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Valentine's Day 2008

Wow. It's already Valentine's Day? With so many bridal shows last month it seems like yesterday was New Year's Day.But for those that celebrated a Valentine's Day wedding, Thursday will be a very big day for you!

Make it special with all the regular (read expected) things such as:

• Flowers
• Chocolate
• Jewelry

Or personalize it by giving your spouse something they don't normally get such as:

• Breakfast in bed
• A bed of goodies [link]
• A "vacation day from work" spent together
• Get creative on "going out"
• An overnight vacation to a 5-star hotel -- get pampered at the spa!

Whatever you do, get creative. Romance begins with a sweet thought!

If you're still planning your wedding, download our free wedding planner.

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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Marriage Proposal on YouTube

What a great idea, and very creative on his part. Congrats!

Tags: proposal ideas, free wedding planner, wedding shows, brides club pictures, brides club videos

Las Vegas Gears Up for Valentine's Day Weddings

Las Vegas has long been the place for couples in love to wed, whether planned ahead or not, and because it's so easy to marry at the last minute it has become the go-to place for eloping as well.

As we approach Valentine's Day this week, the hottest day in weddings in Las Vegas, one must wonder how many couples will marry on Wednesday, February 14. With some statistics showing that 5x the amount of brides marry on Valentine's Day in Vegas than any other day and other stats showing that more than 130,000 weddings occur in Las Vegas each year, my rough calculations say that nearly 2,000 weddings will happen on Wednesday. That's almost 100 wedding per minute.

Keep in mind the new hours for obtaining a marriage licence in Las Vegas.

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Rebecca Romijn & Jerry O'Connell Finally Set Wedding Date

Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell finally set a wedding date, a year after getting engaged.

Having dated since 2004, the couple will wed at their ranch near Los Angeles on January 6 with about 20 close friends of family.

Romijn doesn't want a huge gathering, but O'Connell is looking forward to the big party following their exchange of vows by a few weeks.

Link from Hollywood.com

Tags: celebrity engagements, rebecca romijn, jerry o'connell, celebrity weddings, wedding sites, hollywood weddings, los angeles weddings, southern california weddings

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• Nicole & Keith Finally Married
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Sports Fan Garter

What will they come up with next? My man is a real sports nut. If your man likes sports as much as mine, can you imagine the look on his face when he reaches under your wedding dress to get the garter for the garter toss and finds this....Priceless.

They have just about every sport, and every team you could thing of at All Sports Weddings.

Link

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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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Tom and Katie Wedding Date Set

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have finally set a wedding date for November 18 in Italy. Holmes will be wearing a Giorgio Armani wedding dress and Tom will be decked out I'm sure.

The couple have been one of the most searched couples on the Internet this year with details of a family fight that close friends incorrectly thought would end the relationship last Christmas season. Then came Suri, the most talked about baby of 2006, whose picture took several weeks to appear which had some speculating that the baby was never born. Now they have the challenge of trying to trump Nicole and Keith's Aussie wedding to garner even more media attention.

Story from Yahoo News.

Tags: Celebrity Weddings, Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban, Wedding Dress, Celebrities

10 Relationship Tips: Make the Love Last

Ever notice that there is a surplus of info on how to have a wedding, but nothing about how to keep your marriage strong? Once the honeymoon is over you have a lifetime with the one you love. Here are 10 tips on how to keep the love alive and strong:

1) COMMUNICATION
Communicate your needs positively & politely.
2) COURAGE
Forgive mistakes; have the courage to say “I’m sorry” first.
3) CONTENTMENT
Share your contentment and gratitude for what you have together.
4) CONSIDERATION
Always be kind and considerate of your partner’s feelings.
5) COLLABORTATION
Collaborate together to form a stronger bond and create lasting memories.
6) CURIOSITY
Show curiosity in your partner’s daily life, goals and dreams.
7) COMPLIMENTS
Compliments are the bedrock of romance so give them daily.
8) COMMITMENT
Build trust by reviewing and renewing your commitment together.
9) CONTRIBUTION
Find as many ways as you can to contribute to each others lives.
10) CELEBRATION
Celebrate your love and life by laughing every day.

Blog credit PASSION PARTIES BY JOELY

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Beyonce Shoots Down Wedding Rumors

From the lips of Beyonce, "I'm not engaged. It's a big fat rumor."

On stage with Ellen, Beyonce sets it straight that she and Jay-Z are not engaged and planning to get married in November. I'm thinking it's just a way of getting some privacy for the big day. However, she seemed very sincere about it.

On the flip-side, Charlotte Church is already planning to sell her wedding pictures for over $3 million and she's not even engaged. Now that's entrepreneurship.

Beyonce Engaged to Jay-Z

When big-time rapper wants to marry big-time actress/hip hop star it still requires the father's blessing -- maybe even more so. However, with that out of the way, Beyonce is ready to get her plan on. She is hoping to plan a "wedding to end all weddings" and is reportedly planning a fairytale wedding on the island of Anguilla in the Caribbean later this year.

I'm sure it will likely be huge in nature with over indulgence to match that of the oil tycoon daughter's wedding in 2004 where they spent $60 million outsourcing Donald Trump, luxury titan Bernard Arnault of France and Andrei Melnichenko of Russia to trump (no pun intended) all weddings of the time.

Las Vegas Marriage License Changes

This may be the biggest news story in the wedding industry for some time. County officials approved new hours for the Las Vegas marriage bureau, which will only affect about 4% (4900 total licenses) per year but will likely have other consequences for the Las Vegas Wedding market.

