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High fashion weddings are in vogue (Las Vegas Business Press) - June is busting out all over -- with beautiful brides in floor-length gowns and grooms in elegant tuxedos. This year's bridal buzz combines weddings in picturesque floral gardens, rolling-green lawns and the serenity of romantic, flower-filled courtyards.

Edinburgh hailed as the gay weddings capital of Scotland (The Scotsman) - EDINBURGH has become the "gay weddings" capital of Scotland after it emerged more couples are travelling to the city for civil partnerships than anywhere else.

City top for same-sex 'weddings' (BBC News) - More than 6,500 gay couples 'marry' in the four months after civil partnership laws are brought in.

Costly business of being a guest (PA via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) - Britons spend an average of nearly £1,500 a year attending other people's weddings, stag and hen parties, a survey showed.

Costly business of being a guest (Evening Standard) - Britons spend an average of nearly £1,500 a year attending other people's weddings, stag and hen parties, a survey showed. The average person attends 3.4 weddings a year, with each one setting them back by around £422, according to financial internet portal Lycos Money.

'Nuptials' not as sweet as advertised (Wisconsin State Journal) - I like weddings. I've enjoyed them since I was a 6-year-old ring-bearer who fell in love with the flower girl. I've stood up and sat down in them and been part of the planned and unplanned entertainment. I've caught the garter twice and done the chicken dance more times than I can remember.

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Vow to Make the Most of Your Wedding Ring Investment (Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch) - (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.

Dearly beloved ... (Townsville Bulletin) - WEDDINGS are a good thing by and large, and many of them are very large indeed. I am not the sort of curmudgeon who points out how many of them end in divorce and that happy-ever-after is only 8.6 years on average.