CHICAGO – Katie Schad knew her boyfriend liked to enter contests.
But she never imagined the one he’d eventually win would put her on national television and make her his fiancée.
Schad, a 2002 Pekin Community High School graduate currently living in Chicago, said she was completely surprised by her boyfriend’s video proposal, the winning entry in an online contest sponsored by 1-800-FLOWERS and YouTube.
http://www.pekintimes.com/articles/2008/02/14/news/news6.txt
What a way to get engaged!
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Sebasco Harbor Resort today announced the launch of The Pure Maine Wedding Giveaway.
The winners of the contest will receive a destination wedding at Sebasco Harbor Resort, including ceremony site, a reception for up to 200 of their friends and family, overnight accommodations and spa services for the bride and groom, a golf outing for the wedding party and a rehearsal celebration sunset cruise for up to 24 people aboard Sebasco’s touring boat, The Ruth.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/puremainewedding/Sebasco/prweb699914.htm
The contest entry time runs until early September. A free wedding for 200 would be a godsend for most brides.
When Brennan’s Bridal Prom Tuxedos opened at 1 p.m. yesterday, 40 people were outside waiting, and Winston-Salem police were letting only one customer in at a time.
The crowd had gathered because many said they had heard worrisome reports about the store at 1606 S. Stratford Road. The store wasn’t open Monday, its Web site is no longer operating, and its telephone number has been temporarily disconnected.
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354673843
Wow. Imagine the poor brides who don’t hear about this & fail to pickup their wedding party attire. These things happen a lot when bridal wear stores go out of business.
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Here’s some late-breaking news about an anchorwoman’s earlier-than-expected wedding plans.
Lauren Freeman the newscaster and Dr. Forrest Roth the plastic surgeon were planning to be married in December, but who can wait that long? Now they’ll sprint down the aisle in mid-March.
“We just decided that December was too far away. So we decided to throw it together in six weeks. Whoever says you can’t plan a wedding in six weeks isn’t trying hard enough,” Freeman said.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/5550536.html
When it comes to choosing a wedding cake, Oklahoma brides are a lucky bunch.
Maybe you’ve sensed that Oklahoma had more than its fair share of top cake decorators. Well, you’re right as evidenced by the March/April Bride’s magazine feature “America’s 50 Most Beautiful Cakes.” Three of those cakes are from Oklahoma decorators.
Kerry Vincent and Jennifer Jones of Tulsa and Kim Payne of Cheyenne were selected for the feature, which also includes top New York City designers Sylvia Weinstock and Colette Peters.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/lifestyle/article.aspx?articleID=20080220_4_D1_hThre08807
No problem getting a great wedding cake in Oklahoma.
In Las Vegas, the wedding capital of the world, love is in the air and in your face. More than 60 chapels beckon with bright lights and neon, all competing for Cupid’s business.
With so much at stake, the labor of love is not all hugs and kisses. No one knows this better than Vegas Adventure Wedding Chapel employee Jed Matzke.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=4320274&page=1
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Andy Schiff and his girlfriend, Melanie Ufema, and two of their friends were mere feet away from emptying their pockets of loose change in the security line at Denver International Airport when Schiff suddenly stopped.
He dropped to one knee, and instead of loose change, pulled a diamond ring out of his pocket. “Melanie, will you marry me?” he asked.
Schiff’s buddy had a video camera rolling — he was in on it, and everyone had agreed they should “document the trip” — so it was pointed at a stunned but grinning Ufema when she said, “Yes.”
Schiff says he wasn’t really worried Ufema would say no. “She was going to be on an airplane with me for eight hours, and we were going to Maui for 10 days,” he says. “She couldn’t say no. It was a foolproof plan.”
It took just a few days in Hawaii, with its pristine beaches, sun-toasted breezes and 10-at-a-time whale sightings, for the Denverites to come up with another plan, one that would involve persuading all of their immediate family members and many of their closest friends to hop on planes a year later for the Maui wedding.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_8244270
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New Delhi – A seven-year-old tribal girl in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand on Tuesday married a stray dog as part of traditional rituals to ward off an “evil spell”, witnesses said. The wedding took place in a village near the state’s industrial city of Jamshedpur and several relatives of the girl attended the function believing that the union would bode well for the family, a villager Sonu Pariyar said.The dog was made to wear sunglasses and was brought to the venue under a decorated umbrella, while an estimated 150 guests danced to the beating of drums and drank home-made liquor.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/186784,girl-marries-dog-in-india-to-break-evil-spell.html
Wow.
PORT SALERNO — Two popular Martin County guide dogs are getting together this weekend to tie the leash.
Dr. John Metzler, the groom, and Gracie Kennedy, the bride, are having the first guide dog wedding Saturday as a fundraiser for the 20/200 Fellowship, an nonprofit resource center for the visually impaired.
The theme, “Recipe to Romance,” was inspired by Disney’s “Lady and the Tramp.” Spaghetti and meatballs will be served to humans only as the dogs are on strict diets to keep them healthy. The wedding cake will be fashioned out of Devil Dogs prepackaged snacks.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/feb/15/no-headline—16sdogwedding/
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