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Summary Bridges I had crossed multiple times before in Paris are now covered with padlocks as a representation of a couple’s love for each other. This new phenomenon has been spreading all over Europe as a symbol of eternal love.
On a recent visit to Paris I noticed something somewhat unusual I had never seen, or at least not to the extent I witnessed this time.
Bridges I had crossed multiple times before were now covered with padlocks as a representation of a couple’s love for each other. I later learned that this new phenomenon has been spreading all over Europe. Newlyweds will select a certain spot that is meaningful to them and their relationship and will “lock up” their hearts using these “love locks” as a symbol of what they hope to live — an eternal love.
You will see all over town padlocks engraved with names and initials hanging from both sides of bridges. As it appears, they close the lock and together throw the key in the water right below them. This seals their eternal love. The ritual also symbolizes that their hearts will never be separated and no rival will ever be able to find the key to the heart of their beloved, since the key has disappeared in the water. In this manner, they have found a way to bind together what they hope will remain eternal.
Roland Lepore is the founder of www.lessaintsdesderniersjours.com. He just moved to Lyon, France, with his family after living in Utah for the past 10 years
Bride-to-be Jenn Jarvis thought she had found the perfect venue for her wedding this year: Brooklyn Bridge Park, a waterfront expanse with emerald lawns and sweeping views of Manhattan, all for just $25.
“Our awesome caterers, event planners, said, ‘It will be gorgeous and lovely, and it’s only a $25 permit fee,’ ” she said.
She soon learned, however, that on Dec. 1, the nonrefundable fee quietly jumped to $425. While the increase wasn’t the last straw that prodded Ms. Jarvis and her fiancé to hold the wedding elsewhere, it was a “pretty big straw,” she said.
“It’s not like they added $10 for inflation,” Ms. Jarvis said. “Maybe in the long run $400 isn’t that much when you consider the location, but to go from $25 to $425 seems pretty unreasonable to me.”
As wedding season gets under way, many couples are learning that exchanging vows in a public park can come with a host of bureaucratic do’s and don’ts.
In most New York City parks, there is a $25 permit fee for gatherings of 20 people or more. Two locations—Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Conservatory Garden in Central Park—charge an additional $400. And for couples who pay online for a Brooklyn Bridge Park permit, there is an extra $1 processing fee.
And that is just to say “I do.” Couples who got married elsewhere but just want the park’s dramatic backdrop for their wedding pictures may also need to pay for a special permit. At Brooklyn Bridge Park, the photo fee is $26, and at the Conservatory Garden, it is $100.
Still, they aren’t the city’s most expensive options. At Gantry Plaza State Park, a 12-acre riverside plot in Long Island City, Queens, wedding permits range from $800 to $1,600; if the bride and groom want chairs, decorations and sound equipment, it could cost more.
After 23 years in the rental business we at Camelot Party Rentals have got a solid foundation when it comes to tenting events. Tents are no longer just for Girl Scouts and die hard campers, these days they are an elegant affordable way to have an indoor outdoor wedding. Here are Camelot Party Rental’s top reasons to tent your wedding.
1. Rain, rain, Stay Away from my Wedding Day: Weather is an unpredictable enemy to outdoor events. Weather permitting, you can still have the outdoor wedding ceremony of your dreams, but having the reception tented offers you an elegant back up plan if the clouds come your way and the wind picks up. Your tented wedding reception will allow your guests to dance the night away after the ceremony is over without feeling the evening chill.
2. Winter Wonderland: Snow can make for a magical wedding setting, but igloos are not ideal for wedding venues. Tenting your wedding allows you to have your guests bundle up for the ceremony and then retreat into a warm temperature regulated tent for the wedding reception.
3. Find Your own Venue: Do you have an outdoor spot that is special to you and your betrothed? Make your wedding even more meaningful by renting a tent and tying the knot in that special spot.
4. Space: No one wants to feel like their wedding isn’t big enough for the room hosting it. And most venues have a capacity, which depending on how many second cousins you are inviting can create a problem come invitation time. Tenting your event can allow you to fill the space appropriately whether it is a big wedding or an intimate gathering of your nearest and dearest.
