Say you're getting married. Maybe you've had a few serious boyfriends before. Perhaps you were even engaged to one of them. Or you might have just had a series of one-night stands that never turned into more than a few steamy stories you told the girls about over a pitcher of sangria.
If you thought your friend was about to make a mistake -- say, buy a computer that gets a ton of viruses or stay in a really dodgy hostel in Rome -- you'd try to convince them to do something different, right?
Planning the celebration of a lifetime during the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression is a daunting task, so it's no secret that many brides are cutting back. The average amount a couple is spending on their wedding this year is down more than $5,000 from 2008, theweddingreport.com estimates.
Since our wedding day six weeks ago, my husband and I have been busy writing thank you notes, breaking in our new fancy cookware and eagerly awaiting pictures from the professional photographer we hired (we certainly had enough pictures from our guests to tide us over until then).
Reports that "virginity tests" were conducted on would-be-brides for a mass wedding has prompted India's federal woman rights watchdog to launch an investigation.
Say you're getting married. Maybe you've had a few serious boyfriends before. Perhaps you were even engaged to one of them. Or you might have just had a series of one-night stands that never turned into more than a few steamy stories you told the girls about over a pitcher of sangria.
If you thought your friend was about to make a mistake -- say, buy a computer that gets a ton of viruses or stay in a really dodgy hostel in Rome -- you'd try to convince them to do something different, right?
Planning the celebration of a lifetime during the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression is a daunting task, so it's no secret that many brides are cutting back. The average amount a couple is spending on their wedding this year is down more than $5,000 from 2008, theweddingreport.com estimates.
Since our wedding day six weeks ago, my husband and I have been busy writing thank you notes, breaking in our new fancy cookware and eagerly awaiting pictures from the professional photographer we hired (we certainly had enough pictures from our guests to tide us over until then).
Reports that "virginity tests" were conducted on would-be-brides for a mass wedding has prompted India's federal woman rights watchdog to launch an investigation.
The art of dodging tossed wedding bouquets had been mastered by Cindy Pollard. At 52, and with plenty of experience celebrating the big day for others, she'd learned how to back into corners and disappear when brides sent those flowers flying.
Jennifer Mae Fletke and Chris Watters fell in love after meeting three years ago. But when they got ready to tie the knot, they faced the challenge of an expensive wedding in a shrinking economy.
Boston-based wedding planner Bernadette Smith has helped arrange the same-sex nuptials of nearly 75 Massachusetts couples during her five-year career. But she's never seen quite the surge in business as she has during the past few months.
One thing I learned before I got married is that nobody loves to talk about weddings more than women who just got married. They'll grab on to any socially acceptable opportunity to relive their experiences.
Last week, a bride-to-be visited online wedding hub TheKnot.com and posted a wistful set of questions to her virtual sisters. "Fiancé got laid off a month ago. We're trying to keep our wedding the way we had originally planned. How many of you are working through similar situations, and how do you...adjust your wedding/honeymoon plan?"
Gay couples from around California and the nation are feverishly tying the knot ahead of Election Day to avoid missing out if voters approve a ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage
Four-year-old Grace Layman, decked out in full frilly flower girl regalia, excitedly led her smiling surprise guest to the separate kids' party she was hosting at her dad's wedding reception. Mickey Mouse wowed everyone -- grown-ups too.
The whispers and pointing started as soon as Sara Price reached her assigned table at her friend's wedding reception in Houston last January. Did she have raccoon eyes from crying during the ceremony? Mismatched shoes? A giant stain on her blouse?
When Katy Milane was asked to be in her college roommate's August 2007 wedding, she expected the bridesmaid dress to be simple and sporty, just like the bride's taste in clothes.
San Francisco's mayor spurred the issue with a huge round of weddings in 2004. Now same sex marriages are legal in California, but he worries about the next step
Jennifer Bilotta thought she and her husband Michael had the perfect present for his cousin's wedding. The gift in question -- a fused-glass plate decorated with a "tacky scene of a bride and groom," she recalls -- had been given to Bilotta at her own wedding a few years earlier.
The TV no longer sits on a moving box, but she's still using filing cabinets as end tables. Desiree Jacobsen graduated from college years ago, so why does her apartment resemble a dorm room? It's hard to save for the finer things when you've had to shell out money to be in five weddings in one year, three times as maid of honor.
Mary McPhail, a 47-year-old online retailer from Bexley, Ohio, will never forget her wedding to husband and business partner Geord Douglas 23 years ago in Miami.