Charlotte Richards, whose 24-hour Little White Wedding Chapel married Spears, said the new hours are contrary to Las Vegas' billing as a 24-hour town and would certainly take the love-struck by surprise

LA Daily News

There is a certain stigma about Las Vegas and the need to remain a 24-hour town is at debate, but I applaud County officials for cost cutting -- it's a welcome change.

Richards said she marries 10 to 20 couples after midnight on a typical weekend. She provides a stretch limo to shuttle the betrothed back and forth to the courthouse to obtain a license for the ceremony. She said pre-dawn weddings are popular among members of the military, lovers driving in from Southern California and celebrities.

"All the stars come out at night," Richards said. "People that are high profile, when they come down to Las Vegas to get married, they don't want to come in the middle of the day when people are around. They like the privacy."

ABC News

Be sure to plan ahead when getting married in Las Vegas.

Links: Chicago Sun Times, LA Daily News, ABC News, Canada.com, Irish Examiner

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.

Read our previous posts on Nicole & Keith:

• Nicole Kidman Cancels Aussie Wedding
• Back to Australia for Nicole and Keith
• Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban Wedding Date Set
• Nicole Kidman dreams of traditional Catholic wedding
• Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, married?

Michael Bolton Proposes to Nicollette Sheridan

After dating for several years in the 1990's, and taking a break before getting back together last year, Michael Bolton has finally proposed to Nicollette Sheridan.

The couple spent the weekend in the Bahamas where Michael made Nicollette a very happy woman.

No wedding date has been set.

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.

Nicole Kidman Cancels Aussie Wedding

After their Aussie ceremony gained too much attention in the media, Nicole Kidman apparantly canceled plans for an Australian wedding in favor of a more home town wedding in Nashville, Tennessee where fiance Keith Urban has adopted as a second home.

The wedding rumors have been fierce over the past couple months, and the amount of interest in Nicole and Keith's wedding is immense.

Today's news is a little more in sync for a June wedding in Nashville:

• Plenty of rumors but no wedding for Nic from The Daily Telegraph
• Nicole Kidman's Nashville Wedding from Life Style Extra
• Kidman cools on Oz wedding from Virgin.net
• Nicole to wed in Nashville from News 24
• Nicole Kidman, Urban to wed from the Herald Sun

Click below to review my previous posts:

• Back to Australia for Nicole and Keith
• Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban Wedding Date Set
• Nicole Kidman dreams of traditional Catholic wedding
• Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, married?

Front Page Wedding Proposal

Tampa, Florida - 22-year-old Vanessa Valentin has something special she can show her children and grand children when she’s older. It’s a front page wedding proposal on the Tampa Bay Times. Her boyfriend, 23-year old Nestor Urdaneta, surprised her.

How did your proposal go? What is sweet & romantic, subtle & quiet, wild & crazy, or something else alltogether?

Back to Australia for Nicole and Keith

Now, Us Weekly reports Nicole Kidman will marry Keith Urban next month in Australia. Could it be more confusing? Of course Nicole and Keith prefer it this way, for privacy sake. But with the wedding invitations sent, it will be hard to hide much longer.

Lisa Marie Presley Marries

Lisa Marie Presley has married Michael Lockwood, her guitarist and music producer, in a ceremony in Kyoto, Japan. They had a traditional Japanese ceremony on January 22.

Mother of the bride, Priscilla Presley, walked Lisa Marie down the aisle and gave her away. Daughter of the bride, Riley Keough, was her maid of honor and son of the bride, Benjamin Keough, was a groomsman. The best man was Danny Keough, Presley's first husband.

Presley current lives in Los Angeles, but the couple was undecided about where they would live.

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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban Wedding Date Set

It's official now, according to Extra and two sources close to the couple that the much talked-about celebrity wedding will occur in Nashville within the next two weeks.

I wonder if Nicole and Keith, much like any other superstar, changes their plans constantly just to keep themselves in the news during times like this. It's not a bad marketing move that once you're hot, you prolong it as best you can.

Anyway, we wish them the best!

Photo: Nicole, Keith in Two Weeks? (Image Nine MSN)

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Kylie Minogue tries on wedding dress

Congratulations to Kylie Minogue and French boyfriend Oliver Martinez!

The tiny pop star has been spotted trying on a vintage wedding dress in a trendy shop in Melbourne. And Olivier was there to help her choose it.

No official proposal has come, but Valentines Day is less than 36 hours from now! ;-)

Neve Campbell engaged

Neve Campbell is now engaged to British actor John Light after he got down on one knee and recited Shakespeare. Oh, how sweet.

Link from E! Online.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban Wedding Off

But things were going so well for Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, but apparantly Nicole Kidman called off the wedding because she wasn't sure that Keith Urban hadn't returned to his wild ways.

Brittany Murphy engaged

It is reported that Brittany Murphy is engaged to boyfriend Joseph Macaluso after breaking off her last engagement after just a few months. Hopefully this will work out better for her.

Former Creed singer to marry

Congratulations to Scott Stapp and his fiancee Jaclyn Nesheiwat (Miss New York 2004) on their engagement. According to Yahoo! News, the two will wed on February 10 in Florida.

Now if he could just sell that darn CD.

Engagement ideas for the holidays

I'm not one for the cheesy (pun intended) engagements, but maybe this will get your juices flowing as we approach the busiest engagement week of the year.