Name: Miss Spider
Age: 27
Occupation: Paralegal
Fiance’s Age: 28
Fiance’s Occupation: Advisor Research
Engagement Date: December 30, 2005
Wedding Date: October 2006
Venue: Jericho Terrace - Long Island, NY
About Me: My favorite parts of wedding planning are DIY projects and figuring out ways to incorporate old traditions into a modern affair.
Name: Miss Daisy
Age: 31
Occupation: Attorney
Fiance’s Age: 31
Fiance’s Occupation: Finance
Engagement Date: December 10, 2005
Wedding Date: November 2006
Venue: The Metropolitan Club
About Me: My favorite activities used to include knitting, cooking, doing the crossword puzzle and about a million other relaxing pursuits. Since my engagement, well, not so much. Wedding planning has become my primary hobby. So much so that I am downgrading my work schedule to part-time in order to more fully dedicate myself to my wedding (and reality tv, as well, if I’m being honest).
Name: Miss Bird of Paradise
Age: 26
Occupation: Graphic Designer
Fiance’s Age: 24
Fiance’s Occupation: Operations Manager
Engagement Date: November 28, 2005
Wedding Date: November, 2006
Venue: In Louisiana
About Me: The wedding is around the corner and planning has been a blast! I’ve enjoyed nearly every detail obsessed minute of it and I can’t imagine what I did with my time before all of this! I can’t wait for our wonderful day and the rest of my life with Mr. Soon-to-be Bird of Paradise.
Name: Miss Butterfly
Age: 26
Occupation: Bridezilla in training
Fiance’s Age: 29 (almost 30)
Fiance’s Occupation: Making me happy by saying “yes dear” to everything related to wedding planning.
Engagement Date: February 3, 2006
Wedding Date: November 2006
Venue: Twenty-Four Fifth
About Me: Our wedding will be small but fun. I want a whole range of music including cheesy 80’s music! But we’ll see how that works out…
Name: Miss Ant
Age: 24
Occupation: PhD Student
Fiance’s Age: 24
Fiance’s Occupation: Commercial Real Estate Analyst
Engagement Date: July 26, 2005
Wedding Date: November 2006
Venue: Rockhouse Hotel
About Me: I live in New York but I’m planning a destination wedding in Negril, Jamaica. My fiance and I are high school sweethearts!
Name: Miss Snail
Age: 26
Occupation: Make-up artist
Fiance’s Age: 26
Fiance’s Occupation: Making me happy~
Engagement Date: May 7, 2006
Wedding Date: December 2006
About Me: I feel like I’ve waited so long to officially start the wedding planning process and now I’m all sorts of emotions - overwhelmed, excited, stressed, confused. But I’m a trooper and I have the support of the best friends and family. I hope I’m able to plan an amazing wedding in 6 months that will be talked about years from now.
Name: Miss Lily
Age: 30
Occupation: Public health researcher
Fiance’s Age: 30
Fiance’s Occupation: Art / Web stuff
Engagement Date: February 11, 2006
Wedding Date: April 2007
Venue: Tucson, Arizona
About Me: Here are some things I love… painting, drawing, knitting and all other crafty things (including glueing popsicle sticks together); burritos (must be from Arizona); indie/70s rock; whiskey; dogs (if only my tiny apt could support one!); bad TV; and reading. I’m also crazy indecisive so fingers crossed wedding planning doesn’t kill me.
Name: Miss Orange
Age: 29
Occupation: Librarian
Fiance’s age: 25
Fiance’s occupation: Academic
Engagement Date: January 25, 2006
Wedding Date: March 2007
Venue: Nassau County, Long Island
About Me: Mr. Orange and I met thanks to my college friend and Mr. Orange’s dad in Feb. 05. I love to eat, cook, watch Dog the Bounty Hunter, Without a Trace, L&O, and MTV Hits as well as chill with my cat Illie, work on little DIY projects for the wedding, do extensive wedding related searches on Google using my “skills.” Ha-ha. We are having a 150+ ppl wedding incorporating his Jewish background and my Japanese heritage.
