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Top 100 Wedding Blogs

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:49:38 -0800

The Top 100 Wedding Blogs (and Twitters) to follow in 2009 Includes several of my favorites- BeSpoke | A White Box Blog, The Perfect Palette, and etsy wedding. I can't believe they failed to mention my favorite wedding blog of all - Manolo for the Brides (it appears to be down at this very moment, which could explain the snub).

I don't know how to be a wife, I'm only 16!

miss lynnster — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:49:52 -0800

The British documentary Brit ain's Youn gest Brides follows five teen girls on their paths to the altar. My personal favorite is Catrina and her 308 pound wedding dress.

Behind the numbers: Indian weddings

anjamu — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:57:19 -0800

70 private cars, 50 000 kilos of flowers, 3000 candles, 65 000 yards of fabric. Those are just a few of the figures from the wedding of New York playboy and (wait for it) hotel heir Vikram Chatwal to model Priya Sachdev. Last year, Lakshmi Mittal (the world's third-richest man, according to Forbes) spent over $60 million for his daughter Vanisha's wedding. What kind of wedding does $60 million buy? A song-and-dance by Aishwarya Rai, among other Bollywood luminaries; ceremonies at the Tuileries and Versailles; and top chefs and designers at your beck and call. In 2004, the Sahara Group's Subrata Roy built three mock palaces on the edge of a lake in Uttar Pradesh; his sons' double wedding had 11 000 guests. Mr. Roy's company paid for the weddings of 101 couples (numbers ending in '1' are considered auspicious) who couldn't afford to get married, and also fed 140 000 poor people across the country (all as part of the festivities). All of this sound like idle gossip? The wedding business is huge in India; it's a $10bn business (and growing at 25% annually), and the demand for gold wedding jewelry, according to analysts, "helped lift the metal's price to a 25-year high last month." Appliance retailers offer discounts during weddings season; there are personal loans available for weddings; and there's even an entire mall devoted to weddings. As the Christian Science Monitor notes, the minimum a middle-class Indian family will spend on a wedding is $34 000. (The average American wedding? $26 327.) And who makes up the Indian middle class? "Those making $4,545 to $23,000 a year." More on Indian wedding traditions here.

Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married...

madamjujujive — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 05:55:43 -0800

Welcome to our wedding. Join Scott and Helen as they countdown to their wedding on the 9th. View pix of the proposal, the stag do in Amsterdam, the hen night in Brighton, and check out all the details of the upcoming event. Would you open your wedding to the eyes of the world? Site designer and groom Harold says "The idea is not to invite the world to our wedding, would you want them at yours? hence the reason I have now had to take off the reception maps/venues/pictures." (via Haddock)

stevis — Tue, 09 Jul 2002 01:27:37 -0800

From Big to Aidan to...the ballet dancer? Sex and the City's author and inspiration Candace Bushnell got married to 33-year-old ballet dancer Charles Askegard July 4 on a Nantucket beach in Massachusetts. The couple has only known each other for eight weeks.

raysmj — Sat, 05 Jan 2002 21:08:07 -0800

A duct tape wedding Sorta like the Rose Bowl, only with duct tape instead of flowers, people instead of floats and marriage instead of a parade connected to a foodball game.

ookamaka — Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:47:34 -0800

"Wait - what - huh?? THAT was your marriage proposal???"

CrazyUncleJoe — Sat, 12 Aug 2000 21:17:07 -0800

Do you take this blogger to be your lawfully wedded geek? I want to know why Matt and Kay haven't set up a link to their ~~deepleap wishlist~~ wedding registry yet.

chrish — Mon, 03 Apr 2000 19:55:56 -0800

Jilted husband blows up wedding. A suicide bomber in northern China, apparently angry at the break-up of his marriage, is reported to have killed himself and 36 people at a village wedding.

palegirl — Fri, 11 Feb 2000 15:51:07 -0800

politically incorrect may air a gay marriage. if they can find two guys who will exchange vows, P.I. will air it on febuary 18th. hmm. "The on-screen wedding will kick off an episode devoted entirely to gay marriage, a particularly timely topic given Vermont's recent block of an anti-marriage bill, California's upcoming Proposition 22"