Wisconsin residents Stephanie King and Andrew Gray would like to issue a very special invitation to their wedding to the pilot and co-pilot of US Airways flight 1549, which splash-landed in New York’s icy Hudson River on January 16. The couple, who are in the middle of planning their wedding, were aboard the doomed jet [...] Read more »

A British bride says she is lucky to be alive after a horse drawing the carriage she was riding in bolted after being frightened by oncoming traffic. Sophie Clarke and her father were riding in the carriage on the way to St. Leonard’s Church in Bretforton, when the horse was spooked. The driver and his [...] Read more »

A London High Court judge sided with Madonna in the singer’s suit against the Mail on Sunday tabloid, which published stolen photographs of the singer’s wedding to director Guy Ritchie. The tabloid published an 11-page spread of photographs allegedly lifted from the singer’s Beverly Hills, California home by an interior decorator, who was paid about [...] Read more »

NSW Premier Nathan Rees and his new bride Stacey Haines may be just the first of what New York City wants to see more of: couples traveling to the city to get married. Haines’ sister lives in New York City and took part in the ceremony, which Rees and his bride had hoped to keep [...] Read more »

Michael Jacobson is an avowed atheist who wants to officiate at weddings in Las Vegas. There’s a small hitch in Jacobson’s plans – Nevada state law forbids non-religious officiants from performing weddings. Judges and civil officials are exempt from the requirement, but Jacobson’s application to perform weddings was rejected by officials who say that state [...] Read more »

Archduchess Marie-Christine of Austria married Count Rodolphe of Limburg Stirum on December 6 in Mechelen, Belgium. The couple were wed in a civil ceremony prior to a religious ceremony at St. Rumbolds Cathedral. Marie-Christine is the great-granddaughter of Emperor Karl and Empress Zita. Her new husband, Count Rodolphe, is the son of Count Christian and [...] Read more »

The signs have been coming for more than a year. Officials in Hawaii, a wedding destination extraordinaire, noted earlier this year that the number of Japanese tourists visiting Hawaii to wed had decreased noticeably in the past year. The wedding industry in the Aloha State has taken another hit, as wedding parties from other places [...] Read more »

Singer Stacy Ann Ferguson – better known as Fergie – of the Black Eyed Peas, will reportedly marry her long-time fiancé and actor Josh Duhamel in early January. Access Hollywood reports that the ceremony will take place on January 10 in Southern California. The couple have been dating since 2004 and became engaged in December [...] Read more »

Richard Needs, a former builder, married his wife Lilian on Christmas Day, 1934 because that was the only day he could get off from work. The pair married in a church in Newport and were serenaded by guests singing Christmas carols. Needs first saw his wife in a park in Newport, and after seeing her [...] Read more »

In honour of Veterans’ Day, a group of military brides-to-be received designer wedding dresses free of charge. The giveaway was sponsored by the Azteca Wedding Plaza and took place on 11 November. A few of the brides-to-be were enlisted themselves, but most of the recipients are engaged to men who are serving in the US [...] Read more »

Yang Wei, who won two gold and one silver medal in men’s gymnastics at the Beijing Olympics married his long-time fiancée, former Olympic women’s gymnast Yang Yun. In the process, he created a controversy that has yet to die down in China. Wei accepted corporate sponsorships to underwrite the cost of the wedding, which was [...] Read more »

A newly married man was surprised by his new wife and members of the wedding party who pitched in to rent the University of California at Los Angeles cheerleading squad and the school’s mascot for an appearance at the couple’s wedding reception. The cheerleaders livened up the wedding reception by performing acrobatic stunts for the [...] Read more »

A couple in the UK exchanged wedding vows atop a specially built platform. After they said their “I do’s” they kissed and plunged nearly 150 feet over the side of the platform. They became the first couple to seal their wedding vows with a bungee jump. The pair were joined (on the ground) by 10 [...] Read more »

Brent Harris, 24, is indeed a lucky man. He and his fiancée, Sherry Johnson of Springfield, Illinois in the US, were planning a Christmas Eve wedding in Springfield. At 6:00 AM on Tuesday, December 23, Harris called Johnson from Seattle, Washington to tell his fiancée that he had overslept and was in serious danger of [...] Read more »