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I wasn't into blogs at all either. And I had no crazy files of inspiration.
Haha I guess so! This post-a-thon isn't hopping like they usually are.
Well, I love non-wedding blogs so moving to wedding blogs was an inevitable transition. Unfortunately my google reader is bursting! It's probably a good thing you never picked up this nasty habit. ;)
They make me feel bad. As in I can't produce those fantastic results with my limited budget and time. Which makes me feel like my wedding will be a fail.
Then I remember that none of my guests read wedding blogs. None of them even know what a candy buffet is - so for them whatever I do will probably be crazy artsy and off the beaten path.
hmm. I also LOVE blogs in general (mostly art/design) so moving over to wedding blogs wasn't too tough....
At first I LOVED them and lots of my initial inspiration came from around the blogosphere
but after a few months I got kinda sick of 'em. Then bored by them. Then overwhelmed by them....
AND now I just stick with a few tried/trues and a few real brides....
And of course the 'bee. I'm not sure how I'll ever quit the 'bee! :)
I love regular blogs too! although not like some people probably. I have a handful (maybe 10ish) I check regularly. I don't have a reader and I don't actually understand how that works. I even have a blog! I just never found any wedding blogs haha.
Totally not the only ones! I don't read any blogs except ones on the Bee, and even then I pick and choose. I have started to compile some pictures, but I"m pretty sure they all came from the Gallery on the here or the first page of google images like you said!
I'm lazy too!
I don't understand how the whole "reader" thing works either. I googled Google Reader once, but I didn't really look into detail and I don't know how to start one of those or anything.
Just to explain google reader, you add Subscriptions to various blogs (by typing in their address) and Reader compiles all of the blog posts in one convenient location. So you don't have to go through bookmarks to find new posts. You can then put them in different categories, etc :)
Hmmm.... I already have gmail, so I assume I'd just use that to log in to see my reader?
I love the wedding blogs, but I love all blogs.
Two of my BFFS got married around 2006 and, at that time, there were NO blogs. Four years ago-- no blogs. I find that so strange now. I think the knot and marthastewart had websites, but other than that, there was very little out there. They both had lovely weddings and often joke that they're so glad they weren't exposed to all that's out there now...
I (obviously) can't imagine planning my wedding w/o the help of blogs, but they're a very recent phenomenon!
@helstrong: You can get to the reader with the link at the top of your gmail account when you are signed in. It's up there with Calendar and all the others!
I really enjoyed wedding blogs for eye candy when my friends were getting married and I was helping them brainstorm. But now I think it feels a bit like window shopping in a store you know you can't afford - it was much more fun when I didn't need anything!
Blogs are very one-sided. You read them, you look at some pictures, and that's it. In fact, I've been reading wedding blogs for about a month, and now they look all the same...just more pictures of weddings and engagements.
Weddingbee is different. We can share our thoughts, ask questions, support each other. I think that's why I log on each day - to see who else has the same question or a question I can help answer!
I'm reaaalllly sickof every wedding blog doing multiple inspiration shoots of Alice in Wonderland-type decor. It's cute. It's a popular movie. We get it. Can I see something fresh and original now? I think i'm getting to my wedding blog exhaustion point.
Not all wedding blogs are made alike! I've adored A Practical Wedding from the moment I stumbled across it, and that hasn't changed one iota. Places like APW and WB have a lot more content, as opposed to prettiness and fluff, which give them so much more value for me. Here we have community. A great community.
The funny thing is, even though I look at a lot of wedding blogs, it hasn't changed what I want for my wedding. At all. Any feelings of inadequacy are from "Damnit, I'll never have the time/money/resources for those letterpressed calligraphied invitation suites/adorable e-shoots/super high end photographers/chiavari chairs/etc. ad nausaeum. WHY IS THE WORLD SO UNFAIR, WHY?!" Bleck. No wonder it gets old.
Blogs just made me second-guess everything I had planned. I had to stop looking at them because I was going crazy.
I don't read too many wedding blogs, simply because I get a ton of anxiety about my own wedding when I see lovely, stylized, detail perfect weddings. I stick to weddingbee, although I don't read every single post, just the ones that interest me. My other three wedding blogs are offbeatbride, a practical wedding, and 2000 dollar wedding. The best thing about those blogs is that they're not just about pretty pictures, but deal with relationship advice, insights on the cultural implications of weddings and marriage, and critiques of the wedding industry. I never really bothered with sites like oncewed or stylemepretty, they always made me feel bad and I'm not going to torture myself like that.
I'm not a "blog" person. I'd never read a blog till coming across this site when I was looking for a tutorial on making fabric flowers. I find it a great photo- & tutorial-heavy resource for ideas since I'm DIYing 75% of the wedding, but I don't really read the blogs often unless it seems to specifically pertain to me. I have a fairly monotonous desk job, so in addition to advise re: planning, I enjoy the boards for the community and killing time; after the wedding I'll prolly post a few times with photos to get the oblig. oohing and ahhing we're so good at here (90% of humans love compliments at praise!), then I"ll peace out. This wedding planning hasn't really been very enjoyable for me. I hadn't thought it would be but foolishly believed everyone that said I'd get into it eventually. Well, 8 months later I cry over my regret for not eloping like I wanted. One of our Australia resorts has stunning weddingmoon packages that would have been perfect for us. We're financially too vested to drop the ball now, and I won't attach my name to factory-churned cookie cutter event, so here I am stuck planning this thing, and trying to find economical ways to make it "us".
