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Happy 2 Year Anniversary Weddingbee, Yippee Woo Hoo!
While I wasn’t an O.G. Bee, I have been a reader in this community for almost a year now, and I can’t believe what an incredible resource it has been for me and all brides I know! But, on the flip side, it’s turned into a slightly unhealthy addiction. I love me some Weddingbee, and I’ve become slightly obsessive about how I soak in all the info. Here’s how my computer looks at any given point in the day:
Check out that sweet tabbing action. As you can see, I always have one dedicated window open to 3 tabs: Weddingbee front page, Weddingbee Boards, and BeeTV. I hit refresh every 10 minutes, as if on cue, to see what new information has surfaced.
This is straight up unhealthy, yo.
Share with us your Weddingbee addiction stories below. Feel free to comment as Anonymous if you’re totally embarrassed. Which you shouldn’t be. Pengy feels you.
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I am so addicted that I started a blog just so I could try and be a bee! I love all the wonderful people I have gotten to know on here. And of couse I love my Pengyho!
Hello, my name is Jenniferb and I have have been a regular user for 10 months and 2 weeks. The first thing I do after a vacation or an extended period away from the computer is read ALL of the posts while I was away. I bore all of my friends in family with stories that begin with “today on Weddingbee Mrs Corn posted about her….” and “OMG, Miss Cupcake postred a picture of my wedding dress!” I get married in 8 months and 3 days and plan to check Weddingbee and estimated 4,000 trimes between now and then.
hello, my name is marisa, and i’m a weddinbeeaholic.
i always recommend weddingbee to my newly engaged friends with these words - “weddingbee is bride crack. you have been warned.”
can’t…stop….refreshing….
Penguin, you crack me up. I’m just waiting for the day that Weddingbee operates on an “auto-refresh” system, like CNN.
I have an RSS ticker that checks every 5 minutes for updates to anything I have an RSS feed for, which, of course, has WeddingBee right at the top of the list. As soon as things are up, within a couple minutes, I have a little scrolling bar across my Firefox that lists the name of the new article. It’s FABULOUS!
I’ve been reading weddingbee for over a year now–but I’ve only been engaged for about two months. I love me some major weddingbee. I check my email, Facebook, and then weddingbee. I’m addicted!
My name is teeners, and I too, am a weddingbeaholic. I check it first thing in the morning right after my email, throughout the entire day, and right before i turn off my computer before bedtime. I now want to have ten million weddings so I can do all the cool things that are posted here. It is a problem.
i am too addicted…it has killed all productivity and i am losing SLEEP b/c sometimes the only time i have to look at it is after i get home from work.
how about this for addiction…i thought about giving weddingbee up for lent. but then i decided i couldn’t do it.
so bad!!!!
By the way, loving the tabbing action. That is brilliant. Nothing like feeding the addiction.
uh…i was the first to comment on the happy birthday post…
that pretty much sums up my addiction.
I routinely send emails to my husband of 7+ months that begin “Okay, not that I’m reading weddingbee at work, but…”
yes i am a wedding bee addict as well. its my crack. luckily i have my trusty iphone so i can scour the site ALL THE TIME, much to my FI dismay. I am constantly clicking refresh at work and seeing the lovely new wedding candy appear on my screen, i am not so worried about this addiction now, but what am i supposed to do AFTER the wedding *gasp*!
hi my name is CherryBlossom. I am so addicted, I’m considering started and WBA for this shiet. I am losing sleep, it’s always on my tabs, and I refresh a million times a day. I have withdrawals when I haven’t checked back in.
Haha, I get Weddingbee withdrawal on the weekends when the new posts come in slower!
hi my name is tea and i’m a weddingbee addict…and i’m not even engaged yet. lol. i just figure that when the bf does propose, i’ll be righteously prepared like a boy scout. i check here multiple times during the day and i often sign into a chat and leave it open when i’m at home and doing other stuff. once, my sister was wondering why my computer was talking to me. lol.
Dear weddinbee,
How I love thee. Our relationship has only been going on for a short month, but I feel as though our love has grown to new heights. You are my addiction, my escape, my everything. But really, the affair needs to stop here. I need to get work done. I need that PROMOTION so I can afford the videographer. But alas, I just can’t quit you.
I got married almost 6 months ago and still check out Weddingbee daily. I tried to detox after the wedding, and though I don’t stalk all of the photographer blogs I used to (down to 2), I’m still strong and steady with checking in on Weddingbee. I even started my own blog for the hell of it. I don’t have wedding stuff to write about anymore, but I plan to post some projects I completed for my own wedding down the line.
I am not engaged and I subscribe to probably 30 or 40 wedding related blogs, but wedddingbee is always the first thing that I check in my google reader.
