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Lucky Wedding Date Approaching This Weekend

So after months of speculation that the luckiest wedding date of all, 7-7-7 (July 7, 2007), is fast approaching and Las Vegas is packed with couples getting ready to marry this weekend. But you don't have to be getting married in Las Vegas on 7-7-7 for your wedding to be "lucky." Other locations that are expecting a larger amount of weddings than normal are Hawaii, the Caribbean, Miami, Orlando, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

So if you haven't made plans for getting married on 7-7-7, you might be too late (except in Las Vegas if you're not choosy), but that doesn't mean you're out completely... there's always 9-8-7 coming up. I know. It's not lucky like 7-7-7 but it's still a cool numbered date.

Have a safe and happy 4th.

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NBC Drops The Real Wedding Crashers

Okay so I was totally wrong about this new TV show, The Real Wedding Crashers, and NBC was too. In my first post about this new TV show, I was pretty optimistic because Ashton Kutcher was behind the project.

Apparently the show isn't holding any interest and NBC isn't even sure they're going to show the final shows of the season.

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Groom Drowns on Wedding Trip to Hawaii

Lately there have been a lot of tragic stories around the world involving members of the wedding party and this story adds to the pile.

A man dies off Maui, Hawaii while swimming with friends. Onlookers jumped into the water after his calls for help and recovered his body a short time later.

Maui County Medical Examiner Burt Freeland said 29-year-old Kuon Phou was swimming with friends when the group was caught in a strong current and began calling for help.

 

Residents ran into the water with surfboards to help and brought the group to shore and recovered Phou's body. Police said signs warned of rip tides in the area.

They were getting married on Saturday.

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The Real Wedding Crashers TV Show

I'm anticipated that Ashton Kutcher's new show, The Real Wedding Crashers, is going to be a huge hit. Not only because his other show was so popular and because he's quite popular himself, but because the idea of watching how other people react to how they expect you to react on your wedding day should something go wrong.

After weeks of teaser promos, NBC has finally announced the premiere of The Real Wedding Crashers, a new six-episode hidden camera comedy series where the couples being married are in on the joke, teaming up with five "crashers" to create an event their guests won't soon forget. 

The Real Wedding Crashers, produced by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg's Katalyst Films, will premiere on Monday, April 23 at 10PM ET/PT (immediately after Heroes returns from its brief hiatus at 9PM ET/PT) and air regularly in the Mondays at 10PM ET/PT time period throughout its run.

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In the meantime, David E. Kelley's "The Wedding Bells" is getting cut after moving to it's regular time slot on Friday.

"While we've been pleased with the show creatively, and David's writing was first-rate, ('Bells') just didn't secure the ratings we'd hoped for," Fox said in a statement.

Four episodes of "Bells" have aired. For now, the network said it intends to air the remaining three segments.

This makes for an interesting opening for Kutcher's The Wedding Crashers but I still think it will do better than The Wedding Bells. Firstly NBC, where The Wedding Crashers will air, is in desperate need of a hit show so they'll do what they can to place it in a good day/time as well as promote it like crazy. Secondly, it's a hidden camera show and American's love their hidden camera shows.

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Bride Dies on her Wedding Night

A bride dies in her sleep on her wedding night, right here in my home town of Salt Lake City, but the story comes out really weird from the nightly news -- like the whole story was told. Now three months later the rest of the story comes out that Jennifer Bennett Goodall died of a prescription drug overdose. The drug was methadone and Goodall was a spokesperson for anti-drug awareness campaigns alongside the Governer's wife.

Goodall died Dec. 24 from "acute methadone toxicity," said Salt Lake City police spokesman Jeff Bedard. That finding was made by a medical examiner who also labeled her death a case of prescription abuse, Bedard said.

Apparently Goodall had lost custody of her children due to drug abuse and was trying to get on with her life. But like too many other abusers seeking help she was either over prescribed or over medicating herself.

The medical examiner database lists 113 deaths in 2006 where methadone was a factor, up significantly from 26 such deaths in 2000.

The 2006 total could increase further as the medical examiner's office receives the results of pending toxicology tests.

Grey has said the increase in deaths from methadone and other prescription drugs has been driven by a combination of people taking too much medication to treat pain and by physicians prescribing too much medication. Methadone can be particularly deadly, health experts say, because it remains in the blood stream longer than most other opiates.

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Lucky Wedding Date 7-7-7

Many brides are planning their wedding date after getting engaged recently and 2007 has many great dates for the superstitious or numerically-minded. A few great dates include:

• May 6, 2007 (5/6/7)
• July 5, 2007 (7/7/7)
• September 8, 2007 (9/8/7)

Last year was the year of the Devil's wedding date on 6/6/6 and many brides around the world specifically planned that day to celebrate for the rest of their lives.

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Local Hawaiian Bride

This is a great story. A writer for the Honolulu Advertiser has started a wedding blog for her November 21 wedding. She married a pilot in the military who is scheduled to leave for Afganistan.

To add to the stress of planning a wedding she is also dealing with a time crunch. Her blog is great, very funny at times. She has great tips that she has learned along the way. Check it out at http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/current/il/weddingblog

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Wedding Cake Design

Long time readers already know I was married at 18 -- young and completely clueless. I'm sure I said things that didn't make any sense throughout our engagement and marriage simply because I wasn't thinking when I opened my mouth -- we're good at that.

But I usually would catch myself or at least laugh about it when my loving wife would point it out. To not realize where you went wrong makes for great entertainment, however.

Read about Erica & Greg's wedding cake planning details:

ERICA: As we pass by a bakery window with towering wedding cakes, Greg casually asks me (with a perfectly straight face): "How many floors will our wedding cake have?"

"How many FLOORS?"

