Before anything else, I would like to thank all of you for visiting and reading my blog.  My readers are very important to me.  Without you, this blog wouldn’t exist.  So every beginning of the year, I try to re-evaluate the blog, and make necessary changes to improve quality and relevance of content.

And I need your help.  I’m trying to gather some information regarding my readers via quick 1-minute survey. The data collected is confidential.

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I’ve had accounts on Twitter and Facebook, but wasn’t actively updating them.  So I haven’t really posted about them.  But now I’ll try to regularly update them with everything that is going on in my wedding planning.  So now people can…

Twitter:  My blog posts automatically gets posted on Twitter, but I’m also going to include mini posts about my own wedding planning that won’t be on the blog.

Facebook:  In addition to status updates on my wedding planning, I will also post photos!

Can’t get enough of Twitter?  Well, there are talks about a TV series revolving around one of the fastest-growing internet site.

The social-networking site has teamed with Reveille Productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to develop an unscripted series that would put Twitter users on the trail of celebrities in an interactive, competitive format

~ AM New York

What is Twitter anyway?
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

By the way, Aylee Bits do twit!  Click here to visit my Twitter site.

The Spring Wedding Show by The Wedding Co.
May 22 – 31, 2009

Illustrated, interactive and online; The Spring Wedding Show promises to be as much an experience as our live events but with the convenience of attending without stepping foot outside your door. Take a stroll in our virtual park, sip champagne, create your own list of favourite wedding professionals.

As with all The Wedding Co.’s events, every company has been invited to participate based on their quality of work, particular aesthetic and professional integrity.  Click here for more info.

Photo from Getty Images

Now that I’m getting married and a few of my friends are getting married as well, I have gone from admirer of weddings to stalker of wedding blogs.  I go through my blogroll everyday and see what’s new.

If looking for inspiration, be on the lookout not only for wedding inspiration blogs such as Style Me Pretty, Southern Weddings Mag, and Snippet and Ink, but for the following as well:

Wedding/event planners’ blogs, such as:

100 Layer Cake, Amorology, Eclatante, Details Details

Floral and event designers’ blogs, such as:

Huckleberry Karen, JL Designs, Karen Tran

Wedding photographers’ blogs, such as:

Jennifer Dery, Jennifer Skog, Jonathan Canlas, VCS Photo, Vue Photography

What are your favorite wedding blogs?  Where do you usually go for wedding inspirations?

Aylee Bits has a new address!
Please update your links with the new address:

 www.ayleebits.com

I’m planning to slowly get rid of the very very very old blog address: www.gnyc.net/senseless.  The old address still works and will continue working for probably 6 more months.

Aylee Bits is now mobile-friendly.  More people browse the web via their mobile phone including me, so I decided to make it a little easier for them us.

You can easily revert to the regular layout by clicking “View Full Version” at the bottom of the screen.

For those who are using Wordpress and want to go mobile as well, I use the plugin MobilePress.  It’s great and very easy.  Just install, activate and you’re done.

Happy mobile browsing!

I have added a new feature to Aylee Bits – Across the Blogosphere.  I will be posting links and small excerpts of blog articles that I find very helpful and hopefully my readers will find them helpful as well.

You will find my first Across the Blogosphere feature two posts down.  You will notice the featured posts are formatted differently.  If you have any blog articles that you want to share, just let me know.  It might get featured here too.

We’re in a technology boom and more and more engaged couples now have their own wedding websites.  Wedding websites can be very useful to guests.  These websites usually include detailed info about the wedding and other events, travel info for out-of-town guests, gift registry, and even an RSVP form.

While there are a lot of sites that offer wedding website services and hosting for a fee, there are equally as many sites that offer it for free.  Below are some that I know of:
www.weddingwire.com - my top choice
www.mywedding.com
www.weddingannouncer.com
www.projectwedding.com
www.brides.com
www.theknot.com
www.momentville.com
www.ewedding.com

Unfortunately, I couldn’t customize the free websites as much as I want to.  So I decided to use one that I’m familiar with - the blog platform Wordpress.

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I love Martha Stewart and of course especially now, I love her Weddings department.  Even though Martha Stewart Weddings is one of the very few magazines that are worth reading, I am so annoyed with the website.  Recently, they have done a few improvements.

First of all, MS Weddings finally has its own url: www.marthastewartweddings.com.  The navigation and organization annoyed me the most with the old website.  Even though they have improved with the new one, I still find the new website to be less user-friendly than other popular wedding websites.  But it will do.