Dan and Gemma Scott, of Staveley Derbyshire reduced the cost of their wedding by about £9,000 by bartering for most of what they needed, including the church, the reception, their wedding photographs, wedding clothes and the cars they had organised for the day. The couple worked free of charge for local businesses in exchange for [...] Read more »
Diver Retrieves Wedding Band From New England Aquarium Tank
The centerpiece of the New England Aquarium is the Giant Ocean Tank, a 200,000 gallon container that houses some of the aquarium’s most honored guests. Bob Pirrmann, a marketing executive and diving enthusiast, was scratching the back of a 560-lb sea turtle in the tank when a water jet attached to the tank’s filtration system [...] Read more »
Gold Prices Could Soar During Indian Wedding Season
While gold prices reached record highs in March 2008, and have declined by 20 percent since that time, analysts expect another rise that will co-incide with the wedding season in India. According to an analyst with JP Morgan Chase, gold purchases from India account for price increases of about 10 percent annually from September to [...] Read more »
Worlds Highest-Paid Model May Be Planning A Wedding
Published reports say that Brazilian super-model Gisele Bundchen may be planning a wedding to American football star Tom Brady. According to sources, Ms. Bundchen approached the famed New York restaurant Tavern On The Green to help plan a wedding reception. The world’s highest-paid model (according to Forbes magazine) has dated New England Patriot quarterback Tom [...] Read more »
No Wedding For Ashley Olsen
Ashley Olsen has rubbished rumours that she will marry beau Justin Bartha next year in the French Riviera. Through her publicist, the actress and fashion designer has refuted media reports that indicated she was planning a million-dollar spectacular in the summer of 2009. Nicole Caruso, a spokesperson for Ms. Olsen, says that the pair are [...] Read more »
Rachel Ray Delivers Wedding Dreams For Houston Couples Closed Out By Hurricane
Television cooking diva Rachel Ray, host of the self-titled Rachel Ray Show, says she will foot the bill for fifty couples who lost their reception venue and deposits when two Houston banquet halls declared bankruptcy following Hurricane Ike. Ray says she has created a one-hour episode about the couples that included a giant wedding on [...] Read more »
Gay Couples In California Rush To Beat Wedding Ban
Gay couples in California last week rushed to beat the November 4 election during which California voters were to decide the fate of gay marriage in that state. As it turns out, voters approved the closely contested ban, amending the state constitution to define marriage as a state that exists between one man and one [...] Read more »
A Digital Twist On Table Cameras
Brides can now put a modern twist on placing cameras at the reception tables. MyFriendsPhotos.com.au will rent 5-megapixel digital cameras along with a digital card reader for the evening. Brides place the cameras on the table and ask their guests to snap pictures of the event. Before the reception ends, the cameras are collected and [...] Read more »
Japanese Groom To Be Torches Hotel To Avoid Wedding
A Japanese groom who was scheduled to be married in a hotel ballroom at The Risonare resort hotel in the Yamanashi Prefecture was arrested on suspicion of arson after an early morning blaze broke out at the site of wedding ceremony. Police allege that Tatsuhiko Kawata spread kerosene around an entrance to the ballroom where [...] Read more »
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Plan Low Key Wedding
Actor Brad Pitt and long-time fiancée Angelina Jolie may be planning a low-key wedding. No date has been announced for the nuptials. Jolie said in a recent interview published in the Italian language version of Vanity Fair that she thinks the older children in their brood will pressure the couple to marry. A friend of [...] Read more »
Worlds Heaviest Man Weds
Manuel Uribe, who holds the world’s record for weight, married his fiancée in a civil ceremony in Mexico on Monday, October 27. The ceremony, which was attended by more than 400 guests, marked one of the few times Uribe has left his home in the past six years. Uribe married Claudia Solis and danced at [...] Read more »
Hurricane Washes Away Dozens Of Wedding Plans
Hurricane Ike, which ravaged the US Texas gulf coast earlier this year, has apparently undone dozens of wedding plans. The owners of two wedding venues, the Bella Terrazza and the Tuscany in Garden Oaks, say that they will not be able to re-open the Bella Terrazza, and it’s not clear what will happen to the [...] Read more »
US Customs OKs Dress – Holds Canadian Bride At Border
A Canadian woman who is engaged to marry a Texas man will have to wait in Canada while the couple sorts out her immigration status with the US Federal government. Christine Tyrrell was trying to board a plane to Houston, TX from Edmonton, Alberta when she got the bad news from US Customs officials: her [...] Read more »
Actor Mark Wahlberg To Marry Long Time Girlfriend
Mark Wahlberg, 37, will marry long-time girlfriend Rhea Durham in a private ceremony in August 2009. The star of the current feature film “Max Payne” says that he and Ms. Durham have been making plans to marry. He did not name a specific date, but did indicate that the ceremony would be held in a [...] Read more »
British Bride Busted On Her Wedding Day
A 21-year old Portuguese woman was arrested in London last month on suspicion of aiding an illegal immigrant to enter Britain. Just minutes after the bride left the church in Dulwich, South London, police moved in and stopped her car. The bride was wearing a white dress and veil, but the groom was nowhere to [...] Read more »
UK and NZ Brides Pony Up To Try On Wedding Dresses
Brides in Britain and New Zealand can add another line item to the wedding budget: charges for trying on wedding dresses. Some high-end bridal boutiques are now charging brides who want to try on the dresses, ostensibly to cover the time of shop workers who must work with brides-to-be. Shop owners are saying that many [...] Read more »
Justin Timberlake Proposes To Jessica Biel
Actor Justin Timberlake, 27, has proposed to his girlfriend of two years, Jessica Biel, in Rome, Italy. Biel and Timberlake were in Italy for the wedding of Beverly Mitchell, one of Biel’s co-stars in the US television programme “7th Heaven.” Ms. Biel, 26, has accepted Timberlake’s proposal, although the pair have not formally announced their [...] Read more »
UK Church Hosts Second Wedding In Its 119 Year History
A UK couple won the permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury to marry at St. John’s in Monmouth. The church, which was opened in 1889, does not hold a council wedding license, and as such, has only hosted one other wedding in the congregation’s 119-year history. Such weddings at non-licensed churches are only held with [...] Read more »
Wedding Trumps Babys Arrival But Not By Much
Emma Lowdon and her fiancé Sean Allum were getting married at a Registry Office in Ashington, Northumberland when Lowdon’s labor pains began. The bride, 36, and her husband-to-be had chosen October 3 as their wedding date months earlier, when Lowdon found out that she was expecting the couple’s first child. On September 30, the new [...] Read more »