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• Why millennial couples opt for bespoke wedding rings

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester September 18, 2017
  Coloured stones have been getting more attention as the “in” choice for millennials ready to tie the knot, as they are more affordable than diamonds and the colours they offer lend themselves to individualistic looks. But diamonds are still easily the most popular choice for engagement r...

• Kirsten Dunst's Wedding Dress Is Being Designed by Rodarte

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester September 13, 2017
  Not even the cool girls are unaffected by wedding planning, not even Kirsten Dunst. The actress recently owned up to having a Pinterest wedding board. "I never thought I was that person who’d have a Pinterest board. I like doing all of that pinning things," she said on Live with Kelly & Ryan, ...

• The Haves & the Have Nots’

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester August 31, 2017
  The Risque Fashion Fad ‘The Haves & the Have Nots’ Star Angela Robinson Wishes She Didn’t Try When it comes to fashion, Angela Robinson knows there’s something to be said for trying anything once. “There’s no one word that describes my style — I try to swi...

• 'Project Runway' judge Nina Garcia loves Latina style

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester August 30, 2017
  It may be a generalization to assume that every Latina gravitates toward bold, bright colors and vibrant patterns and shapes, but Marie Claire creative director andProject Runway judge Nina Garcia embraces those aspects of Latina style with pride. “I love color. I love print. If that’s ...

• Behind the scenes with Mercedes-Benz Presents Designer Zambesi

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester August 28, 2017
  Fashion Week is one of the biggest events on the New Zealand social calendar and a lot of work goes in behind the scenes to make sure it is a stand out event time and time again. The next few days will see more heels, lipstick and avant garde outfits storming Auckland's waterfront pavements than an...

• Free Fashion Design School In Beirut Combines Creativity

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester August 24, 2017
  Free Fashion Design School In Beirut Combines Creativity And Social Justice! Beirut is famous for being the capital of fashion in the Middle East and one of the major design hubs in the world. Lebanon gave birth to many world-renowned fashion designers such as Elie Saab and Zuhair Murad whose dres...

• Little Gentlemen

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester August 22, 2017
  Freshly Picked’s Baby-Size Oxfords Are Perfect for Little Gentlemen Representing luxe and sophistication, the oxford shoe is a classic style of men’s footwear that has been a staple wardrobe item for centuries. Its signature closed laces and slightly elevated heel provides a simple base...

• Kim Kardashian’s Photo of North West

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester August 19, 2017
  Kim Kardashian’s Photo of North West in Sold-Out Yeezy Giving Hugs Is the Cutest Thing Is there any 4-year-old more stylish than North West? Just scroll through her family’s Instagrams and you’ll have your answer. In case you missed it, the toddler’s worn everything from fau...

• Plus-Size Shoppers Are Spending Their $20.4 Billion at These St

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester August 10, 2017
  Back in 2004, I reported on the any-day-now strategy that retailers were bound to embrace: expanding the range of sizes available to women, since a greater percentage of women wear a size 14 and up, and since so-called “plus size” women were actually recession-proof spenders compared to ...

• the World According to New Hot Brand Index

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester August 8, 2017
  Gucci and Yeezy Are the Hottest Brands in the World According to New Hot Brand Index You aren't imagining it — the Gucci and Yeezy world takeover is real. According to Lyst and Business of Fashion's Hot Brand Index, a new quarterly report compiled by the two companies that takes into account...

• SNEAKY SNIFTERMum slammed for smuggling booze into a wedding re

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester August 1, 2017
  WEDDINGS are usually an expensive affair, especially if you have to travel a long way to attend or splash out on a new outfit. But several Mumsnet users have confessed their crafty way of saving a few pennies - by smuggling booze into the reception. Writing on the Am I Being Unreasonable thread, o...

• The Nautical Portraits at this Navy Aviator’s Annapolis Wedding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester July 13, 2017
  We’ve seen many a nautically-themed wedding, but never one like this. When Grace Rich married Navy man Matthew Murphy, their Navy-themed wedding took things to a whole new level when the pair posed for wedding pictures in the Navy boathouse and out on the field of the Navy-Marine Corps Memoria...

• Joseph Duggar and Kendra Caldwell wedding details revealed

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester July 4, 2017
  Duggar family members are growing accustomed to the unexpected engagements and weddings that continue to be the norm for their large and continuously growing family. The family is now in rush mode preparing for the next Duggar wedding of Joseph and #Kendra, and some of the plans are really going to ...

