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Same-sex brides talk about their wardrobe choices: gown or suit?

With the mayor, the governor, friends and family members looking on, Christine C. Quinn was married in one of the most prominent same-sex weddings of a public official.

A married couple look back on two decades of figuring out family life and finds that laughter and love go hand in hand.

The couple talk about being together for two decades.

Six couples profiled in the first year of the Vows column look back at two decades of marriage — and divorce.

On Saturday, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, announced that he had married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan. The announcement was made, of course, on Facebook.

The couple connected after a long dinner in which Dr. Michael Glassner discussed his father’s recent death.

A reflection on 20 years of marriages, featuring the ups and downs of six couples who married in 1992.

The couple met on a tour of Cambodia and Laos.

The back story would now inspire the narrative of a wedding announcement.

HITCHED! Bridal Hong Kong is happy to welcome a new bridesmaid collection from the very talented designer Lela Rose.

-Violin Fiddle Music offered from Fiddlplay is for creating a special wedding with beautiful Traditional and Celtic Wedding Melodies provided in a live setting by Champion Oregon Fiddler Roland White-, Reports Dolphin Graphics and Music.

One-year-old wedding-planning service named as one of the three finalists in the Innovation category.

Local St. Paul Dry Cleaners Joins The Fight To Cure Breast Cancer via its self-created -Comforters for the Cure- program.

Best Man Speech Insight has made the decision to release a lot more insightful articles that are not quite keyword targeted but are extremely appropriate to the future best men. They feel that this action would help make their web site more appealing and is going to have a positive impact on the readers.

Friar Tux Shop unveils the -Pink Ribbon Collection- of Men’s Formalwear to raise awareness and support for Susan G. Komen™ in the fight against breast cancer.

Savvi Formalwear Atlanta unveils the -Pink Ribbon Collection- of Men’s Formalwear to raise awareness and support for Susan G. Komen™ in the fight against breast cancer.

Bridal Warehouse has hundreds of marked down designer gowns ready for that big day. These sale gowns are all one of a kind designer sample gown from names like Maggie Sottero, Mori Lee, Allure, Bonny, Forever Yours, Mon Cheri and more. Find a wedding gown that dreams are made of at Bridal Warehouse! This sale began March 6th and will be ending soon.

Finding the world’s 99 most inspirational wedding websites, sponsored by Etsy.

Warren Friss then headed up Topps Sports and Entertainment division, with over 125 employees, from 2006-2011. Warren Friss led that division to dramatic growth and, ultimately, to a sale of the Company to Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company and a major private equity firm in 2007.

“It was classic and elegant, feminine and ethereal, and everything I’d ever dreamed of.” —Minnie

To see more of Minnie and Brian’s San Francisco wedding, visit our Real Weddings Gallery.

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First Ginnifer Goodwin hit ABC in Once upon a Time. Then Julia Roberts and Lily Collins sparred in Mirror Mirror. Now the epic, edgy Snow White & the Huntsman (out June 1) has viewers buzzing. Kristen Stewart stars as the titular badass princess, while a murderously chic Charlize Theron shreds scenery as the worst stepmother ever. From a glittering gown to a wicked apple ring, our mood board has everything you need to make your wedding the fairest of them all. Well, almost: seven tiny groomsmen not included. See the full slideshow for all the details.

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Above, a dramatic wall bathed in purple light provides the backdrop for an intimate receiving area. The creative force behind this romantic setting is world-class event, floral, food, and dinnerware designer Tammy Carmona, who recently launched her own line of dishes, Carmona New York & Co.

Carmona created this elegant space for a bride to receive and bless her guests, a Jewish Chassidish wedding custom. Featuring a regal settee, large vases overflowing with orchids, and ornately framed “floral art,” the area was easily transitioned into a backdrop for the head table later in the celebration. “I love the way the flowers are creating a picture, bringing life to something that’s otherwise very flat,” says Carmona, who also designed Edward and Bella’s whimsical forest wedding in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1. “We created a living room environment that makes you feel at home at a high end event. It’s very dramatic, very romantic.”

—Alyssa Wells

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I already knew he wasn’t right for me, this guy my friend had dragged me out of New York on New Year’s Eve to meet.

I knew exactly whom I was supposed to be with, and it was not this stranger. My soul mate was worldly, creative, successful, plugged in—just like me, except with more self-confidence. He’d mesh flawlessly with my stylish urban life of dinners, friends, weekends seeing art exhibits and indie bands. I didn’t care about wealthy or powerful. I cared about cool. And this Kevin person my friend was forcing me to meet was clearly uncool. He lived two hours away; he didn’t have a remarkable job or a byline or a portfolio. Forget it.

