Weddingbee Reviews 34

**EDIT: Clearly below I’m talking about Wedding Bee since I mentioned Wedding Bee in my original post. Also mentioned people being in love.. To clarify (even though it was clearly stated) Wedding Bee users went on another site, Circle of Snark, to bash me. A few of the users of Wedding Bee literally created a thread on a random site to bash me by my Wedding Bee username. See below for the full details :).**

Cruel, rude, and hateful comments are tolerated on this forum. The users are absolutely vile. There is an excess of downright bullying. Someone created a post on Circle of Snark detailing my posts and how pathetic I was. This site is filled with the most hateful group of women I have ever seen. You’re supposed to be happy and in love right? Not miserable and bitter. My life is undoubtedly much more fuller and happier than many of the users who were needlessly bashing me. Just like the anonymous forum College ACB, one day someone will attempt or commit suicide over this vicious bullying and WeddingBee will pay the price.

Weddingbee.com is TOXIC TO THE MAX!!!! I totally agree with a previous review. I left a post for advice only to be ripped apart by several nasty, rude, probably childish women attacking me for not reading the previous 60 pages of the thread before I left the advice. Was anyone nice? NO!! They are all rude, self-righteous biotches that make you feel worthless. They attack you and are a clique of nasty people. Stay off of this website and it is toxic to the point you want to throw up. Trust me, this website is horrible.
Update: Weddingbee responded to this with their standard pre-written reply which means nothing.

I'm a long time user of the site and in the last few years, advertising revenue has been put ahead of user experience to the point that the site no longer works and the advertising banners obscure seventy-five percent of the page and the users ability to read forums and reply. The weddingbee admin Tyson Yen, knows about all the site glitches, including the obnoxious advertisement banners, log in issues, duplicate posts being created by the site but refuses to actually set anything in motion to correct these issues which actually affect site usability. The site admin Tyson fobs the users off and has a terrible habit of making post disappear by deleting them if they are posts that question him in regards to when tech issues will be fixed or posts that reflect poorly of him and his management of the site.

I truly hope that the higher ups at this company see this review and take matters into account and get some kind of accountability from the Admin Tyson as to what is happening on weddingbee. It used to be a very well frequented and utilized site but the tech glitches and obnoxious advertising banners that render the site unusable, is turning old users and potential new users away. It's getting to the point that even the moderators can't read the forums due to all the glitches to even be able to moderate posts!

Absolutely the WORST and most TOXIC site I’ve seen!!

DO NOT! DO NOT! DO NOT create an account on this website.

Horrible toxic people full of hate that no matter what you post or say, they will go out of their way to tear you down, grab your soul, and rip it to pieces.

I’ve never seen so many people full of hate.

It is not a support community for women to bond together, give helpful advice, and a shoulder to lean on if something you post doesn’t “meet their standard” BEWARE!!! These pathetic women will jump on you like wasps and sting you to death if YOU don’t meet their incredibly low “wanna claim” ethical behavior. That, in fact are a group without any ethics or care for another human behavior!

DO NOT JOIN THIS SITE!

ADA staff are very friendly, my wife and I were a little overwhelmed with the wedding planing process. When we went for our meeting with Helen she offered us a great deal on our package plan form East Wind Long Island wedding venue. After a summer hurricane stopped our wedding on August 22 of this year, ADA was able to come through and get a photographer for us on the spot. Our photographer was fun and offered us many posses during or wedding day. My experience with ADA was wonderful and I would defiantly book them for future events. I highly recommend ADA to any bride and groom looking for a photographer.

Pretty sure the last commenter was one who called someone a sociopath - but wants to blame other people for her negative experience? Laughable!

Horrible experience. Listen to the other people on Trustpilot and do not sign up. Weddingbee is filled with toxic commenters who are in horrible marriages and are set out to ruin your day. You cannot delete your account, and people will constantly appear on your post to bring you down and shame you without giving constructive criticism. This is a huge privacy black hole and many people’s lives have been ruined by this site. The site has no ethics and doesn’t care to protect your identity at all. I have been a long term user of this site and after getting constantly harassed tho some users are nice, I really can’t take it anymore. This site is a black hole for your energy and it will leave you jaded, exhausted, hateful and feeling like trash. Do not sign up if you want to be happy or want your marriage to work. The mods loooove to pick sides and delete your comments while keeping the comments that harass you disguised as “honest advice/not cozy hug answers.” If you check some people’s post history, they literally go around and poke holes in other people’s lives all day as if they have nothing to do. The mods are biased, cliquey, basically Karens. If you identity as a Karen, this site will be great for you.

