Wedding Wednesday: 7 Lessons from Twilight

November 23, 2011 | By


Who said vampires can’t teach us anything? They taught us that love surpasses all (even if there’s a 90 year age difference). While the new Twilight installment Breaking Dawn was raking in $140 million at the box office this weekend… we were all dying to see the wedding! And it definitely had all the drama of Bella and Edward’s relationship. Here are some lessons we learned from the nuptials:

1. Your natural surroundings provide a great backdrop

2. Can’t go wrong with a family crest on the invitations

3. Jewel tones look great on fair skinned bridesmaids

4. You can never have too many flowers

5. Leave the drama behind you (replica of custom Carolina Herrera gown)

6. Wear something blue in your hair

7. Go to Brazil for your honeymoon! (But maybe don’t play chess)

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Top 10 Wedding Moments From The Movies

October 26, 2011 | By

Why do we go to the movies? To be entertained, to laugh, to cry, to fall in love. Nothing captures the sweetness and craziness of a wedding quite like films do. Romantic comedies gives us have hope that the man of our dreams will stand outside our window holding a boombox over his head playing Peter Gabriel. Or convince us that we should chase down our best friend right before his wedding and say “Pick me!”

So this Wedding Wednesday, we’re going to the movies! We’ve rounded up some of our favorite scenes that encapsulate all that weddings can bring: love, laughter and a little crazy. In no particular order…

1. Bridesmaids – One of the funniest movies we’ve seen in years. We wanted to be on stage busting out “Some day somebody is going to make you turn around and say goodbye” with Wilson Phillips.

2. Wedding Crashers - Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn would make the best real-life wedding guests.3. My Best Friend’s Wedding - Who doesn’t want to burst out into song during a rehearsal dinner? We do!

4. The Wedding Singer - After  being stood up at the alter, Adam Sandler goes back to a work as a wedding singer and becomes a train wreck. This movie has an awesome soundtrack. And how cute was Drew Barrymore?

5. Sixteen Candles - We love the tipsy sister walking down the aisle trying to eat her veil. But, we were also quite distracted by Jake Ryan. Swoon!

6. It Takes Two - A Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen classic! And Michelle’s all-time favorite childhood movie. “I’ve never been so humiliated in my life!” (Don’t mind the sübtitles…)

7. Father of the Bride - The entire movie warmed our hearts. Remember when Steve Martin says to himself during the wedding, “I realized at that moment that I was never going to come home again and see Annie at the top of the stairs, that I’d never see her again at our breakfast table in her nightgown and socks. I suddenly realized what was happening: Annie was all grown up and leaving us. Something inside began to hurt.” We need a tissue!

8. Princess Bride – Nothing like a bad accent to lighten the mood at a wedding.

9. The Notebook - What wedding? Ryan Gosling can kiss us in the rain anytime.

10. My Big Fat Greek Wedding – We all wanted to be Greek after this movie and shout “OPA!”

Tell us below… what’s your favorite wedding movie moment?

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Irene Can’t Wash Away True Love

August 31, 2011 | By

Rain, rain, go away. Don’t come back on my wedding day. Over the weekend, Hurricane Irene ruined so many things: from Freshman move-in day at NYU to The Dave Matthews Band Caravan festival on Governors Island. And now you can add true love to that list. Irene’s tyrannical rampage soaked-out weddings, stranded guests and forced bridal parties to head for higher ground… However, there were a few happy hopefuls that chose to weather the elements and continue their nuptials. I mean, hey, the show must go on, right? Take a look at some of the most adorably devastating wedding accounts of six almost-newlyweds from across the East Coast.
Bride-to-be Rona Geller reluctantly called off her Long Island, NY nuptials which were supposed to happen on Sunday. “It was the hardest decision I ever made,” said Geller. Geller initially tried to ignore the depressing weather updates, because she didn’t want to be “one of those panicked brides.” But eventually, she and fiancé Michael Field realized they had no choice in the matter—they now plan to wed on Oct. 16. Ironically, Field is the nephew of meteorologist Frank Field, and cousin to TV weather-watchers Storm Field and Allison Field. Also, Field’s brother, Joe, married wife Robyn during Hurricane Bertha, a Category 3 churner that hit Long Island in 1996.
Wedding Guests in Vermont weren’t so lucky. At least a dozen wedding guests were airlifted by helicopter from a Vermont town of Pittsfield on Tuesday where they had been stranded since Tropical Storm Irene hit two days earlier, turning rivers into roiling flood waters that washed away the only road in town.
A Rockland, MA bride has learned that she doesn’t need electricity for her big day — her new husband is the light of her life. Tropical Storm Irene forced their wedding venue to shut down, but that didn’t stop them from tying the knot by candlelight at a local tavern. That’s right — the bar saved the wedding!
Erica Sternin Weiss should be honeymooning in Tahiti right now. But because of Hurricane Irene, her wedding and honeymoon were cancelled. “I was supposed to get married on Saturday in a waterfront park in New Rochelle, N.Y. at 6:30 p.m.,” Weiss said. “On Friday night, our venue called and explained that the county was forcing them to close and our wedding was canceled.” So what did the couple do? Erica and Brett Weiss were married at their rehearsal dinner Friday night, right after they found out that their wedding venue would be closed due to Hurricane Irene.
A New Hampshire couple refused to let tropical storm Irene ruin their wedding and found a new location when authorities forced them to move the reception. Bill Luquette and Kyla Brown said they decided not to postpone their wedding when they heard Irene was expected to reach New Hampshire Sunday but they were left scrambling for a venue when the Windham Fire Department told them the reception they were planning at Searles Castle in Windham would not be safe during the storm, the New Hampshire Union-Leader reported Tuesday. The couple said they found a new location, the basement of St. Peter Church in Auburn, and the disc jockey, Mr. Jonathan DJ, was able to organize a reception with catering services in only 3 hours.
Hurricanes and Melissa Cook just don’t get along. Last August, she and her boyfriend, Jason Archbell, got engaged on a trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina; the celebratory week at the beach was cut short when Hurricane Earl prompted mandatory evacuations. This August, the happy couple from Philadelphia made a return trip to welcome 150 guests to their wedding, planned for Saturday at Jennette’s Pier, a brand-new reception area perched atop the Atlantic Ocean. On Wednesday night, they learned from The Weather Channel that their plans had been scuttled yet again, this time by a blustery bully named Irene. “I saw the words ‘mandatory evacuation,’ and I just burst into tears,” says Cook, 29 and a civil engineer. “My thinking was because it happened this time last year, there’s no way it could happen again.” But it did. “I haven’t found someone to marry us quite yet,” says Cook. “But come hell or high water, I have said I will go on my honeymoon as a married woman.” (The honeymoon, to Aruba, was selected “very intentionally” because it’s outside the typical hurricane track.)

