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I think it would be cool to be featured in a blog, but I'm not aiming for it. I'm having a rustic style wedding, (or thats my goal at least) which I've been reading is overdone, but I haven't seen it in my region before, so it might be newish around here, and something others are interested in seeing.
No!
My aim was to have a fun simple wedding with the focus on love and friendship and I think I achieved that goal.
I knew that my wedding would not be a blog worthy wedding from the start as we did the minimum on all of the decor details. Our main goal was guest enjoyments so the majority of our budget went to food and alcohol.
In all the internet years before I was engaged, I had no idea why people blogged. Now thrust into wedding planning - wow! I loved so many blogs that google reader is my new best friend :) With information overload, my wedding theme, colors, dress, etc. have been heavily influenced by what I see on the blogs.
I've found new confidence to question myself as to what I really want for our wedding. This confidence has inspired me to wonder whether I'm doing something that's expected (fairy-tale, etiquette, because industry says so) or because it's what I want.
That being said, I worry that my wedding will measure up. Those self-imposed expectations flaring up again, but this time influenced by the blogosphere. My vote is for #3.
When I was planning, I didn't care about being blog-worthy. However, I've been reading my photographer's blog, and I'm surprisingly hurt that our wedding wasn't featured. It makes me feel like I somehow fell short.
Not at all. All we cared about was getting married, spreading the love--everything else was just extra stuff, and we did without.
I'm the only one who voted "what is a blog?" baha! I know what a blog is, but I'm not sure what you mean by blog worthy wedding. Do people have blogs devoted to their wedding? I'm so confused, please explain :)
No, we were not trying or aiming to have a blog wedding. I hadn't even though that was an option...but our photographer did end up 'blogging' our wedding. Honestly, I am really glad he did. Not only did we get to see a whole bunch of pictures from the wedding (we haven't got back all other of pictures yet), it was really nice to share with our family, and he wrote a really touching story.
I guess I should have read some of the replies before voting - the only blog I'm "aiming" for is my own. I want my wedding and photos to be nice enough to be blogged about, but I don't intend to actually be blogged. It's just the LOOK I want, not the blog part. Fresh and fun and elegant. I don't need the attention, I just need the pretty pictures! :)
Our priorities with our wedding were:
1. Get married
2. Make sure friends and family enjoy themselves
3. Don't piss anyone off
4. Make it pretty
It wasn't so much about thinking it takes away from the meaning or thinking it's wasteful - we honestly just didn't care that much!
Yes, in the sense that I want it to be gorgeous enough to be on a blog. Do I think it will actually make it onto any other blog but my own? Definitely not, because I won't even be submitting it to any, nor will I apply to become a bee. I want all the pretty little details that you see on blog weddings, but I don't care if it is actually on blogs.
I'd love to be a Bee, will I make it? Probably not because my wedding is, well, completely different than all the others featured.
Which, in my humble opinion, is a shame because it IS different and I've seen so many posts about "is this going to be looked at as tacky", "should I do this?" or "what will people think about this?" and on and on and on. Our wedding, well, kinda hits on all those view points and then some! So, it might give people a new perspective on what a wedding CAN be. (Who knows, maybe it'll inspire people to do what they really want and not worry about what others think about it.)
Anywhos, I've still got plenty of time to blog and apply and, even if I don't make it, my blog will always be up for anyone and everyone. Especially me for looking back on when I planned our wedding!
How do you even get on a blog. The only blog I follow is the intro page to weddingbee...
I definitely am. I'm inspired by all of the incredible weddings that are blogged about and I hope that ours compares.
I don't really think about whether our wedding will be blog-worthy or not. Personally, I think all weddings are blog-worthy. It's great to see all the different things that people are doing and seeing *any* photos of real weddings is super helpful for the rest of us planning our weddings!
@daydreamwanderer: Pretty much my goals too, except change "Make it pretty" to "Make it non-sucky." "Pretty" isn't on my agenda. Just pretty enough that people won't automatically think I was planning it as though I had to pull it all off myself from 900 miles away.
@cyneswith: non-sucky is probably a better representation of what we were going for too, hahahah...
@Zinzerena: I've never gotten the impression that the blog here on WB is focused on finding weddings with a certain look - the criteria are all about the quality of the blogging, not the style of the wedding.
If your writing is good, you post frequently, and you include lots of photos, that seems to be what the eligibility boils down to (IMO - and no, hostesses aren't in any way involved in the blogger selections, we just focus on the boards).