No matter what-no matter what you post, there will be snarky comments. It is SO cliquey and to be honest, I laugh when the women get trolled by some crazy poster because it's so easy to rile them up.

Be warned, like others said it before, you can't delete your own account, comments or posts, so you can't stop the madness once it's started unless a mod decides to close the thread.

It's a very toxic environment, seems like they have an etiquette police there, be ready to be dragged if they feel you are "not a gracious host" and do everything the way they would. They disguise their rudeness as "honesty". They keep saying they are just being honest when they hurt someone with their brutal comments.

If you have an engagement ring that's not approved (too big, or from a chain store or whatever reason they decide that day) they will criticize the heck out of it. I remember there was a woman with an unusually large diamond and they zoomed in on the photo and circled the inclusions. WHO DOES THAT?

They also keep posting topics where they ask your opinion about political issues, but it seems like it's only for those who agree with them. If you dare to disagree, they will gang up on you and harass and bully until you finally get out of there. There are a few that will keep commenting and when you ignore them on purpose to avoid an argument, will private message you to make sure you got the message.

They also tracked down a person before (I'm sure not the only one) who complained about her maid of honor and posted screenshots of her comments ON HER WEDDING WEBSITE so her family and friends can all see it. Unacceptable behavior.

EDIT: I think the doxing issue was taken care of eventually and deleted (I can't find it anymore), but not in time, the family most certainly saw it. Please create a way for users to delete their own profile. Also, I would check on mods more frequently if I were you. Not sure if they are volunteers or paid employees. If they volunteer, I'd say they are not horrible, they try, but if you pay them... I would definitely have at least more frequent meetings with them about what's acceptable and how to be impartial and fair regardless of their political opinion, if no one has been hateful. Also if they want to moderate hateful comments, again be fair. I know it's hard but it can be done.

Edit #2 on 9-29-2020: my profile is still active, more than 2 months after my initial request to delete it. People, think twice before registering.

I've just now finally left this forum for good. The straw that broke the camel's back was how members of this site delighted in spreading false information about the pandemic and the general air of "the worst thing about this global crisis is my wedding has to be postponed!!!". Ugh.

Like many women, I was lured in by the excitement of the consumerist aspects of planning a wedding (rings/flowers/venues/dresses), and eventually got hooked on the drama. I'll admit, that was fun at first (in a reality television, wine-throwing kind of way)---there were some outrageous stories. But eventually I realized that perfectly reasonable and perfectly innocent questions or opinions were being treated with blatant bias, snark and (inexplicable) venom by the majority of these "Bees". I started having flash-backs to the bullying I experienced as a young girl in middle school. The Bees operate in exactly the same way. They shower you with compliments and act very accepting, but underneath that they seem to be adhering to some kind of unspoken Bride Code, and the penalty for acting in defiance of that code is mob-mentality cruelty disguised as "honesty". If the user has the gall to question ANYTHING about weddings/marriage/relationships that falls outside of the "Sex and the City"/"The Rules" (so 1990s, basically) definition of what's acceptable, long term members jump on them en masse like wasps on spilled soda. Then we get the endless streams of "It's been a year and he hasn't proposed yet! He clearly doesn't value marriage (cardinal sin). Move on, girl, there are SO MANY great guys out there!" or "If the idea of marriage makes you nervous, that just means you're with the wrong person," or "You've been living with this guy for four years WITHOUT BEING MARRIED and you still expect him to propose? Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free!" or my favorite, in response to a woman who is wondering aloud whether she even wants to get married at all (again, cardinal sin), "You're not really happy with this guy, because no one could be happy in a relationship that doesn't end in marriage! He's just gaslit you into thinking you're content, because if we don't stop them, all men will jump at the opportunity to coast through a relationship without actually "committing". He's a psychopath and you're a moron for letting him use you like this. After all, MARRIAGE IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF WOMANHOOD (that's a direct quote, word for word. I mean....). Any poster who questions these hysterical rulings are in denial, of course. No understanding of nuance, VERY LITTLE practical advice, a lot of agenda-pushing and just straight-up cliquey behavior. Sadly, I've seen a lot of poor vulnerable posters driven to exhaustion and desperation over their relationships (which would have probably been fine if the OP had simply talked to their partner and not the Bees about the issue) by these "well-meaning" commenters, who ironically are actively engaging in the same "gas-lighting" they often accuse the OP's partner of. I really thought we had gotten to a point in our history where women would stop reassuring themselves by taking their aggression out on other women in words. Apparently I was wrong.

