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Hi Hive! We’re sitting here in Eden Prairie, MN, with a fire a-blazing on the fireplace station on TV, waiting to open our socks. Hope you are having a wonderful and peaceful day, wherever you are! 
Merry Christmas from our family to yours…
Here’s the reveal of part 2 of the Bee Ornament Exchange!
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- Dyed, painted, sewn, stuffed, and capped—a DIY ornament from one crafty bee to another!
The yearly bee ornament exchange is one of my favorite parts of being a bee, and it’s hard to believe that this is already our FOURTH annual bee ornament exchange! Each year, the blogger bees all get together and participate in a secret Santa ornament exchange. With a $15 budget, each bee is challenged to come up with an ornament (handmade or store bought) that represents the bee’s moniker that they’ve drawn! This year over 100 bees participated! WHEW! Check out the adorable ornaments the bees came up with:
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- Wishing my Taco friend a muy Feliz Navidad with a necklace-turned-ornament from Etsy
Hi hive!
The fun folks at YouTube sent us a round up of the top viewed wedding/proposal videos of the year, and we’re here to share them with you! I spent the morning watching them, and I’ve got tears running down my face!
1. Greatest Marriage Proposal Ever!!! - MattandGinny (Views: 20.2M):
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Happy Friday hive! We can hardly believe there are nine days until Christmas!!! We’re kicking today off with the introduction of our newest bee! Give a warm welcome to Miss Opossum, coming to us from sunny Florida!
Miss Opossum, Tallahassee
Age & Occupation: 23, Aspiring Interior Architect
Fiance’s Age & Occupation: 23, Soon to be Firefighter
Engagement Date: October 30, 2011
Wedding Date: April 2012
Venue: The Retreat at Bradley’s Pond
About Me: I am a recent design graduate and aspiring interior architect that is a compulsive list maker, a Christmas light fanatic, and an avid nap-taker. This freckle-faced Southern girl loves being on the back of a horse, hanging out at the gym, and watching SVU with her rugby-playing fiance. It is a dream come true to finally be planning a wedding (in five months) to my high school sweetheart (of seven years). While preparing to tie the knot we’re also balancing Fire College, grad school applications, jobs, and precious time with our supportive family and friends. We’re moving fast…but are excited about enjoying every moment of this time in our lives!
Hi Hive! We’ve been getting several reports from users that the Avast antivirus program is marking Weddingbee as a suspicious/malicious site. We had tech look into this report and were able to reproduce the issue—the Avast Antivirus had recently upgraded their software which has incorrectly placed us on their block list.
You should no longer be receiving these messages as of this morning—Avast has corrected the issue in their release today at 9:45AM.
We just wanted to assure you that Weddingbee is safe to surf, and that this was an error on Avast’s end. Please let us know here, on Facebook or on Twitter if you continue to receive malware messages.
Happy surfing, hive members!
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Our newest bee comes to us from up north! We’re so thrilled to welcome Miss Eagle to the hive!
Miss Eagle, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Age & Occupation: 22, Medical Sciences Graduate Student / Science Instructor
Fiancee’s Age & Occupation: 23, Nurse
Engagement Date: April 2011
Wedding Date: August 2012
Venue: Historic Lougheed House
About Me: I’m a science-geek graduate student who is studying craniofacial malformations and evolutionary developmental biology. I have a passion for DIY crafts, amazing red wine, and all-things-wedding. Together with my wonderful fiancée, we are planning a formal black tie wedding filled with DIY projects and vintage decor. When I’m not reading about science-y things or wedding blogs, I enjoy teaching science-y things to kids and trying to be a Martha Stewart incarnate.
’Tis the season for new engagements!
Many of you may be stumbling upon Weddingbee for the first time as newly engaged couples! Throughout the years, bees and hive members have been uber inspired by some amazingly helpful posts, and we thought we’d take the time this season to highlight those posts for our newest hive members.
Through the season we’ll be publishing a few of the bees’ nominations for the most helpful posts they read while planning their own weddings. We hope you’ll be able to discover what the hive’s archives have to offer for your own planning.
If you have an old favorite Weddingbee post or boards thread that helped you a lot in your wedding planning process, link to it here, and we’ll republish it for the hive! These posts will live under the tag “helpful-series“. As we get going, feel free to scroll through them all via that link!
And to all you new brides and grooms out there: welcome! Leave us a little comment to let us know who you are, where you’re from, and when you got engaged. We can’t wait to inspire your journey to the aisle!
TGIF Hive!
We’re kicking off a new series today: The Randomizer, introduced to us by the lovely Mrs. Avocado.
You probably read plenty of blogs that post the top 20ish most fantastical images from real weddings. But what about the rest of the images? Chances are for your own wedding, you’ve chosen your favorite 50 images or so to share with your family and friends via a physical album, online, and social media. Months pass by, and you may practically forget that there were hundreds of images that don’t see the light of day. We’re here to breathe to life some more, perhaps forgotten, images in your wedding album!
Using a random number generator, the bees have all come together to randomize their own weddings. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing 10 random images from our wedding image collections, with a little background as to what each image was. What was happening when it was taken? Who’s in it? What is it?
