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January 27, 2012
Daniel O'Donnell, First Openly-Gay New York Assemblyman, Talks About His Wedding: 'This Is About Love'
All you need is love! And for Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell -- the right to marry. Runnin' Scared was tired of talking to folks about the dark, gloomy world of New York City politics. All that anger and attacking gives us a headache sometimes! Why not a love story this Friday? Turns out, that's e ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 4, 2012
WEDDING CRASHERS
A love ceremony fit for nontraditionalists
Blogs
November 4, 2011
The Best Wedding Songs Of All Time
Not songs to be sung at weddings--I'm not here to write about "Color My World," thank you--but songs about weddings. Here are my all-time faves: (8) "Wedding Bell Blues"--sung by the Fifth Dimension The raw urgency and desperation of this one always amuses me. As she sings it, Marilyn Mc ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
"Marriage Isn't For Everybody," Matchmaker Assures Me
This week's column is that fun interview with Siggy Flicker, the love coach with the VH1 show about training people to date better through grooming, generosity, and keeping things a little bit mysterious. Well, I was extremely comforted when she told me that it's perfectly OK to not want to ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Woody's New Play: Guess What It's About? (Spoiler Alert)
Don't read this if you don't want to know what happens in Honeymoon Motel, the Woody Allen playlet that appears in the Broadway evening Relatively Speaking, alongside works by Elaine May and the Coen brothers.
Voice Choices
September 14, 2011
GOING TO THE CHAPEL
You're invited to a faux drag queen wedding
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August 10, 2011
Wedding Cake Vodka. Why?
THEMACGIRL* / FlickrDo you want your wedding cake vodka martini shaken or stirred?And you thought cupcake vodka was bad. Now from the annals of things-that-never-should-have-been-made comes wedding cake-flavored vodka from Pearl Vodka. Wedding cake-flavored vodka? One word: Ew.
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August 2, 2011
Scaffolding Totally Ruins Bride's Dream Wedding
You know what they say about weddings -- something is bound to go wrong. Ideally it's not because you eat a peanut and die from anaphylactic shock, or because it turns out that your groom had an affair with your mother, though anyone with allergies and/or a certain kind of groom/mother should ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Gay Marriage Goes to Church!
Jeremy and Alex, who posed last week with the twin volunteer flower girls while getting their license, about to legally wed in churchHappy Same-Sex Sunday, 2.0! Last Sunday, the first day same-sex marriage was legal, weddings were performed largely in civil ceremonies. Government marriage bu ... More >>
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July 30, 2011
Pop Up Chapel Will Marry 24 Same-Sex Couples Today in Central Park
Stage and Marks, photo by Matt MillerToday, the first Saturday after gay marriages began in New York City, 24 same-sex couples will marry in Central Park at Merchant's Gate, on the corner of 59th Street and Central Park West. The Pop Up Chapel was an idea born among friends -- including loca ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
A Brooklyn State of Mind as Borough Exceeds Same-Sex Marriage Goal (Video)
Brides Stacey Minondo and Barbara Tremblay waiting outside Brooklyn Borough HallBrooklyn was number two when it came to the number of weddings it planned to perform yesterday. With 109 lottery winning couples registered in the morning, it was a distant second to Manhattan's planned 459 weddin ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Our 10 Best Restaurant Wedding Venues in NYC
basykes/flickrHere come the brides and grooms! Summertime is wedding season. In FitR's first-ever Wedding Week, we're celebrating the best wedding season ever because it's the first during which anyone can marry, regardless of color, creed, or sexual preference. Yay! Two people joining in hol ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Posts of the Week
Rebecca MarxHere we sit at the end of another, fantastically sweaty week. And so we look back, and sweat some more. Our 10 Best Restaurant Wedding Venus in NYC. A battle of the iced coffees: the Mud Truck v. Think Coffee. A look at Bien Cuit's beauteous tarts and excellent zucchini sandwic ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Wedding Guru Ron Ben-Israel on Sperm Whale Wedding Cakes: Interview Part 2
Photo courtesy Ron Ben-IsraelRon Ben-Israel can handle even the toughest of bridezillas. Yesterday we spoke with Ron Ben-Israel, a wedding-cake master who is certainly on the speed dial of all brides and brides-to-be. He told us all about the parallels between wedding cake making and dancing ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Restaurant Wedding Venues in NYC
basykes/FlickrWeddings: always a gay old time! As of this Sunday, July 24, same-sex couples can finally wed in New York. Hurrah! Of course, summertime is wedding season for couples of all sorts. And so, in honor of -- dare we say it? -- plain ol' universal love, we are celebrating Wedding Wee ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Religious People are Excited for Same-Sex Sunday Weddings, Too
With self proclaimed religious values groups like the National Organization for Marriage and Westboro Baptist Church protesting this Sunday, as well as Focus on the Family going before the Senate to hail the Defense of Marriage Act yesterday, it may seem like religious people are universally ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
James Briscione, Author of Just Married and Cooking, on Newlywed Cooking
