Wedding Blog

One of the most important things we edit in posts and look for in our bloggers, is the Weddingbee tone. Because of my experience with not-so-nice sites when I was planning my own wedding, it has always been my goal to create a friendly, snark-free wedding community. Inflection doesn’t translate over the world wide web like it does in person, so I’m always hyper vigilant…

My friends Sophia and Mike are an artistic couple, so I’ve been trying to think of things that I can send them that reflect their fun, laid back style.  Then I remembered these super fun mustaches on a stick photographed recently by Carl Zoch – how fun would these be for a photobooth?!

I love hanging dress shots, but I don’t love gorgeous dresses hanging on ugly plastic or wire hangers. So in addition to the emergency kit and bathroom basket I made for my friend Sophia, I also purchased this nice padded hanger from the Container Store for her to hang her wedding dress in style.

I also snagged this Foot Petals Bridal Stiletto Style Kit in a…

My very dear friend Sophia is planning her entire Los Angeles wedding in only 3 months.  I’m devastated I won’t be able to attend, so I’m trying to help her plan as much as I can from afar by sending her inspiration pictures and vendor referrals, calling in favors from peeps I know in the industry, and taking care of the little details so she…

Engage 09 in the Cayman Islands was, in one word, LEGENDARY. You can catch up on all the tweets about it here – most of us came back on Wednesday, but there are some party peeps still on the island! While I gather pictures from some of the many fabulous photographers that were there, I thought I’d share a video clip from a party on…

I arrived at the Ritz Carlton Cayman Islands around noon yesterday, worked by the pool until I got too hot (but I don’t miss that rainy NY weather), and enjoyed a fantastic welcome party on the beach designed by Michelle Rago, complete with fireworks!

Engage09 officially begun 30 minutes ago, and I’ll be live blogging throughout the day.

Cayman Islands time (1 hour ahead of EST)

8:45am - Rebecca…

I was watching Neil Patrick Harris on Conan O’Brien recently, and he mentioned a scavenger hunt/mystery tour that he did called Accomplice New York.  He loved it so much that he helped the founders open a Los Angeles chapter called Accomplice Hollywood.  If Barney thought this tour was legendary enough to invest in it himself, I knew it would be awesome and I had to…

Since brides are always looking for cute stamps for their invitations and save the dates, I thought I’d share an invitation I received the other day that had these adorable King and Queen of Hearts stamps on it.

I’ve been using these fun Simpsons stamps on all my correspondence lately, but I love these King and Queen of Heart stamps best for wedding themed correspondence.

Are you putting…

I decided to have some letterpress business cards printed up as a gift for Mrs. Penguin recently.  We don’t really have official titles here at Weddingbee, so when I got to thinking what Mrs. Penguin’s title should be, I realized that she’s really been the Editor in chief since the beginning of this year.  She’s been doing a fantastic job — she loves Weddingbee and…

Today we’re adding one of our most requested features ever: Weddingbee Bios!

• http://bios.weddingbee.com/

You can post to your bio in any one of 40 categories - from “How You Met” to what your “Cake” looks like.  You can see an sample bio here by the incomparable Mrs. Penguin:

• http://bios.weddingbee.com/profile/penguin

A few highlights:

The Modern Bride Trendsetter Awards dinner is this coming Monday, and I need your help deciding what to wear!

The ever fabulous Amy Salinger came over today with dresses, shoes, purses and jewelry for me to try on. The clothes and jewelry were all borrowed, and the clutches were either very inexpensive (under $40) or from Amy’s personal collection.

Jewelry by Kara Ross. I’m in love…

The Weddingbee Gallery has been a big hit, and we’ve been enjoying the almost two thousand photos uploaded by brides.

We’ve been noticing though, that there’s a good number of gallery photos from vendors.  We’d like the gallery itself to focus on brides — but it gave us the idea to create a separate gallery just for vendors.  So without further ado, we’d like to…

I thought I’d share some details behind the Modern Bride photo shoot!

Remember how I did redid my workspace back in January? It was this photo shoot that was the impetus! When they said they wanted to shoot in the apartment that I just moved into, I knew I had to get cracking. Kim of Inspired Goodness (aka SIL Cupcake) did a fabulous job revamping my…

We received emails from a few users that their computers were infected with WinPC Defender, a fake anti-spyware application.  WinPC Defender claims to be an anti-spyware program, but it actually isn’t.  It displays pop-up ads encouraging you to buy the “licensed” version of WinPC Defender software to “remove” it, which itself is a fraud.

We’ve done a security audit of our site and our advertisers, and there’s…

This is a secret I’ve kept to myself since January when Antonia Van der Meer, editor in chief of Modern Bride magazine, called me to let me know that I was one of Modern Bride’s 2009 Trendsetters! It was definitely one of the most exciting moments of my life! Other trendsetters this year include event designer Colin Cowie, hair accessories guru Jennifer Behr, and jewelry…