
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