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Injunction forbids weddings at farm (Spartanburg Herald-Journal) - Published: Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 10:16 p.m. Sue Spiegel will spend the next few days calling brides who have booked weddings at her Campobello farm informing them of a judge's temporary injunction barring any special events there.

Five weddings and a bigamist (Independent Online) - Former adult movie star Emily Horne has had five weddings - four of them illegal - and faces up to seven years in jail after pleading guilty to bigamy.

Editors of Martha Stewart Weddings play godmother with pop-up chapel in Brooklyn store (New York Daily News) - 303 Grand is a small, unassuming store in Williamsburg. This week, it's also a wedding chapel. On Monday, the 1,400-square-foot space was converted into a pop-up wedding chapel by the editors of Martha Stewart Weddings.

Cocaine 'being used in weddings and village feasts' (Times of Malta) - The perception that cocaine is a recreational drug used only by the rich no longer holds as experts say it is even being consumed at village feasts, weddings and inside band clubs.

Puppy love: More pets partake in even formal weddings (USA Today) - Though pets have long been part of casual weddings, couples are increasingly including their dogs (and other pets, to a much lesser degree) in the wedding parties of some very formal weddings at the most ornate churches and refined locales, spending hundreds on doggie dress-up.

Couples planning weddings find ways to celebrate without busting their budgets (The Press-Enterprise) - When wedding budgets just won't cover filet mignon, Inland couples are getting creative -- treating guests to burgers or tacos, going the potluck route or sticking with snacks or appetizers.

Here comes the pooch? Pets at weddings: Why not? (Courier-Post) - Kaycee English considers her dog Bowser part of the family, so including him in her wedding was an obvious choice.

Reserve county garden for weddings (The Bernardsville News) - The Horticulture Department of the Somerset County Park Commission is accepting reservations for wedding ceremonies and photos for the Perennial Garden, the Rose Garden, and the Colonial Park Arboretum. The fee for each site is $75 per hour.

New Day for Shanghai Nights (New York Times) - Gay Pride Week in Shanghai included the essential “hot body” contest. The occasion was a daylong celebration with drag shows, Chinese opera performances, mock same-sex weddings — and, yes, a “hot body” contest — to help conclude Shanghai’s first Gay Pride Week. And as seven beefcakes, including two from New York and one from Indonesia , strutted onto an outdoor stage, a crowd of hundreds erupted ...

Blazers to reopen as banquet facility (The Holland Sentinel) - Blazers Sports Bar & Grille, 977 Butternut Drive in Holland Township, closed Saturday and owners announced it will reopen in a few weeks as a banquet and event space for weddings, corporate meetings and special events.