Just Married and CookingJames Briscione, looking very dapper on his wedding dayIt's summertime, which means wedding season! A time to either rejoice at your friends' happiness, or at least make a beeline for the open bar that is supposed to compensate for the expensive present you had to buy ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
Phil Trzynka, Trinity LES Lutheran Pastor, Will Perform Free LGBT Weddings For a Year
via EV GrieveWhile the pop-up chapel in Central Park will only be around for a limited time, the Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish will be offering free weddings for LGBT couples for the entire year. After EV Grieve pointed out the just-posted sign advertising the deal this morning, we ... More >>
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June 27, 2011
NYC Pop-Up Chapel Will Celebrate Marriage Equality With Free Central Park Weddings
On Friday night, groups of New Yorkers stayed glued to their cellphones even in social situations -- and more than usual -- awaiting the final word on the marriage equality vote in Albany. When the good news finally arrived, more drinking commenced and for one crew of friends, the late-night ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
Naked Cowboy Robert Burck Will Marry Gay Couples in Times Square for Free on July 3
Ever-ready for publicity, the Naked Cowboy, Robert Burck, has thrown his support behind the movement for marriage equality in New York and declared July 3rd "Gay Marriage Day." To celebrate the holiday, Burck, who happens to be an ordained minister, will be performing free same-sex wedding ce ... More >>
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April 30, 2011
Did Men and Women Really Watch the Royal Wedding For Different Reasons?
Contrary to popular belief, both women and men were into the (magical!) royal wedding. According to a study that looked at social media activity among 100 million people, women made up 57% of those planning events to watch the wedding on TV, not the 99% you chauvinist pigs probably assumed it wou ... More >>
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March 1, 2011
Drag Queens Held Up 6th Avenue This Morning for Gay Marriage Equality
A group of protesters demanding gay marriage equality briefly shut down the intersection of 6th Avenue and 42nd Street, near the northwest corner of Bryant Park, during rush hour this morning. It was a colorful event for the spectators who saw it. An enormous yellow banner was unfurled by ei ... More >>
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February 19, 2011
'The Running of the Brides' Is a Real Thing
via NYDNOver 200 women flooded the Filene's Basement on the Upper West Side yesterday for an event, which is apparently annual, called "The Running of the Brides." It's basically just a wedding dress sale, but more awful. The Daily News found a crazy person/bride-to-be named Nikki Saucier and ... More >>
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February 18, 2011
Woman Needs a Million People to Join Her Facebook Group So Her Wretched Fiancé Will Marry Her
Imagine if you got engaged. Imagine if you waited a loooooong time, like maybe even 10 years, for your wedding. Imagine if, after those 10 years, your would-be lazy-ass husband tells you that the only way he'll actually marry you is if you create a Facebook Group and get a million people to j ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Google Will Own Your Wedding Now, Too
Weddings are a huge ($40 billion!) industry, so it makes sense that Google (also a huge industry) would want a hand in them. Enter Google for Weddings, Google's new all-weddings-all-the-time one-stop Internet shop where users can create their own wedding websites, plan their weddings, create ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
People Getting Married Are Taking Over Funeral Homes, Now, Too
It's not that we're bitter, it's just that, do engaged people have to appropriate everything for their marital purposes? It seems they're always out trying to get a better deal, trying to save a little cash while also having the truly original, special (and cheap!) weddings they've dreamed of ... More >>
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October 22, 2010
Woman Marries Self
Someone's been watching a tad too much Sex and the City. A 30-year-old Taipei office worker named Chen Wei-yih has tired of all the social pressure to get married and the lack of anyone decent to get married to, so she's going it solo, with a wedding planner and photos and a white dress and e ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
McDonald's Hong Kong Will Offer Weddings, Further Evidence of Apocalypse
McDonald's Hong KongLaughter, tears, acid reflux.If drive-through chapels in Vegas and this guy are too classy for you, then consider buying a plane ticket to Hong Kong. Starting Jan. 1, the city will be the world's very first to offer McDonald's wedding packages to the amorous and nutritiona ... More >>
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July 21, 2010
Wedding Ideas Are Becoming Progressively More Terrible
In the ever-competitive and super-demanding world of planning one's wedding, the ante just keeps getting upped. Except somewhere along the way, things got kinda confused. Instead of elegant, lovely affairs with sumptuous food and fine wines, we've got the shark-tank wedding, the tar-ball beac ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
Today in Depressing Trends: People Getting Married in T.J. Maxx, Home Depot
Has society finally fallen into decadence, like the late Roman Empire? If this new "trend" is to be believed, then yes, indeed it has. Instead of the traditional church/City Hall route, people are now getting married in our new temples: retail stores and shitty chain restaurants.
