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Here comes the bill / Writer Rebecca Mead explores the creation of Bridezilla and the commercialization of weddings (San Francisco Chronicle) - Weddings are all about love -- and the ideal color scheme, a touching ceremony and an elaborate reception. Because the more perfect the celebration, say the bridal magazines and planners, the better the marriage will be -- right? Wrong, says bubble...

Numerous weddings crimp Q-C Idol competition turnout (Quad-City Times) - The best-guess explanation for a relatively small turnout for the Quad-City Idol competition Saturday was all those weddings.

Remuneration, s'il vous plat: Eva, Tony cash in (USA Today) - Forget barefoot beach brides and secret locales: Stars are going for larger-than-life weddings. "Celebrities are rejoicing that magazines and television want to cover their special day," says Rob Shuter of OK!, which nabbed rights to Eva Longoria and Tony Parker's nuptials for a reported $2 million. (The mag won't confirm.) USA TODAY asks Shuter to run down the must-haves to land big bucks:

7 7/7/07 Weddings at Great Escape (FOX 23 News Albany) - Summer is a big time for weddings -- but Saturday may have been one of the biggest days of the year.

Weddings without shame for Japan's pregnant brides (Reuters via Yahoo! India News) - TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Momoyo Nishiwaki is planning her wedding ceremony, complete with white dress and veil.

Entertainers embrace magical date (The Record) - For magicians, clowns, face-painters and balloon-twisters, for fire-eaters and dancers and DJs, for singers and instrumentalists of varying tunes and talents, summer might seem like prime time: more weddings, more community fairs and church picnics, more corporate events and backyard parties.

Couples hit Vegas for 7-7-07 weddings (USA Today) - Hundreds hoping to be lucky in love poured into Las Vegas wedding chapels on Saturday to tie the knot on 7-7-07, a date with auspicious associations.

Area businesses busy for today's lucky weddings (Casper Star-Tribune) - The invitations are sent, the flowers arranged, the reception halls decorated and the photographers poised to shoot.

7-07-07, A Lucky Day For Weddings (KAUZ Wichita Falls) - This lucky day was great for weddings. In fact, hundreds just here in wichita county are tying the knot on 7-7-7 which is considered to be as we said a very lucky day. Nicki and Kevin were booked to wed in lucy park but the storms flooded out that possibility. But that wasn't stopping this couple.

LUCKY SEVENS / 7/7/07 (today) seen as fortuitous for weddings and lottery tickets (San Francisco Chronicle) - It's been hailed as the luckiest day of the century, a time to take chances on love and lottery tickets and all things uncertain. That day is today -- July 7, 2007, a.k.a. 7/7/07 or 777. More weddings will be held today than on any day in recent...