• Wedding Story

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester June 28, 2017
  Teen Mom OG's troubled dad Ryan Edwards was shown almost falling asleep as he appeared to drive under the influence to his own wedding. In an episode where Amber Portwood also tearfully broke up with fiance Matt Baier after a polygraph test appeared to confirm her fears that he tried to have sex wi...

• Atlanta author writes the ultimate guide to planning your LGBTQ

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester June 24, 2017
  Almost a decade ago, when Kirsten Palladino was planning her wedding, she found there were limited resources at her local bookstore in Atlanta. There were plenty of wedding guides on the shelves, she said, but they all made reference to a bride and groom. Palladino wasn’t sure how those descr...

• 8 Details We Loved From Diana Ross's Son's Wedding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester June 20, 2017
  When a music icon’s child gets married, you know the wedding will be, well, simply iconic. So it’s no surprise that Diana Ross’s son, Ross Arne Naess, had a wedding for the books. Naess married his now wife Kimberly Ryan earlier this month in a beautifully picturesque ceremony in ...

• Top 6 Ways to Save Money on a Destination Wedding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester June 16, 2017
  If you’re recently engaged to be married, congratulations! As your attention shifts towards your big day, it hits you; weddings are really expensive. As you flip through bridal magazines and begin to make plans, you quickly realize that your optimistic budget cannot bring you all the bells and...

• CUPP protesters, police show up for Sunflower wedding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester June 12, 2017
  Sunflower movement leader Lin Fei-fan (林飛帆) and Lin Ya-Ping (林雅萍) yesterday got married at Changhua County’s Yen Pasture (顏氏牧場). A group of China Unification Promotion Party (CUPP) members staged a rally outside the ranch. They left some hours later after shouting slogans calling for Taiwan&...

• Fitness - Wedding day was Bryony's motivation

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester June 8, 2017
  Craig Silkens, sports massage therapist and personal trainer at M Club, catches up with two of the club's members to find out more about their weight loss journey. There have been some big changes on Bryony's Highfield's life since we last caught up with her, and not just in terms of her weight. B...

• Akaryn hotel group brings personal touches to destination weddi

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester June 3, 2017
  Custom Wedding Journeys Attract Couples to Some of the Kingdom’s Most Romantic Locations with Memorable Rituals and Celebrations Thailand based boutique luxury hospitality pioneer and member of Small Luxury Hotels of The World, AKARYN Hotel Group (AHG), has created a diverse collection of wed...

• Weddings in Wales: Sweet proposal in the Big Apple

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester May 25, 2017
  If you tied the knot like Chetna and Ryan we'd love to share in your celebrations . To take part, just fill in the simple form at the end of this story. And if you're from the South Wales Echo area, you will be featured in our newspaper, too. It doesn't matter where you married, as long as one of ...

• In-law troubles delay wedding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester May 23, 2017
  Q. I've been engaged for 18 months, but due to in-law problems, we have delayed wedding planning. We've lived together at my condo for two years because of his schooling. He graduated and is currently working. I'm 31 and working in a hospital. The original plan when he was single was to take care ...

• Princess Mako's wedding planned for next year

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester May 18, 2017
  The Imperial Household Agency is planning to hold Princess Mako and her university sweetheart Kei Komuro's wedding next year, sources close to the agency have revealed. As well as deciding where the couple will live after marriage, there are many ceremonial rites that the agency and the couple must...

• Summer wedding ceremony

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester May 16, 2017
  Dancing with the Stars beauty Peta Murgatroyd said she and fiance Maksim Chmerkovskiy will get their four-month-old son Shai Aleksander involved in their wedding ceremony this July at Oheka Castle in Long Island, New York. 'I think that he’s going to be carried down the aisle by a family memb...

• Stuff's wedding of the week: Alyssa and Michael

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester May 12, 2017
  He wooed her for two years before she agreed to date him - and that one date was all it took for love to blossom. Alyssa and Michael tied the knot with a The Great Gatsby-inspired celebration drenched in vintage glamour. Mount Tongariro acted a as a beautiful backdrop for the ceremony where they ha...

