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Update: More birds added!

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You guys loved the idea of birds as our next batch of characters, so now we just need to decide which ones! 

Here’s an interesting tidbit I found out while googling bird images - the white doves that are released at weddings are not really doves; they’re actually white homing pigeons who are much stronger flyers and will return home! 

Now on to the task…

Thanks for your suggestions on our “Real Weddings” icon last week! We loved hellokittyispretty’s idea of the “Just Married” sign, so we had our wonderfully talented artist Irene whip something up. We were worried that the “Just Married” might be hard to see because of the size the icon needed to be, so Irene came up with the idea of adding cans and using a simpler sign.…

Hi everyone!  I’m in sunny Southern California this weekend visiting my family. 

Earlier this week I was emailing with event coordinator Amy of Amy’s Guide, and she sent me some lovely photos of a wedding she recently coordinated.  So I thought that we should ask wedding planners and photographers to send us pictures of inspirational real weddings, and turn this into a regular feature. 

We already have a “Real…

We regularly receive emails from photographers trying to branch out into destination weddings, asking us to post about their free DW photography services.  Couples have to cover airfare and hotel expenses, but all photography services and images are provided free of charge.

I was chatting with Mr. Bee about whether we should post such offers, and he mentioned that it sounded like a great way for a photographer to get…

Hi everyone!

As you can see below, our beehives have been getting out of control lately.  It’s a lot of work for Miss Lovebug and I, and we also get a ton of emails from users.  So we’re considering launching a board as an experiment - kind of like a larger beehive.  We’ve talked about boards before and got feedback from readers worrying that they’d devolve into unmoderated…

Greetings, hive!

Just wanted to let you know that we’re going through the budgets that everyone has so generously submitted, and setting up posts to include some pictures of actual weddings like this one. As one brilliant reader pointed out, it’s great way to show how different brides got the most bang for their bucks. (We’ll still be posting budgets, without pics, as well.)

If you’d like to…

Hey everyone!  Miss Lovebug here, popping in to let you know that we’ve got a nice fat folder of reader budgets that we’re busily getting organized.  So stay tuned; we’ll be ready to post them starting tomorrow!

 And thanks to everyone who shared their info with us. 

We tried an experiment this past weekend where we temporarily removed the “read more right here” option.  That option forces our frontpage to have a lot more HTML than it needs to have.  As a result, the frontpage takes a lot longer to load - it’s not only loading the HTML you can see, it’s also loading the HTML you can’t see behind the “read…

You guys had so many great suggestions for our next batch of flower characters, it was too difficult for us to narrow them down!  We’re definitely gonna have a peony (there’ll be an all out war for that one), but we need to choose nine more.  So please tell us which 9 out of the 17 flowers below we should choose.

Please keep in mind that…

We’re super excited about our latest and “sweetest” additions to the hive.  But we have so many brides leaving us this summer that we already need to be thinking about our next batch of characters!  We’ve decided to do another round of flowers (bees + flowers = a match made in hive-n, right?), and we’d like you to help us choose them!

So far, we’ve had:

Bird of…

Big news in Weddingbeeville: as I mentioned earlier today, we’ve just crowned not one, not two, not three, but FOUR new bees! With summer robbing us of a full TEN bees, we have no choice but to bring on a whole new swarm!

On Monday, we’ll start introducing our latest bloggers (along with their shiny new icons), but in the meantime, here’s a sneak peek at…

Dear Blogary,

Boy, are my antennae twisted. Sometimes being Editor Lovebug is the most fantastic thing ever. And sometimes, it sucks hornet stingers.

Take yesterday for example. I got to write acceptance letters to some new bees! That’s my favorite thing ever! But just last night, I had to write about a dozen rejection letters, too. I HATE having to do that. I feel just awful…

On Wednesday, I received the following email from a photographer:

I would appreciate if you would remove the negative feedback ASAP about my studio on your blog web site.

It was written by a person who was never a client and this type of negative commentary is VERY damaging to my long standiong reputation.

You should think about taking a more responsible position with your weddingbee web site.…

On yesterday’s candy characters post, reader mee!! left the following comment:

maybe for this new batch of bees you could have certain requirements so that there is more diversity on the site. i.e., a bride incorporating african-american traditions such as jumping the broom, a jewish bride (or a bride having a traditional jewish ceremony), a south asian bride having a traditional hindu ceremony, or even a…

Remember our recent weddingbee demographic poll? Well we wanted to see how weddingbee compared with the demographics of the average internet user. Check out these stats BIL Bee compiled using Media Metrix!