Wedding Blog

Today is Doctorgirl Appreciation Day!!

Doctorgirl is one of our wonderful hostesses.  A month ago, she mentioned that she was going to try and post 400 times in four weeks and make Honey Bee by her wedding (2500 posts!!)  Of course, I was nothing but supportive… haha maybe not.  This is what I told her:

If you hit 2500 comments by your wedding, I will shave my…

Mrs. Bee asked me to write a post about the secret life of Mr. Bee.

I thought I’d start off with a secret about me, move on to a secret about Bee, and end with a secret about both of us!

1. My brother and I are identical twins.  BIL Bee is four minutes older, and I am definitely the younger brother.  A lot of people tell…

We’re making some major feature upgrades to Message Boards over the next few months.

First up: Post Counts, so we can easily see who is active to the boards!  This is a popular feature on almost all boards, so we thought we’d start there.  The feature is live now on the boards — check it out!

Holy cow, Suzanno - you’ve made 1903 posts to the…

We recently got an email from a reader who said she introduced her friend to Weddingbee… but then noticed her friend had trouble keeping track of all the bees. It’s true - it can be a bit overwhelming to come up to speed for first time readers!

So to help new users get to know the bees, we’ve whipped up a module on the front…

There have been a bunch of popular board posts recently about local brides:

• Any Colorado Brides here?  - 65 comments
• CANADIAN BRIDES TO BE (preferably in the Toronto Area!!!) - 33 comments

So we took the hint, and BIL Bee added Local Boards to Weddingbee!  Now you can post into any one of roughly 30 metro areas in the US and Canada:

We added some cities last night, and…

Hey guys - this is Mr. Bee with an update on the message boards.

Over the weekend, the boards started acting funny. After you submit a post or comment, you end up on a blank page. A lot of folks have been hitting backspace and hitting submit again… which causes a double post (or double comment).

We’ve been going through and deleting as many double posts/comments…

Boards and Classifieds have grown like crazy, to the point where they are getting harder for us to moderate. A few of you suggested we add a Craigslist style “flag” link to help control spam… So BIL Bee went ahead and did just that!

Now, when you click our new “flag” link under any Boards post or comment, a little box pops up and you can…

We get hundreds of spam comments a day, so we’ve installed a bunch of spam filters on the blog. One of them started going crazy this evening, and flagging everything as spam for about an hour! Mrs. Penguin pointed it out to us in chat, and we deactivated the crazy spam filter for now.

Everything should be back to normal, and comments should be going through…

Mrs. Bee and I are becoming professional wedding attenders. We go to more than a few weddings a year, which is amazing to me because we both think of ourselves as not knowing many people! Anyway it’s humbling going to other people’s weddings, because you realize how many things you wish you could change about your own wedding. I really think that weddings are becoming…

The site is back up!

We still don’t know exactly what happened. The site stopped working last night, and nothing had changed! BIL Bee and I called and called our web host, and they said they had to wait til morning for their techies to come in. Didn’t they realize that Weddingbee was down?!?!

Finally this morning we gave up on our webhosts and dug into the…

Hello my fellow Bees, this is Mr. Bee. I have to apologize for Weddingbee’s slowness and spotty uptime today. The new webhost that I picked has had great uptime for months - but then started having problems on the very day we picked to move!

We’re currently upgrading our hosting plan to a higher priced version. The upshot is that we will be on a dedicated…

This is Brother in Law Bee. If you’re reading this, you’re visiting Weddingbee at its new home!

It’s been a long road. Our first host was just OK, so we moved to a second host that had great potential, but too many problems. Hopefully, our new ultra-premium webhost will be perfect and we’ll be able to concentrate on making new stuff.

Please let us know…

Ugh, you may have noticed Weddingbee was slow earlier today! We thought maybe it was the Tags tab (which uses the database a lot), so we took that out… but that didn’t help. So my brother hopped on the phone with our webhost, and apparently one of their databases was having problems and was just fixed. Better?

Hmm, we upgraded to this new site host so…

Sorry, ladies :-(. I accidentally took Weddingbee down while doing site maintenance. It should be back up and working fine now! I took out tags off the site for a bit, while we finish up the maintenance.

Mrs. Bee is off to happy hour at School now to meet Miss Poppy and Miss Butterfly… she says you should stop by!

School
105 W 27th St (@ 6th…

I love how Miss Violet asked her friends to be her bridesmaids.

Her bridesmaids were just as surprised as my groomsmen! But I didn’t have a clever plan to ask them… I just sorta mentioned it casually and treated it like no big deal. I just assumed that they would know! I mean, I only have a few close friends… if not them, then who???

But when…