What is it About Weddingbee?
May 27th, 2008 @ 3:52 pm by Mrs. Gingerbread
I originally found Weddingbee by accident. I was googling “Vancouver” and “weddings,” trying to get a lay of the land as I started planning my wedding in my new city. I think this combination of search terms led me to Miss Milkshake on Weddingbee. I stayed because I liked being able to read about real people planning their weddings. It demystified weddings in a way that Martha Stewart Weddings never could. Maybe blogs are the new magazine articles?
All I know is that I prefer this more accessible style of writing. If I had a question about where a blogger found the bracelet in her wedding photos, I could just comment to ask her where she got it. No letter-to-the-editor required! I also appreciated the supportive community feel of Weddingbee. Readers are friendly, helpful and nice! Oh and another thing that kept me coming back to Weddingbee was that the site was easy to use. Props to Mrs. Bee, Mr. Bee, & BIL Bee!
Some of you have mentioned that you didn’t find Weddingbee until after you already had your wedding. Others of you have been married for a while, but still can’t kick the Weddingbee habit.
So, what is it about Weddingbee? Are you married readers just wedding addicts or is there something about Weddingbee in particular that keeps you coming back? Brides-to-be, is this just a place to get ideas for your big day or is it something more? And how did you find Weddingbee in the first place? Yes, I am full of questions today!
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49 Responses to “What is it About Weddingbee?”
I heard about Weddingbee on the Knot, when a Philly girl was called out for being recognized as a Knottie Bio of the Week.
And wow, I’m so glad I found the Bee! I’ve been mainly a hive-hoverer, but every so often, I’m commenting on something I love…and I’m very frequently copying down sites and noting great ideas for my August ‘09 nuptuals…including plans to flex my writing muscles and (possibly!) muster the courage to apply for bee-dom.
I found weddingbee by doing a search for something (don’t remember what it was) and I’ve been on it EVERY SINGLE DAY since! I’m totally addicted!
Weddingbee is particularly helpful because it has a variety of voices– but all the bloggers are thoughtful in their posts. Whether you’re planning a huge NYC gala or a country wedding for only 30 people– there are bees with experiences to which you can relate. There are also bees that bring a fresh perspective to wedding planning and who make you think outside the box culturally, regionally, etc. Personally for me though, with my mom 1000 miles away and all of my bridesmaids and close female friends equally distant, weddingbee provides a great outlet to share ideas and emotions with others during this exciting time.
I can’t remember how I first found Weddingbee early last year, but I’ve been completely obsessed ever since. It’s really one of my all-time favorite websites.
Weddingbee is the only wedding site I read religiously. One reason is that there’s enough content (especially by brides in the same planning phase as I am) to keep me interested. Another is that it takes the best feature of other sites (i.e. real weddings) and makes that the focus. Lastly, the bees tend to be planning similar weddings to mine - a mid-budget affair with a mix of diy and professional services. All in all, this is a truly fabulous resource for wedding planning and I’ve recommended it to others.
I don’t remember how I found Weddingbee, but it was over a year ago and since I wasn’t engaged yet and didn’t really know what it was I just bookmarked it to come back when I was looking for wedding stuff… then 2 mos ago or so a friend of mine told me about it and I was like Oh I already have the bookmarked, so I started reading and now I’m hooked!
I love Weddingbee not only b/c it is a GREAT place to get ideas and learn new DIY projects, but it is a wonderful community as well 
Everyone is so willing to help everyone else.
I can’t remember specifically how I found Wedding Bee….I was googling something and ended up here. I was glad to have found it 5 months before I got married because it was an extremely helpful tool. The knot is good, especially for pictures and inspiration, but this website is where its at for that AND step by step diy projects. More than that, I think it’s a wealth of information from other ACTUAL brides as well as a place where you can talk to people who understand “bridespeak”. Wedding planning is virtually a whole other world. No one else but another bride or bride to be knows how manic it can get, and if you’re new to this, you are definately going to need someone to talk to/bounce ideas off of/get opinions/vent.
I got married in March, but I think I still visit the site because, well, I just love it….but also because I feel like I have like a years worth of information and nothing to do with it! I’m pretty sure I will dial down my addiction pretty soon…
I’m with turtle… my mom and BMs are almost exactly 1000 miles away! So I love the community aspect of Weddingbee. I also really love getting to “know” all of the bees. I linked here from another wedding blog, I think. I can’t keep track of all my interweb link-clicking!