• Joy Basdeo presides over 2,000th wedding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester May 9, 2017
  The waterfront is her chapel and the sands of Seven Mile Beach her aisle. Joy Basdeo, a wedding officiant in the Cayman Islands, presided over another union Friday, when she brought together Marcel Dillard and Shakeira Ebanks in matrimony at the Kimpton Seafire Resort. The ceremony took place in fr...

• Why I Wanted a Small Wedding — and Why You Might Too

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester May 5, 2017
  Seven years and two kids ago, my (now) husband knelt on a moonlit boat dock in Camden, Maine, and asked if I would love him forever. For me, it was a no-brainer. I wept and said yes. There was no one there but us and the moon and the swaying boats in the harbour. There was no ring. There was just hi...

• Is This Engaged Maid of Honor About to Start a Bride War?

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester May 3, 2017
  A bride shared on Reddit this week that her maid of honor decided to schedule her own wedding a week before hers — a story that that sounds an awful lot like the makings of a sequel to Bride Wars (although at least these weddings are a week apart and not on the same day, like those bridezillas...

• No Meat, No Wedding, Says Groom. So Bride Chooses Another Man

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester April 28, 2017
  A wedding was called off at a village in Uttar Pradesh because an all-vegetarian menu - apparently a fallout of the crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses - upset the groom's family. Wedding celebrations in Kulhedi village quickly turned sour when the groom, Rizvan, refused to marry his bride, Nagma,...

• Tara Lipinski Says Her Romantic, Pastel Bridal Shower Was ‘Perf

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester April 25, 2017
  Tara Lipinski is one gorgeous bride-to-be! The former Olympic figure skater gave PEOPLE an inside look at her “homey, intimate” pre-wedding celebration with 30 close friends and family members, including “bridesman” Johnny Weir. The April 15 party at her Los Angeles pad had ...

• Stuff's wedding of the week: Nash and Peter

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester April 21, 2017
  They met at gym - and it was a case of love at first sight for Nash and Peter. After a magical proposal at the Franz Josef Glacier, the couple tied the knot in a moving ceremony decked in high glamour. With not one but two gowns flown in from the Philippines, bride Nash co-ordinated her special day...

• Cop’s son sells drugs to fund wedding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester April 19, 2017
  THEY sold drugs to pay for their wedding – and this landed the 24-year-old son of a policeman and his 23-year-old fiancée in the slammer. Kosmo! reported that the couple, from George Town, Penang, were arrested with another suspect in a car by the Malaysian Border Control Agency near C...

• What To Do When Someone Objects At Your Wedding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester April 12, 2017
  You see it on TV and in the movies all the time: A heartbroken ex-lover crashes a couple's wedding, with the intention of objecting and putting an end to it all. It's so dramatic and shocking you'd never believe something like that could happen in real life, but it does. In a recent Ask Reddit thr...

• 9 Little-Known Facts About Beyoncé and Jay Z's Wedding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester April 5, 2017
  Beyoncé and Jay Z are celebrating their ninth wedding anniversary! Before Blue Ivy, Tidal, and Lemonade came along, the music power couple tied the knot in an intimate surprise ceremony on April 4, 2008. While details were initially scarce, both Bey and Jay have since shared bits and pieces a...

• You're invited to a spring wedding in Eganville

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester March 30, 2017
  Get out your "best bib and tucker" – you're invited to a wedding. It’s the Big Fun BUPL Wedding to be exact. This is a fundraising dinner and dance for the Bonnechere Union Public Library (BUPL) in Eganville. It celebrates all kinds of weddings and promises to be a lot of fun. It has ...

• Here's A Chance For Military Couple To Win Free Dream Wedding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester March 28, 2017
  Couples who have served the nation once again have the chance to see the magical wedding of their dreams realized. Peconic Landing is seeking applicants for the 7th annual Veterans Day Wedding Giveback; the winning service couple will receive a dream wedding at Brecknock Hall, at no cost. Known as...

• Why I Copy-Pasted My Wedding Vows

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester March 21, 2017
  I guess it's safe to say I had a "non-traditional" wedding. I mean, I wore navy (although our son wore white, does that count?). I had lofty plans to buy a super awesome expensive — like, $300 maybe! — dress that I would wear forever, but my favorite one turned out to be $50. Our dear fr...

