A ranch hand in Kerrville, Texas in the US discovered a wedding ring at the site of a 1972 helicopter crash and turned his find over to the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office. After some investigation, Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer found that the ring had once been worn by Staff Sergeant Bruce Dunn, who was one of [...] Read more »
Bride Surprised By Wedding
Kara Patterson, 20, a gymnastics coach attended a tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio, never dreaming that the day would end with her being married in front of about 1,000 spectators. Patterson, who had been engaged to Army Staff Sargeant Ray Hignite, was the surprise guest at her own wedding on December 20, before the crowd at [...] Read more »
City Of Ottawa Considers Its Wedding Options
The City of Ottawa has seen a steady increase in the number of couples that are opting for civil weddings. In the past, couples in the Canadian capital could marry before a justice of the peace. The increased workload of the court brought a halt to that practice, but in 2004, the City of Ottawa [...] Read more »
Demand For Diamonds Up, Pushes Costs Up Nearly Ten Percent
A report by a diamond industry analyst says that buyers can expect to pay as much as 10 percent more for diamonds this year. Demand for half-carat diamonds is unusually strong, and is outpacing the current supply. The wholesale price of a half-carat diamond will be about USD$2,500, and buyers can expect to pay more [...] Read more »
New York Couple Sues Hotels Over Lawn Sprinkler Wedding Disaster
A couple who married last summer is suing a Brooklyn New York hotel over an outdoor wedding disaster Svetlana and Yuriy Orishchenko say could have been prevented. As the bride made her way down the aisle in front of all her guests, the hotel’s lawn sprinklers deployed, sending water sprays all over the wedding guests. [...] Read more »
Pakistan’s Wedding Business Picks Up After Eid Al Fitr
Now that the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has concluded, shops are abuzz as Pakistan’s wedding season has begun. Shops are reporting brisk business for wedding clothing and jewelry, with white gold and diamonds being among the favorite jewellery choices. Replica jewellery is also in high demand due to the high cost of gold and [...] Read more »
Aquarium Offers Wedding Giveaway
The Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Clearwater, Florida is giving away a free wedding for up to 100 guests on Valentine’s Day, which falls on a Saturday this year. The aquarium will provide an ordained minister to perform the ceremony, and aquarium officials say that resident dolphins Winter and Nicholas will participate in the ceremony. The [...] Read more »
Sales Of Engagement Rings Higher At Small Jewellers
The Jewelers of America Association reports that sales of diamond engagement and wedding rings are sluggish at large retailers, while small jewellers are seeing strong sales. Overall, spending on engagement rings in the US is expected to top $6 billion in 2008 and spending on wedding bands will add another $2 billion. The differential can [...] Read more »
Michigan Woman Chooses 92-Year-Old Grandmum To Be Matron Of Honour
Erica Schultz, a Bay City, Michigan woman, will marry on 18 October with her best friend and matron of honour at her side. Angelene Schultz, 92, will act as the bride-elect’s official witness for the ceremony, as Erica marries her long-time fiancé, Mark James. The couple stopped by Gran’s house on the way home from [...] Read more »
Runaway Bride Plans More Conventional Wedding Entrance
Sophie Clarke, the Bretforton, Worcestershire bride whose wedding plans were dashed last month when the horse drawing her church-bound carriage dashed off after being spooked in traffic, has organised new plans that involve a more conventional mode of transportation: a good old fashioned limousine. Clarke and her father were left alone and helpless in the [...] Read more »
German Police Foil African Wedding Trip
Police in Hanover Germany put an end to the wedding plans of two childhood friends, mainly because the prospective bride and groom were just 5 and 6 years old. On New Years Eve, as their parents celebrated the holiday, the pair watched a documentary about Africa on television. As the programme aired, the two hatched [...] Read more »
Actor Woody Harrelson Marries Long-Time Girlfriend
Actor Woody Harrelson, known for his role as Woody Boyd in the US television programme Cheers, and films including White Men Can’t Jump, Money Train, Natural Born Killers, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Wag the Dog, The Thin Red Line, and No Country For Old Men, wed Laura Louie, his girlfriend of twenty years, in [...] Read more »
Questions To Ask When Booking Your Reception
If you’re planning a traditional wedding with a reception, the best advice for the bride-to-be is “book early!” If you are set upon marrying on a specific date, you may need to book your venue a year or two in advance. The same is true for brides who want to marry in a specific place, [...] Read more »
Design Students Create Dream Wedding Dress For Military Bride
Design students at the International Academy of Design and Technology have created a completely original wedding dress as a gift for retired army Captain Riane Nelson. Nelson and her fiancé married in a quick wedding ceremony on 24 January in Las Vegas, Nevada. The couple met in Iraq, where she was a nurse and her [...] Read more »
Celebrity Weddings Are In The Works
Love must be in the air because so many celebrity couples are planning their weddings. Nickelodeon actress Jamie Lynn Spears shocked the industry just more than a year ago when the then-16-year-old actress announced that she was expecting a baby. The star of Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101 said at the time that she and the baby’s [...] Read more »
Plumber Retrieves Woman’s 7-Carat Diamond
The use of a restaurant’s bathroom is typically free, but one California woman’s trip to the restroom set her back nearly USD$6,500. Allison Berry used the restroom at the Black Bear Diner in Tempe, Arizona, her 7-carat diamond ring valued at USD$70,000 fell into the toilet. City workers tried to retrieve the gem from the [...] Read more »
Taxi Driver Turns US Couple’s Wedding Nightmare Into Dream Come True
A New York couple have a taxi driver to thank for the return of their wedding cash, which they accidentally left behind when they exited his cab after their wedding ceremony. The driver found a box in his trunk at the end of his shift and set it aside for a day to see if [...] Read more »
UK Couple Burned By Dominican Republic Destination Wedding
A couple from the UK jetted to the Dominican Republic to marry in front of friends and family, but the happy circumstances went bad almost immediately. The couple, Simone and Samuel Hibbard, booked their dream wedding through First Choice, a UK travel agency. The agency told the couple that they had to be in the [...] Read more »