Bridesville.com Web News Archive

Weddings at no charge? Tacoma's Life Center says I will - Tacomas Life Center is providing free weddings and vow-renewal ceremonies to 17 couples starting today as a show of support for marriage.

Lifestyle Brides, grooms turn weddings into green initiatives - Weddings and the parties that follow usually leave a mountain of waste in their wake. Now an increasing number of concerned couples are seeking ways

WEDDINGS: Daley-Simon - KINGSTON Robert Post Park was the setting of the wedding of Bethany Simon, daughter of Stephan and Luanne Simon of Kingston, and Damion Daley, son of Neville and Katherine Daley of Kingston and formerly of Trelawny, Jamaica.

Weddings on Wirt Street comes to Leesburg - Weddings on Wirt Street will celebrate its ribbon-cutting Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 3 Wirt St. NW in Historic Downtown Leesburg. Leesburg Town Council member Marty Martinez will officiate.

Elaborate Indian weddings can last for days - The groom arrived on a white horse. A producer with Bollywood experience did the video. Guests filled at least 125 central Ohio hotel rooms. The wedding of Satvik (Vinny) Raj and Neena Patel in Columbus was no small affair. Big weddings are part of many traditions, but people of Indian ancestry, like Raj and Patel, often put on supersized celebrations.

Weddings abroad are now nearly as popular as getting hitched at home - Weddings abroad are now nearly as popular as getting hitched at home.

Celebrating weddings with a difference - As far as weddings go, nuptials between two penguins is pretty odd. Especially when these two flightless birds are made of concrete. But Penguin's big penguin and her little friend across the other side of Main St, Penguin, tied the knot earlier this year.

As Iranian American weddings grow more lavish, some call for restraint - In Los Angeles' wealthy Persian community, it's not uncommon to spend hundreds of thousands. But with the slumping economy, some groups say such extravagance has become detrimental. Shahbal Shabpareh and his band Black Cats a premier Iranian American pop group have performed American hits with a Persian twist at upper-crust Iranian celebrations almost weekly for years.

Recent weddings - Click here to see a list by date of area couples who recently married. Click the couples' names to see their wedding or engagement announcements.

Romantics clothes unite art, commerce, celebs - Clothes are a key part of weddings and, it turns out, the marriage of art and commerce. Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel and Malin Akerman are among the well-dressed stars of upcoming film The Romantics, which is all about friends reuniting for a wedding with a few wounds still not healed.