What is Weddingbee?
Weddingbee is a wedding blog updated daily by 20 or so real brides across the world. They chronicle every aspect of their wedding planning journey sharing ideas, diy projects, research, and their personal wedding stories. By following along on these real brides’ journeys, we hope to inspire and help you plan your own wedding!
Weddingbee also features Boards where users can post their wedding questions to the weddingbee community, Classifieds where brides can buy and sell wedding items, and broadcasts from the bees on beetv!
Who Are the Bees?
The bees are a select group of volunteers who love weddings and sharing ideas with other brides to bee.
You can get to know a little more about each bee by mousing over their character. A mini profile will pop up showing their picture, city, wedding date, and more.
What do the character names mean?
Weddingbee is named after the site’s founder Bee. Her handle on the site is Mrs. Bee, and to maintain anonymity for all the bees, they each selected a character with a corresponding icon. We change the type of characters every couple of months - first we started with bugs to stay within the bee theme, then moved onto flowers, fruits, gemstones, vegetables, candy, back to flowers, birds, and now we’re on desserts.
How do I use the Boards?
You do not need an account to read postings on the Boards, but you do need one if you want to write posts or comment. Once you’ve created an account, you can comment and write posts asking the weddingbee community for advice, vendor referrals, etc. Before posting, please try looking for your answer using search to see if your question has been asked previously, as many of the same questions are often asked over and over again.
There are two different boards that you may post to 1) Beehive (anything wedding related), and 2) Not Wedding Related (discussions not related to weddings).
Instructions on how to embed pictures into your board postings can be found here.
How do I use the Classifieds?
Like the boards, you do not need an account to read postings, but need one to write or comment on posts. The same account works for both Boards and Classifieds.
There are 4 different Classified boards that you may post to:
- For Sale - Where users can post items for sale.
- Free Offers - Where users can post items they want to give away, and vendors can post free services they’re offering
- Looking - Where users can post about specific items they’re looking for (thanks, HamiHarri for the suggestion!)
- Vendors - Where vendors can post about their products and services. However posts to this board will not show up on the “Most Recent Listings in All Categories” board.
Instructions on how to embed pictures into your classified postings can be found here.
How do I watch past broadcasts on Bee TV?
Click on the Bee TV author link for a list of all past and upcoming broadcasts. You can also go on the Bee TV page and click on the highlights tab in the player to check out memorable moments in Bee TV.
How can I contact another user?
You can contact anyone who has a board/classified account directly by clicking on their user name, and the “send private message link.” Please go here for an illustration.
What is a tag?
Tags are what we use to organize posts into categories. Most posts on weddingbee usually have at least two tags:
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a city tag like New York, Los Angeles, etc. to identify the city of the blogger
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a category tag to help organize and classify the post (eg wedding dress, honeymoon, invitations, etc.)
You can find tags at the bottom of each post. There is also a “tags” link in the title bar of the middle column. If you mouse over the word “tags,” a small cloud of the most popular tags will appear. Clicking on “tags” will take you to a page that lists all tags.
How can I become a bee?
You can apply by filling out an application here. Because we have very few slots, please take a look at our blogging guidelines to get an idea of what we’re looking for before submitting your application.
Why doesn’t my comment appear?
Comments that are long or contain more than one link automatically go into moderation. But often our spam filter arbitrarily sends some comments into moderation. We clear our moderation queue many times throughout the day so you should see it appear on the site within the hour. If you don’t see your comment after an hour, please email us at info at weddingbee dot com.
