When it comes to the big day, we strive for perfection in all ways. Anything that comes with being a bride–the dress, jewelry or makeup,  has to transform us into the princess imagined since childhood. After the cut and style of the dress, the next biggest battle is with the hair. It must glamorous, sophisticated, and most importantly something you’d want to look back on proudly 40 years later. For many it’s difficult to put that look into words, making that process that much more frustrating. To help you along the way, check out these timeless yet very modern wedding day hair styles courtesy of our partner, WeddingChannel.com. Click for more great bridal beauty ideas.

Classic French Twist

Modern Bouffant

Elegant Updo with Sideswept Bangs

Teased Updo with Frace-Framing Pieces

Sleek, Straight and Short

Trendy Side Bun

Tell us: how did you wear your hair on your wedding day?

Celebrity Suspect : Chelsea Clinton

Case: The wedding of the century, one that has Americans  fawning over all intimate details, is finally happening. Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton is going to be marrying her long time investment banker beau, Marc Mezvins. Most of the all, the deets have spilled out to news outlets. There will be roughly 400 guest, including Oprah and Stephen Spielberg, the cost is expecting to tip in to the $5 million range with $200,000 going to security alone, and the location will be under the great white tents in the small town of Rhinebeck, NY. The bride is still mum on one very important detail:  Whose gown will be plastered on the pages of People next week? The battle rages on between Vera Wang or Oscar de la Renta, but all will be revealed Saturday.

Spa Treatment Sentencing: For successfully keeping us all in such wrongful suspense we’re sentencing Chelsea to post-nuptial spa prison. As an added bonus we’re allowing Marc to join you in Massage Therapy sentence at Algonquin Spa & Couples Resort.

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File this one away in wedding news of the weird! Several couples around the country got married on Valentine’s Day in that most romantic of wedding locations, White Castle.

The fine purveyor of tiny hamburgers ran a contest open to couples all around the company. Winners had the whole wedding shebang provided to them: dress, rings, tux, and of course a vast selection of sliders, chicken fingers, and fries.

Two of the White Castle newlyweds were a Newark, New Jersey couple who have been engaged since 2006 but could never seem to find the time to make the wedding happen. The bride told press outlets, “I am thrilled to be marrying the love of my life. I would marry him anywhere.” (admit it: that’s a little aww.) For a glimpse of their White Castle happy future, they need only to look to the couple in St. Louis who renewed their wedding vows at their local franchise on the same day–because they’ve spent every Valentine’s Day at a White Castle for the 33 years they’ve been married.

I’d definitely rather go to a wedding at a place like White Castle, especially one that reflects the couple’s personality, than a generic wedding. Plus, burgers. Way more people should incorporate burgers into their weddings. So, good luck to the White Castle couples!

For Wedding Wednesday today, we’re going to look at the dark side of weddings. (Consider it a V-Day backlash.)

Reason #8743 not to get married: German courts just ruled that in-laws can demand gifts given to their children’s spouses back in case of divorce. Imagine: you have a great wedding with all the best intentions for your life together, and your mother-in-law gives you a toaster. I mean, we’re talking a really nice toaster – the kind that poaches an egg to go on your toast, too. And for six months you enjoy the toaster and your spouse, too. And then things go horribly wrong, as they sometimes can, and you end up getting divorced. You’re heartbroken!

And then, the straw on the camel’s back: your ex-in-laws take the toaster away. Because they can.

We can imagine no worse insult to the injury of divorce than losing your toaster (or dishes, or microwave, or other household gifts.) So this week’s installment of Wedding Wednesday is a warning: don’t get married in Germany.

In honor of the V-day backlash, what’s your best Valentine’s Day horror story?

Weddings can be expensive…and apparently for some, weddings can be so expensive as to require grand larceny.

A UK bride embezzled close to $750,000 from her employer to pay for her dream wedding, which included a rented-out cliffside resort, a fireworks display on the beach, and a party favor of Armani bracelets for each guest. She also bought two sports cars. She juggled her embezzled money between offshore accounts, and the theft was only discovered when she accidentally made a transfer in sterling rather than dollars.

Hopefully the lavish ceremony was worth it–she was sentenced to two years in prison.

Do tell: what would you do for a dream wedding? We do hope you wouldn’t go to jail.