5. This Time it is Personal: Who wants to get married in another cookie cutter country club? One of our favorite things about tenting weddings is giving the couple the freedom to create the wedding of their dreams from scratch! From the location and ceremony draping to the tables and chairs, tenting your wedding allows for you to be more in control of what your big day looks like.
Online classifieds ended up getting Tyler Newman far more than he bargained for. While looking for a good deal on a road bike, the 27-year-old Riverton man ended up with a wife, too.
SALT LAKE CITY — Online classifieds ended up getting Tyler Newman far more than he bargained for. While looking for a good deal on a road bike, the 27-year-old Riverton man ended up with a wife, too.
“I thought it was a great deal,” he said, standing hand-in-hand with Michelle Oliverson Newman, 22, at the Salt Lake LDS Temple. The two were wed Friday, following almost a year of courtship, which began with an advertisement posted online last May.
Newman had been looking for something to help him train for an upcoming triathlon and a used Dawes Lightning bicycle he found on ksl.com seemed to have the perfect price tag — just $300. Several other callers had inquired about the bike, but Oliverson said she held onto it for the seemingly “serious” first caller.
Turns out I was really serious,” Newman joked.
When he showed up to check out the merchandise on a May day in 2010, Newman said he had a hard time keeping his eyes on the bike. He was pretty taken by the seller.
LAIE, Hawaii — Elizabeth Smart and Matthew Gilmour were married Saturday on the North Shore of the island of Oahu.
The couple exchanged vows at the Laie Hawaii Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in front of a small group of immediate family members, according to a statement released by Smart family spokesman Chris Thomas.
The wedding party was celebrated at a private reception and luau. Following Saturday’s festivities, the couple planned to leave on an extended honeymoon to an undisclosed location.
“Elizabeth’s desire was for what most women want — to celebrate her nuptials in a private wedding with family and close friends,” Thomas said.
When the couple became engaged just last month, they made plans to get married this summer. But the couple recently decided the move the date up by several months.
“After the story broke about her engagement and the media became increasingly invasive, Elizabeth recognized it was going to be impossible to have a traditional wedding devoid of distractions and unusual challenges outside of her control,” Thomas said. “She decided, about a week ago, the best way to avoid significant distraction was to change her wedding plans and to get married in an unscheduled ceremony outside of Utah.”
Gilmour, of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Smart met while she was serving an LDS mission in France.
Here is a way to distinguish you wedding day from all of the others. Would you do it??
For the last few years, couples made their special day unique by copying coordinated dance routines down the aisle and at the reception, after that one couple did it on YouTube. Now, there’s a whole new “unique” thing everyone is doing: Marryoke.
Marryoke is lip-synch karaoke that a wedding videographer captures your guests performing at different times of the wedding. When they edit it all together, you get a music video of your wedding, set to the timeless song of your choosing: Classic wedding songs like Etta James’s “At Last” and — nope, actually, Marryoke is mostly done to songs that aren’t likely to stand the test of time, like LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem,” or the Black Eyed Peas’ “The Time,” a remix of that song from “Dirty Dancing.”
The trend began in the U.K., but has made its way over to our shores — so don’t be surprised if you’re asked to lip-synch to some Katy Perry at a wedding this summer. Wedding trends, like the coordinated dances to Justin Bieber and Chris Brown songs, spread like wildfire among brides looking for a way to distinguish their wedding day from all of the others. Videographers even offer special “Marryoke” services as part of their packages, now.
What will a Marryoke video look like at the 50-year anniversary? Probably really cheesy — but if the couple makes it to 50 years still happily in love, it doesn’t matter.
New Postal Stamp Adds Beauty, Romance, to Wedding Invitations.
January 20, 2012 - ALEXANDRIA, VA — Brides to be can get ready to mail their wedding invitations now that the Postal Service is issuing a 65-cent Wedding Cake stamp that goes on sale today. The stamp, issued in sheets of 20, is a perfect addition for mailing wedding invitations weighing up to 2 ounces or other First-Class Mail such as oversize cards or small gifts requiring extra postage.