I am one of those avid readers who found Weddingbee after it was too late to use any of the awesomeness that I have learned for my own wedding. however, the reason i still read obsessively about 20x a day is three fold:
I identify strongly with what many readers are going through and think that my experience can maybe help others who have yet to tie the knot. Secondly, I have friends who are planning their own weddings now and have asked me for help and inspiration–something that I find here all the time. My third reason for reading the “bee”? A lot of the projects and ideas are features that can be used in everyday life–not just for a wedding! Example: pre-wedding: using a gocco for diy invites. post-wedding: using a gocco for stationary, other types of invitations, etc.
Oh, and one more thing–this site has me laughing all the time at the witty comments–what better reason to stay?!
I admit that I am still an avid reader even after getting married (almost 6 months ago now!). My husband teases me! Like some others, I still feel like I can contribute since now I’ve been through it and can share my perspective with those planning. Also, it is great for ideas that relate outside of the wedding (i.e. bridesmaid gifts could be bday/mother’s day/etc gifts or a gift for myself) and I can always use beauty regimen advice. Lots of topics are still applicable even if I’m not doing table numbers or dress alterations anymore. It’s also fun to follow along with all the different personalities. If there was something similar for newlyweds, I would read that.
I found weddingbee through the firefox add-on “stumble upon.” It was months before I had to courage to comment on a post (silly, silly) and not long after that I applied to become a bee myself. I love that I can talk weddings all day with people who care about the little things just as much as I do.
been married for 3 months. been reading w’bee for a year. i’m a wedding addict.
I found Weddingbee through Stylemepretty. How I found style me pretty… I do not know. Probably google.
I love Weddingbee - I think I linked to it from another blog, but I don’t remember where. All I know is that I wish I had found it earlier. I’m getting married on June 7th (10 days to go!) and there are so many great ideas on here that would have been fun to incorporate, but by the time I started reading it was a bit late…we had already sent out invitations and made our choices for most things.
I think I’ll be addicted to Weddingbee long after I get married, though. I love the community of bloggers - you never know what you’ll be reading about, and if one or 2 are having a slow week there are plenty of others to write and keep us reading.
I found Weddingbee early in its life via another blog. (YouMayNowKissTheBlog.com) I’ve been married over a year now but I can’t quit the weddingbee habit for many of the same reasons as mrsbic. The creativity involved can be applied to other events; the product reviews are always relevant; occasionally I can provide some sage advice. Also, there is good variety. The posts are not repetitious (which even during wedding planning drove me nuts on other boards), and they are interesting, thoughtful, and funny.
Oh and no one knows of weddingbee here in montreal… well at least very few. I hope more and more montrealers come check out weddingbee 
I found it while googling for inspiration for a friend’s wedding theme. It’s the curse of being an artsy person, people turn to you all the time for color-coordinating-related advices. Then I realized that Weddingbee is more than just another wedding-sites. I’ve also been an avid blogger for years, so to read various bloggers’ journeys in preparing their weddings, and all the DIY projects they put themselves through, is very exhilarating. I myself am in no serious relationship right now, which makes it kinda weird to read any wedding-related sites, but I suppose no addiction ever has any logical explanation.
I found weddingbee because MrsLemon is on my local knot board. I started reading it more when my friend Miss Penguin became a bee. I am so lucky to consider both to bee my friends. I tell everyone about weddingbee!
I am 11 days away from my wedding but I know I will still read WB after the wedding is over just to see the pics from the bee’s i have been reading about for months now.
I love the personalized feel of really getting to “know” each blogger. And of course, each person has so many great ideas and suggestions!
I found Weddingbee through a local wedding planner’s blog. I love weddingbee because it’s constantly updated. I make it my lunchtime treat at work to sit and spend 10-15 minutes reading all the updates that have been posted since the night previous.
There are a lot of great wedding blogs out there, but I know of none that are as updated as frequently as this one, and where you have so many different authors talking about their planning and experiences.
I also love reading about the different cultural and regional aspects of the Bee’s weddings.
I’m definitely a wedding-aholic. I have been obsessed with weddings since the ripe old age of 4. I subscribed to Bride magazine during my teen years just because. But I love weddingbee because it is so accessible. Real people, real weddings, real community.
I’m married and just a wedding addict. I’ve always loved crafts projects and decorating ideas, so this is a way to feed my addiction without having to worry about how to implement them in a real wedding!
I was married 5months ago. While I wasn’t much a of DIY myself (My mind is artistic, my hands are not) I enjoyed seeing what others were doing. I still do.
I started following MrsBee back in the day when it was still just her personal blog on xanga! I don’t remember how I found it on xanga. I followed MrsBee here and have recommended it to all fellow brides I meet.
I found the site when my oldest girlfriend was planning her wedding in 2007, and I’ve been hooked ever since.