On the other hand, I was getting older, and Perfect Soul Mate had yet to materialize. The cool guys I dated weren’t turning out so well, and one particularly bad breakup spurred me into action. With the help of the vast world of online matchmaking (and several supportive friends on speed-dial), I bulk-dated. It was, by and large, a great experience. I met a lot of nice guys who were completely uncool but—and this was new for me—really very happy to spend their weekends with me. That Perfect Soul Mate began to get a little fuzzy around the edges—but I held out hope.

So when one amateur-matchmaker friend said she had a setup for me and she was throwing a New Year’s Eve potluck expressly to make the connection, I balked. “I’m dated out,” I said. “I don’t want to spend New Year’s on a blind date. Some of my girlfriends are going to a nightclub. I’d rather do that.”

“Okay.” Her voice over the phone was calm, though I have to think she was stabbing a fork into my picture. “If that’s how you feel.”

The email she sent a few minutes later was gentle but insistent. “I know you’re tired of the meet-and-greet,” she wrote, “but I am setting you up with a single, straight, available man who likes to cook, make furniture, and garden, and has two dogs. And you’re telling me you’d rather go out and do tequila shots.”

So there I was, at potluck New Year’s Eve in the Catskills, studiously avoiding Kevin, when I noticed a pan of brownies. They looked food-porn beautiful, but, snob that I was, I doubted the inside would match the outside. What the heck; I cut a square and took a bite.

Mouth shock. It was the best brownie I had ever tasted. Intensely fudgy and rich, not too sweet and with a hint of salt, the kind of treat you’d pay $3 for at a coffee bar. “This is amazing,” I told my friend. “Who made it?” With a smug look on her face, she pointed across the room. “Kevin,” she said. The man she wanted me to meet. I looked his way at the precise moment he glanced at me, and a quiet voice in my head said, “That’s the man you’re going to marry.”

No, voice, I am not, I thought heatedly. He is entirely wrong for me. Impossible.

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Kate Middleton showed off her glamorous style and a bit of daring wearing a jade green Jenny Packham dress at the Our Greatest Team Rises concert held at London’s Royal Albert Hall to mark the countdown to this summer’s Olympic Games. The gown, from the designer’s Spring 2012 collection, features a sheer lace back, lace cap sleeves, a dainty beaded belt, and a flowing silk chiffon skirt. Style savvy Middleton accessorized the look with a small clutch of the same turquoise hue, silver Jimmy Choo platforms, and an elegant, braided up-do. (And gorgeous Kate still goes it alone when it comes to makeup and styling. The Duchess doesn’t have an official stylist and selects all of her outfits, according to People.)

Jenny Packham’s Spring 2012 bridal equivalent to the stunning dress features the same delicate details and plunging neckline—though Middleton’s gown offered a more demure look than what we saw on the runway. While an excess of décolletage is a don’t for most brides, it’s likely particularly taboo for the future Queen of England.

Aspen, $5,000, Jenny Packham

—Alyssa Wells

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In 2007, BenJoaquín attended a performance of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor to watch his sister, an opera singer, perform. He found himself captivated by her friend, soprano Khori, whom he spotted after the show. “Her performance was hauntingly beautiful,” BenJoaquín says, “and even though she was totally out of my league, I tried to make eye contact all night.” Their paths crossed again at a party a few weeks later, and BenJoaquín still couldn’t get Khori’s attention. But the third time proved to be the charm: On a sunny afternoon, BenJoaquín and his sister were at a park in San Francisco when Khori called to meet up. The pair instantly hit it off, and the afternoon turned into an evening outing to see the 1960 film “The Apartment.” “I think we both started planning the wedding that night,” he says.

It wasn’t until four years later, on October 15, 2011, that the couple married at the Pelican Inn in Muir Beach, California, a Tudor-style inn and pub tucked near a coastal redwood forest. “We’ve spent many Sunday afternoons drinking pints on the lawn,” says Khori. Almost all of the 63 guests flew in for the intimate wedding weekend, which included a Friday horseback ride and beach bonfire, and a Saturday-afternoon ceremony in the inn’s glass-enclosed conservatory.

“As an opera singer, I have plenty of princess moments. I didn’t want to be onstage at my wedding,” says Khori, 31, who wore a simple spaghetti-strap dress fashioned from a vintage ivory sari—a nod to her Indian heritage. Artist Darcy Vasudev painted a traditional Indian henna tattoo on Khori’s palms. “I wanted my bouquet to look
wild and to fit in with the English-country style of the venue,” says Khori (seen below posing with her sister).

