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Way back in May of this year, I was invited to take part in a runway inspired fashion spread for the fall issue of Martha Stewart Weddings. I was one of the real wedding industry peeps in the audience, and you can see me in three of the fashion shots! Of course I have tons of fun behind the scenes pics to share with you!
I’m sitting in between Darcy and Mark Ingram below, taking a mock picture with my iphone. (image via MS Weddings)
Back in early February, I attended a special taping of the Martha Stewart Show celebrating the 15th anniversary of Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine. Had I known I would be featured on camera 2 months after giving birth, I would have worn something more slimming than this ruffled concoction! 
Jillian of 100 Layer Cake, me, Grace of Design Sponge (of whom I am a HUGE fan), and Darcy Miller (image courtesy The Bride’s Guide)
Here is the fourth installment of the Bee ornament exchange. With the only parameters beings that the ornament had to be under $15, the Bees got creative! Check out the ornaments below!
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Here is the third installment of the Bee ornament exchange. The only parameters? The ornament had to be under $15. Check out the impressive bee creativity below!
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Featured on Weddingbee
All-Inclusion Invitation Suites
“Make an elegant invitation statement without the fuss. Stylish invitation sets with matching envelopes, reception and response cards included.”
Here is the second installment of this year’s Bee ornament exchange. The only parameter the bees set was that the ornament had to be under $15. Check out some more bee creativity, below!
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This year the Bees participated in a Secret Santa where we exchanged ornaments of each bee’s character! Some were made, some were purchased, but all were adorable. With a budget of $15, check out what our talented and creative bees came up with!
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
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 it really shows! Meanwhile I’ve been able to concentrate on growing traffic and building new features.
Mrs. Bird of Paradise recently started her own letterpress shop, so she pulled together these wonderfully clean designs for us. Mrs. Penguin wants you guys to decide on her business cards, so please let us know what you think!
Option A: The logo in “Weddingbee green” with Cathleya’s deets in silver. The hearts would be blind (no ink) embossed into the cards.
On one particular day this past week, I received two emails from readers asking why we don’t have any African American Bees. That same day, I received another email asking why there were so many Asian and Caucasian bloggers on Weddingbee. We get a lot of emails from readers requesting that we feature bloggers of a certain ethnicity, geographic region, budget, religion or gender. We haven’t blogged about diversity and the hive since May 2007, so I thought it was about time to revisit the topic.
While we’d love to have the most diverse hive possible, we can really only select bloggers from our pool of applicants, so our Bees are indicative of the type of applications we receive. In the past, we’ve encouraged bloggers of all different backgrounds to apply, but other than that, we don’t have too much control over the types of brides (and grooms) that apply.
So how do we decide who becomes a Bee? Well the Bees help us decide — they know what it’s like to be a Weddingbee blogger better than anyone.
While we do look at many different factors when evaluating applications, ultimately it comes down to the quality of the blog. We’re not going to turn a blogger away because their demographic is already represented on Weddingbee. And we’re also not going to accept a blogger who has a weak blog for the sake of diversity. Do you think this is a good policy?
We’ve had Caucasian, Asian, Southeast Asian, African American, Hispanic, groom, lesbian, bisexual, plus-size, Jewish, Christian, Catholic, Mormon, British, Canadian, encore brides, brides with children, big budget and small budget bloggers on Weddingbee. I hope that we’ve made it clear that potential Bees of any and every background always have been and always will be welcome!
Is the diversity of the Weddingbee bloggers something you think about? Do you think we need to be taking specific steps to make the hive more diverse? If so, what? We’d love to hear your thoughts!
I attended a special weddings taping of the Martha Stewart Show yesterday. Check it out on PRO!
This awesome Coca Cola Superbowl ad features so many of our original bugs! It was too cute not to share. Be on the lookout for ladybug, grasshopper, bee, butterfly, dragonfly, caterpillar, and beetle! 
Is up on Weddingbee PRO. Go check it out!
Here is the second and final installment of the Bee ornament exchange. The only parameters we set was that the ornament had to be under $15. Check out more bee creativity below!
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This year the Bees participated in a Secret Santa where we exchanged ornaments of each Bee’s character! Some were made, some were purchased, but all were adorable. With a budget of $15, check out what our talented and creative bees came up with!
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Lately we’ve been getting some emails about some of the ads that appear on Weddingbee, so I thought I’d share a little bit about how they work.
Other than the small button ads in the left sidebar, all of our ads are automatically generated by Google Adsense. Because those ads come from Google, we don’t get a chance to review them before they go up on the site (that’s just how Google works). The ads are often based on the content of posts, so if you click on one of my posts, you’ll often see ads for bees like the one below.
Sometimes an ad will slip through that we don’t want on Weddingbee. When that happens, we go ahead and ban the ad. For instance, in the past we’ve banned ads for mail order brides, Ashley Madison, political advocacy, and Prop 8.
We just wanted you guys to know how the ads work. Because they’re automatically generated by Google, we don’t have much control until an ad is already up on the site. But once they’re up, we definitely can ban a specific ad (or advertiser) if we just know who it is.
So if you ever see an objectionable ad on Weddingbee, please take a screenshot and let us know!
The Engage 08 conference was an all day event, and I was scheduled to speak on a panel right after lunch. I was so nervous leading up to it, that I hardly took any pictures! Luckily there were some fabulous photographers in attendance whose pictures I’ve borrowed below.
Let me start by saying that the conference was phenomenol, as evidenced by the large number of repeat attendees from the first Engage ‘08 just a few short months ago. But don’t just take my word for it — check out these amazing reviews!
(image via dvbphoto)
This is Rebecca, founder of Engaging Concepts and mastermind behind Engage 08. Rebecca was a Weddingbee fan pretty much as soon as we launched, and I’ve been unbelievably lucky to have her as a friend the past couple of years. She has been such a huge supporter of both me and Weddingbee, that I couldn’t say no when she asked me to speak at the conference, even though I hate public speaking. 
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