"Yeah, how many floors?" he repeats. "How many cakes will be on our cake?"

OK, so Greg doesn't know the term "cake tier"...no big deal, really. It was actually kind of cute.

"Probably three-ish," I respond.

"Ok, three floors will be cool," he says.

I'm glad our women think we're "cute" regardless of our regular lapses in brain activity.

Wedding Nixed After Bride and Groom Brawl

As we kick-off the 2006 wedding season, I must bring this very disturbing news about a bride and groom who can't shouldn't get married because they were throwing punches the night before.

Ali Aghili, 37, and Marney Hurst, 33, both of Boulder, were to be married Saturday night at the posh Little Nell Hotel.

Instead, they got into a fight the night before and police arrested them because both allegedly threw punches, said police Sgt. Steve Smith.

The wedding had to be called off because their $250 bond conditions required them to stay away from each other, Smith said. He said it took police three hours to sort out the incident.

I guess it goes to show that people don't change after marriage, but rather their inner-self truly comes out.

When we were married, almost 12 years ago, we didn't have clue. We were 18 and trying to figure ourselves out let alone someone else. We finished growing up together with the odds against us, which probably fueled our desire to make it work, with a committment to one another.

Find Boulder wedding locations and officiants as well as all your planning needs at BridesClub.com.

Nicole & Keith's Vows Down Under

Several months of speculation have been put to rest regarding Nicole and Keith's wedding plans. It's about time they confirm their wedding.

"We are very happy to be back in Australia," they said in a joint statement. "We have come home to celebrate our wedding with our family and friends."

There is still no word on the exact date and time, but it has been rumored to be this weekend at a Catholic church near the home of Kidman's family in the northern suburbs of Sydney.

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The Wedding Times - Special Edition Online

This is a fabulous product. The Wedding Times is a personalized newspaper-like publication that includes information about the bride and groom and was recently featured in In Style Weddings magazine.

Content is gathered from the wedding couple, friends, and family and each issue includes:

• articles about the bride and groom
• photographs
• “Letters to the Editor”
• Bride’s and Groom’s horoscopes
• selected wedding poem
• selected wedding crossword puzzle
• engagement announcement
• engagement photo
• milestones with special dates for the bride and groom
• wedding party members listed individually
• wedding quotes
• wedding trivia

I created a little 2 page newsletter for our wedding, and they were a huge hit.  We placed them on each chair before the reception, and it kept the guests entertained as they waited for the first course to be served. Newsletters and/or newspapers are definitely a fun idea that can do double duty as a wedding favor. $650 for 150 copies minimum order.

Link from the Weddingbee, a most fabulous wedding blog.

Geek Weddings To The Max

This reminds me of our most recent trip through Las Vegas, when we stayed at the Las Vegas Hilton, just off the strip. The Hilton is home to Barry Manilow and the Star Trek Experience, and it is truly a beautiful hotel -- and the only place with vacant, affordable rooms for the night we needed.

Geek weddings are a must as far as I'm concerned, and the two math geeks who wrote their own wedding vows based on Pi and Phi should be honored. Not really, but it makes for fun browsing.

So whether you want to get married Star Trek style at the Las Vegas Hilton or just allow your inner-geek to sneak out a little bit at your wedding, this day is for you so don't hesitate to make it your own.

Links from Boing Boing / Manolo for the Brides for the rest of the story.

Nikki Cox and Jay Mohr Engaged

Congrats to Nikki and Jay!

But for a couple who claims to want to keep wedding plans "as low-key as possible" for their current plans for a Fall wedding in Southern California, Nikki Cox and Jay Mohr are doing a poor job by talking to In Style Magazine and Entertainment Tonight.

Nikki is deciding between two Monique Lhuillier dresses, and Jay is still finding the courage to formalize his proposal. Get with it, pal.

Read more in the current issue of In Style Weddings -- issue to hit stands March 14.

Link from Entertainment Tonight.

Vogue to print Manson wedding pictures

One way to help pay for all those wedding costs is to sell your wedding pictures to high profile magazine Vogue. Oh wait, only celebs are offered millions of dollars for rights to print their wedding pictures. The rest of us get ours displayed on Flickr for free.

Marilyn Manson and his new bride Dita Von Teese have sold the rights to their Irish wedding to style bible Vogue.

The colourful pictures of the Goth-tinged December (05) ceremony at a castle in Ireland feature will appear in the upcoming March (06) issue of the glossy.

The pictures show rocker Manson dressed in a velvet tuxedo and his burlesque dancer wife stunning the guests in a Vivienne Westwood wedding gown.

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Las Vegas Weddings in the U.K.

Getting married in Las Vegas has an inherent cool factor about it so when Butlins, in the UK, decided to start performing Las Vegas style weddings I just had to write about it.

Getting married by Elvis in Las Vegas style is not the same unless you're actually getting married by Elvis in Las Vegas. Or better yet, dressing as Elvis to get married.

Butlins spokeswoman Lesley Peniston said: "Whatever people want, we should be able to do. We expect Elvis to be popular and probably Star Trek."

Las Vegas not only offers everything for your wedding but the 24-hour atmosphere, all-night parties, a myriad of shows and entertainment, and endless food and drinks.

If you want a Las Vegas style, get married in Las Vegas.

My Beating Heart

Turn it on, feel the beat, and relax those frazzled nerves. This is what My Beating Heart offers with their new pillow, which is handmade, hand-sewn, and hand wound.

My Beating Heart runs on one 9-Volt battery that lasts between 2-3 months with normal use and is a little pricey at $120. Ouch!

Romantic Infatuation vs. True Love

Don't all romantic relationships start with infatuation and develop into true love over time? Or do you believe in love at first sight? Dating Dames posted a piece about romantic infatuation today that is an interesting read.