The origin of the custom of wearing a ring to indicate one is married can be traced back to Egypt 6,000 years ago. The modern tradition of a dual wedding ring exchange during the marriage ceremony began in the Middle Ages in Europe. In the United States, it was traditional that only wives wore wedding rings until husbands started wearing them, too, sometime in the last century...
If you know of a couple that has been married for at least 70 years and resides in the state of Louisiana the Louisiana Family Forum would like to know about them.
Your wedding is often the most memorable and happy day in your life.
It's not often, but sometimes things go horribly awry. Sometimes things go over so badly that people wind up forever immortalized in video or photos.
Weddings. Months and months, and, in some cases, YEARS of planning go into them.
People really freak out over the smallest details with their wedding. They want everything to go PERFECTLY.
How long will it take before people realize that taking wedding photos (or prom photos or any other special occasion) on a dock or close to any body of water is a bad idea?
Actually, it is a good idea, because we get to see the results.
But for them? Bad idea.
When it comes to weddings, there's typically a list of a three or four things that all of them have in common.
Daddy-daughter dance
A terrible maid of honor speech
A drunk uncle
Mother-son dance
Because it seems more often couples are cohabitation BEFORE tying the knot, they are likely to have many of the classic tangible wedding gifts such as place settings, kitchen appliances and the like. So, the new millennium trend is toward the “honeymoon registry...
Free food, booze, and the potential to hook up with some love drunk bridesmaid...what's not to love about wedding crashing? Well, there's all that tedious research you have to do in order to get your way in. Oh and how do you even find a wedding to crash? Enter the long awaited wedding crashing app.
For you die hard bachelors out there, tired of having you mom bug you about when are you going to get married and settle down, meet Gilbert Herrick of Rochester, New York.
Gilbert finally took the plunge at the ripe old age of 99 years old. His bride is a spry minx at 86 years of age.
What was his reason for getting hitched...so they could share a room at the nursing home of course!