Against the backdrop of a stunning Texas sunset, near a lake on the Bush family's 1,600-acre ranch, President Bush walked his daughter, Jenna, down the aisle to her groom, the White House said.
Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds were married on New Year's Day on a private island off Bora Bora in French Polynesia in front of 25 friends and family, their reps tell PEOPLE.
Ivana Trump, who provided the final punchline to The First Wives' Club – "Remember girls, don't get mad ... get everything! – can't wait to get married for what will be her fourth time.
Fans of the hit game series "Diner Dash" have been anxiously waiting to swap brooms for grooms in PlayFirst's first official offshoot game, "Wedding Dash."
Swapping her hockey pads and helmet for a wedding gown and veil, Krissy Wendell, star of the U.S. women's Olympic ice hockey team, married NHL player John Pohl Saturday in a West Roseville, Minnesota church before 200 friends and family.
Despite tying the knot before only a few friends at Little Church of the West in Las Vegas, Jodie Sweetin says her marriage to Cody Herpin "wasn't a quickie wedding."
Selita Ebanks may know how to strut on the runway, but the Victoria's Secret model admits she'll need some help with her trip down the aisle to Wild 'N Out star Nick Cannon.
Late on a humid afternoon on the industrial outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, as loudspeakers inside the gated compound of the Linh Trung Export Processing Zone play a melody releasing workers from th...
The average amount spent on weddings has increased to $27,852, up nearly 100 percent since 1990, and the number of weddings per year has increased by 200,000 during that time, according to a new study.
British fashion designer Amanda Wakeley is happy to admit that business is not her biggest strength, which is why she says it makes sense for her to enter a financial partnership with a Saudi billionaire.
These days a walk down the aisle can lead you to destination bankruptcy. From the invitations to the flowers to the food to the band to the honeymoon, the average wedding costs about $27,000 according to Richard Markel, President of the Association for Wedding Professionals International.
Not long ago a wedding was a modest affair: a little lace and a bit of the bubbly were all it took to launch a couple on the sea of matrimony. These days it calls for much more pomp and ceremony. H...
If you had a few thousand dollars to spare, you probably wouldn't choose to spend it buying housewares for friends, buying clothes you despise or throwing parties that celebrate other people's love...
If you had a few thousand dollars to spare, you probably wouldn't choose to spend it buying housewares for friends, buying clothes you despise or throwing parties that celebrate other people's love and good fortune.
Engaged couples can expect to hear more than the "bling bling" bouncing off the bride-to-be's ring -- they'll also hear the ka-ching of the cash register as the average cost of a wedding soars to $26,327, according to a new survey.
When Tina Stansel and Doug Koch got engaged in May 2004, the Houston pair didn't agree on much about their upcoming wedding. She wanted a church. He wanted a beach.
Picture a wedding party milling about in an old piazza high above Amalfi Coast. The setting is classically Italian. But these are New Yorkers: an example of couples who desire memorable weddings taking their act on the road.
Same-sex marriage may be controversial, but one thing's for sure: It's good for a lot of small firms. With an average individual discretionary income of $38,000--35% higher than the national averag...
Dear Armchair Millionaire: Our daughter recently got engaged and will be married this winter. We have been wondering about when a prenuptial agreement might be called for. Any guidance on this issue? -- Miami Dad
Looking at the recent plunge in B2C stocks, you might think the entire sector represents dead money right now. Amazon.com, eToys, and the handful of mangy pet sites all have lost at least 60% so fa...
WHEN SANDRA DAWSON, 32, DISCOVERED SHE WAS pregnant last October, her boyfriend, Alan Gugel, 30, was thrilled. "We'd been talking about having a baby for a couple of years, and we'd just started tr...
Isn't it romantic? These days more and more affluent couples -- beyond such likely candidates as Marla and The Donald or Microsoft's billionaire Bill Gates and fiancee Melinda French -- are asking ...
You missed a great opportunity to teach fiscal responsibility when you did not do a financial makeover on the couple who spent $60,000 on their wedding ((May)). Any two people who would spend 60% o...
From high atop San Francisco's fashionable Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel comes the midnight cry of the wedding party: ''Bring on the tequila poppers, waiter! We want tequila poppers!'' It was...
''The proposal is the man's moment,'' says George Turner, 26, ''and I didn't want it to be ho-hum.'' It wasn't. ''I arrived at Rita's apartment with a long-stemmed red rose in a white box,'' he rem...
Big fancy weddings are back. Altar-bound couples book the Grand Ballroom of New York's Plaza Hotel for receptions 12 months in advance at $50,000 a crack. For $8,800 they take over the ranch house ...
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