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The hottest wedding colour trends for 2013
2013 is a big year for change. While traditional colours and themes will always be favourites, this year’s brides are bolder and more game to try new things, new colours and new combinations. Coloured wedding dresses are already becoming more common but we’ve scoured our colour palettes and inspiration boards… Read More
Schoolgirl’s incredible ‘ironic’ wedding dress goes viral
A 15-year-old British student has become an internet sensation after posting images of her final-year high school art project – a wedding dress made entirely from divorce papers – on Facebook. Her task was to create a piece of artwork using the theme “Art and Word” and, having thought deeply… Read More
Newlyweds demanding social media blackout on wedding day
No Tweets. No Facebook posts. No Instagram pictures. They’re the three little social media rules that are fast becoming the norm at modern weddings as more and more couples ask guests not to share their private wedding news and pictures online. With mobile phones almost as pervasive as people, an… Read More
Overpass proposal: Who is Aussie Dave and why is Jen leaving him?
Thousands of commuters were greeted Monday morning by a perplexing wedding proposal scrawled on a bedsheet and left hanging over a highway overpass in Melbourne’s south-east. Emblazoned with a pink love heart, the sign simply said, “DON’T GO JEN. MARRY ME. ❤ AUSSIE DAVE.” The makeshift sign has since been… Read More
America’s longest marriage comes to an end
America’s longest marriage ended this week after 102-year-old Victoria Wrubel died on Monday. Victoria (nee Puvalowski) married Steven Wrubel in 1929, when she was just 18 years old and he was 20. That was 83 years ago. The couple married in Parisville, Michigan where they both grew up and, last… Read More
Brother gives wedding speech – from the cockpit of his fighter jet
Despite being deployed thousands of miles from his home in Texas, one enterprising US pilot found a most unique (and pretty darn cool) way to ensure he could send his brother and new sister-in-law well wishes on their wedding day. He filmed the speech he would have given – from… Read More
Oh, no! The big white Welsh winter wedding we didn’t want…
When Welsh couple Alison Jelley and Michael Roberts, both 26, planned their big white winter wedding, they didn’t expect it to be quite so white or wintry. The bride and groom woke on the morning of their wedding only to discover more than 60cms (about 2 foot) of snow… Read More
10 of our favourite wedding proposals – EVER!
Be it a private proposal witnessed just by two or a grand affair involving hundreds of strangers (and, sometimes, even marching bands), who doesn’t love a surprise wedding proposal? In no particular order, we’ve pulled together 10 of our all-time favourites and, from the bloke who serenaded his gal in… Read More
Shrek-style! Our fairytale wedding.
What bride doesn’t want to look like a princess on her wedding day? Heidi Coxshall most definitely did. In fact, she wanted to look like one very specific princess, Princess Fiona from the animated movie Shrek. She and hubby-to-be, Paul Bellas wanted to hold the ultimate fairytale wedding, so they… Read More
A wedding dress that’s good enough to eat?
Talk about a wedding dress that looks good enough to eat. British cake decorator Donna Millington-Day’s stunning entry into this week’s National Wedding Show in Birmingham, England was hardly a typical wedding cake, it was a life-size wedding dress – made entirely of sponge cake. Based on the design of… Read More
Free weddings: One Texan church’s bid to help parishioners marry
Disappointed so many members of his congregation were ‘living in sin’ with no apparent intention to wed, one Texan preacher has taken matters into his own hands and offered them a free wedding, ceremony and all. But, his research into why his parishioners weren’t married unveiled something surprising: It’s wasn’t… Read More
Blogger challenge: Style a tall, thin bride. What do you think?
Melbourne’s The Glen shopping centre last week held a wedding bloggers challenge in which three Australian wedding blogs were asked to style a Mariana Hardwick gown using only accessories from The Glen shopping centre. As Australia’s No.1 wedding website, we were asked to style Amber, a tall, thin bride wearing… Read More
4000+ diamonds makes for a $51-million wedding cake
Believe it or not, this is the world’s most expensive wedding cake, allegedly valued at a whopping $51 million (£32.4 million). Yep, guaranteed to blow even the biggest wedding budget, this fairly simple, eight-tier doughy delight is emblazoned with more than 4000 diamonds, skyrocketing its value well beyond the typical… Read More
Argentine bride marries twin sister’s killer
An Argentine woman last week married the man convicted of murdering her twin sister. Twenty-three-year-old Edith Casas (above) married Victor Cingolan in a civil ceremony on Valentine’s Day 2013, claiming he is innocent of her sister’s murder. Unsurprisingly, none of the bride’s family were present at the controversial nuptials, however… Read More
Happy Valentine’s Day from Easy Weddings
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” What wonderful, wonderful words from William Shakespeare, a man who knew a thing or two about romance and that’s what Valentine’s Day is all about, the love you have for that special person in your life… Read More
Here ‘crumbs’ the bride, all dress in… bread tags?