• Relationship Red Flags That Could Lead To Cold Feet Before Your

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester March 16, 2017
  As a bridesmaid for hire, I’ve found myself on countless phone calls, in church confessional booths and — of course — chasing runaway brides, who confide in me that they have last minute cold feet. Whenever I sit down with these brides and ask them why they are no longer feeling th...

• Wedding march of the penguins

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester March 6, 2017
  Well, that’s one way to p-p-p-perk up your wedding. Waddling down the aisle, a pair of Humboldt penguins made a surprise entrance on Adam and Tracy Winterton’s big day. In addition to the two penguins which accompanied Tracy, 32, and Adam, 34, at their nuptials, they had a third in res...

• Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons 'pretty chill' about wedding pl

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester March 1, 2017
  Kirsten Dunst is set to direct her fiance Jesse Plemons in her directorial debut. Engaged actors Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons are in no rush to plan their wedding. The Spider-Man actress was first linked to her Fargo TV series co-star Jesse in May (16) but the fiercely private pair remained sil...

• Raela Marie Villanueva: Marriage & Cultures

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester February 22, 2017
  “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue.” — Barbara De Angelis Spring beckons and weddings abound. Of all the weddings I’ve been asked to be part of, my dear friend Manisha Agrawal Riley’s wedding had the most last...

• Woman vows to marry HERSELF on 40th birthday after not finding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester February 20, 2017
  The 39-year-old is about to kiss the single life goodbye – despite having not found a partner. Determined not to “fit into today’s society”, the bride-to-be is going the whole hog and sending out invites to her buffet dinner, disco and two hen parties. Despite never finding...

• Wedding-Guest Sins You Legit Gotta Read to Believe

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester February 17, 2017
  Think you've seen a bad wedding guest? You may have to think again. From a woman who crashed her ex-boyfriend's wedding to a man who threatened the groom's life, we've got some real doozies here—stories that will make you cringe, laugh, and hope they never show up at your celebration. TFW the...

• I Didn’t Have A Wedding And It Was The Best Thing I Ever Did

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester February 15, 2017
  Instead of having a wedding, my husband and I eloped and took a month off to travel Southeast Asia. The wedding industry in the United States, as of 2016, is worth an estimated $55 billion. Couples spend an average of $26,645 for their wedding, not including their honeymoon. In Aziz Ansari’s...

• Townsend-Lucius engagement

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester February 13, 2017
  Reverend Alfred Tyrone Townsend and Dr. Irma Ward Townsend of Enterprise, Alabama are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Lydia Rochelle Townsend, to Mr. Garron Nickolas Lucius, son of Mr. Richard August Lucius and Mrs. Cynthia Theresa Lucius of Flushing, Michigan. Images: ...

• Mum organises last wish weddings for people with terminal illne

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester February 8, 2017
  AN Altrincham mum who had a whirlwind romance with her childhood crush, complete with fairytale wedding, is helping people with terminal illnesses fulfil their dying wish of marrying their true love. Rachael Kirkwood, 32, is the founder of Wish for a Wedding, a charity which provides dream weddings...

• Go The Monochrome Way For Weddings

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester February 6, 2017
  More and more fashion-forward brides are taking to wearing black, white and off-white at their weddings, and we love the trend. There's something about Indian wear in monochrome colours that give the bride an even more ethereal charm. Even if you're not looking for monochrome pieces to wear for your...

• How to politely decline an offer to officiate at your wedding

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester December 2, 2016
  Q: A friend or a family member offers to officiate your wedding ceremony. How to do you politely decline, so it won't hurt your relationship with that person? A: In knotty situations like this, it is best to be upfront and get the awkward and uncomfortable refusal out of the way as quickly as possi...

• Heneisen-McLaughlin

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester November 28, 2016
  Danielle Elizabeth McLaughlin and David William Heneisen, both of Champaign, were united in marriage on Oct. 15, 2016. Pastor John Hume officiated the ceremony at Rammelkamp Chapel in Jacksonville. The bride is the daughter of Bill and Sherri McLaughlin of Jacksonville. The groom’s parents ar...

• Pippa Middleton Wedding News Update

  by Kaitlyn D. Hester November 24, 2016
  Pippa Middleton's wedding details has been talked about ever since Kate Middleton's sister got engaged to James Matthew. Rumours have been rife that the Duchess of Cambridge is not invited to Pippa Middleton's wedding because the younger sister does not want the princess to steal the limelight from ...