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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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.

I don’t know why I never looked for it before, but I’m so excited I found the Wordpress iPhone app. It’s a lot easier than going through the iPhone’s Safari browser to blog. You can easily add photos too, straight from the phone’s camera or photo library.

The above photo was taken at one of the workshops by www.NYWeddingWorkshop.com I attended.

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!

It’s the new year and blog redesigns are all over the wedding blogosphere!  On the day I launched the new layout of Aylee Bits, two of my favorite wedding blogs launched their new designs as well.

Brooklyn Bride

The Bride’s Cafe

Then on January 16, another favorite blog of mine launched its new design:

WeddingBee

My previous layout was very old and it needed an upgrade so bad.  The old layout was using Wordpress version 2.0 and 15 versions were already created after that!!  So I finally upgraded and also changed the layout.  I’m still working on it including the colors.

If you see any errors or if you have any suggestions, please let me know.

Since I like the Brides.com site, I figured I will like their blog Wedded Bits as well.  Unfortunately, not.  I’ve had the blog on my RSS reader for months and I decided to take it out. 

I noticed that most of the entries on Wedded Bits are about wedding products and services.  I’m starting to believe these posts are sponsored – they were paid to post about these products and services.  If there are any tips or advice at wedding planning at all, they revolve around a product or service.  One exception are the “Brides are Talking” posts which pertains to posts in their forums, which I think didn’t really require much effort or thinking from the part of the blog authors.

There was one post where the author began his/her post about a nice venue in Manhattan where they held a bridal shower without mentioning the venue’s name.  Then the author proceeded to talk about a similar venue in California which was the main topic of the post.  I then left a comment asking about the venue in Manhattan, but I never got a response.  Some assumptions I had as to why: they weren’t paid to mention the Manhattan venue; whatever Manhattan venue they were really talking didn’t exist so they don’t really have a specific name they can tell me.

Before the blogging concept came to, we had what we called diaries or journals.  They’re books where we keep our thoughts written.  Now that blogs have almost taken over, I was wondering if people still keep diaries – diaries that are personal and kept private, sometimes with a lock and key.

I never kept a diary.  The only thing close to a diary that I have is this blog.  But this blog is not at all private.  It doesn’t contain all my personal thoughts and secrets.  Would I get a diary (digital like Diary.com or not) to write down my most personal thoughts?  Probably not.  I’m too busy as it is.  But would you?  Or do you have one?

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Blogs are a fast growing force in the wedding industry. You can find hundreds of wedding planning and inspiration blogs including blogs from real brides. Wedding magazines like Brides/Modern Bride/Elegant Bride and Martha Stewart Weddings, not only have websites nowadays, they also have blogs by their editors and staff. A lot of wedding photographers also have blogs set-up featuring their personal life and weddings they shot.

A great feature of blogs that I love is the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or feeds that you can add to your favorite feed reader/aggregator. You can read the latest entries from your favorite blogs all in one place.

I have scoured the net for wedding planning blogs, I am now on the hunt for wedding photographers’ blogs. Photographers’ blogs are great for finding inspiration for your wedding. In addition, it also satisfies my craving for photography. If you have a favorite photographer who has a blog, please do share by leaving a comment.