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A lot of brides get their wedding planning done at work - Rebecca Mead's book "One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding" says a lot of companies with a lot of woman 18-30ish have to block places like TheKnot to increase productivity (if I remember correctly).

Of course, it's also the balance - a lot of people are on computers all day for work - I know I keep WeddingBee open and hit reload throughout the day for a little wedding "hit" in between programming and emails.  I think that knowing that a woman may spend a lot of time and resources on NOT doing work at work would be a reason not to hire them - but I wouldn't think that just 'cause someone is getting married means they're going to spend all of their time at work writing up their guest list.

LOL Guilty as charged, although I will say this last week I was on spring break with a major cold, so I have been beeing it up hard core where usually I don't have this kind of time.  When I'm at work, I have time here and there to do a wedding related task, but for the most part, I'm a good girl. 

If I were hiring someone, I think it may be annoying to have someone always doing tasks other than what I am paying them to do...so rule of thumb:  IF YOU'RE INTERVIEWING, LEAVE YOUR WEDDING PLANS OUT OF THE DISCUSSION UNTIL YOU'VE SIGNED A CONTRACT, GIRLS!  :)

I planned alot of my wedding while at work, but not to the detriment of my job. I am sure that I speak for a lot of people when I say that even though I was busy at work, I ended up with a lot of 10-15 minute spells of downtime.... and I would spend most of my downtime researching the wedding. Still being producitve, and yet spending a decent chunk of my day on the bee. =)

No offense, but isn't this a similar question to - would you hire a woman planning to get pregnant?  I've got my very own wedding gestating right now - due in september.  I'm sure if I was planning on getting pregnant, I'd be just as similarly obsessed with baby info to look up.

Where are those cracks in the glass ceiling, ladies? 

Before I got laid off due to budget cuts, I definitely checked out weddingbee a little during work hours, but I always got my work done on schedule, and my boss knew that I didn't have much on my plate, so it wasn't a big deal.  I never really took my breaks during the day, so I just figured, reading a blog entry or two every hour added up to about 25 minutes of break time, so it's not like I was getting paid to surf the web :)

Miss Rye Bread,

I thought the same thing... and played my favorite game - reversed the genders.  Would you second guess at all to hire a man who was getting married?  

It's a tricky situation.  While some companies recognise that having pencil to paper 100% of the time someone is in the office will quickly burn them out, they still are very conservative when it comes to non-work associated web visits.  But we all know it happens.  What truly annoys me is how much time is spent online anaylizing basketball brackets and fantasy baseball/hockey/football teams that is considered ok, if not celebrated.  Yet if someone makes a phone call to a florist during the day because they aren't open after hours, that's grounds for scrutiny if not termination.

I'm with Mrs. Corn! At my old job, we had a small, black and white TV in our work station during "March Madness". No one complained about that!

Part of wedding planning has to be done at work. Most business have the same hours, so you are typically working when your florist, caterer, photographer is. That's not to say that I'm not embarassed by the amount of time I spend on Weddingbee and other wedding web sites!

It's hard to resist the fun aspects of wedding planning during the day. Especially if you have a lot of down time! =)

I would still hire a woman planning her wedding. It's a few months that will eventually pass. And wedding planning takes a lot of organization and dedication, so you know she'sgotta be quite the diligent worker in general (once the wedding is over with). =)