I have 18 credits, and most of my hours in the library are broken up by “bee breaks”. I talk about the bee’s as if I know them. Seriously, the symns for the ladies are starting to crop up in my everday speech. Sentences such as “The other day, Miss Penguin posted about …..”
I sit in the back of my classes so that others can’t spy on my addiction. I am working on steadily reading through the archives, starting with the Mrs.’, I have read through Ant, Apple, Beetle, Bell Pepper, Bird of Paradise, Bluebell, Blueberry, Butterfly, Butterscoth and Caramel.
Half of my classes don’t have internet, so I devote an entire browser to loading tabs full of weddinbee goodness and read it all while offline.
I have a huge favorite folder in my browser called “Weddingbee Ideas To Steal” hehe.
Haha, I thought I was bad for always having one of my six Firefox tabs at work open to Weddingbee - way to take the obsession to new heights with the multiple tabs! 
I AM a weddingbee addict too! I’m on this site everyday and hit the refresh button almost every 5 minutes for new updates. I probably spend more time reading WB than work emails. I even check WB on my iphone or I’ll get withdrawals like some of the other ladies.
Weddingbee is bad for me…. i need to go to rehab. 
But an auto refresh would be a neat idea wink wink!!!
I’m hooked, too. I have Weddingbee as the top thing on my iGoogle homepage. I check it ALL the time and frequently do the multiple tab thing! 
Somehow Weddingbee has become like my hobby. I have no clue what I am going to do after we get married…at least I have six months to ween myself off…
I have been addicted to Weddingbee for 7 months now. I am very worried about what life will be like after the wedding!! What other blogs could I possibly go to that has the same fun and fresh ideas?!
PS Google Reader is the BEST for getting constantly updated on new posts
Im a weddingbee addict. I read weddingbee at work, and when Im away from a computer, I read weddingbee on my blackberry. Is there a weddingbee rehab?? I need to sign up for it… haha
Yes… I also am a WB addict. It’s true. I’m also guilty of leaving it up on a tab pretty much any time I am logged into a computer.
My darling husband always makes fun of me for being on it so much and he said he is going to start a competitive site called DudeBee.
He will be Mr. Dude. Then he will get recruits and name them things like Mr. Bro, Mr. Guy, Mr. Pal, Mr. Chief Mr. Homie, etc.
I too am addicted. Always have a browser up. Constantly refresh to see if there are new posts. Its like visual crack, and I can’t get enough!
I’m addicted, too, and I’m not even engaged yet! I’m starting to get my girl friends, engaged and not, obsessed with WB too.
My boyfriend just rolls his eyes. 
My finace knows who several of the regular contributors to weddingbee.com are. He jokingly asks me about Ms. Lovebug’s typewriters, Ms. Penguin’s invites, etc. I was actually glad to be home sick with an awful virus because I could read weddingbee all day. I think I commented on every post the day I was home. I’m not even going to get into how it has cut my productivity at work….Shh!
All I can say is that I am glad that I am not alone!!
Proud Weddingbee addict here, and have been since the very first day it launched!! YAY!! And here I am, lurking… 5 months after the wedding! Today is our 5 month anniversary, woohoo! =)
I didn’t even learn about Weddingbee until AFTER I was married, and yet here I am every day lapping up the sweet, sweet honey. (Is there a prize for “MOST PATHETIC ADDICT”??)
Working from home and being in a hermit stage of life w/mr beanchar, Wb has become my social outlet. A real-life friend invited me out for drinks next week and I caught myself wanting to check the beeTV broadcast schedule before committing to a day/time.
(NOW can I have that MPA trophy??)
Weddingbee has revived the fun giddiness of elementary school girl-crushes– I want to make each and every one of you a lanyard! Ironic, as the site is all about marrying icky cootie-ridden boys!
omg! what perfect timing for a post. My fiance and I agreed if he doesn’t get to watch tv during dinner, I’m not allowed to checking weddingbee during dinner either!
I know, I’m at an all time low, since waaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, when I used to follow Mrs. Bee’s xanga blog!
Nevertheless, Mrs. Bee and weddingbee has been an enormous source of information, humor, design and comradarie amongst brides! I am even more appreciative of its existence now that I am actually engaged and planning a wedding!
hello, my name is jp and i have been an addict for more than 1 year. my friend/dealer turned me on to this crack when weddingbee was first comprised of the NYC bees and i’ve been addicted to WB ever since. i used to hide me reading WB from my fiance when he’d come over, but now i don’t care.
I’m absolutely addicted to weddingbee. I’ve been reading for a little over a year. I got married 2 months ago and thought I’d stop checking it every 5 minutes, but no. I still check it obsessively! Hmm…is that sad?
P.S. It’s a major productivity killer at work. Oops!
F5, F5, F5…That’s all I’ve gotta say.
