Bridesville.com Web News Archive

Zvi Gotheiner's Program Performed at Dance Theater Workshop (New York Times) - Mr. Gotheiner plays with our superstitions and fears in "12A," while "Les Noces," a work on weddings, fails to break a sweat.

Milestones: Engagements, weddings, anniversaries (Albuquerque Tribune) - Casey Skogmo and James Dunning married Feb. 18 in a sunset wedding in Golden, Colo., with the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop. The bride's brother, Matt Skogmo, officiated. Marieke Culby served as matron of honor, and Dave Esely was best man.

This Week in Weddings: (WPRI 12 Providence) - My parents want a traditional wedding, but we definitely don't. We want simplicity. What should we do? Click through for Carley's answer! more» Get swept up in real couples' love stories and day-of details. This week: Amy and Randy on Cape Cod.

Vow to Make the Most of Your Wedding Ring Investment (Wellsville Daily Reporter) - (ARA) - Tying the knot is one thing. Getting tied up in knots about your wedding rings is another. At an average wedding cost of $20,000, approximately $40 billion is spent on more than 2.5 million weddings in the United States each year, according to Sell More Weddings.

Blogger gadfly enjoys dissecting N.Y. Times weddings (Belleville News-Democrat) - The New York Times is like the prom queen of the media industry: Everyone's interested in it, and everyone loves to put it down. In addition to the blogs that rip apart the Times' news stories and food reviews, there's the deliciously vicious Veiled Conceit (www.veiledconceit.com), whose only mission is to mock the blue bloods in the Sunday Times' "Weddings and Celebrations" section.

MABUHAY! Do you take this dress to be your lawful wedding gown? (INQ7.net) - IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE, WEDDINGS WERE serious business—literally. It was not just a union of two people but, sometimes, a union between two families, two businesses and, in the case of royalty, a union between two countries.

Weddings and engagements (Hartselle Enquirer) - Amanda Elizabeth Reeder of Hartselle and Jonathan Glenn Savage of Auburn were wed Saturday, May 20, 2006, at 4 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Burleson with Jim Brinkerhoff officiating.

Former mayor working on town's pictorial history (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Do the math. The population of Coraopolis is about 6,000, which Joseph DiVito says should add up to many more than 6,000 photographs of weddings, birthdays, barbecues and Christmases.

Lifting the Veil: 'What's on Brides' Minds'? (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Weddings, by definition, are steeped in tradition. But a just-released survey found that today's brides are standing tradition on its head:

Gold price makes Afghan weddings blue (Orlando Sentinel) - KABUL, Afghanistan - Take pity on the Afghan bride. Or maybe just as appropriate -- take pity on the groom.