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The Wedding Salon is hosting a Bridal Bootcamp for brides to bee tomorrow evening, and yours truly is the keynote speaker!

The event costs $10 to attend, but there is a code below for you to attend for freeeeee!  I’m going to be talking about all the popular craft machines that are popular on Weddingbee like the gocco, cricut, cuttlebug, yudu, and xyron, and sharing…

Yesterday I attended Darcy Miller’s private showing of Family, a special exhibit showcasing her whimsical illustrations and passion for scrapbooking.  The pieces in the collection focused on her wedding, travels, and family, and ranged from shadowboxes, to scrapbooks, to journals to actual items from Darcy’s family life. You could see just how passionate and creative Darcy is when it comes to preserving memories, and I must say…

I went to New Orleans for a couple of days in January of this year with a good friend of mine — it was definitely one of my all time favorite vacations!  Unfortunately I lost a good portion of the pictures I took when my computer crashed, but I had to share the utter awesomeness that is New Orleans with you, so here goes!

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This past weekend we had a Weddingbee party at my NYC apartment!  Here is a little sneak peek at some of the DIY photobooth pictures!

I spy Mrs. Toucan as an evil king, Mrs. Cupcake as a clown, and Mrs. Avocado as a bachelorette/bride!

We recently launched a streamlined layout for the frontpage so that it would load faster for readers!

The feedback was great, so we made it the default.  We told the Bees that we hoped to see an increase in views and comments, but after going over the data… we realized that traffic to the blog has actually gone down.   So we made the painful decision…

Please save the date for a Bee get together at my apartment in the West Village on the afternoon of September 12th!

Mr. Bee and I are moving towards the end of September, so we wanted to take advantage of the backyard we’ve hardly used due to the unusually rainy year we’ve had.  There will be barbecue!  Fun!  Smokey the cat (her sister Sparky will be…

A couple months ago, I took a flower arranging class at a quaint little shop called Rose Red & Lavender in Williamsburg.  The topic that evening was Ikebana — the art of minimalistic Japanese flower arranging. Flower arranging classes are a fun alternative bridal shower or bachelorette party, and Ikebana is an easy, inexpensive and beautiful method of diy’ing flowers so I thought I’d share a bit…

UPDATE #2: Someone submitted this post to The Consumerist!

UPDATE: The owner of Urban Expressions responded to my email shortly after this post went up earlier today. This is what he or she said:

if the customer responds to me with several foul mouthed emails, they get foul mouthed replys right back. i figured if “fucks” and “shits” and “bitches” was her preferred tongue, I’d speak her…

I’ve waited 2 1/2 years to write this post.  I’m officially 19 weeks pregnant with a baby boy!

This entire pregnancy has been fraught with worry, and I prepared myself for the possibility that I could miscarry at any time. I haven’t dared plan a single thing lest I jinx the pregnancy. But we’ve miraculously made it to 19 weeks. We had an incredible full anatomy…

I’ve been looking for the perfect initial necklace forever because my first name is, well, an initial.  While catching up on my blogs recently, I saw it on Oh Joy! and instantly knew that I had found the one.

(J&B are Mr. Bee and my initials.)

Each of these delicate initial, number, symbol and chains from Albeit are made of 14k gold.  It’s amazing how the unique positioning of…

UPDATE #2: Someone submitted this post to The Consumerist!

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UPDATE: The owner of Urban Expressions responded to my email shortly after this post went up earlier today. This is what he or she said:

if the customer responds to me with several foul mouthed emails, they get foul mouthed replys right back. i figured if “fucks” and “shits” and “bitches” was her preferred tongue, I’d speak her…

I’d always been enamored with the Daily Candy illustrations because they were so iconic — as soon as you saw them, you instantly thought Daily Candy.  I wanted similarly iconic graphics for Weddingbee, so I scoured the net for a graphic designer until I came across the work of Paige Pooler, whose cheery, girly work instantly resonated with me. We worked together on the bride illustration…

I shared some of my favorite makeup products in a post last year, and since so many brides are diy-ing their makeup nowadays, I thought I’d share a couple of my recent favorite finds!

For someone who probably wears makeup around three times a month, I sure have a lot of it.  I’m so lazy about putting it on, but I do love makeup!

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I’ve mentioned Rebecca Grinnals several times in past posts on Weddingbee, but she really has been like my wedding fairy godmother. I met a very enthusiastic Rebecca very shortly after we launched — she just “got” Weddingbee right away, and has been a champion of the site ever since. I’m extremely introverted and hate networking, so Rebecca introduced me to everyone in the industry when…

There has been a lot of discussion about day of coordinators on Weddingbee recently, so I want to differentiate between what I call the true DOC (an emerging trend in recent years) and the DOC+.

When I got married four years ago, I hired a coordinator about 2 months out before my wedding. While the services were called day of coordination, they would probably be more…