Name: Miss Blueberry
Age: 21
Occupation: Full-time student
Fiance’s Age: 23
Fiance’s Occupation: Full-time student
Engagement Date: September 10, 2005
Wedding Date: May 2007
Venue: the Wynbrick Center-a historic mansion in my hometown
About Me: We’re having an intimate, 125-ish person wedding with a full-blown dessert reception. When I’m not obsessing over wedding stuff or studying for my BA in English, I’m usually playing with our two kitty cats, blogging, doing crafty things, or hanging out with Mr. Blueberry!
Name: Miss Apple
Age: 28
Occupation: Entrepreneur
Fiance’s Age: 32
Fiance’s Occupation: Police Officer
Engagement Date: Easter Day 2006
Wedding Date: May 2007
Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant & Gardens
About Me: I’m in the midst of trying to plan a “perfectly beautiful” wedding and decorating my new home. It’s been exhausting but totally worth every minute of it. Ironically, I was never the type of person to want to get married but now that I’m engaged, I get giddy over anything that is wedding related! I’ll try my best to give you all unique and practical ideas.
Name: Miss Plum
Age: 22
Occupation: Accountant by day/ Floral and Event Designer by night and weekends :p
Fiance’s Age: 24
Fiance’s Occupation: Security Admin
Engagement Date: 12/31/2004
Wedding Date: June 2007
Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant & Gardens - Dallas, Texas
About Me: About Me:
I have been engaged for about two years now - yes, a long engagement, because my fiance and I wanted to wait until I graduated college, which I did this past summer! He proposed after dating just two months - crazy, I know, but 2 years later, here we are, still crazy in love 
. We are having not one, but TWO weddings and TWO receptions in one weekend - American-style and Vietnamese-style - in Dallas, Texas, where I was born and raised!
Name: Miss Bluebell
Age: 25
Occupation: Finance Manager
Fiance’s Age: 26
Fiance’s Occupation: Playing with the cat and/or Consulting
Engagement Date: December 25, 2005
Wedding Date: June 2007
Venue: Bride’s family summer home in the Adirondacks, upstate NY
About Me: Trying to find the perfect balance between family tradition (marrying at the house everyone else in my family gets married at), making our’s modern, interesting and different from everyone else in my family’s, and incorporating some Chinese tradition for my Chinese fiance. I really have no idea what it’s going to end up looking like!
Also, I picked Miss Bluebell for my name because I have blue eyes and I’m a loser like that.
Name: Miss Poppy
Age: 27
Occupation: PhD Student
Fiance’s Age: 27
Fiance’s Occupation: High End Retail General Manager
Engagement Date: February 25, 2006
Wedding Date: July 2007
Venue: Astoria World Manor
About Me: I’m a graduate student majoring in Piano Performance. I love knitting, crochet, cooking and learning languages ( I know six so far!). You can find me at your local karaoke bar, yarn shops, sheet music store or any store with Hello Kitty!
Name: Miss Orchid
Age: 27
Occupation: Database Programmer/Analyst
Fiance’s Age: 26
Fiance’s Occupation: Physician
Engagement Date: November 19, 2005
Wedding Date: September 2007
Venue: Ocean Jewels Restaurant in Flushing
About Me: Asian woman of Thai/Chinese/Japanese decent, although I am raised Thai. Born and raised in NY. I graduated from The City College of New York with a Graphic Design degree, however I’m doing database programming. (I know go figure!) I’ll be marring my college sweetheart of 6 years next September. I have 2 furbabies ages 1yr and 8 months. I’m born on the cusp of Capricorn & Aquarius, I guess that accounts for my diligence and streak of creativity!
Name: Miss Violet
Age: 26
Occupation: Executive Assistant
Fiance’s Age: 26
Fiance’s Occupation: Computer Engineer
Engagement Date: May 13, 2006
Wedding Date: September 2007
Venue: Westbury Manor
About Me: I’ve been dating for 7.5 years and now I’m finally engaged. I endured panic attacks during the first month but now I’m sailing my way through the wedding planning and loving every moment of it. In my spare time I’m enjoying the city life, playing with my puppy “Sam”, eating my heart out and traveling. I’m also a crafter - jewelry, knitting, scrapbooks, cards and more. Visit my etsy shop! Hope I can bring a creative edge to the blog.