The service was similarly relaxed, with mix-and-match chairs from the dining room and garlands of Easter lilies and carnations. “Everyone was beaming. BenJoaquín was crying,” says Khori. “I floated—literally, floated—down the aisle.” The couple wrote their own vows; fittingly, BenJoaquín, 27, included lines from “The Apartment,” the film they’d seen on their first date. The bride’s dog, Redford, stayed by her side during the ceremony. “My vows began with ‘My dearest love’—Redford leapt up instantly!” she says.

After the ceremony, blues guitarist Ike Cosse—”he plays at our local farmer’s market,” says Khori—jammed on the lawn while guests downed pints of Guinness and pub-style hors d’oeuvres like miniature fish-and-chips. Then guests headed to the cozy, fire-lit dining room for a buffet-style reception of roasted salmon, brown sugar-crusted ham, and prime rib, accompanied by organic vegetables grown at a farm just down the road.

Reception tables were topped with persimmons, sweet peas, olives, Queen Anne’s lace, tulips, ranunculus, and privet in vintage vessels. The croquembouche was made of Tahitian vanilla, Meyer lemon, and Four Barrel espresso profiteroles. “We had fun kissing each other over the top of the croquembouche!” says Khori.

Next came dancing (For which Khori changed into a lace mini by Diane von Furstenberg) and rounds of toasts—including one from Khori’s 92-year-old grandmother. “At one point, we looked out on the dining room,” says Khori. “Our families had blended, and we knew people had made lifelong friends—we’ll never forget how special that night was.”

Venue & catering: Pelican Inn || Bride’s dress and veil: Judy Lee || Bride’s reception dress: Diane von Furstenberg || Bride’s shoes: Stuart Weitzman || Groom’s suit: Al’s Attire || Flowers: Studio Choo || Stationery: Andy Beers, Ore Studios || Cocktail-hour music: Ike Cosse; 408-261- 3622 || Croquembouche: Lori Oyamada; phlurp9@hotmail.com || Hair & makeup: Eliza Desch || Photography: Cooper Carras Photography

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Our 31 Days of Giveaways continues with 3 must-have Bridal Kits from Spanx.

As much as you’ve absolutely killed yourself at the gym and focused on healthy-er eating in the months leading up to your wedding day, sometimes it’s just not enough. That’s where Spanx comes in. The genius line of undergarments provide a stunningly seamless look. And what day is more crucial for achieving your smoothest of shapes than your wedding day? Enter the killer Spanx Bridal Kit, which includes: an Active Power Pant, a Sportease! Athletic Lowrise Sock, a Bra-Cha-Cha Strapless Bra, a Slimmer & Shine Tunic and a But…Naked! Thong. Lastly, the Spanx team threw in a Spanx for Men Zoned Performance Crew Neck for your groom-to-be (believe us, he’ll thank you later). We only wish we could see your pictures…

Entering to win 1 of 3 amazing Spanx bridal kits is easy, just follow the steps below:

1. Check with Brides.com every morning to hear about the amazing prize up for grabs that day.
2. Head over to our Win page to sign up. It only takes 30 seconds, tops (we timed it).
3. Wait to hear back if you’re a lucky winner. Don’t worry, we won’t make you twiddle your thumbs too long! (Winners will be alerted via email no later than June 15th.)
4. Repeat the next day and the day after that, so on and so forth…

You can follow Spanx on Twitter and Facebook. And be sure to check out the Spanx Wedding Guide!

*Just remember, you can sign up to win each day’s dedicated prize (that’s 31 separate giveaway items!), but you have to keep coming back to sign up. Limit 1 person per entry per day. Winners will be selected at random.

—Gray MacDonald

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Finally, peonies get their moment to shine. Brides everywhere rejoice when the too-short peony season rolls around and they can stick the pretty bloom in their bouquets, centerpieces and boutonnieres. We stumbled upon this bright arrangement on The Wedding Chicks’ Pinterest board. L-o-v-e.

Like it? Pin it! Be sure to scour our Pinterest boards for stunning inspiration on everything from your wedding hair and bouquet to easy DIY details and cool guest favors.

—Gray MacDonald

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“We’re both old-fashioned at heart and wanted our wedding to have a classic, traditional feel.” —Melanie

To see more of Melanie and Timothy’s classic winter wedding, visit our Real Weddings Gallery.

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Above, NYC-based fashion and bridal designer Lela Rose shares her favorite registry items for bed and bath. These are perfect picks for a fresh, modern bride who loves quirky details.

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