Blogs are the last thing on my mind when it comes to my wedding. I have definitely gathered information from blogs, but when I think of my wedding, I just want it to be fun and for people to enjoy themselves. Hopefully a few of the guests will appreciate the effort that we put into it, but if not, I know FI and I will.
I will admit that I hope that our wedding ends up blog worthy (not that I will be submitting it for any other than posting on the Bee). I know it will be on our photographer's blog because she blogs all of her weddings. I really enjoyed working on all of these detail projects even if it started as just a way to get through such a long engagement period (25 months).
Will I stress about the details on the day of? No. I just want to be able to enjoy Mr. E and all of our friends and family. I can't wait to see our photographers capture the emotion from family and friends that we have not seen in years.
Making it on some blog is the last thing I will be thinking about during wedding planning.
I want to use details I see from blogged weddings, and I'd like to make it really pretty, but I'm not aiming for any blogs. I just want to have great memories and great photos and for our friends and family to have a blast :).
I love the details on wedding blogs, they're always so pretty. That being said I don't really want to focus on making something so personal appealing enough to other people that it gets featured on a blog. I don't want that kind of stress or disappointment. I would love to be featured but it is not what's going to be in the back of my mind when I'm planning (:
Mostly I just want to get married surrounded by my closest friends and family. My goal is to have a very personal wedding, not the exact same wedding that everyone else has. I live in a very small town and when someone gets married they all have the same style dress, same officient, same venues, same traditions, same food, same decor, etc. Haha I just want our personality to show through.
I did not go into my planning with the ultimate goal of being blogged/published but I will say that it felt pretty good when my photog wanted to submit the pics to a magazine and we got featured. It validated my obsessive attention to detail, which other people make fun of.
I had to vote yes, because even though I am a waiting gal, I would one day love to be a Bee!
But in my opinion, having a "blog-worthy" wedding that never saw the internet would be just as satisfying to me! In my mind, blog-worthy means that you have gorgeous photos that capture the details, big and small, of your day. After all the work gals (and guys) put into their wedding preparations, having a blog-worthy record of it would be so rewarding, even if you never publish the photos online!
No. I don't even read blogs. When I do come across most SMP type pictures I have to admit I find them gimmicky, and can't help but think twenty-something close up pictures of some ribbons or cookies or cutesy signs doesn't mean the wedding itself was pretty or fun. Chances are the guests didn't even notice or care about those. I'm not a DIY person and am not into details much anyway. We focused on the big items that made a difference on how the day went : a beautiful venue which defines the tone of the wedding, good food, good music and good service. I also cared about my attire, hair and makeup because lets be honest, years down the line that's all anyone cares about in the photos, how THEY looked in them. How many times have you gone on vacation and taken hundreds of scenery photos, only to skip through them really fast later and focus on the photos of you and your husband?
No, I don't really read the blogs of other sites unless I'm specifically searching for some element for my own. I do want it to be awesomely pretty and unique - which I think it will be.
Our wedding will never be blog worthy as we aren't doing a SMP type of wedding and that is pretty much all I see on the blogs. While I find them pretty, they are just not our style. I actually quit reading all but the Bee Bloggers, I just haven't seen a whole lot of originality out there lately in the blogisphere. Am just hoping that our pics turn out great and we can make them into a coffee table book, that is our goal outside of having a great time with friends and family.
@sugarpea: I love the details on wedding blogs, they're always so pretty. That being said I don't really want to focus on making something so personal appealing enough to other people that it gets featured on a blog. I don't want that kind of stress or disappointment. I would love to be featured but it is not what's going to be in the back of my mind when I'm planning (:
Mostly I just want to get married surrounded by my closest friends and family. My goal is to have a very personal wedding, not the exact same wedding that everyone else has.
What she said. I'm a member of a couple of blogs and because it will be cost effective wedding would love to share how I managed to pull it off. If it gets featured fine, if not, no problem. However, no where in the back of mind will I make ANY decision by "Oh this will look good for XYZ blog". It has to resonate with me and my FH. If other people take inspiration from it, cool but that is so not the goal.
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So sitting here drinking my morning coffee hitting the rounds of the wedding porn sites - all the pretty blogs and I have to admit - I want a blog worthy wedding with all of the pretty details. However if it is not perfect I will not be crushed - but it is fun to aim for it.
So who else is aiming for that and who is not? Why? Does not matter if you are going for classic or vintage or modern or what - do you want it to be worthy of a magazine spread?