Honeymoontastic!

Winner of most "obvious title "award goes to OK!

OK! has learned that Britney Spears is telling friends she’s ready to marry her boyfriend Jason Trawick. And all it took was her boys’ blessing to convince her to move ahead with plans for her third wedding in five years.

There is a great article on the UK Sunday Times website subtitled:
The one thing you don’t want on a honeymoon is other honeymooners. So, skip the stilted villa and make a romantic escape of your own

But what caught my eye was the great quote:

"Wedding chat. You either love it, or you’re a man. Which is why, if ever you want to see the very acme of badly concealed despair, you should look at the face of a brand-new groom as the breakfast-buffet small talk reveals an awful truth – that he’s just forked out a king’s ransom to spend his honeymoon surrounded by honeymooners. "

“Oh, my dear Lord,” the blank eyes and wobbling grin seem to cry out. “I’ve just survived 12 weeks of pretending to care about table decorations and canapé trays; now I have to spend the next fortnight reliving every detail with a charming couple from Tunbridge Wells. Come sunset, I’m over the fence.”

Now that's a well observed statement ;-)

OK - yes I am jealous and no this isn't going to be very balanced ;-)

How come Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin (or Filthy Rich and Catflap as they shall now be known) have been offered big Dick Branson's Necker island for free on their honeymoon?   If anyone could afford the £23k a night price it would be them yet they are being offered the 74 acre island for free......grumble.....grumble.

Moonpig cards have really tapped into the celebrity wedding market.  Fancy having your friends face appear in a special edition of celebrity "OI" magazine?  Then get them a card from Moonpig. 

With plenty of options to upload photos and change headlines, these cards are a great way to send personlised best wishes to the bride and groom.

According to theknot.com even the smartest, most on-top-of-things couple can make mistakes during wedding planning. Here are the 10 things you should keep an eye on before saying I do.

It looks like a Moonie mass marriage ceremony but actually it's the annual Wedding Dress Ball, at which 150 women get to relive their big day in their big dress – only this time with the addition of tattoos, Magic Knickers and flip-flops.

This article in the UK Telegraph explains how new "fantasy bride" events are helping to raise money for charity.

She's a bride and she's an attorney and the honeymoon must be over. Elena Glatt, a Manhattan lawyer, is suing Posy Florists on East 72nd Street in New York for $400,000 for substituting pastel pink and green hydrangeas for the rust and green ones she'd requested for her 22 wedding reception centerpieces.

Is this a bit over the top? Glatt told the New York Times that they had reluctantly paid for the flowers in advance, with a cashier's check for $27,435.14. She accused the florist of a "bait and switch" scheme, and asked for more than $400,000 in restitution and damages for, among other things, "unjust enrichment" by the florist.

The paper notes that not only was the color wrong, Ms. Glatt said in the lawsuit, filed on Friday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, but the hydrangeas were wilted and brown, and arranged in dusty vases without enough water.

The florist, Stamos Arakas, owns Posy Floral Design. He said that before filing the lawsuit, Ms. Glatt sent him a series of e-mail messages demanding a $4,000 refund. He said he and his wife ignored the e-mail messages because "we thought they were so insulting they didn't dignify a response" and because it "felt like extortion."

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Many more people are getting married later in life or getting married for the second time which ultimately leads to children being part of the wedding plans...but what about the honeymoon?

This article over at iVillage gives you some ideas on how to mix children and honeymoons.

Cities simply don't inspire the imagination or set off beautiful wedding attire in the way that the countryside can.  According to this article in the Telegraph (UK) if the church ain't 300 years old, it ain't gonna do.