Weddingbee Blog

We’ve been working hard to push out avatars tonight, and they’re finally live on both the blog and the boards!

To upload your avatar:

1. Log in at the top of the page if you aren’t already
2. Click “view your profile”
3. Click “upload an avatar”
4. Upload an image that’s ideally 50px in width and less than 150px high

Voila!  Your avatar should appear!  Please comment below or on this board thread…

We’re super excited to announce our first batch of Hive Hostesses!

Hive Hostesses comment on board threads, give advice, and welcome new and existing members.  We hope this will make the Weddingbee community an even friendlier place to hang out!

MrsLeopard is our new Community Coordinator, and she’s going to be helping our hostesses with anything they need.  Be sure to check out her stunning wedding…

You may have noticed that we have an Announcements Board.  This is a board just for anyone who wants to post their engagement or wedding announcement.  We’re going to turn it into a regular feature, so we had our lovely artist Irene come up with an icon!

These two are very cute and very similar, but do you have a preference?

PS - If you want us…

Weddingbee reader nyckim won 125 letterpress invitations from Plum Blossom Press in a contest we hosted last year, and she just picked up her invitations last week!  We always love to hear from our past contest winners, so we can share the final product with you!  They turned out gorgeous!

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I love Fred Flare’s fun kitschy products, and this You Warm My Heart Cocoa Mix is no exception.  It’s a heart-themed day today!

Martha Stewart Livings featured something similar in an old issue (diy of course), but the way this is packaged immediately made me think that it’d make an easy, inexpensive, diy favor.

Are you giving edible favors?

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We’ve got three new features to announce… well, two new ones and one upcoming feature!

1. Bee Levels on the blog

We have a bit more room with the wider design…  so now we’re showing Post Counts and Bee Levels on the blog!  You can see it here, to the right of each username:

Bee Levels have been really popular on the boards (plus we promised we’d add…

Laura Hooper’s gorgeous calligraphy has been featured several times here on Weddingbee, so we’re super excited to announce that she’s the latest PRO to join the hive!  Please click on over and help me extend a super warm bee welcome to her!

I know you’re probably sick of me talking about myself by now, but since some of you asked how Joyce curled my hair for the Bee Meetup, here are the details she provided! 

Products/Tools:

• Hair dryer
• Volumizing mousse
• 1 1/4″ barrel titanium curling iron by Hot Tools
• TIGI Bedhead Masterpiece Shine spray
• Beyond the Zone Deranged molding wax
• TIGI Bedhead Hard Head

1. Start off with damp clean hair.  Blow dry on…

I gained a lot of weight over the past month with all the holiday festivities and my trip to New Orleans (the food there is just too delicious!).  I only took one pair of jeans to New Orleans (I’m a light packer), and I quickly realized that they didn’t fit after my first big meal.  I had to use a trick that Mrs. Butterfly taught me when she was pregnant – you…

I never noticed that my teeth were so crooked until I had a million pictures taken of me from all different angles on my wedding day, because they look pretty straight when you look directly at me.

Exhibits A & B

We recently added a Fitness Forum, based on a suggestion by HumarockBride. The new forum has been getting a lot of use, which was great to see!  Building on that success, we’ve been slowly adding forums one by one over the last week or so. Board posting is way up, and the new forums make the site feel cozier than ever!

All posts still show up…

I’ve received a lot of questions about what type of camera/lens I use, so I thought I’d share my secret to great pictures!

I have to admit that I’m a total poser when it comes to photography. Anyone can take nice pictures! And here’s how…

My camera: Canon Digital Rebel XTi 10.1 MP DSLR

Thanks so much for all your kind words on my hair and makeup!  As promised, here is a list of all the products that Joyce used on me.  I know I can’t recreate the exact look, but I can try and I did love all these colors on me.

I’ve bolded the items that I’m going to purchase, put a star next to items I already…

My feet are wide but not long, so I often slip out of my pump style shoes when I walk.  With the 30% off Foot Petals coupon we recently posted, I purchased a three pack of Heavenly Heels – you can see them adhered to the back of my shoes below. 

What a difference!  They’re super comfortable, and I’m no longer slipping out of my shoes.  I just wish I had purchased more before…

UPDATE: Cat accidentally sent me unedited photos, so here are the edited photos below!

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I flew in on the redeye from Los Angeles this morning!  It’s freezing here in New York!  But I’m glad to be back because I have so much to blog about!

While I was in LA I was supposed to have some headshots taken with Weddingbee PRO Amelia Lyon, but I ended…