As you may have noticed, we've got quite a few new retro and vintage knotties! Welcome!
Our
planning bio list is getting quite large, and I've been faithfully updating it with everyone's planning bios (for those who have them).
I always click the link and check out everyone's bios to make sure everything works, and I'm starting to get concerned with some of the bios I'm seeing. I'll get right to it.
I'd like to think that our Retro and Vintage boards are a very safe place, but in reality it is an open forum on the internet. Therefore, it can be risky to include any personal information on your planning bio. It has happened in the past on theknot (not on these boards thank goodness) where people have used information found on bios to call vendors and cancel portions of or entire weddings. I'm not joking. Because of this--and like most things available to the internet community--you should be careful which information you should and should not include. The usual things to omit from your bios are....
Your and your FI's last names.
The exact location of your wedding.
A list of vendors you've used so far.
Your own personal contact information (phone numbers, address, etc).
You can wait until after the wedding to post these things if you want to.
Lastly, just to be extra safe, some girls contact their vendors and set up a codeword or password so that only they can discuss the wedding details with them. This has also helped in the past with crazy family members who try to control the wedding. :P
As a side note, if you don't yet have a planning bio but want one, you can start a free wedding website right here on
theknot.com (from the main page you can find the link under planning tools) or you can use
www.weebly.com or
www.mywedding.com. Those are the most popular free sites.
I'm not trying to scare you guys, I just want you to be internet smart!
Hei hei