Bridesville.com Web News Archive

Weddings in numbers (Summit Daily News) - Nuptial numbers: • 2.3 million couples wed every year in the United States. That breaks down to nearly 6,200 weddings a day.

Traverce Launches ShareWeddings.Com, the First Social Networking Site for Weddings (RedNova) - Traverce, Inc. today announced the launch of ShareWeddings.com, its social networking site just for weddings. The company expects ShareWeddings to fill a void in the booming social networking arena for a site dedicated to weddings -- one of the most social events in peoples' lives.

Destination weddings aren't worth the price (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News) - A close friend just announced very good, and very bad, news. The good: She's engaged to a great guy. And the bad: She's getting married in Hawaii - mark your calendar.

Many change tune about weddings (Chicago Tribune) - The culmination of Sue Lin Yee and Jeff Hawthorne's wedding afternoon was a 10-course Chinese banquet, and the newlyweds did not want the disruption of an obnoxious disc jockey or a band that didn't share their tastes.

Weddings at fever pitch in New Orleans (AP via Yahoo! News) - When it was obvious Hurricane Katrina had laid waste to New Orleans, bride-to-be Lauren Francingues told her wedding planner, "It's not going to happen."

Stylishly Practical weddings (Manila Bulletin) - It’s not the same difference. Engaged couples plan to get married because they want to settle down. Engaged couples plan their wedding because they don’t want to settle for anything less.

3, 2, 1, marriage, we have marriage (The Enid News & Eagle) - I attended a wedding the other evening, again. No, it wasn’t the latest in a string of weddings I’ve been invited to this season, this was a repeat of a wedding I attended earlier this year — through the magic of DVD.

Cagle's Review: You, Me and Dupree (CBS 2 New York) - You've seen Owen Wilson crash weddings. Now you can see him crash on the couch of newlyweds played by Kate Hudson and Matt Dillon.

Weddings at Fever Pitch in New Orleans (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - NEW ORLEANS (AP) - When it was obvious Hurricane Katrina had laid waste to New Orleans, bride-to-be Lauren Francingues told her wedding planner, "It's not going to happen.'' It was a call received by wedding planners, florists, cake makers, calligraphers, dress designers and horse-carriage handlers who saw their industry all but disappear after last year's storm turned New Orleans - the country's

Vow to Make the Most of Your Wedding Ring Investment (Derby 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.