I didn't really read other wedding blogs asdie from the bee. Or, not regularly, anyhow. A lot of them looked too pretty-pretty perfect and precious to me. Also, they all looked the same. Sometimes I would read smaller/personal blogs like $10,000 Wedding, and I liked Off Beat Bride (though I couldn't relate to most of the weddings featured on there) by Style Me Pretty and similar blogs were just not my thing at all. I like the community on weddingbee and the ideas are more diverse (though after a year on here I am starting to see the same things again and again).
I did love wedding blogs but now, I have been engaged over a year, the wedding is next month and if I look at any more inspiration, I will go crazy!
I still love Weddingbee since I can read the posts I want or I can turn to the boards for wedding and non-wedding conversations.
My love for the 'bee is pretty constant. My love for other blogs is decidedly fickle. Style Me Pretty was the one I read the most aside from Wedding Bee
But I just CANNOT take the copy on SMP. At first I read it, then I glanced over it, but now if I catch a glimpse of the text it actively agitates me. It's so over-the-top fawning over every single post, so it sounds really disingenuous to me! Like, REALLY insincere.
UGH. Sorry had to get that off my chest. Also - is it just me or do all the brides & weddings look the same on that blog???
I've seen $2000 wedding but its not my favorite. I'll have to check out offbeat bride and a practical wedding....
I definitely NEED more inspiration. I have vague ideas but I don't have any pictures to put them together to explain to other people. I'm just lazy. haha
i'm def a wb and say yes to the dress addict. but i am not a fan of wedding blogs, wedding mags, books, etc.
i never bought a single magazine, and the only book i have is a stocking stuffer from FMIL.
i've attempted to keep a wedding blog for my personal wishes, but not into the wedding blogs, besides the bees' blogs that i check out every once in a while
Me...I follow a few of the bees (or posts that interest me), I even try to keep one of my own, but I don't search for them. I too get my ideas from google and such and looking at the images.
Oh P.S. @Corgi: I was just at the vet for our little one's rabies shot and guess what walked in?! A Corgi!!! And he was a "low rider". I immediately thought of you!
I'm not into wedding blogs at all. I read weddingbee, but I've been reading here for a long time before I got engaged. Actually, now that I'm planning a wedding I find the blogs a lot less relevant.
I guess I just feel like I'd rather figure things out on my own. I have gathered a few ideas from the web, but I'm trying to keep things low priced and am just going with what feels right to me...I don't have many magazines either.
@sanddollar- too funny about the corgi! I was walking stew yesterday around my neighborhood and a kid (i'm guessing 10ish but I suck at guessing ages) rides up to me on her bike and goes "is your dog a midget?" lol!! I told her no, he was a corgi and thats how he is supposed to look. to which she replied "i don't mean to be mean or anything, but he looks kind of messed up. especially from behind" hahaha. awesome. poor stew! he can't help being short. :)
Hahaha. When I was just engaged I read lots of other blogs for the first month. Now I still have my Google Reader on my homepage but I'll browse those and if anything catches my fancy I'll check it out.
I feel like a lot of them are the same stuff over and over again. What's "unique" gets repeated so often that it's really no longer unique.
But I agree...as of late...the WB community is what keeps me coming back more than the blogs.
@Corgi: OMG that is HILARIOUS!!! I just laughed out loud and have tears. Too funny. I gotta tell FH that. He would find it hilarious as well and totally something he would say
im not a big blog person either...I have maybe two blogs from two of my closer friends that I follow...but more to make them happy that I read them than anything...they are just not for me...I dont really read the blogs on here...Im here for the community and the boards! I will say that when there are interesting pictures on the blogs that it may actually make me read them...but I am def not a blogger and not a big fan of reading them.
As someone who never really thought about weddings at ALL before I got engaged, blogs were a way for me to get some inspiration and see some beautiful weddings - I loved going through them because I had all these "aha" moments where I was like, wow, that's really beautiful/cool amazing, I didn't know I could make my wedding look like that! It opened my eyes to the wide world of weddings.
Now that I've been engaged for over a year and have been reading the blogs for almost that long, the posts started to all look the same to me, to be honest. And now that my vision for my own wedding is more clear, I'm not getting as much out of them. I still love reading weddingbee and a couple of other real bride bloggers, because I feel like they speak more to the planning process, whereas the blogs I used to read just had a lot of eye candy of beautiful weddings (most of which are far out of my budget.)
I wonder if only the people who don't like wedding blogs are replying here? Or are all WB readers loyalists to the end!? 
I did look at a lot of wedding blogs at first, but SMP was just to precious. I would check in at Brooklyn Bride every so often, and I liked the boards on Indie Bride. I didn't post but there was useful information. I liked Offbeat Bride because you almost never saw the same stuff twice there, even as much of it is like, crazy Ren Fair weddings and stuff I would never do. But at least it reminded me that there is a whole world of wedding planning out there aside from candy buffets and Martha Stewart.
All that said, I looked at all those blogs maybe once a day, whereas when I was planning I read every single WB post, and I am still on here even after my wedding.
Also, I was always looking for information on the emotional aspect of wedding planning (like Mrs Cheese) or financial tips or things like that. Stuff outside of color schemes and whatnot.
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Miss Scissor's post today got me thinking. I am just not into wedding blogs.
Ironic, given my post count, no?
I love weddingbee. LOVE IT! But honestly more because of the "community" and chat than because of the blogging. I like the blogs... but the boards are what keep me coming back.
Almost every wedding idea I've gotten has been from weddingbee... because I don't know of or really care about any other wedding blogs! I am a little jealous of girls who have files and files of wedding pics squirreled away from stacks of wedding magazines and blogs.
But I don't. I've bought 2 wedding magazines and made it through one. I couldn't name another blog. Whenever I have some idea all I do is google it, look at the first page of pics (which ironically almost always brings me back to the 'bee)... and I"m done.
Am I just the laziest bride ever??