http://www.mail.com/subjects/12414-weddings.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.20/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/12414-weddings.html http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1763170-gimmicky-boost-lovelorn-las-vegas.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas, land of the quickie wedding, is in the midst of a serious love recession, and chapels in the city accustomed to playing the numbers were not about to let the latest money-making opportunity — Wednesday's auspicious 12/12/12 date — pass without a marketing push. They worked for months to turn the day into a major payout, luring ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1763170-gimmicky-boost-lovelorn-las-vegas.html 2012-12-13T05:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1755288-minn-gay-couple-71-marriage-case-united.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When Jack Baker proposed to Michael McConnell that they join their lives together as a couple, in March 1967, McConnell accepted with a condition that was utterly radical for its time: that someday they would legally marry. Just a few years later, the U.S. Supreme Court slammed the door on the men's Minnesota lawsuit to be the first sam... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1755288-minn-gay-couple-71-marriage-case-united.html 2012-12-10T08:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1755316-gay-couples-wash-start-taking-wedding-vows.html SEATTLE (AP) — Keith Bacon and Corianton Hale wore dress shirts as they recited their vows at Seattle City Hall, as the city hosted more than 100 weddings on the first day same-sex couples could marry in Washington state. A few hours later Sunday, the happy couple had changed into matching t-shirts that read "Looks Like We Made It." "It's tremendously mea... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1755316-gay-couples-wash-start-taking-wedding-vows.html 2012-12-10T08:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1753906-same-sex-couples-wash-start-wedding-vows.html SEATTLE (AP) — Scores of same-sex couples crowded Seattle City Hall for a day of wedding ceremonies on Sunday, the first day they could marry after the state's voter-approved gay marriage law took effect. While numerous weddings were taking place across the state, both private and public, the city hall weddings were the largest public event, with more tha... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1753906-same-sex-couples-wash-start-wedding-vows.html 2012-12-10T02:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1753124-same-sex-weddings-wash-to-sunday.html OLYMPIA, WASH. (AP) — Two retired military women who fought for the rights of gays in the military were among the hundreds of couples who received their marriage licenses this week as Washington state's voter-approved law allowing same-sex marriage took effect. Former Air Force flight nurse Maj. Margaret Witt, of Spokane, and retired nurse, Army Col. Gret... Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1753124-same-sex-weddings-wash-to-sunday.html 2012-12-08T19:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1747818-gay-washington-couples-marriage-licenses.html SEATTLE (AP) — Hundreds of same-sex couples across Washington state started picking up marriage licenses Thursday as a voter-approved law legalizing gay marriage took effect. King County, the state's largest, opened the doors to its auditor's office in Seattle just after midnight to start distributing licenses. But hundreds of people had lined up hours ea... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1747818-gay-washington-couples-marriage-licenses.html 2012-12-07T02:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1746774-gregoire-signs-wash-gay-marriage-law.html OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state, which now joins several other states that allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. Gregoire and Secretary of State Sam Reed certified the election on Wednesday afternoon, as they were joined by couples who plan to wed and community ac... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1746774-gregoire-signs-wash-gay-marriage-law.html 2012-12-06T06:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1736898-west-point-chapel-hosts-same-sex-wedding.html WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Cadet Chapel, the landmark Gothic church that is a center for spiritual life at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, hosted its first same-sex wedding Saturday. Penelope Gnesin and Brenda Sue Fulton, a West Point graduate, exchanged vows in the regal church in an afternoon ceremony, attended by about 250 guests and conducted by... Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:00:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1736898-west-point-chapel-hosts-same-sex-wedding.html 2012-12-01T23:00:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1728912-valentino-haute-couture-exhibition-opens-london.html LONDON (AP) — If there's one name that represents red carpet glamour, it's probably Valentino. Over half a century, the legendary designer has created exquisite, classic gowns for the world's most glamorous women, from Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren to Sarah Jessica Parker and Gwyneth Paltrow. Now a new London exhibition is bringing... Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1728912-valentino-haute-couture-exhibition-opens-london.html 2012-11-28T19:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1705326-land-mine-kills-17-afghans-traveling-to-wedding.html KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A roadside bomb in western Afghanistan killed 17 civilians traveling to a wedding Friday, an Afghan official said. Abdul Rahman Zhuwandai, a spokesman for Farah province, said the civilians were riding in a bus that hit the bomb in Pusht Rod district. At least 10 people were wounded in the explosion in what is a relatively peacef... Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1705326-land-mine-kills-17-afghans-traveling-to-wedding.html 2012-11-16T14:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1702308-30-rock-heroine-liz-lemon-to-wed-this-month.html NEW YORK (AP) — Liz Lemon is getting married and you're invited. Fans of "30 Rock" might have reasonably assumed that Lemon, the harried TV producer played by Tina Fey, would ride out the series' seventh and final season as a perennial bachelorette unlucky in love. But Fey, who is also the creator and producer of the NBC comedy, clearly thought otherwise.... Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:22:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1702308-30-rock-heroine-liz-lemon-to-wed-this-month.html 2012-11-15T12:22:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1689252-transgender-pakistanis-face-societys-scorn.html RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — Dressed up in elaborate, feminine outfits and artfully applied makeup, they are showered with money while dancing at all-male wedding parties. But the lives of transgender people in Pakistan are also marked by harassment, rejection and poverty. Transgender people live in a tenuous position in conservative Pakistan, where the ro... Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1689252-transgender-pakistanis-face-societys-scorn.html 2012-11-09T13:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1670774-winehouse-wedding-dress-stolen-singers.html LONDON (AP) — Amy Winehouse's charity says two of the late singer's dresses — including her wedding dress — are missing and believed stolen from her former London home. The Amy Winehouse Foundation said Thursday the dress Winehouse wore for her 2006 Miami wedding to Blake Fielder-Civil and a newsprint cocktail dress she wore during a British TV appearance... Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1670774-winehouse-wedding-dress-stolen-singers.html 2012-11-01T11:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1668128-fire-saudi-wedding-kills-23-women-children.html RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi media reports say a blaze that erupted inside a tent at a wedding in the country's east has killed at least 23 women and children. The media cite civil defense officials as saying that celebratory gunfire, common at weddings, brought down a power line that touched off the fire late Tuesday in the Eastern Province. The off... Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1668128-fire-saudi-wedding-kills-23-women-children.html 2012-10-31T09:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1656038-iconic-scarlett-ohara-dresses-restored-displayed.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — It turns out there will be another day for Scarlett O'Hara's green curtain dress. Many of them. The iconic dress and Scarlett's burgundy ball gown from the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind" have been saved from deterioration by a $30,000 conservation effort by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. The dr... Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1656038-iconic-scarlett-ohara-dresses-restored-displayed.html 2012-10-25T17:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1647556-complaint-ny-wedding-site-banned-same-sex-couple.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two upstate New York women turned away from a potential wedding site because they are gay have filed a discrimination complaint, setting up a possible precedent-setting fight involving the state's new same-sex marriage law. The complaint with the state Division of Human Rights appears to be a first involving a wedding venue since same-... Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1647556-complaint-ny-wedding-site-banned-same-sex-couple.html 2012-10-22T23:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1644724-pregnant-nyc-woman-slain-day-wedding.html NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who was eight months pregnant was found stabbed to death Saturday in her apartment, the day before her wedding, police said. Vindalee Smith, 38, was found on the floor of her apartment in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn with a gaping wound in her neck. It wasn't clear how long she'd been dead before the body was discovered by... Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1644724-pregnant-nyc-woman-slain-day-wedding.html 2012-10-21T02:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1641430-blast-afghanistan-kills-19-en-route-to-wedding.html KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A roadside bomb tore through a minibus carrying people to a wedding celebration in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 19 people and wounding 16, authorities said. The blast underscored the heavy toll the war has taken on civilians who are frequently caught up in the fighting between insurgents and Afghan and foreign... Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1641430-blast-afghanistan-kills-19-en-route-to-wedding.html 2012-10-19T16:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1633538-shotgun-wedding-jeweler-offers-rifles-with-rings.html NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (AP) — Have you spent your life hunting for the perfect wife? Maybe you have met the one but are feeling gun shy? An Iowa jeweler is offering free rifles for husbands-to-be who spend at least $1,999 on an engagement ring at his store near Iowa City. Jeweler Harold van Beek told KCRG near Cedar Rapids (http://bit.ly/TY3Jgg ) that he wan... Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1633538-shotgun-wedding-jeweler-offers-rifles-with-rings.html 2012-10-16T10:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1621740-1991-wedding-guest-list-vp-debate-side-issue.html NEW YORK (AP) — The day before the vice presidential debate the guest list for moderator Martha Raddatz's 1991 wedding has become an issue, of sorts. The list included Harvard Law School student and future president Barack Obama. The groom was Julius Genachowski, the current Federal Communications Commission chairman. And The Daily Caller website wanted t... Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1621740-1991-wedding-guest-list-vp-debate-side-issue.html 2012-10-10T20:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1599526-russian-nationalists-want-wedding-shooters-jailed.html MOSCOW (AP) — It was an unusual wedding escort even for Moscow's brash style: A red Ferrari led a motorcade in which guests fired celebratory shots from car windows as they sped down one of the city's main avenues near Red Square. Sunday's parade drew an angry reaction from the Kremlin-controlled parliament, where senior lawmakers voiced outrage Monday af... Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1599526-russian-nationalists-want-wedding-shooters-jailed.html 2012-10-01T15:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1564908-zimbabwe-prime-minister-ahead-with-wedding.html HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The Zimbabwe prime minister went ahead with wedding celebrations Saturday despite a court ruling that cancelled his marriage license on allegations that he would be committing bigamy. Morgan Tsvangirai, 60, and his bride exchanged vows and rings at a luxury convention facility in Harare but did not sign the legal marriage register.... Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:01:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1564908-zimbabwe-prime-minister-ahead-with-wedding.html 2012-09-15T14:01:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1563200-zimbabwe-prime-ministers-wedding-doubt.html HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Attorneys for a jilted ex-lover of Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai say a court ordered him to stop his wedding to another woman on Saturday because he might face bigamy charges. Lawyer Everson Samkange said Friday a magistrate ruled that Tsvangirai was in a customary marriage with the woman for whom he paid a bride pric... Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1563200-zimbabwe-prime-ministers-wedding-doubt.html 2012-09-14T13:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1555288-avril-lavigne-promises-badass-wedding-gown.html NEW YORK (AP) — Pop star Avril Lavigne, the designer, promises a "badass" wedding dress she might make herself when she marries rocker Chad Kroeger. "Either it's something I'm going to design, or partner up with, collaborate with another designer," she told reporters Monday after presenting the spring collection of her Abbey Dawn clothing line. Of the 37-... Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1555288-avril-lavigne-promises-badass-wedding-gown.html 2012-09-11T15:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1549334-bolivias-vp-journalist-marry-aymara-rites.html LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The nation's vice president and his bride chose for their Saturday nuptials a temple of stone walls that the ancient Aymara people constructed some 3,000 years ago to observe the heavens. The unusual ceremony uniting 49-year-old Vice President Alvaro Garcia with Claudia Fernandez, a 25-year-old journalist, was held at an ancestral s... Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:53:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1549334-bolivias-vp-journalist-marry-aymara-rites.html 2012-09-08T20:53:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1536714-bride-stealing-custom-rage-bucharest.html BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A white limousine screeches to a halt and a bride, resplendent in frothy gown and veil, is hauled outside by her abductors. It's one of Romania's more colorful customs: bride-napping. And the tradition of snatching the bride from under the nose of groom and guests with the wedding party in full swing is getting bigger, brasher an... Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1536714-bride-stealing-custom-rage-bucharest.html 2012-09-03T16:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1536042-weddings-roses-moons-us-influence.html The mass weddings at Madison Square Garden and the roses sold by eager evangelists on street corners may be the most enduring images of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church in the United States. But Moon's U.S. empire extended far beyond the movement and the Moonies, as Moon's followers were both affectionately and irreverently known. Moon had holding... Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1536042-weddings-roses-moons-us-influence.html 2012-09-02T20:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1517976-couple-marries-while-hovering-calif-beach.html NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Here comes the bride, all dressed in a jet pack that's zipping down a California beach. Amanda Volf and Grant Engler donned water-powered packs Thursday to be married in Newport Beach. The 25-year-old former wedding planner from Grand Rapids, Mich., says she wanted a unique ceremony. So the couple donned the $90,000 contraptio... Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1517976-couple-marries-while-hovering-calif-beach.html 2012-08-24T03:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1494404-5-members-ariz-family-married-day.html MESA, Ariz. (AP) — It's a mega wedding day for a Mesa, Ariz., family with five siblings walking down the aisle on the same day. The East Valley Tribune (http://bit.ly/P39zqT ) reports the five Waldie children all got engaged within a few months of each other. While trying to plan wedding dates with out-of-state family and guests, dad Doug Waldie suggested... Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1494404-5-members-ariz-family-married-day.html 2012-08-10T21:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1488852-romney-entourage-crashes-nj-wedding-site.html LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Mitt Romney is crashing a New Jersey wedding. The Republican presidential contender's motorcade rolled into a fundraiser Wednesday evening as a bride and groom were posing for pictures in the parking lot outside the hall in Lakewood, N.J. Several men in yarmulkes who were standing nearby turned their cameras away from the couple, and... Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:40:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1488852-romney-entourage-crashes-nj-wedding-site.html 2012-08-09T00:40:00Z