Wednesday, 4 March 2015

’19 Kids And Counting’ Spoilers: Jessa Duggar Has A Surprise Coming From Ben And Jinger

A new episode of 19 Kids and Counting airs Tuesday night and fans will see more progress toward Jessa Duggar’s wedding to Ben Seewald. The big day is right around the corner in these new epsiodes and from the sounds of things, fans will find some moments in the March 3 episode to be quite sweet. What 19 Kids and Counting spoilers are available for this one?
People shares a fun sneak peek from Tuesday’s show. Jinger asks to borrow Jessa’s engagement ring for a bit, making up a story that Ben just wants to check on something for her. Jessa says to the camera that she knows that Ben is working on a surprise for her and she isn’t going to ask too many questions and ruin it for him.
'19 Kids and Counting' stars Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald
The 19 Kids spoiler sneak peek also shows Ben talking to a jeweler, showing him some sketches of his ideas regarding a wedding band. Jinger shows up with the engagement ring and the group works on coming up with a design. Jinger says that she and Jessa are really close, so it’s very special to her to be a part of the design process.
Ben talks about all of the things he’s trying to keep in mind while designing the ring, and Jinger says that ultimately she thinks Jessa will be very happy with what was chosen. AsTV Guide shares, Tuesday’s back-to-back19 Kids episodes are titled “Invites and Ride-Alongs” and “Wedding Prep and Pies.” Ben and Jinger’s project takes place in the second episode of the night, and viewers will also see the girls hit up a floral shop to pick out bouquets for the big day.
19 Kids and Counting spoilers indicate that viewers will also watch as Jill makes a present for husband Derick’s mom, Jim Bob takes a spin with John-David in a patrol car and Jessa and Ben turn to Josh Duggar to put together the wedding invitations. Other siblings are pulled into the planning as well, as James and Jason get the opportunity to put together part of the rehearsal dinner menu.
Fans know that Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald actually got married on November 1, 2014 and they’ve been happily settling into married life in the months since then. As for Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard, their baby boy is due in just a few more weeks and fans can’t wait to see it all play out on the show. New episodes of 19 Kids and Counting air Tuesday night on TLC and fans are loving every second of them.

Thursday, 26 February 2015

WeddingWire Ties the Knot with Spain-based Wedding Planner

WeddingWire Inc. can’t help you with your cold feet. But it can help you weed out wedding venues and florists.
The website, known as the Yelp of the wedding industry, includes reviews and tidbits about the key components of a wedding. Newlyweds have left reviews under a variety of aliases including their own names—many female—and even the likes of “UpsetBride.”
“People use Yelp to figure out where to eat and Trulia for finding a home. We help people make very important decisions about their wedding,” said Tim Chi, co-founder and chief executive of WeddingWire.
Mr. Chi launched the Washington, D.C.-based company in 2007 after struggling to find information online about wedding vendors. Soon after it was established, the website expanded to about 10 cities. Now it’s usable throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Today the company announced it acquired Wedding Planner S.L., the Spain-based version of WeddingWire that has websites in 12 countries in Latin America and Europe.
Since the wedding market is primarily made up of local vendors, from venues to photographers to florists, the website gathers information and reviews about many small businesses. Wedding Planner’s websites have similar models, and will operate as a separate entity.
WeddingWire is partially backed by Spectrum Equity, Catalyst Investors and Southern Capitol Ventures. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia took a 40% stake in the company in 2008, but later sold it.
WeddingWire says it has helped 10 million people plan their weddings, and has an average of 8 million searches across the company network each month, in categories including florists, attire, photography, music entertainment, catering and venues.

Consumers have been reading more reviews when making decisions on local businesses, from restaurants and hotels to doctors and hair and beauty salons.

Thursday, 12 February 2015

Jennifer Lopez Arrives in Udaipur for Live Performance


UK-based billionaire Sanjay Hinduja is set to tie the knot with his girlfriend and designer Anu Mahtani in a lavish ceremony in Udaipur tonight (12 February).
The pre-wedding ceremonies that started from 10 February, saw many high-profile guests, including Bollywood celebrities and politicians joining in the celebrations.
And the latest one to join the guest list in the big fat Indian wedding is none other than international celebrity Jennifer Lopez, who will perform live at the wedding tonight.
Popularly known as JLo, was spotted arriving in India early this morning. JLo was accompanied by her ex-boyfriend Casper Smart, with whom she is rumoured to have recently reunited. Later, she shared a picture of her first visit to India.
Reports suggest JLo will be put up at one of the most expensive suites in the country. Bollywood actors Akshay Kumar and Malaika Arora Khan are also expected to perform at the lavish wedding.
The pre-wedding bash was a three-day-long affair and took place at three different venues in Udaipur.
Designer Manish Malhotra had designed the pre-wedding function dress for the soon-to bride Mahtani, who is designer Nandita Mahtani's sister.
The guest list for the pre-wedding included Madhuri Dixit, designer Manish Malhotra, Deanne PandayAnil Ambani, Nita Ambani, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Nitin Gadkari, Poonam Dhillon and designer Shaina NC, among others.
As many as 800 VIP guests are expected to join the big fat wedding of Hinduja and Mahtani tonight.