Wanna know what’s dedication? Wanting to spend more time on the ‘Bee rather than studying for finals. Yeee!
i admit…i am addicted to weddingbee….and i’m not even getting married! my coworker who just got married last year got me hooked and i can’t stop reading about all the DIY projects
Just the other day I was thinking about how my addiction to Weddingbee may need intervention or even … rehab! Seriously, I’m considering some sort of structured cutback b/c the obsession is a little much. It started a little over a year ago, when I wasn’t even considering planning a wedding (just helping with friends’) and now wb has carefully cultivated an MS-style (only, you know, better) obsession with weddings.
But I’m also proud to say that I’ve introduced weddingbee to friends who’ve also become addicted (I think that makes me a dealer, right?)
My boyfriend was the one who told me about Weddingbee five months into our relationship. That was roughly about two years ago. I remember when Mrs Bee was still Miss Bee. Time fies when your having fun. :3
Addict here!! I’ve been married for over 4 months and I still need my daily dose of WB. All these great ideas make me want to plan another wedding!! OK, maybe not another wedding but lots of dinner parties.
For over a year… even way before I was even engaged I scoped out weddingbee daily. It helped me to be a better bridesmaid to one of my best friends who married in November. Even after she was married, because of weddingbee, I was able to self diagnose her with PTWD as she began obsessing and helping me plan mine in the first two weeks of my engagement. I KID NOT! It also helped to create a bond with a knew co-worker who was at the time also planning her wedding. Weddingbee is like crack and I’m hooked bad! Just think, now I’m really planning my own wedding!! Oh the horror of it all! Haha.
I don’t even have a bf - and I read weddingbee each and everyday. I say it’s ‘because I work in the industry’, but that’s really a sack of lies.
BeeTV rules my evenings as well now. So, so sad. =)
I actually stay at work later because I’ll be catching up on Bee and not even realize that it’s 5:15… 5:30… 5:45!!!
It’s a serious problem when I actually choose to stay at work rather than go home because I am engrossed.
These are some sad stories, but mine is worse: I actually just finished reading through *all* of the archives. It took literally months. Someone please tell me I’m not alone!
I too started a blog, just to try and be a bee, (well, and because it’s a fabulous idea to track your “engaged” time, but it’s the first RSS feed I click, on, and the first thing I read when I go home. It’s pretty bad.
we’re not even engaged yet and I’m an addict… I’m going to blame it on Miss Peony, I’ve been reading her xanga for a while…. I’m kinda lurker like that. I don’t even remember how I found her xanga. Blogging is SO COOL, I tell my boyfriend about the exploits of my “blog buddies” as if they’re people I actually know.
I’ll need to ween myself off of blogs once I have a real job again.
I got addicted to Weddingbee when looking for crafty things to do for the wedding…
Before the wedding I’d check it out every day at work and home. I’ve been married since Oct and still check it out! It’s got great ideas that you can definitely use in non-wedding settings too!
superaddict here! i found wb back in july when i was just starting to plan & between jobs. the addiction began easily bc there are so many delicious new posts, all the time, and good god you cant miss one so you have to read back 4 pages if you miss a weekend because what if it’s THE ONE POST you realllllly need to read?!?! sorry. i also am guilty of staying up late to catch up “are you coming to bed or going to read wedding bee all night?”, talking about the bees to my FI, reading (and recently, posting!) at work, multi-tabbing (esp the boards, i ilove to read thru & open all the tabs at once, then flip thru… i dunno why). im also guilty of staying a little later at work to read wb. i also read wb on my iphone at random inappropriate times, altho i use my hand to shield the screen if im on the bus or something. i tried to hide my addiction from FI for about 1 second but now he understands that it’s like checking email or the nytimes headlines online, i just have to do it every hour or so to survive. at least until the wedding in june… right?
funny…lol
i don’t know what i’ll do once i get married and start weaning myself from this site. i mean i’ll have to cut down, i’ll be married after all and will probably have “married” tasks to attend to like, folding socks or something.
but it’s too sad to think of. i will have major withdrawal symptoms when i realize i shouldn’t check it 80 times a night anymore. i am so glad to know there are others out there who are as bad as me!
I see an intervention in my future if my addiction continues… I’ve been married for six months but cannot tear myself away from the weddingbee goodness. I’m working through the archives slowly, just to savor… Like all addictions, I try to hide it from loved ones…but the tabs don’t lie… so glad to know I’m not alone!
seriously. i got a “privacy screen” at work for my computer so that no one can see what i am looking at on my computer unless they are DIRECTLY behind me within 2 feet. I LOVE IT! now i can check weddingbee whenever i want!!!!
Jessica Lynn - my friend told me I should get that privacy screen too!
