Weddingbee Blog

We often get questions about how we decide on new Weddingbee generations, so I thought I’d go into how it all started.

We first started with the insect generation since I’m a bee.  When we started to think about future generations, we tried to keep these general rules in mind:

• variety of color/design so the characters are easy to differentiate (herbs and leaves for example would be confusing)
• categories where we could have at least 10 characters
• characters that we think users would want to be
• characters that are somewhat wedding related (we finally broke this rule with the most recent generation of baby animals)

With that in mind, generations following the bugs included: flowers, fruits, gemstones, vegetables, candy, birds, desserts, tropical/exotic fruits, beverages, hors d’oeuvres, shoes, makeup, and baby animals.

In the past, we thought Bees selected specific characters because they were cute.  Based on the feedback we received on the shoe and makeup characters, we thought they would be wildly popular.  But Bees that weren’t super into shoes or makeup opted to choose characters from the previous beverage and hors d’oeuvres generations instead.  I absolutely loved the stiletto character and was surprised that it took so long to be snatched up.  But when I thought about it, I’m definitely not fierce enough to be a Miss Stiletto, so I realized that Bees were selecting characters based on how they could identify with them personally.   

We’ve already mentioned that dog breeds are going to be our next generation, and I’ve been receiving emails from readers asking me to “reserve” a certain breed for them because their wedding is too far for them to apply!  I think it’s so sweet!

So instead of asking you what our next generation of characters should be, please tell us… if you could be any Bee character, what would you want to bee?