Boards

1 Boards
2 Post
3 Thread
4 Types of Boards
5 Board Rules
6 Hive Hostesses
7 Bee Levels
8 Green Highlighted Comments
9 Avatars
10 Weddingbee Posts

Boards

The Weddingbee boards are an online discussion forum, broken down into a variety of topics. Boards let users interact, by allowing members to create a post, which other members can comment on and/or discuss.

Post

A post is a user submitted message. It can be a comment, question, or opinion. Other users may comment on the original post, which creates a thread.

Thread

A thread is an online discussion on the boards. Once a user writes a post, a thread is started. The thread contains the original post and all comments that follow.

Types of Boards

There are 30 boards you may post to:

Accessories - broaches, purses, garters, tiaras, veils, etc.
Announcements - engagement and wedding announcements
Beauty - hair, makeup, skincare, and other beauty related topics
Beehive - general wedding planning
Bridesmaids - bridesmaids, MOH, and wedding party issues
Ceremony - wedding ceremony and related topics
Cultural Boards - 13 boards with ethnic, religious, miltary, and same sex context
DIY - do it yourself projects, advice
Dress - wedding gown, bridesmaid and flower girl dresses
Emotional - emotional support from the Bee community
Encore - for the Bee who's been married before!
Ettiquette - common courtesy and social rules for weddings
Favors - wedding favors
Fitness - fitness and health
Flowers - flowers, bouquets, centerpieces, and related topics
Gifts - what to give, what to ask for
Honeymoons - honeymoons, minimoons
Invitations - wedding invites, save the dates, and related issues
Local Boards - 108 boards pertaining to a specific geographical area
Money - wedding budgets, saving money, personal finance
Month Twins - brides with the same month or date
Newlyweds - life after the wedding
The Lounge -discussions not related to weddings
Parties - Engagement, Showers, Bachelorette, Bachelor, after parties and general celebrations
Pics - show off your wedding related pics
Reception - the party after the ceremony- dinner, dancing, toasts, receiving lines, etc.
Relationships - the good, the bad, and the ugly between you and your SO, FMIL, etc.
Rings - engagement rings, wedding bands
Shoes - wedding shoes, bridesmaid shoes, shoes for wedding occassions
Waiting - for future brides and grooms who have yet to get engaged

Board Rules

As members of the Weddingbee community, we ask that you help keep this a civil, supportive and positive site, please view the Community Guildeines.

Comment Policy

The following Comment guidelines apply when posting generally:

We don’t allow posts that are intended to personally attack, insult or harass our Bees or other users of the Weddingbee site.
While you can certainly disagree with a blogger or commenter’s ideas, please refrain from leaving comments that include snarkiness, defamatory remarks, racist remarks, threats, or profanity.
We don’t allow posts by vendors that are directly promoting their services (see Vendor Policy below)
Although registration is not required to post comments, registered users are given more leeway over users posting with false emails or aliases.
Weddingbee will remove comments that are in violation of the Comment guidelines.

Vendor Policy

Keep in mind that if you name your vendor, they will often find and read your post!
If you want to vent very specific, angry and emotional thoughts, do not name your vendor or say anything that will likely reveal their identity. This way, you can express your thoughts without subjecting yourself to libel.
If you do name a vendor, please write posts in a factual manner and avoid inflammatory statements. If you share what the vendor has done in an even handed way, then our readers can make their own informed opinion.
Give the vendor a chance to respond and/or take action - either on the post, or through email or telephone.
Vendors are encouraged to comment on Weddingbee, but any spam-like comments and blatant self-promotion will be deleted.
When posting about vendors, be responsible and fair. It’s never appropriate to talk about “destroying” a vendor.

For full guidelines, please refer to Community Guildeines.

Self Promotion

Please don't start threads on the board just to promote your own site!
Please don't post the same (or similar) post to multiple forums. All the posts appear on the boards frontpage, so everyone will see all the re-posts.
Please don't link to your URL at the bottom of your post (in a sig-line). You can put it in your profile though, which will link your username to your site.
Please don't post Classifieds on the boards.

Hive Hostesses

A Hive Hostess is a member designated to help run a specific board. Hive hostesses make both new and existing Weddingbee Community Members feel welcomed, elevate topics of interest, and help to ensure that the Weddingbee community remains a welcoming, helpful home for brides-to-bee. They can also be considered a moderator.

Hostesses can easily be recognized by the “Hostess” title under their avatar. The little question marks seen under the avatars in the Blog responses send you to this page where you can apply to be a Hive Hostess!

Bee Levels

Bee levels keep track of the number of times a member makes a post or comment. This includes posts and comments on the Boards and comments on the blogs. As a member, each time you make a post or comment, your Bee Level increases by 1. To become a member, please register here.

Wannabee: 0 posts

Newbee: 5+ posts

Worker bee: 50+ posts

Helper bee: 200+ posts

Busy bee: 500+ posts

Bumble bee: 1000+ posts

Buzzing bee: 1750+ posts

Honey bee: 2500+ posts

Sugar bee: 3750+ posts

Bee Keeper: 5000+ posts

Green Highlighted Comments

The green highlighted comments are a way of highlighting the busiest bees. Once you become a Busy bee, with 500 posts or more, your comments will appear a light shade of green. As you become a Bumble bee, Honey bee, or Bee Keeper, your comment highlights will become slightly darker shades of green.

Avatars

Avatars are personal icons to represent a member of the hive. Anonymous commenters and registered members have gray and green bee icons to hold the place, until an avatar is uploaded.

To upload an avatar: Log in at the top of the page if you aren't already Click "view your profile" Click "upload an avatar" Upload an image that's ideally 50px in width and less than 150px high

Please note: If the picture you plan to upload is greater than 150 px in width and 150 pics in height, the picture will be resized automatically. Although, the file size must be no greater than 1024KB.