Weddingbee

My fiance and I are considering whether we should design a personal wedding web site using one of the many vendors out there, but are somewhat concerned about the visibility of these sites via google and other search engines.  I have a very unusual name, and if you google it, you find me right away on pages ranging from my professional profile at my law firm to reported cases and other professional activities.  My fiance’s name is much more common, but both of us are professionals and are mindful of our online presence and reputation.

Has anyone tried using google or another search engine to find your wedding website hosted by a private provider like eweddings.com or weddingwindow.com?  If so, is it easily visible?  Does password protection on the site keep it from coming up in a search engine?

I’d be interested to hear whether this is a concern for other brides and, if so, whether you’ve chosen to make a website for your wedding and how you’ve protected your online rep. Thanks!

EastportBride

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Hello Bees!

I am thrilled to delurk myself as i just became engaged 12/31/07::::pauses for congratulations::: LOL. Anyway, I am pretty sure you all are just the ladies to help me out. I work for a government agency and I am wondering if I should tell my boss directly that I have become engaged. I have only shared this news with a few select employees who have yet to spread the news. I hesitate bc my direct boss is male, and basically, I doubt he would care. But the director (his boss) is my former direct boss (she was promoted). Should I tell her? If I tell her, I know she will instantly want to know about when we plan to do it. My FI recently moved and is now 900 miles away so clearly I will be moving eventually too. She is very calculating and will be thinking about my replacement and all the work she will want me to complete before I leave, which i interpret as cold… .and I honestly don’t want to deal with that right now or the long list of action items she will come up with.

Hi Bees!

As long as I can remember I have always wanted just a plain wedding band (to go with a 3 stone e-ring).  Since I’ve become engaged and we have starting planning people keep asking me what my wedding band will be like.  When I say I want just plain white gold band they all look at me like I’m crazy.  I’ve even had people come right out and tell me that it will look cheap and ugly!  Has anyone else had this issue? What are your thoughts on plain bands vs diamond bands?

kpenn

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I don’t know how to deal with this, and so I thought I’d take it to the board! Last week, my husband and I were finally able to see our wedding photos, and I’m really rather disappointed in them.

We were looking for a more photojournalistic style, with only a few posed photos of the family occuring right after the ceremony. The posed photos happened…all is fine there. The ones of my family in particular aren’t stellar, but there were 19 of us trying to pull ourselves together for them, and 9 of them were kids. We were bound to wind up with issues in them, really.

But the photojournalistic thing, it…just didn’t happen, it seems! I mean, there are a few photos that turned out fun and neat, but out of hundreds, there are only a FEW that I like? They took pictures of the FOOD at the cocktail reception, for heaven’s sake. WTH is up with that? The photos of us dancing during our first dance are admittedly fabulous. I couldn’t be happier with them. But the photos of the people milling about at the party, or even during the ceremony…they just aren’t there. The ones of people at tables and people on the deck outside of the reception area look like photos I would take with my crappy digital camera…they’re random and not photojournalistic in any sense of the word. They seemed to take a lot of pictures of peoples’ backs.

Would you think less of a 26 year old flower girl?

So I have a friend that I didn’t include as a bridesmaid because I set a limit at 3, but (she) was definitly next in line. We had the inspiration one day that she should be the flower girl. At first we were kidding but we decided we could do it classily. We’re a little worried others will take this as putting her down. What do you guys think. If you went to a wedding and someone threw petals in bridesmaid like attire, would you wonder about them?  

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Hi ladies, I have a question about programs.  Namely - are they really needed?  We’re having a secular ceremony that won’t be longer than 30 minutes or so.  No readings, no hymns or prayers, all in all a low key ceremony.  Do you think it will be noticed if I don’t have programs?  Thanks for any advice!

triciaj

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My question is - how do you make it clear that everything on your table is not free to take at the end of the reception? For some reason, maybe its just my strange family, the last two weddings I have been to people have jsut taken things home - anything thats on the table, no matter what it is. Number one, really, why do they want this stuff? Number two, why do they think they are owed something at the end of a wedding? I understand some people give away the centerpieces. However, everything I plan to put on the table, I plan to resell. I have spent a fortune on all this stuff, and I would like to get a little money back from all of it….and anyway, we do favors for a reason! Is that not enough?dreambml

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