Victorian bride Stephanie Watson has been saving for her wedding dress for 10 years. Saving old plastic bread tags, that is. The 29-year-old fashion designer from Trentham, in Victoria’s North-West, turned her decade-old collection of 10,000 bread tags into a wedding dress when she married high-school sweetheart Will Wapling last… Read More
Psst. Wanna sell your wedding day – or buy someone else’s?
They say every cloud has a silver lining and, in the case of cancelled weddings, that silver lining can be ensuring someone else enjoys your big day. One enterprising American university student has come up with an idea to help cash-strapped couples wed while reducing some of the financial sting… Read More
Easy Weddings app update
If you’re using the popular iPhone version of the Easy Weddings directory and the “Your Current Location” button has suddenly stopped working, fear not, there’s a quick fix: turn on Location Services. Recent changes to Apple’s latest iPhone operating system, iOS 6, automatically turn off Location Services, which are used… Read More
Bride-to-be jilted before wedding – by text message
It must have been one of the most painful moments of her life. With just days to go before her big day, Angela Burrow’s fiance called of their wedding – by text message. But, after three solid days of weeping, the 52-year-old bride-to-be did something remarkable. She put on a… Read More
With this computer game, I thee wed…
You don’t have to a Star Trek lovin’ computer geek to realise just how seriously cool Katie Martin and Barry Abrams’ Save the Date notice is. The American couple spent months creating a multi-level computer game to announce their wedding date and in it, guests must save the bride or… Read More
New Zealand couple’s nude new year nuptials
Most couples spent inordinate time, money and effort choosing the perfect outfit for their big day but not New Zealand couple Nick and Wendy Lowe who last week married, well, in the buff. Yep, the couple, kicked off the new year by marrying at the Wellington Naturist Club – and… Read More
Billionaire dad’s $150 million wedding dowry
Billionaire Chinese tile magnate Wu Duanbiao has given his daughter a whopping $150 million dowry that included millions of dollars in shares, cash and gold jewellery as well as luxury cars and several homes. Dowries, any property, goods or money brought to a marriage by a woman, are commonplace in… Read More
I Do: Wedding resolutions for a happy new year
Planning a wedding can be a wonderful experience for some and a dread-filled, awful experience for others. The biggest difference between the two experiences isn’t necessarily budget, but time, your most precious resource. If you’ve been putting off your wedding planning (or starting it for some of us), the new… Read More
12/12/12: A once-in-a-lifetime wedding date
December 12, 2012. It’s the last truly unique date of the century and couples are clamouring to make their way up the aisle in order to claim 12/12/12 as their wedding date. Though, traditionally, Friday, Saturday and Sunday are the most popular days on which to wed, thousands of couples… Read More
Love at first bite: Would you like fries with that wedding?
There is no shortage of wacky (and not-so-wacky) wedding chapels on Las Vegas’ famous strip and, next year, US fast-food chain Denny’s will add yet another one. From early 2013, visitors to the 24/7 eatery will be able to order their chips and burgers – with a side of marriage.… Read More
Morning-after wedding photos. The next big thing?
A racy new style of morning-after photography appears to be the next big thing… From pre-engagement and engagement shoots before the wedding to trash-the-dress shoots after, when it comes to a couple’s big day, every moment can be (and usually is) obsessively documented – and that doesn’t even include the… Read More
Groom dies at his own wedding
A Brazilian groom has died in a freak accident just hours after marrying the love of his life. Fabio Jefferson dos Santos Maciel, a sergeant in Brazil’s navy, tripped breaking a beer glass that cut him and caused him to bleed to death. The groom, 33, had been dancing with… Read More
Wedding photographer’s hair catches fire during ceremony
South African wedding photographer Jacki Bruniquel takes her job seriously. So seriously, in fact, during a recent wedding ceremony she was so engrossed in getting the perfect shot of the bride walking down the aisle, her hair caught on fire – and she didn’t even notice. “Everyone who photographs weddings… Read More
The Queen celebrates 65 years of marriage
Today marks Queen Elizabeth’s 65th wedding anniversary. On November 20, 1947, a 21-year-old Princess Elizabeth of Britain married Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony broadcast to 200 million radio listeners across the globe. Decades later, she is the first British Monarch to reach her… Read More
The wedding photo banned by Facebook
It’s one of Jo-Hanna Gordon’s favourite moments from her wedding day, feeding her six-and-a-half-month-old son Andy before heading off to church to marry his father. But not everyone sees the beauty in the image and, after a Facebook user reported the image, it was removed, much to the 25-year-old Canberra… Read More
Flasher ruins wedding ceremony
An American couple have had their wedding ceremony ruined after a flasher interrupted proceedings – twice. The naked intruder hid behind shutters above the altar and, as the couple were taking their vows, he thrust them open, exposing himself to the couple, the priest and the guests – in all… Read More
Your To-Do list just got even smarter
One of Easy Weddings’ most popular tools, the To-Do checklist, has been revamped. Not only has it received a completely new facelift, its functionality has been extensively re-worked, so that it’s faster, more intuitive and easier to use. Our To-Do checklist walks you through the hundreds of tasks that need… Read More
22 weddings… and counting!