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

3-generation wedding gown from Lower Burrell to be featured on 'Today' show

When Cindy Kost of Lower Burrell married her husband, Dennis, in June 1975, her mother offered Kost the wedding gown she wore a few decades earlier, when Helene Grzywinski married Kost's father.
Grzywinski — now 93 and a resident at Platinum Ridge Center for Rehabilitation & Healing in Brackenridge — pulled her dress, which she wore when she married Chester Grzywinski in 1947, from a cedar chest and offered it to her daughter.
The mother said she would buy Kost a dress if she didn't want to wear the old one. But there was something magnetic about her mother's dress, Kost says. “The more I thought about it, I thought, ‘My mother has a beautiful gown.' ”
And the tradition continued in the third generation, when Kost's daughter — Jackie Fiterman of Annapolis, Md. — wore it to get married in 2010.
“Never did I think in my wildest dreams down the road that my daughter would be wearing it,” Kost says.
The family's story will be featured Feb. 12 or 13 as a sweet Valentine's Day story on NBC's “Today” show.On Jan. 30, a filming crew visited Grzywinski, a widow since 1998, and Kost and Fiterman. The women view the dress as a good-luck charm, of sorts, because Grzywinski was happily married for 51 years, and Kost will be celebrating her 40th anniversary this year.
The women's hand-me-down tradition is not only sentimental but also cost-effective, Kost says. And the dress is very well-preserved, thanks to its storage in a cedar chest, she says.
“Today” producers found the family from a blog entry Fiterman wrote at catina weddingdress.com about the three-generation gown.
All three women were practically the same size on their weddings days, so the dress needed no alterations. If Fiterman has a daughter who marries someday, Kost says, the girl might wear the gown again and keep the tradition going.
When Grzywinski entered the room where the camera crew was waiting, “she was so surprised, her face was just priceless,” says Hillary Butts, administrator at Platinum Ridge.
“It brought tears to the eyes of everyone who was there to see it,” she says.

Sunday, 8 February 2015

Alabama judges vow to stop officiating at weddings as same-sex marriage ban ends Monday

A cadre of Alabama judges, including one who blasted gay marriage as “repugnant and repulsive to God,” vowed not to perform same-sex ceremonies when they become legal on Monday.
Probate judges in at least 16 counties plan to put the kibosh on the courthouse nuptials, although most said they’d still issue licenses, according to media reports.
“I’m not going to be a party to it,” Geneva County Probate Judge Fred Hamic told the Associated Press. “I was raised in a Christian home, and I was taught that it is a sin.”
U.S. District Judge Callie Granade shot down Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriages in January.
A federal appeals court rejected State Attorney General Luther Strange’s request for a stay, paving the way for the state’s 68 probate judges to begin issuing licenses on Monday.
The law, however, doesn’t require the judges to actually marry anyone, the justices said.
Elmore County, Ala., Probate Judge John E. Enslen says he won’t perform weddings when same-sex marriages becomes legal.
Elmore County Probate Judge John Enslen announced he’ll still issue licenses, but he won’t perform any more marriages, gay or straight.
“I’m not required to do that,”Enslen told the Montgomery Advertiser. “Some judges will choose to continue performing marriages and they can continue to do that.”
Enslen ripped same-sex marriage as “repugnant and repulsive to God” in an fiery editorial in January.
“In other words, I believe Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for just such unnatural conduct between the same sexes,"Enslen wrote.
Chilton County Judge Bobby Martin also cited religious beliefs and said he won’t perform weddings anymore.
“I guess all good things must come to an end,” Martin told the Clanton Advertiser, adding “I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, and because of that, I will not perform a ceremony for a couple that doesn’t fit in that criteria.”
The judges are following the lead of Chief Justice Roy Moore, who claimed they were not obligated to abide by Granade’s ground-breaking ruling.
“Lower federal courts are without authority to impose their own interpretation of federal constitutional law upon the state courts,” Moore wrote in one of twomemorandums obtained by AL.com.
Moore previously lost his job after he installed a monument celebrating the Ten Commandments at the Alabama Judicial Building.