My name is Vivian and I too, am a Weddingbee addict. I created a blog to “audition” as my friends call it, to become a bee. And after I was politely declined, I was in mourning for a couple of weeks. But even that couldn’t stop my additiction. I’m late for work b/c I’m on WB. I work less b/c I’m trying to sneak a peek on WB. And I go to bed at ungodly hours b/c I’m on WB.
I have even been known to be on the aircard while travelling to/from Mammoth in the car, reading weddingbee to the FI.
Hello! My name is MissyJenn and I, too, am a Weddingbee addict….ironically, i’m a single but I love the topic of weddings and constantly dream of my big day…I check Weddingbee constantly all day at work..from the posts to beetv….i’m learning quite a bit….plus sometime I hope to become a bee, so it’s all good all around!
I read this post while secretly mainlining Weddingbee at work.
I became addicted to WB while doing lots of DIY for my daughter’s wedding last year - and I’m still here; that’s how badly I’m addicted.
Now I’m doing lots of DIY for her friends’ weddings - that’s my excuse anyway. People keep asking me - “How do you know all this stuff about weddings?!!” ;>) This place is a giving me a great education.
I love weddingbee and I’m not even engaged!! It’s so pitiful that I SAVE reading weddingbee til the end…it is my special treat for the end of the night. I check my 6 fav photog blogs, email, facebook, and then…the beloved weddingbee!!!
And I hate writing, but am so contemplating my own blog!!
And I have so many posts saved in my faves that I am now going to have to start organizing them into folders.
weddinbee, how i love thee!
I am totally addicted to weddingbee also. I went through and read all the Mrs. blogs after I read the Miss blogs. I can’t get enough. It has been so helpful and inspriational.
One momentous day last spring, my now-sister-in-law muttered five simple words: “Have you heard of Weddingbee?” Within about 7.2 nanoseconds, I was hooked!
Before Weddingbee, I ignorantly thought theknot.com was the only wedding website out there. I checked out the boards, but I just couldn’t get into it like some girls and every time I posted anything I had to read over it 12 times to make sure I wouldn’t get attacked or ridiculed for saying anything stupid. Weddingbee introduced me to the world of Wedding blogs, which gave me a whole new outlook on the creative ideas I could execute to make our wedding truly “ours.” It showed me that a group of young women planning their weddings could actually form a welcoming community. Who knew??!!
The addiction started while I was at my last job, where I had a LOT more time to do nothing, and I was a frequent poster! At my new job, I only allow myself time to peruse on my lunch break (which means I hardly ever leave my desk for lunch!), and when I get home at night it’s the first thing I do after kissing Mr. Cupcake!
oy, guilty as well…
i log into facebook, email and weddingbee within seconds of turning on the comp in the morning, compulsively check for updates, do a last night check before bed, and get withdrawals over the weekend when the postings slow down.
funny thing is i’m not even engaged. my mom sees the comp screen at home routinely set to weddingbee and she keeps asking me if i want to get married. 
and yes, i’ve been a loyal reader since day 1 and BW(Before Weddingbee) when mrs. bee used to blog on xanga!
hurry for the addicts.
hurray*
ugh. never try to sound coherent hungover
i meant. hooray*
[...] Miss Penguin’s recent post about being a weddingbee addict had me laughing so hard and I love that so many of you responded. [...]
I am absolutely an addict. Thing is, I’m not yet engaged. Oh dear. The first few months of my addiction, I had to hide it from people, because OMG I AM NOT ENGAGED YET (…this sounds so much like I’m addicted to heroine or crack or likewise). However, my boyfriend of a few years has now come to terms with my addiction, and is totally cool with it (thank goodness for my understanding honey).
I liked how one girl said she checks it before she checks her e-mail. I can relate! I love you ladies!
I have to space out my weddingbee reading through the day at work! It’s my late morning and late afternoon pick me up.
It’s gotten to the point now that when my fiancee asks about my day…he then proceeds with asking me about my bees. When we were in Mexico for 5 days recently the first thing I did was check weddingbee…there might have been a fabulous tip I missed! Thank you weddingbee….how I love thee.
I’ve been reading WeddingBee since we got engaged back in October 2006. We have been married 6 months, now, and I can’t bring myself to stop.
It truly is an addiction.
I am SO glad to see that I’m not the only addict. Thanks to WB, I’ll probably have my entire wedding planned before my bf proposes! haha. (totally kidding…sorta).
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Mrs. Penguin, Northern California
Age and Occupation: 27, Weddingbee Editor in Chief
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Doctor of Physical Therapy
Engagement Date: January 29, 2007
Wedding Date: June 7, 2008
Blogging Since: September 14, 2007
Venue: Winery in the Gold Country
About Me: I love the Spice Girls, dogs with underbites, bean burritos, making messes, high fives, avoiding showers, crossword puzzles, blogs, weddings, and blogs about weddings!
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