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Historic Bedford Springs Hotel reopens after 21-year absence (USA Today) - Forget all the hype surrounding July 7th, which brought out a record number of weddings due to its “lucky” 7/7/07 numeric date. For golfers, the number of note is 7/10/12/07 because it was at exactly 10 a.m. on July 12th...

Two-Thirds of American Couples Overspend on Their Weddings, Visa Survey Finds (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) - Summer is the most popular season to get married and a wedding will likely be the biggest expense a couple faces in their first year of marriage. According to a newly released Visa survey of 1,000 cardholders, couples who got married in the past ten years spent an average of $7,873 on their weddings.

GUO, 30, AND YANG, 30 (New York Post) - JUNE 16 - Getting married must have been contagious for Grace Guo and Richard Yang. “Richard actually proposed while we were in Vancouver for one of his future groomsman’s weddings in August 2006,” says Guo, a concert pianist and piano faculty...

Brewing up some new business (Berkshire Eagle) - GREAT BARRINGTON — The owners of the Barrington Brewery on Stockbridge Road have unveiled a 6,000-foot banquet facility for weddings, business events and parties.

No carbon at the inn (Asheville Citizen-Times) - MARSHALL -- Walker and Doug Silsbee recycled an old tobacco barn into the Bend of Ivy Lodge, offering a retreat center for conferences, weddings and spiritual gatherings on 63 acres of farmland and woods along the Ivy River.

Friendly Encounters: Terry Upstages Becks (4thegame.com) - With lavish weddings, sun-kissed holidays and endless rounds of golf now just a distant memory, Premier League players have returned to their clubs to stroll through some friendly matches with lower league clubs or jet off to far away lands to rake in some cash from football-crazy locals.

Police slay top Indian bandit (AP via Yahoo! News) - Indian police killed one of the country's most notorious bandits Sunday — a man who ruled the ravines and forests of central India through a mixture of fear and love for three decades, with many hailing him as a modern-day Robin Hood.

It's Hallows and goodbye to all that (The Observer) - She says she's 'relieved', and JK Rowling is probably not alone. The world went a little bit bonkers last week. In America grown men and women arranged their weddings around a reading of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Tax breaks for Greek weddings (News 24 South Africa) - Weddings, parties and karate lessons will become tax deductible in Greece under a new law aimed at cracking down on rampant tax evasion.

Survey: Two-Thirds of American Couples Overspend on Their Weddings (NBC26 Green Bay) - SAN FRANCISCO -- Summer is the most popular season to get married and a wedding will likely be the biggest expense a couple faces in their first year of marriage.