He returned to the seat after winning an election in 2012.

Thursday, 5 February 2015

Statesboro’s annual Wedding Walk Expo set for Friday evening

Planning your special day can be an intimidating journey, but Downtown Statesboro's Wedding Walk Expo has done the hard part for you.
The Wedding Walk will take place from 5:30-8 p.m. Friday in First Baptist Church Statesboro's Perry Fellowship Hall. Admission is $5.
Statesboro’s annual Wedding Walk Expo set for Friday evening
An array of nearly 50 vendors will be on-site to answer your questions and help you plan your wedding. Vendors will include wedding planners, photographers, florists, hair and makeup artists, attire and caterers.
Eagle Creek Brewery will host an after party immediately following the Wedding Walk Expo for all guests to attend with no admission charge from 8:30-10 p.m. Enjoy beer tastings for $10 and enjoy the entertainment for the evening from Francis Marion & The Crocodiles, a jam band.
One beautiful bride will win a grand prize valued at more than $1,500, including a $500 check from the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority.
Rebecca Smith's two sisters took her to the Wedding Walk Expo last year as a gift to help her begin her wedding plans. They never expected that she would walk away as the grand prize winner.
"Going to the Wedding Walk put in perspective everything I needed, and everything I had not thought of, to plan my wedding," Smith said. "Winning the grand prize gave us the freedom to have fun as we planned our wedding."
She even went so far as to say, "The Wedding Walk made me want to get married once a year!"

Statesboro has an assortment of wedding venues, catering options and talented photographers. Through the First Friday Wedding Walk Expo, the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority hopes Statesboro will become a destination wedding spot.

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

How Charles nearly called wedding to Diana off

Catherine Mayer’s controversial biography claims both Charles and Princess Diana had to be ‘coaxed to the altar’.
The Prince and his fiancée had cold feet about the wedding and he reportedly told an adviser on the eve of the ceremony: ‘I can’t go through with it’.
The Prince was worried he was rushing into a marriage and Lady Diana knew the Prince had feelings for Camilla Parker Bowles.
The Telegraph reported last night how the Prince had been engaged to Lady Diana Spencer for five months after a brief courtship but she was ‘not the jolly country girl he had assumed’ but a complicated, vulnerable woman suffering from an eating disorder.
He is said to have told his aide: ‘I can’t go through with it, I can’t do it’.
Diana found a bracelet meant for the Duchess of Cornwall which had the initials GF engraved – which she believed stood for the pet names ‘Gladys’ and ‘Fred’ they had given each other.
An alternative suggestion was that it was another nickname he had for Camilla - ‘Girl Friday’.
Her own pre-wedding wobbles have been well reported over the years.
The Prince and his fiancée had cold feet about the wedding and he reportedly told an adviser on the eve of the ceremony: ‘I can’t go through with it’
Diana told biographer, Andrew Morton, that she told her sisters: ‘I can’t marry him, I can’t do this, this is absolutely unbelievable.’
They said it was too late for her to change her mind as her ‘face is already on the tea towels’.
Mayer said: ‘She had no idea her bridegroom also had to be coaxed to the altar’.
Catherine Mayer, author of the controversial biography which is published on Thursday, said she hoped the first in line to the throne liked the book but said she thought it was 'unlikely.'
'There's a real substantial gap between the public perception of Prince Charles and who he is and what he has done,' she told This Morning.
'People often define him as against Diana but in many ways they resemble each other in their impulse to make things better.'
Miss Mayer said she wrote the book after writing a cover piece for Time and had remarkably little access to the Prince for the piece, often speaking to contacts and his friends.
She added: 'He is an extremely charitable entrepreneur with a most complex belief system and philosophy, which actually appears in his own book.'
Miss Mayer said despite public belief the Prince was 'naive' at the time of his marriage to the late Princess Diana, having grown up in what she calls 'Planet Windsor' - 'a chilly planet.'
She added: 'One of the reasons he is defined the way he is is because of his first marriage.
'One of the perceptions is that he was a cynical older man who lured an innocent girl into a relationship that was never going to be plausible.'
Miss Mayer said she felt talk of Prince Charles' rise to the throne may be premature because he comes from a family that are incredibly long-lived.

'When he comes to the throne, or if he comes to the throne, we will know he is a man of strong beliefs.'