For a while I thought all internet forums were just like this. Then I started exploring Reddit as an alternative (a site the Bees are not too fond of), and Lo and Behold! Their Relationship Advice and Wedding subs are actually made up of people who are committed to giving sound, neutral and constructive advice. Sure, there are a few crackpots on there, but at least they're not running the show.

If you're a bride, specifically a nontraditional or nonconformist bride, and you need a sympathetic ear (and for some reason can't find a physical one to appeal to), stay away from Weddingbee.

Regarding the forum, so many rude and disrespectful people. I don’t know why I bother posting on the forum without some snarky response.

Only joined for less than 24 hours and already had to leave due to the rude and spiteful behaviour of certain members. I did report one post in particular that clearly breached the site rules, but nothing was done about it. Very upsetting. Seems like there's a bit of a theme of well known longtime users posting abusive comments and just being allowed to get away with it. Definitely won't be returning.

ETA - I emailed as requested on here, with a link to the thread in question. The matter was not resolved at all, in fact I got a very short, cold and generic reply saying "Thanks for letting me know about this. I'll use this instance to re-assess how we moderate the forums." I replied to this but received no further response. Disappointed and further let down and doubtful that any changes will be made soon on the site, therefore I'm staying away.

I've been a fairly regular user for 3 years and am on the forums almost every day. There are absolutely bullies there. They love to say that people are just "blunt" or "honest," and while that's true, that bluntness and honesty is also done in a nasty way quite often. Users frequently call out other users for being nasty, so I'm not sure why they constantly suggest that the site doesn't have regularly nasty users. "sunburn," "jellybellynelly," "zzar" (though she's improved of late and does provide reasonable advice), and "lady vyk" (which is terrible because she's a mod and frequently engages in bullying and otherwise nasty behavior) are just a few of the regular bullies on the site.

Many are also absolute sticklers about alleged wedding etiquette, which takes into account very little nuance. Weddingmaven, while a generally nice user, will constantly tell people that what they're doing is rude because ETIQUETTE. Regular users absolutely attack non-regular OPs when they're going to do something that the site has deemed rude (such as a having a destination wedding). You simply cannot receive impartial advice about certain hot button issues on the site, so I wouldn't suggest asking in the first place. That makes the forum fairly moot for asking about wedding advice, which is a problem since that is the purpose of its existence.

If you enjoy watching the Bees fight with each other and OPs (which I do and which is why I'm on so much), then by all means! Go! It's great entertainment. But I wouldn't suggest asking for advice about your relationship or hot button issues.

This forum is the absolute worst. Cliquey, ignorant women who are horribly passive and doormats in their "real life" so they use their weddingbee persona to be "strong and opinionated". Pathetic.

I had to say that the forum is not *entirely* dominated by bullies, there are sub categories where you can find all the intelligent folk who will give you help readily, so it does depend largely on where you're posting on Wedding Bee's Forum. I found that Nesting and Family were usually the best categories, some wedding stuff was good too, I never had a lack of support for pre wedding questions. However, if you're posting looking for relationship advice that is definitely one of the worst categories for sure, because we all lead different lives and have different ideas on how to approach relationships.
The site has many active users so it's always possible that there will be cliques and catty behavior. I think sometimes some people are not necessarily being bullies but maybe they have difficulty communicating their ideas through text (some users are very blunt but I doubt that it comes from a dark place). That being said, however, I have seen some very immature ladies who name call at random or make jokes at the expense of other users, those posts are few and far between but because they're so appalling it's easy to get tripped up by them and end up overlooking all the good responses that you get.
There are also plenty of users who post threads looking for advice when in reality they want validation - if you say, for example, that your boyfriend is an abusive jerk whose cheating on you and you ask for advice on how to proceed, and you're surprised and butthurt when everyone tells you to get self esteem, take care of yourself and leave, you're basically asking everyone to tell you it's ok to stay in your crappy relationship because it's easier that way. I've seen so many chicks do this on the site, they always ask for advice but get upset when someone gives them the best advice possible because they're delusional and can't accept the truth, like if he tells you he doesn't want to get married YOU SHOULDN'T TRY TO CHANGE HIS MIND.
So yeah, it's fair to say that some of the negative reviewers on here were probably some of those delusional women who don't want to accept harsh reality, they just blame everyone else for their problems and automatically perceive any advice that differs from their expectations to be bullying instead of what it really is - sound advice!
It's a mixed bag. If you want advice on dry cleaning your dress, come here, if you want fertility advice, come here, painting a house, traveling with a baby, meeting the in-laws, choosing ring sizes, come here!
Financial advice? Talk to your bank. Relationship advice? Get a psychologist. There are some things better dealt with by a professional and not a gang of anonymous women.
I gave two stars for my positive experiences but not more due to the fact I no longer have a use for this site and its forum.

