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Middle-class India plows new wealth into big weddings (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) - At a wedding held in a five-star New Delhi hotel last winter, the groom stepped out of a two-door BMW sports car, specially flown in from Europe for the occasion. Spanish flamenco dancers, fresh orchids from Thailand, ice sculptures, even second-tier Bollywood stars paid to mingle - all are just some of the flourishes seen at recent Indian weddings. Forget being down-to-earth. The latest fad is

High on a Hill Above San Diego, a Church-State Fight Plays Out - New York Times (New York Times) - SAN DIEGO - For more than 50 years, the Mount Soledad cross has stood sentry over this city, a 29-foot-tall white landmark that, from its panoramic perch atop one of the tallest hills for miles around, has played host to weddings, baptisms and quiet contemplation.

Same-sex marriages ban fails (San Jose Mercury News) - The Massachusetts Legislature on Wednesday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that sought to ban gay marriage but legalize civil unions, a year after the state performed the nation's first government-sanctioned same-sex weddings.

Here comes the bride's choice: Please herself or her groom (Orlando Sentinel) - Dear Carolyn: Whom should weddings be for? As a bride-to-be who is not religious and dislikes pomp and circumstance, I don't really want a traditional wedding -- a quick justice-of-the-peace ceremony and a nice dinner with family and friends would be sufficient. No white dress, no church, no gi-normous debt.

PACKETONLINE News Classifieds Entertainment Business - Princeton and Central New Jersey - The Princeton Packet - (Princeton Packet) - Top row, the Rev. David A. Davis and the Rev. Muriel Burrows. Bottom row, Vandyke Grant, Shirley Satterfied, Benjamin Colbert and Nancy Prince. Who hasn't heard an aunt say, wistfully, "The family gets together only at funerals or weddings; we really ought to gather at other times, too."

Paris and Paris Uncouple (E! Online via Yahoo! News) - The made-for-the-tabloids romance of Paris Hilton and Paris Latsis has flamed out.

I smell potatoes — or maybe it's just a candle (Seattle Times) - Feeling unhappy, hysterical or homesick? Smell your bad mood later. Psychologists have long waxed that the sense of scent is powerful enough...

Thirty U.S. citizens indicted in an apparent marriage fraud ring (Gainesville Sun) - two-year investigation has led to the indictments of 30 U.S. citizens involved in an apparent marriage fraud ring in South Florida.

Here Comes ... the Drunken Uncle - New York Times (New York Times) - UNDER an elaborate white floral huppah, the soon-to-be Melanie and Peter Goldstein stood serenely amid a fan of adoring wedding attendants.

Survey: Smooth sailing on horizon for wine industry industry (Lodi News-Sentinel) - HADITHA DAM, Iraq - Cpl. David Kreuter had a new baby boy he'd seen only in photos. Lance Cpl. Michael Cifuentes was counting the days to his wedding. Lance Cpl. Nicholas Bloem had just celebrated his 20th birthday.