If you thought planning one wedding was difficult enough, imagine planning 22 – in 13 countries, no less? That’s how many weddings British couple Lisa Gant and Alex Pelling have held over the past 15 months – and they’re still going! Talk about extreme desitination weddings, eh? It’s all part… Read More
We’ve been enaged for 32 years!
Scottish lovebirds George Brown and Glynis Johnstone just clocked up 32 years together, 32 years of engagement, that is. The couple, both in their late 50s, got engaged in 1980 but never quite got around to marrying. Glynis, a council worker, told Scotland’s Daily Record, “It’s not really bothered us… Read More
The hottest wedding gowns from New York bridal week
New York’s International Bridal Week has ended for yet another year and, what a week it was, with trends ranging from blush-coloured gowns and peplums galore to dresses replete with ornate hand-sewn detail. Some of Europe and America’s leading wedding dress designers (and accessory maker) had their wares on display,… Read More
Prince Charming’s fairytale wedding
Europe has celebrated yet another royal wedding with the dashing heir to Luxembourg’s crown, Prince Guillaume, marrying his sweetheart, Belgian countess Stephanie de Lanoy. Royals, dignitaries and tens of thousands of well-wishers turned out to watch Stephanie go from countess to princess and, naturally, there was plenty of pomp and… Read More
A new look for Easy Weddings
Easy Weddings has a bright and breezy new look aimed at helping brides-to-be get around our directory, blogs and community much more easily – and it’s much prettier, too. Our fabulous team of designers and programmers has worked for months to consolidate our very large site so that it’s easier-to-navigate… Read More
Groomed to perfection
Let’s face it, when it comes to weddings, it sometimes seems as though it’s all about the bride. From her dress to her shoes and her bridal bling, she’s very much the focus of the day. But weddings are about two people and, though the blushing brides will probably always… Read More
A sneak peek at Jen Aniston’s giant engagement ring
Whoa! Check out actress Jennifer Aniston’s giant rock. The 43-year-old actress has never been flashy but her huge engagement ring is unmissable. Jen became engaged to scriptwriter Justin Theroux when he proposed on his 41st birthday in August but the former Friends actress has managed to keep her engagement ring… Read More
Would you share your wedding day with another bride?
It started as a bit of a joke between sisters – but ended with English siblings Gabby and Ellen Byrnes walking down the aisle together. “We just joked, how funny would it be to have our weddings together and it all blossomed from there,” Gabby told The Daily Telegraph.… Read More
Girlfriend livid after fake death proposal
Russian Alexy Bykov wanted to be absolutely sure that his girlfriend Irena truly loved him. So, the 26-year-old computer programmer hired a director, make-up artists and even stuntmen to help fake his death as realistically as possible – before springing to life again to propose to his devastated girlfriend. The… Read More
Here comes the bride – on a jetpack
Californian couple Amanda Volf and Grant Engler love the water. No, they really love the water. So much so, that last week the beach-loving duo donned $90,000 water-powered jetpacks and married while “hovering” above the sea. The groom, 25, wore a black wetsuit (complete with white bow tie) and the… Read More
Spooky stuff: Graveyard weddings on the rise
Here in Australia we’re used to wide, open, and lovely green spaces, but in other parts of the world, particularly crammed cities such as New York, space is at a premium. So, couples looking for unique, or even green spaces in which to hold an outdoor ceremony or reception must… Read More
Black couple refused wedding at white church
A predominantly white church in Mississippi, America has refused to marry a couple because of the colour of their skin. After agreeing to perform Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson’s July 21 wedding ceremony, the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Mississippi informed the couple they could no longer marry in the… Read More
Married Olympics couple banned from sharing a room
Aussie shooter Russell Mark and his wife Lauryn are none-too-pleased their time in the Olympic Village will be spent apart. The couple, both members of the Australian Olympic shooting team, have been banned by officials from sharing a room during the Games. Mark claims the ban punishes him and Lauryn… Read More
Mystery military couple found
While wandering around snapping pictures of Washington D.C.’s War Memorial one evening earlier this month, primary school teacher Angila Golik happened upon a most intimate scene. Standing in the middle of brightly-lit rotunda on the other side of the park, she spied a young man in a crisp military uniform… Read More
Here comes the bride, all dressed in… black!
American wedding designer Vera Wang has opened the doors to her her first standalone Australian store and, among the dozens of stunning dresses available, few are as eyebrow raising as her range of jet black gowns on offer. Wang, who is known for her unconventional use of colour, was liberal… Read More
Obama creates wedding gift registry
US President Barack Obama has the perfect gift suggestion for couples getting married, they can donate their wedding gift money to his re-election campaign. Yep, in a brilliantly clever twist in America’s next election, Obama has set up a gift registry that will allow his supporters to ask friends and… Read More
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