THE......ABSOLUTE.... WORST..... WEDDING..... WEBSITE...... YOU WILL EVER USE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT COME HERE UNLESS YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE EXTREME UNSOLICITED HATE, NEGATIVITY, THREATS, AND BULLING FROM MIDDLE AGED ANONYMOUS KEYBOARD WARRIOR WOMEN AND THE WEBSITES COMMUNITY MANAGERS VIA WEDDING FORUMS THAT THE WEBSITE COMMUNITY MANAGER AND MODERATORS DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT, ALTHOUGH THEY CLAIM THEY DO!!! ITS THE BIGGEST CROCK OF CRAP YOU"LL EVER HEAR. I am EXTREMELY ANGERED and soooooo disappointed by just how rude, unprofessional, and demeaning the website WEDDINGBEE, its moderator MRS. BEERS, community manager TYSON YEN, and BULLYING MEMBERS have treated me AS A FORMER MEMBER of the site. I had been apart of this community for 4 plus years. I joined this site as a way to seek comradery and friendship with other brides getting married around the same time that I was last year. In this site year after year, I have found anything but kindness, love, caring, and support from this community and its members. Instead, I have been greeted time and time again by bitter women, and extreme unwarranted hate that this unprofessional website can't seem to lift a finger to do anything about! All you will get if you chose to make an account on this website is the absolute INABILITY TO DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT ONCE YOU HAVE FOUND OUT JUST HOW TOXIC THIS ENVIRONMENT IS, and when you FINALLY GET YOUR ACCOUNT RANDOMLY DEACTIVATED BY THEIR EXTREMELY RUDE COMMUNITY MANAGER, TYSON YEN, WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT FOR POSTING SOMETHING THEY '''''SUBJECTIVELY'''''' FEEL IS NOT IN COMMUNITY GUIDELINES, "they will block you" leaving you with the inability to view anything on their sight.

DISCLAIMER: (((((( He blatantly and ignorantly messaged me accusing me of attacking other people, and gave that as his reason for deactivating me without even taking the time to hear my side of the story AT ALL by reaching out with a message BEFORE deactivating me to get my two cents... he just did it and because I was deactivated from the site I couldn't even reply so here's my REPLY NOW YEN.... you're a BULLY TOO!!! I was attacking no one, only trying to stick up for and defend myself in a forum in which a bunch of mean women had ganged up on me and were berating me for absolutely no good reason BUT YOU DIDN'T EVEN TAKE THE TIME TO HEAR ME OUT.. what a poor employee you are! YOU SUCK at your job! He deserves to be FIRED for his negligence and they way he treated me as a community manager! SHAME ON YOU TYSON YEN for your poor service! I hope they fire you after seeing this and they should since this is probably the same way you treat everyone else with these issues! ))))))))))))))))))