We’d love for you to participate as well! Here’s how to share your randomized wedding with us!
1. From your number wedding images, use a random number generator to choose 10 random numbers, and choose the corresponding images to those numbers.
Gobble gobble! We hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Mr. Penguin and I spent the latter half of the week in Scottsdale, AZ where we hiked (climbed? Hike/climbed?) Camelback for the first time. What a thrill! With Thanksgiving just passed, it’s so exciting to welcome Miss Turkey to the hive…give her a warm hello!
Miss Turkey, Philadelphia
Age & Occupation: 29, Brand Management
Fiance’s Age & Occupation: 28, Consultant
Engagement Date: February 2011
Wedding Date: May 2012
Venue: Kimmel Center
About Me: I’m a marketer who loves a good glass of wine, anything pumpkin-flavored, every crime drama on TV and, of course, Mr. Turkey. It’s funny to say out loud, but we’re former coworkers turned betrothed—now planning a wedding in the city of Brotherly Love. For three years, we’ve been eating our way through Philadelphia, playing tourist at home, and cheering for every sports team in the 215. Although we’ve hit some unplanned snags along the way, we’re determined to have a rocking party this spring with our loud, fun families and friends.
We’re kicking off this short week with our newest addition to the hive! Say hello to Miss Mink!
Miss Mink, Charlottesville, Virginia
Age & Occupation: 34, College Administrator
Fiance’s Age & Occupation: 40, Craft Beer Consultant
Engagement Date: November 26, 2010
Wedding Date: June 2012
Venue: Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards
About Me: I left a pre-war brownstone in Boston six years ago to live in a funky, Southern city where Thomas Jefferson, Dave Matthews, and urban chicken keepers enjoy equal social standing. I still love my Patriots and Red Sox, but have fallen in love with Virginia. I work in education and specialize in integrating technology into my work to improve the student experience. I’m a diehard blogger, animal lover, jamband follower, and DIYer. I paint to relax and have transferred by energy from home projects to wedding projects in recent months. When Mr. Mink and I started talking about marriage, we knew our wedding would be outdoors, that my golden retriever would be part of the day, and that the music would be fantastic. We’ve taken a few risks during our planning process and we’ve been enjoying the process immensely!
Our friends at Ritzy Bee have been working this past year to bring you a wedding planning book, and at long last, it’s finally going to print! Starting January 3rd, Southern Living Wedding Planner and Keepsake: What To Do Before Saying “I Do” hits the shelves, and we couldn’t be more excited.
Because this planner was written by bloggers Maria and Kelly of Ritzy Bee, you can be sure that its pages are filled with current, inspiring and helpful tips to plan your entire wedding with the savvy bride in mind. And there’s a little shout out to Weddingbee in its pages. We’re blushing!
It’s available for pre-order now, but you can score one of several free copies and check out a preview of what’s inside over at the Ritzy Bee blog today…check it out!
Congratulations Maria and Kelly! The hive here at Weddingbee is so proud of you!
When we accepted Miss Unicycle as our latest bee, she mentioned she couldn’t believe this adorable icon hadn’t been snapped up already…me either! Please join me this Monday in welcoming our newest bee to the hive!
Miss Unicycle, Chicago, IL
Age & Occupation: 23, Editor for a Web Publishing Company
Fiance’s Age & Occupation: 23, MD/PhD Student
Engagement Date: March 26, 2011
Wedding Date: June 2012
Venue: Bridges of Poplar Creek
About Me: I’m a writer by trade who likes analyzing pop culture, making fun of celebrities, and laughing until I cry. I’m the queen of half-assed crafts, and there’s nothing I won’t try to DIY. You can usually find me reading blogs on my laptop in front of a good Lifetime movie, wine in hand. I’m planning a polka-dotted summertime wedding to my physics geek college sweetheart, and when I’m not making stupid puns I’m freaking out about my wedding timeline.
A moment of gratitude today to honor the hive’s veterans and families of veterans. We thank you for your service today, and every day.
We’ve asked for you to share your wedding pictures with us today for this blog.
Mrs. Teacup and her maid of honor, both graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1999 and served tours in the Middle East.
One of the questions that are asked of me most frequently is, “How do you choose new bee bloggers?” Well, we like to think that they choose us. All applicants apply to become bees—we don’t recruit bloggers beyond occasional posts showing off our new and current generations of icons and a link to where and how you can apply. In an attempt to demystify the process, here’s how Weddingbee goes about reviewing all our blogger applications!
ALL applications and corresponding applicants’ blogs are read carefully by a 12 person committee made up of current and past bee bloggers. The committee is anonymous to the public, to keep the process fair.
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Mrs. Penguin, Northern California Age and Occupation: 27, Weddingbee Editor in Chief Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Doctor of Physical Therapy Engagement Date: January 29, 2007 Wedding Date: June 7, 2008 Blogging Since: September 14, 2007 Venue: Winery in the Gold Country About Me: I love the Spice Girls, dogs with underbites, bean burritos, making messes, high fives, avoiding showers, crossword puzzles, blogs, weddings, and blogs about weddings!
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