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6 Wacko Wedding Vows

August 10, 2011 | By

The dress, the flowers, the venue, the cake… These days planning a wedding can be seriously stressful. All those choices can lead to crazy Bridezilla and an unethused Groom. During the wedding planning, defuse heated debates and keep sparks alive  by writing your own wedding vows. From funny to silly to serious and everywhere in between, here are six different wedding vows to fit (almost) every relationship:

1. Pirate Vows

Groom: I, Mad Dog [name] take ye, Saucy [Bride] as me Heart, me Soul, me Good Wench with a stout right hook, the bright dawn of each new day and the soft bed of each day’s night. I promise to love ye and honor ye; to make ye laugh when yer feelin’ out of sorts and pretend to listen to ye when ye babble on and on about nothin’ in particular. I will protect you from the elements and the elephants should we ever encounter them as it is my understanding that they can be very large and unpredictable. I will love thee through scurvy and through fire, in wealth or poverty whether ye be near or far. And when I speak of treasure, as I am wont to do, everyone within the sound of me voice will know that what I am really speaking about is you. All of this will I undertake until there are no horizons left to chase and the rum is gone.

Bride: I, Saucy [name] take ye, Mad Dog [Groom] as me Heart, me Soul, me Salty Jack with a crooked smile, the foggy haze of each new day and the lumpy (but familiar) mattress of each day’s night. I promise to love ye and honor ye; to make ye laugh so hard the rum comes out yer nose and pretend to listen to ye when ye babble on about nothin’ in particular. I will protect you from my wrath and from giraffes which I understand are very tall and will sometimes step on people because they are not looking where they are stepping. I will love thee through scurvy and through fire, in wealth or poverty whether ye be near or far. And when I speak of treasure, as I am wont to do, everyone within the sound of me voice will know that I am day dreaming again. All of this will I undertake until there are no horizons left to chase and the rum is gone.

2. Zombie Vows

Bride: My love, as I gaze into your mesmerizingly vacant crimson eyes, stroke the pale, flaking skin of your cheek, and drool over the human arm that you dragged behind you down the aisle, I cannot help but smile knowing that you have chosen me with which to spend the rest of undead eternity. “’Till death do us part” is but a mundane mortal musing; you and I will shuffle through the streets, trudge over the grasslands, and limp along the seashore for every sunrise and sunset to come. I cannot wait to feast on the living with you by my side and to admire your strength and your focus as you tastefully terrorize the mortal population. There is no other woman, living or dead, with whom I would rather spend a mindless and unending undead existence. I love you more than death itself.

3. The Princess Bride Vows

The Impressive Clergyman: Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam…
The Impressive Clergyman: And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva…
The Impressive Clergyman: So tweasure your wuv.
Prince Humperdinck: Skip to the end.
The Impressive Clergyman: Have you the wing?
The Impressive Clergyman: …and do you,Pwincess Buwwercup…
Prince Humperdinck: Man and wife. Say man and wife.
The Impressive Clergyman: Man an’ wife.

4. Dr. Seuss Vows

Minister: Will you take her as your wife? Will you love her all your life?
Groom: Yes, I take her as my wife, Yes, I’ll love her all my life.
Minister: Will you have, and also hold Just as you have at this time told?
Groom: Yes, I will have, and I will hold, Just as I have at this time told, Yes, I will love her all my life As I now take her as my wife.

5. Wedding Crashers Vows

Groom: “I, [name], take you, [Bride], to be my wife, my best friend, and my first mate. Through sickness and health, clear skies and squalls.”
Bride: “I, [name], take you, [Groom], to be my best friend and my captain, to be your anchor and your sail, your starboard and your port.”

6. Star Wars Vows

Groom: My Queen, may the Force be with us as we travel through the galaxy of life. I pledge to never turn to the Dark Side but stand forever in the illumination of our love. I vow to fight the Evil Emperor and I invite you take your place at my side as we rule the galaxy. Take my hand and stand with me for light and justice throughout our lives.

Bride: My Jedi, my love, I take your hand and accept your pledge. May the force be strong with us all the days of our lives. There is good in you, I sense it. Remain a Jedi and I will stand by you. I pledge to you my love and my companionship as long as I live.

 

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