They don't even leave you with the ability to find out how to delete your profile once you've been deactivated! This blocking feature also prevents you from LITERALLY PMING or reaching out to literally anyone on their site who could actually help you delete your profile! WHICH IF A MODERATOR OR REVIEWER OF THIS WEBSITE IS READING THIS I WANT MY ACCOUNT DELETED. And don't get me started on making posts on their forums seeking CONSTRUCTIVE and KIND advice..... HAHAHAHAHAHA what a joke that is!!!! YOU WILL NEVER FIND THAT HERE. All you will get is the most verbally abusive, unprovoked, unnecessary, unwarranted hate from a bunch of anonymous twenty something to middle aged low life women who hide behind their keyboards and create drama over ANYTHING YOU SAY.... You could say the weather is lovely today, and they will turn it around on you and tell you the weather was better yesterday! This site is full of pure meanness just to be mean. This wedding forum website is SO cliquey it's a JOKEEEEE man seriously save yourself the heartache and don't even bother with it at all, so many wasted years on here!!! The women on this site are BITTER BITTER BITTER, and will do ANYTHING to start a fight with you, to create drama, and tare you down as a human being because they probably literally just sit at home on their computers all day with nothing better to do!! If you want to waste your time and frankly your life reading pointless lack luster forums about "oh I hate my mother in law" topics, and watch grown women fight over it like two year old children via their keyboards than this is the PERFECT place for you! A place to come to be toxic and negative about your life, and to demean and hate on other women simply for having an opinion that is different from yours because that's the only vibe you will find here. NO MEANINGFUL OR ORIGINAL ARTICLES OR CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE WHATSOEVER. It's an absolutely terrible place to be, and its NOT the place you want to be to share the most wonderful time of your life, YOUR WEDDING because no one offers any support, not even the managers of this site! They are apart of the clique and are in on it too SO DONT TRUST THEM!!! Their moderators continually abuse their power, by "moderating" things that they have no right to moderate. Their moderator MRS. BEERS is one of the worst offenders of them all!! She unjustly moderated my forum post without even trying see my point of view, and shell probably do it to you to if you join this sight and have a slight opinion that differs from hers. She moderated my post for sharing my OWN PHOTOGRAPHY IMAGES with others, that I HAVE THE FULL COPY WRITE TOO CLAIMING THAT I'M NOT ALLOWED TO SHARE MY OWN WORK ON THERE SO PEOPLE, IF YOUR LOOKING TO SHARE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY WITH ANYONE TO GET ANY FEEDBACK GO ELSEWHERE BECAUSE WEDDINGBEE WON"T ALLOW YOU TO. It's just another one of their many convoluted rules that make absolutely no sense, that they broadcast NO WHERE SO ABSOLUTELY NO ONE IS EVEN AWARE OF THEM. MODERATOR BEERS thinks she's Miss wedding bee queen. What a sad life she must live for that to be her only ambition!! Save sharing this most wonderful time in your life with your family, and friends who actually care about you and your well being because the people who are on this website and run it don't care about you AT ALLLLLL, the only reason they're commenting on these reviews is to save face because of how terrible the truth makes them look. And weddingbee commentor, you don't need to respond to my review like you have so graciously responded to everyone else ( though you won't actually take the time to respond to anyone or hear anyone out on your OWN WEBSITE) Nobody cares what you have to say UNLESS ITS YOU SAYING YOU WILL FINALLY DO YOUR JOB AND DELETE MY ACCOUNT ALREADY LIKE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. Clean up your terrible company, and do it quick. Your reviews are so horrible, 84% of reviewers on here agree with me that y'all are extremely unprofessional, and host a terrible wedding website environment. DO something about it instead of trying to save face on your review boards, and make yourself look better via your insensitive, detached, unemotional, robotic replies. ACTUALLY TAKE THE TIME TO LISTEN to what all of your FORMER USERS are telling you and make some changes to actually make your site a GOOD place to be!!! If I could give 0 stars I would!!!!!

Toxic, unhelpful and a breeding ground for bullies. There are better communities to engage with for sure.

OCTOBER 19,2019 SAVAGE WEDDING. WE HAD LEE AS ARE PHOTOGRAPHER AND HIS KIND SON. I CAN6T EXPLAIN ENOUGH WHAT AN AMAZING JOD THEY BOTH HAVE DONE. WE ARE SO EXCITED TO SEE HOW ALL THE PHOTOS CAME OUT. I WILL NOT EVER USE ANYONE ELSE BESIDES LEE FROM NOW ON FOR ANY OF MY PHOTOS. LEE AND HIS SON. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND ADA STUDIOS (LEE) AND HELEN BROHAN WHO WAS ARE MINISTER. HELEN TOOK ARE BREATH AWAY WITH HER AMAZING HEARTFUL KIND WORDS AND KNOWING THAT EVERYTHING SHE HAD SAID DURING ARE CEREMONY SHE MEANT EVERYWORD FOR ARE FUTHER TOGETHER FOREVER.

Great article content, very helpful. Pleased that they cover all aspects of the wedding process. I see a lot of complaints about the forum, but that's just like any other forum - get over yourself.

A very clique mindset. That site is full of individuals who as a collective conscious abcsond the options of others. The women in those message boards are extremely immature and uneducated. Do not use this message board there is no support.