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January 5, 2010
Yes in My Backyard: Download Red Baraat's "Punjabi Wedding Song"
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Brooklyn nine-piece party-starters Red Baraat are thus far the most exciting local prospect of this short year, a fiery blend of raucous Indian bhangra and funky New Orleans brass. Yeah that's righ ... More >>
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October 20, 2009
Trent Reznor Marries Celebrity Nude
NIN doomboy Trent Reznor has had an epic year. Having allegedly retired from the game in August, he got married this Saturday to Mariqueen Maandig -- or, as she is now known on Facebook, Mariqueen Maandig Reznor -- former singer for West Indian Girl and Playboy model (photos here). The nup ... More >>
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October 2, 2009
Interview: Lucinda Williams on Getting Paid $250 for Her First Record, Mad Men, and Her Favorite Place in New York City
"I get nostalgic watching that show Mad Men." As a matriarch of what became known as alt-country, Lucinda Williams is 30 years and nine studio albums in to her career, with no real signs of slowing down. She's won three Grammy's, recorded with countless musicians, including Elvis Costello and Wil ... More >>
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August 25, 2009
Thoughts on the MomoFuckYou Wedding Cake
MomofukuThe good folks at the Feed have penned a rejoinder to the news that, yes, Momofuku will make your wedding cake, but no, they won't do frosting or fondant, and no, they sure as hell won't cover the sides. The Feed notes that this particular offering is of a piece with other features of ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 18, 2009
Girl Talk
MomofukuThe good folks at the Feed have penned a rejoinder to the news that, yes, Momofuku will make your wedding cake, but no, they won't do frosting or fondant, and no, they sure as hell won't cover the sides. The Feed notes that this particular offering is of a piece with other features of ... More >>
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May 28, 2009
Clip Job: Manville Mans Up?
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 10, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 51Footnote to Saloon SocietyROME...I have always enjoyed going to weddings in the past, chiefly I must admit because of the pleasure it gave me to realize they were not my own. Certainly it nearly always seemed to ... More >>
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September 18, 2008
Mile High Club: Get Married (or Committed/Affirmed) Free at ESB!
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 10, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 51Footnote to Saloon SocietyROME...I have always enjoyed going to weddings in the past, chiefly I must admit because of the pleasure it gave me to realize they were not my own. Certainly it nearly always seemed to ... More >>
NYC Life
April 29, 2008
Trapped in Wedding Hell
A soiree that exists only to give you the business on your wedding day
Blogs
April 4, 2008
Friday's Freak Show: The Post's Front Page and the "Water-Cooler" Effect
A soiree that exists only to give you the business on your wedding day
Film
November 20, 2007
Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding
A soiree that exists only to give you the business on your wedding day
Blogs
August 24, 2007
The Death of the Wedding DJ?
A soiree that exists only to give you the business on your wedding day
Blogs
August 9, 2007
Sale: Morgan Le Fay
A soiree that exists only to give you the business on your wedding day
Theater
March 6, 2007
Kiss of Life
In Lucas's Prelude, an old fairy tale still works its magic
News
November 28, 2006
The Wedding That Wasn't
In Lucas's Prelude, an old fairy tale still works its magic
NYC Life
April 25, 2006
Want to Meet Star Jones's Wedding Planner?
Wedding salon 2006: Our afternoon as a billionaire bride
NYC Life
June 7, 2005
Golem Gets Married
Wedding salon 2006: Our afternoon as a billionaire bride
News
December 9, 2003
Standing on Ceremony
A Rites Issue: Straight Couples Who Refuse to Marry Because Gays Can't
NYC Life
December 2, 2003
Burning House
A Rites Issue: Straight Couples Who Refuse to Marry Because Gays Can't
News
May 27, 2003
I'm With the Band
A Short Cultural History of Wedding Rings
Film
January 30, 2001
Bride for Your Sins
A Short Cultural History of Wedding Rings
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