I’m not engaged (yet!), but it’s on the radar for BF and me, so I stick around for inspiration for our future wedding.
I found weddingbee… I don’t remember how… but it was way back before I got engaged (jan 07) and now I’m married and I still read it, mainly because I followed several bees that are not married quite yet and it’s fun to read about their lives. Also, I am only a newlywed as of 2 weeks, so I feel I can still give good advice on certain aspects… trust me, if you are married, you’ve been through it… I loved my wedding day, but there are some things I wish had or hadn’t happened…
I found it by googling “short-dress brides” and stumbled upon Mrs.Onion! I am now hooked
found this marvelous group via a happy google accident and have been reading and posting obsessively ever since. not only is the hive incredibly knowledgeable, giving and funny - but it’s much more in line with the type of wedding i’m planning not a portal through which the wedding industrial complex can send me all sorts of info about things i’m not interested in.
i’m just under 5 months out and weddingbee has been an invaluable resource - thanks to the site, i’ve found all sorts of info, inspiration and even my DOC. it is so fascinating to read the various bees go through their own planning and also to hear from the mrs. bees who have come out the other side. i’m sure it will take a while for me to stop reading/posting - definitely will want to give back to the hive!
I found Weddingbee when I was googling for a photographer I liked. I wanted to see if she was mentioned on any sites besides her own, and I found she was the photographer in a featured “real wedding” on here. What happened to those, by the way?
Now I’m here every day! I love the DIY projects, the funny posts, the real weddings and the details everyone shares!
I found weddingbee the exact same way as Miss. Gingerbread and have loved it ever since.
I found it in late ‘06 when I linked to Mrs. Lime’s Xanga site via another blog. Mrs. Lime kept talking about weddingbee and I’m like what is this talk about bees? I linked to weddingbee proper and have been reading almost every day. According to your survey, I am one of the 9% who is in a serious relationship, but not engaged. I love all the DIY crafts and ideas, and I do a lot of right click saves, just in case I may need some ideas soon, lol.
i am beyond obsessed with blogging, blog reading, and all that jazz… oh ya.. and my wedding. HAHA.
i read religiously.
i love this place!
i’ll be a bee next year, bet’your bottom dollar
What a fun post!!
I found WeddingBee late one night a few months ago when I was trying to figure out a spin on doing a charity donation, and found Mrs. Lovebug’s “Sweet Charity” post. I’ve been hooked ever since and literally check this as much as my email, which is A LOT! We got engaged in December, and found WeddingBee in February, wedding is in September, so I definitely found it at a great time. LOVE WeddingBee. Addict isn’t a strong enough word
i found weddingbee from xanga and had been reading religiously since 2006 or so. i’m in a serious relationship but not yet engaged and i still read it. lol. it’s been a great help in helping my friend plan her wedding as well as getting the creative juices flowing for my future wedding. a little advance research never hurts! i love how it is real people planning real weddings because for the longest all the focus was on high-budget celebrity type weddings or cheap looking budge weddings - the ones where the industry tries to convince you that more money is better. but here you get to see fabulous weddings across the budget board, which i like a lot.
plus, i am a fan of the witty banter i find from not only the bees but also the commenters. loves it!
I’m livejournal buddies with Miss Candy Corn and she made a reference to weddingbee on her blog.. I checked it out and became hooked. A few months later, I was pleasantly surprised when she became a bee herself!
I have over a year to go (510 days today!) until my wedding and even though I won’t begin planning until later this year, I can’t stop reading weddingbee every day to sponge up as many ideas as possible. I never ever thought I would be this into weddings, but as a designer… it’s like crack!
I found WB in Aug 2006 right around the time my FBIL was getting married. I believe it was a link on Manolo for the Bride’s site. Anyway, I really didn’t know anything about weddings until I came here and I seriously have been on here every day ever since. Now that I am engaged, I at least have an excuse!
@thriftsiren:
Aww Beth, your engagement story is enough to make you qualified to be a bee on its own!! I’m so glad I got you hooked Your wedding will be beaaaaaaautiful.
A friend of mine sent me a link one day of Mrs. Lovebug’s posts, and I was immediately hooked. After going back to the beginning of her blogs and reading through, I began frequenting the site multiple times a day to get my weddingbee fix. I’m currently in a relationship, but probably still at least a year away from engagement but I talk about all the neat ideas and things I see on the site to my SO all the time I just recently joined the boards, mostly because I’ve helped marry a few friends off the last few years and have some tips and ideas from helping them put things together that may help others.
