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Wedding Venue Refuses Refund For Canceled Ceremony, Even Though It Books...

Cancelling wedding plans can be a huge financial nightmare, especially if you’re already locked into big-ticket, non-refundable purchases. But if one of your non-refundable buys — the venue, for...

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Wedding Venue Got A Liquor License, Changed BYOB Policy On Us

Redd and his fiancé started their wedding planning about a year ago. They wanted to have both the ceremony and the reception at the same venue, and found one that seemed ideal. Catering was available,...

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Honeymoon Registry Money Is Less Helpful If It's Sent To Your House In Indiana

Sara’s sister got married in the Bahamas a few weeks ago. They had their honeymoon vacation before their wedding ceremony because of the waiting period there, and had set up a registry of stuff to do...

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Comfort Inn Boots Wedding Guests From Overbooked Hotel, Doesn’t Seem To Care

(voteprime)When you book a block of eight rooms at a hotel, 18 months in advance no less, you’d expect to have a little leverage when the place suddenly realizes it’s been overbooked. At the very...

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Fancy Hotel Wedding Planner Doesn’t Understand How Email’s “CC” Function Works

(HerArtSheLoves) We’ve all had the horrible “Oh no no I sent that hilarious yet inappropriate email to everyone in the entire office” moment, but there’s a difference between slipping up and hitting...

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500 Couples Actually Competed To Get Married In An IKEA

In the past when we’ve written about oddball retail or fast food weddings, it seemed like the entire planning portion of the nuptials involved asking a manager “Hey, is it cool if we get married here?”...

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Hurricane Forces Bride & Groom To Celebrate Wedding In A Gym While They Lose...

(Maulleigh)Among all the recent hurricane-related horror stories coming out of New Jersey, the tale of a young couple losing $10,000 and having to hold their reception in a school gymnasium is...

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My Wedding Band Missed My Wedding, And Macy’s Won’t Refund Rush Shipping

(ThisADDLife)Okay, Ree probably should have ordered her wedding band a little earlier. Ordering it on November 21 for a November 30 wedding isn’t too bad, though: there are six whole business days for...

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Couple Claims That Bakery Refused To Make Cake For Same-Sex Wedding

(kelly zen) What’s a wedding without a cake? A decidedly less delicious one, which is why couples heading for the altar are in the habit of testing out cakes before the big day so they can choose their...

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Howard Johnson Gives Away Block Of Rooms Reserved For Wedding Because It...

Screw your wedding plans, these guys are in town.A bride-to-be got some bad news last week about a block of rooms she’d reserved at a Howard Johnson Inn in St. Augustine — they had all been given away...

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The Average Wedding In 2012 Came With A $28,400 Price Tag

(ThisADDLife) Are you thinking of getting married? We hope you’ve been attentive to your piggy bank if you’re considering a celebration anything like the average wedding last year — one wedding website...

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Think You Can Tell A $99 Wedding Dress From An $1,800 One?

Times used to be, you wanted to buy a wedding dress, you had to go to bridal shops boasting designer creations, with the prices to match. But now retailers are getting into the wedding game, providing...

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Couple Who Met In The Aisles Of Walmart Gets Hitched In Layaway Section

They do. Proving that not all Walmart romances have to be of the Craiglist “Missed Connections” kind, and giving hope to all those lonely souls wandering the aisles late at night searching for love or...

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IKEA Couple Adds To Trend Of Marrying In The Retail Store Where They First Met

(The Star-Ledger) Did you just meet your soulmate, your forever and ever partner on this journey we call life? Okay then stop — are you in a retail store? Mark the location because the trendy thing to...

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Chick Fil-A Franchisees, Bridal Store Owner, Designer Team Up To Help Bride...

When the owners of a Chick fil-A franchise in Oklahoma found out that one of their employees had lost her wedding dress to the tornado that recently tore a path of devastation through Moore, OK, they...

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What Today’s Supreme Court Ruling Means For Gay Couples’ Wallets

(bclinesmith)Earlier today, the Supreme Court effectively struck down the federal Defense Of Marriage Act. For same-sex couples around the country, this could open up a whole new world of tax breaks...

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Fictional Character Betty Crocker Provides Real Cakes For Minnesota’s First...

(GLAAD)People worldwide continue to disagree vehemently on the subject of civil marriage for same-sex couples, but everyone can agree that free cake is a nice thing. The first legally binding gay...

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You Probably Can’t Sell Your Disastrous Wedding Cake On eBay, No Matter How...

No cake for me, thanks. In case you haven’t heard, weddings can be very expensive. And the part that most guests care a whole lot about, the cake, is no exception. So what recourse when a bride take...

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How To Throw A Scotland Wedding With 70 Guests For Only $1.56

(HerArtSheLoves) As I’m in the midst of helping a very wonderful friend make her way down the aisle toward wedded bliss, I’ve been privvy to a few exclamations of, “That costs how much?*” It’s an...

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Atlanta Couple Invites 200 Homeless People To Dinner After Daughter Calls Off...

(NoNo Joe) As the ancient Sumerian saying goes: Waste not, want not. And it was the waste of a four-course dinner for 200 guests that one couple decided against, after their daughter called off her...

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