Name: Mrs. Rose
Age: 37
Occupation: Army wife, web designer, psychology student
Fiance’s Age: 34
Fiance’s Occupation: U.S. Army Apache crew chief
Wedding Date: March 20, 2001
Vow Renewal Date: March 2008
About Me: Happily childfree army wife married over 5 years now. I’m also a psychology student with hopes of starting my own practice someday, and a web designer and developer since 1996.
Name: Miss Sunflower
Age: 26
Occupation: Speech-Language Pathologist
Fiance’s Age: 31
Fiance’s Occupation: Slave to the MTA
Engagement Date: August 12, 2006
Wedding Date: April 2008
Venue: Jericho Terrace
About Me: Mr. Sunflower & I have been together for 3 years and to this day, he laughs at me when I tell him that I knew on our first date that I was going to marry him. Well, the most recent events prove, yet again, that I know everything. Most of my time these days involves planning and getting inspiration for our wedding, but when I’m not doing that, I enjoy shopping, movies, reading, writing, and making attempts at being crafty.
Married Bees
Name: Mrs. Ladybug (formerly Miss Ladybug)
Age:30
Occupation: Full-time blogger from 7 pm to 12 am
Fiance’s Age: 30
Fiance’s Occupation: Playing video games while I blog from 7pm to 12 am
Engagement Date: August 2005
Wedding Date: April 15, 2006
About Me: I am the 2nd of 5 girls. Yes you read that right, 5 girls. I don’t know if there’s anything interesting about my wedding that I can tell you but I was proposed to twice. Read about it here and here.
Name: Miss Firefly
Age: 31
Occupation: Attorney
Fiance’s Age: 35
Fiance’s Occupation: Finance
Engagement Date: April 11, 2004
Wedding Date: June 2006
Venue: Battery Gardens
About Me: I was born in the city of Donetsk in the former Soviet Union (now the Ukraine) and grew up in Brooklyn. Many of my parent’s friends are from Russia and the Ukraine as well. We want all of our guests to have a great time and hit the dance floor so we’ve hired a band that can play both Russian and American music; not to mention a mean rendition of the Gypsy Kings and chair-raising hora!
Name: Miss Caterpillar
Age: 28
Occupation: Corporate Attorney to be
Fiance’s Age: 29
Fiance’s Occupation: Musician
Engagement Date: 3/9/06
Wedding Date: September 2006
Venue: Rooster Point
About Me: I don’t like Jeff Koons, mushy corn, or the unnecessary diacritical marks the New Yorker adds to words like cooperative. Also, I’m an obsessive compulsive when it comes to crafts. And not just the ordinary kind of obsessive compulsive who needs to have everything even and aligned. No. I’ve gilded the heads of pins to make sure they looked properly antique. Gilded them. Then coated them in german glass glitter. I am that crazy.
Name: Miss Grasshopper
Age: 28
Occupation: Interactive Communications
Fiance’s Age: 29
Fiance’s Occupation: Product Manager
Engagement Date: October 8, 2005
Wedding Date: September 2006
Venue: The Foundry
About Me: I like puppies, technology, baked goods and naps. Our engagement went down in Paris on the Alexander III bridge where my fiance nearly dropped the ring into the Seine.
Special Correspondent Bees
Miss Beetle runs a fabulous stationery line at Paperbride and Papermama. She writes our weekly advice column and is also a bride-to-bee getting married in October this year!
Miss Dragonfly is a newlywed, and an expert at surfing the knot for bios. She posts links to the best of knottie bios every week.
Mr. Bee is married to Mrs. Bee! He does weddingbee site maintenance and guest blogs from the groom’s perspective.
Brotherbee is Mrs. Bee’s younger brother. He and his wife are avid travellers, so brotherbee blogs about possible honeymoon destinations
