Weddings

Ask Willie D: I'm In Love With a Stripper!

Editor's note: Rap pioneer and Geto Boys member Willie D regularly answers reader questions for our sister paper, Houston Press. Dear Willie D, I loaned my cousin $500 more than six months ago. She promised to pay me back when she got paid two weeks from the time I gave her the money, but to th ... More >>

Arsenic and Old Lace

Darling Companion

The Decoy Bride

Pizza Hut Proposes Marriage, Dowry Only $10,000

Fork in the Road really can't think of a less auspicious way to propose marriage, and any real foodie, woman or man, would probably first gag, and then sputter out a resounding "No!": Pizza Hut is offering a Valentine's Day deal that includes a box of their awful pizza and bready breadsticks (plus t ... More >>

Bridesmaids Was A Musical!

Kristen Wiig says Bridesmaids is not a raunchy movie or even a wedding movie -- "it's a friendship movie." Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what about that raunchy scene in the dress shop? "It was scary," Wiig admitted at a Times Talk I hobbled to on Sunday, "because that scene was added late in the movie. J ... More >>

Todd Remis, Divorced in 2010, Sues Photographer to Recreate 2003 Wedding

​This statement in the New York Times makes me mad: "Of all the many things that make up a wedding, few are more important than the photographs." Perhaps the Times, writing of Manhattan man Todd Remis's lawsuit against H&H Photographers for missing the last 15 minutes, including the last dance ... More >>

Roberta's is Expanding in Bushwick

​It appears Roberta's has grown too popular for its own good. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the Bushwick restaurant is looking to make alterations to the space next door on Moore Street so they can use it for special events and weddings. We predict a thousand-fold increase in the number of h ... More >>

Kim Kardashian's Husband Could Have Saved A Million On The Ring

I know that's mere pocket change with that group, but still, it bears mentioning in case any of you are thinking about purchasing an engagement ring for some TV cutie in the near future. Says Ira Weissman from TruthAboutDiamonds.com: "Most men are clueless when it comes to diamonds and end up payi ... More >>

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.

Bitter Moon

Maybe I Do And Maybe I Don't

Gays get the freedom to marry—and for some, the freedom not to

Woman Purchases World's Cheapest Wedding Dress, Might Give It to You

​As a teenager we used to play this game at the mall called "ugly dress up," in which we dressed up in the most hideous clothing we could find, which was pretty easy, given that we were at a suburban mall and it was the '90s. This is only to say that we fully understand the adult woman who goe ... More >>

First Same-Sex Couples Wed in New York City

Steven ThrasherMichael Furey and Bienvenido Amagna, the first same-sex couple to wed in Brooklyn.​Today's the day! Same-sex marriage is officially legal in New York State, and the weddings are rolling along. The first couple married in New York City was Phyllis Siegal and Connie Kopelov, who e ... More >>

Same-Sex Sunday: City Marriage Bureaus to Open Specially on July 24 for Gay Weddings

Erica Carpiniello​When Governor Cuomo signed the Marriage Equality Act into law, it was set to go into effect 30 days later on July 24, a Sunday. As we reported yesterday, just when same-sex couples could actually get married was up for debate, because government offices are closed on Sundays ... More >>

Gay Marriage Gets an Ad Campaign, May Fix the Economy

​Following Friday's passing of same-sex marriage in Albany, the office of the mayor has already updated NYC.gov to provide some new info on nuptials, including the heartening headline: "New York City to Welcome All to Marry Here." It continues, "We look forward to welcoming all couples who wan ... More >>

William Giraldo, Accused Brooklyn Rapist, Missed His Wedding for a Court Date

​The 24-year-old accused of raping a Brooklyn woman in Sunset Park on Saturday was arraigned on Wednesday, the very same day he was supposed to have been married. Though police suspect four recent sexual assaults were all carried out by the same man, William Giraldo was identified by just one ... More >>

Royal Wedding Forecast: RAIN!

But your hair, your beautiful hair!​Bad, horrible, awful, terrible news: The Telegraph reports (in almost 600 words, no less) that heavy showers are forecasted for Friday's royal wedding ceremonies in London. Stay calm, everyone; if we can just have all the commoners climb on each others' shou ... More >>

Kids Today Care About Parenthood, Not Marriage

​According to a new Pew Research Center survey, something we've had an inkling of for a while now may indeed be true. Young adults -- let's be more obnoxious and call them "Millennials" -- have changing views of social institutions like marriage and having children. Not surprisingly, they are ... More >>

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 >>

Bad Girl

Get That Beard a Movie! On the Road With Micro-Indie Blah, Blah, Blah Douchebag

Not Even Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel Can Save True Love in The Romantics

Good Morning, Paramore's Hayley Williams, Doing A Solo-Piano Cover Of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"

Methinks at least one person in our office who is not me is gonna be super jazzed about this. Maybe she'll do this at their wedding.

Video: Multiple Moonies Marry; Wedding Band Rocks!

As they like to do from time to time ("Rev. Moon matches up each couple a month [or less] in advance, selecting from among the membership"), the Unification Church (known affectionately around here as the Moonies) last week held a mass wedding in several world cities including New York. Can't fin ... More >>

Watch Sonic Youth Perform on Gossip Girl

Videogum has the clip--Kim Gordon is apparently available to officiate your wedding. The song, a dazed, acoustic version of "Star Power," perfect for slow dancing at romantic occasions and the like, is available now from Sonic Youth, where it comes with all sorts of other bonus swag. Can someone w ... More >>

When You Don't Approve of Your Friend's Boyfriend

Years ago, a friend gushed to me that he'd found a new boyfriend who was the most amazing specimen in Christendom. "He's gorgeous," my friend enthused. "A real Italian stallion, with a hot bod, a stunning face, and an amazing ass. A total stud all the way!" Well, I finally met the guy with my tongue ... More >>

Sax & Dixon: We Thee Wed Maintains Fresh-Faced Appeal

Down With Gay Marriage and Gays in the Military!

Two of the biggest issues in politics today are that the gays want to get married and also crave to openly be prancing around the military. It's cuckoo times two! While I fully understand the importance of these advances--and I'll fight for them to my gay death--I couldn't imagine two more horrible ... More >>

Alleged Hawaiian Tropic Rapist Was 9/11 Hero for Getting Married

Anne Hathaway Makes a Compelling Bad Girl in Jonathan Demme's Pedestrian Rachel Getting Married

The other sister

Midway Through the Toronto Film Fest, and Things are Looking Bleak

Oh, Canada

Heath Ledger as the Joker and Gay Pride: Today's Other Tabloid Stories

The Promotion's Low-Key Wittiness

Better than Employee of the Month!

DVDs Just Released: Margot at the Wedding, American Gangster: Unrated Extended Edition

First Comes a Restaurant, then Marriage

Daughter, Wife--What's the Diff?

I'll Be Fatter

Honesty hidden in a backyard cookie jar full of mush

'April's Shower'

Theater

Voice-New Times Wedding Is On

Justice Department gives the green light to alt-weekly merger

Theater

The Irresistible Banality of Same-Sex Marriage

How opponents of marriage for gays will be bored into submission

A Selection of Recent Books on Same-Sex Marriage

Classic Fairy Tale Gone Wrong: Grieving King Lusts After Daughter

Gravy Ladles Suck

A dream bridal registry, courtesy of the jealous single friend

Untying the Knot

Giving marriage a queer-eye makeover just might loosen up mom and pop

Fish Story

Global Warming

Bridal Paths

the ring cycle