Bridesville.com Web News Archive

Couples plan weddings with click of a mouse (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Susan and Mark Golebiowski found love on an Internet dating site, so it was only appropriate that when the couple started planning their June wedding they turned to the Web.

Beach weddings under pressure to get permits (KHNL News 8 Honolulu) - HONOLULU (AP) - The idyllic Hawaiian wedding is suffering a decline. The sagging national economy is a likely factor. But a state plan to crack down on permit requirements for commercial weddings that take advantage of Hawaii's biggest natural attraction could decrease the numbers even more.

MP calls for registrar law change (BBC News) - A London MP calls for the law to be changed after a registrar won the legal right not to carry out "gay weddings".

Olivia Newton-john - Newton-john Insisted On Private Weddings (ContactMusic) - Singer OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN kept her recent double wedding a secret from everyone but her daughter CHLOE - because she feared the nuptials would become a tabloid hell if word ...

Sluggish economy provokes cost cutting at weddings (The Capital) - Bride Karis DeHaas, looks over dresses with friend Tina Grim at TLC Bridal Boutique on N. Market Street, in Frederick, Md. FREDERICK, Md. — Bride-to-be Tyra Seiver wanted white benches for her August wedding, but she balked at the $1,000 cost to rent them.

Gay weddings to become reality in Massachusetts (Pravda Ru) - Gay couples from across the United States are one step closer to a Massachusetts wedding. The state Senate voted Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law used to bar out-of-state gay couples from marrying in the state.

State permit rule may chase weddings off beach (BizJournals) - The state's decision to require permits for all commercial weddings on Hawaii beaches is roiling the state's wedding-planning industry.

Weddings for July 3, 2008 (Woodland Progress) - Christine Lynn Livengood and Michael Edward Schuyler were united in marriage on March 29, 2008 at Homer City United Methodist Church. Pastor Joseph Stains officiated.

Gay wedding business opens on the Coastside (Coastsider) - Rev. Christie Hardwick has identified Half Moon Bay as an ideal location to start a new business in staging same-sex weddings, now that it’s legal in California. “I have heard from a couple of people making sure the (gay wedding) market knows that they’re there,” said Charise Hale McHugh, president and CEO of the Half Moon Bay Coastside Chamber of Commerce. “Businesses have been hurting. ...

Weddings and Engagements (Princeton Town Topics) - Gernhardt-Babula. Alison Leigh Gernhardt, daughter of Mrs. Roberta Gernhardt of Lawrenceville and the late Mr. Raymond Gernhardt, to Bracken Potter Babula, son of Mr. Wesley Babula and Mrs. Susan Potter of Chesterville, Maine.