I found weddingbee a few months before my wedding last summer also through google, for Mrs. Lemon’s OOT bags, which of course inspired me to do the same two weeks before my wedding! (my house looked like miss bubblegum’s in her most recent post) and since then I still read weddingbee every day! My husband thinks I’m going to try and plan another wedding, I just love all the ideas and great blogs, I can’t stop! Great post as always!
I stumbled across it on my Google Reader … when I was looking for photography blogs to subscribe to.
I found Weddingbee back in July 2007, Googling something or other. I don’t remember what I Googled, but I remember that the post that introduced me to Weddingbee was about a TTD session. It was the first time I had heard of TTD, and I was hooked! A month later, I was engaged (completely surprised by it!) and able to read Weddingbee legitimately! And now that I am engaged, I don’t think I’m going to do a TTD session anymore, haha.
wow, i dont remember how i stumbled upon weddingbee but i only remember the only bloggers at the time were the bug ladies there weren’t any other cutsie little avatars yet. and i wasnt even engaged yet…but i read through the blogs anyways….fast foward 3 yrs and here i am! still reading and now i’m engaged to be married in a year.
Great post as always!
I found weddingbee last summer after a few google searches led me here and I got started clicking around. It didn’t take long for it to become a daily obsession! I never thought I’d apply to become a bee, but here I am and now the obsession has reached a whole new level!
I found weddingbee from Mrs. Bee’s koreancooking xanga page. (I was wondering what was keeping her away from updating her xanga site…lol). At the time, I wasn’t engaged and not entirely interested in wedding sites. I second Tea’s comment above. It’s been a pleasure coming to this site & reading everyone’s posts & comments. Everything here feels genuine & it really helps to get realistic perspectives on everything involved in wedding planning. I’m so glad for weddingbee.
I found Weddingbee a couple of months ago when I started looking for wedblogs to subscribe to, and now I’m recommending it to all my friends!
I’m a swedish bride-to-be and I must say that most swedish wedblogs don’t quite measure up to your standards
I’ve found loads of inspiration and I’m hoping to be able to use some of your ideas myself!
I’ve got a whole year to go until it’s my turn, but I’m already checking in at least twice a day
What fun to read these comments! I, too, discovered the bee by way of researching something soon after I got engaged. I read for about, oh, five seconds, before realizing that I ABSOLUTELY HAD TO BE A BEE.
Within an hour, I had started writing posts. I even “faked” the time/date stamp on them to fulfill the two-week minimum blogging period before applying.
When I did apply, I was on PINS AND NEEDLES awaiting a reply. And when Mrs. Bee responded by offering me an actual job as the site’s editor (a torch I’ve since passed), I was flabbergasted and nearly peed myself.
Sigh. I love you Weddingbee, and all that you contain.
i found out about weddingbee from my cousin who read mrs. bee’s blog on xanga. actually i think i read her blog too but didn’t realize it until my cousin told me.
i’m really not into weddings. or rather i should say. i wasn’t into my wedding (i.e all the planning i really wanted something small and casual but ended up with a semi big todo because of the size of my family.)
but i enjoy attending weddings. and i like seeing other people’s weddings.
but the real reason i like reading weddingbee -even though i am now past wedding and married for 1 year now, it’s nice to read other people’s stories.
i especially like to read about other people’s finds when it comes to cute things like household items or casual dresses because it keeps me in the loop of learning about new ideas that the bees have that i can apply to things i want for myself. i.e. pampering or buying myself cool clothing or something i see that might be nice for my husband.
I love, love, love reading about how everyone found Weddingbee! I can’t remember how I found it, but I searched wedding-y websites and found a bunch of interesting ones and even followed some of them for a while, but the *only* one I still follow now is Weddingbee! I think the interaction with others is my favorite part!
I became engaged on May 23 (early early that morning @ 1245am!) and the next day when I called my friend to tell her the news, she told me to visit this website for tips, inspiration, ideas and to see that I will NOT be the only crazy girl in this world planning a wedding. & she was right! :o)
Wow I wish I could remember, but like everyone else, once I started, I couldn’t stop. I started reading systematically through all of the posts from married bee’s. If I had to read one website for the rest of my life, it would be this site.
Mrs. Gingerbread, Vancouver
Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer
Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004
Wedding Date: July, 2008
Blogging Since: March 24, 2008
Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception
About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
heh…great post, Gingers. I found WB by googling something (can’t remember what, but I think it was ‘custom embosser’. That was in January of ‘07.
I became an official bee the end of May.
And (clearly) I am still obsessed.
Mostly because I still have (what I think is) relevant things to say about the wedding planning process. But also because of the great community we have here.