Bridesville.com Web News Archive

Toronto strike closes daycares, cancels weddings (Canada.com) - About 24,000 unionized city workers walked off the job Monday morning, setting the stage for garbage pile-ups, closed daycare centres, cancelled summer programs and even the postponement of weddings.

Underground weddings end (ABC 7 Gulfshore News) - Underground weddings are coming to an end.

More brides angle for cheaper weddings (The Pantagraph) - RALEIGH, N.C. -- Brides are still saying “I do” in 2009, but they’re saying “I don’t” to lavish weddings.

Shotgun weddings on rise in Japan as attitudes to pregnancy shift (Times Online) - The happy couple’s first dinner as husband and wife will be a magnificent banquet rich in iron, calcium and complex carbohydrates: the perfect menu for the most chic of shotgun weddings.

Same-sex weddings, heartland style (CNN) - 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.

New in Business: Venue offers setting for weddings, other special events (The Longview News-Journal) - A new option in venues for Longview-area weddings, receptions, business meetings, reunions and other functions recently opened its doors at 4400 W. Marshall Ave.

Rain Ruining Weddings and Graduations? (FOX 5 New York) - June is a popular time for weddings and graduations, but the wet weather has been putting a damper on some of the most important days in one's life.  The constant rain has left many people scrambling to make other plans for their celebrations.

Japan embraces shotgun weddings (Daily Telegraph) - Japan's wedding companies are cashing in on the growing number of 'doublehappy' celebrations marking both the marriage and the imminent arrival of the first baby.

Here comes the pooch? Pets at weddings: Why not? (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) - Kaycee English considers her dog Bowser part of the family, so including him in her wedding was an obvious choice. Hadn't she spent the year before her special day scouring Petfinder.com, wishing she could adopt a dog?

California Same-Sex Couples Who Wed Out-of-State Remain in Limbo (Law.com) - Family lawyers representing California same-sex couples who wed out of state before the passage of Proposition 8 are hoping for the best, but bracing for the worst. Those marriages remain in legal limbo because last month's California Supreme Court ruling that upheld Prop 8 while letting stand approximately 18,000 same-sex unions didn't determine the fate of weddings held by California gays and ...