“Sure to add a touch of beauty and romance to wedding correspondence, the Wedding Cake stamp, first introduced in 2009, is a timeless addition to the U.S. Postal Service’s Weddings series,” said U.S. Postal Service Stamp Services Manager Stephen Kearney. “Often the centerpiece of a wedding reception, the cake has been a wedding tradition for many generations.” The stamps are available at Post Offices nationwide, online at usps.com and by phone at 800-782-6724.
Pastry chef Peter Brett of Washington, DC, created and designed the cake photographed by Renée Comet of Washington, DC, under the art direction of Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, MD. The three-tier wedding cake topped with white flowers and green stems leaves a delightful contrast to the cake’s creamy white frosting.
Deseret News - SALT LAKE CITY — Elizabeth Smart is engaged to marry.
A summer wedding is planned, said Chris Thomas of the Salt Lake public relations firm Intrepid Group. Thomas would neither identify Smart’s fiancé nor confirm how the couple met. The pair became engaged this past weekend.
Sources, however, have identified him as Matthew Gilmour of Scotland.
Smart, 24, is “happy and excited for this next chapter in her life,” Thomas said. “She has planned to be very public in her child advocacy work but wants to keep the details of her personal life private.”
Elizabeth Smart’s father, Ed Smart, said he and his wife, Lois, are “just very happy for Elizabeth. He seems like a fine young man.”
Smart would not release additional details at the request of his daughter. “She feels he’s the one so we are very happy for her,” Ed Smart said Friday.
Smart rose to international prominence after she was kidnapped at knife point from her parents’ home in June 2002 by Brian David Mitchell. Smart, then 14, was held by her captors for nine months, enduring repeated sexual abuse. Smart was rescued when she, Mitchell and Mitchell’s wife, Wanda Barzee, were spotted in Sandy in March of 2003.
Smart testified against Mitchell, who was convicted of kidnapping and rape in U.S. District Court in 2010. He is serving a life sentence. Barzee is serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for her role in the crimes.
Many people who watched Smart testify against Mitchell at trial and during sentencing commented on her poise and confidence on the witness stand.
Smart has said on a number of occasions that she has been guided by the advice of her mother, who told her the day after her rescue that Mitchell may have taken nine months of her life from her, but she must not allow him to take one more minute.
Smart has advised other victims “not to let it hold them back.”
Since her rescue, Smart has served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France, formed a foundation to advocate on behalf of children and has worked as commentator for ABC News.
Here are some things to consider if you want to liven up the old Wedding Traditions -
Old: White Wedding Dress
New: You can still wear the traditional white or ivory wedding dress but how about throwing in splashes of color with sashes and colorful jewelry. Wake it up and rock it out with your favorite colors.
Old: Confetti of Rice
New: Sparklers (the colors of your wedding theme), glitter and air-popped popcorn. Instead of tulle bags try tossing cones.
Old: Bridal March Canon D
New: Have the Wedding DJ play your favorite tune, hire a cellist or quartet to play an instrumental version of your favorite rock song that has a special meaning for both of you. (clear the music selection with your church pastor if ceremony will be held in a church)
Old: Getting Married In the Church
New: Pick a wedding ceremony location that has meaning for the both of you, it doesn’t have to be in the church to be “legal”. It can be a park, gallery, backyard, even an old theater where you had your first date. Think outside the box and find your very own special ceremony site.
Old: Exchanging Traditional Wedding Vows
New:Customize your own wedding vows by blending your personalities and your feelings into an amazing set of wedding vows that will have way more meaning for the two of you than a vows template will ever have. Then for added memory frame it as a beautiful keepsake.
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Online classifieds ended up getting Tyler Newman far more than he bargained for. While looking for a good deal on a road bike, the 27-year-old Riverton man ended up with a wife, too.
Here is a way to distinguish you wedding day from all of the others. Would you do it?? 
