And just this week, elected leaders in New Mexico urged same-sex couples to apply for wedding licenses.
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The Queen sat down to tea with couples celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary on the latest leg of her Diamond Jubilee tour.
Despite its size, The Knot is now facing competition from smaller blogs and websites, such as online scrapbook Pinterest, as couples search for unique wedding ideas.
The site allowed couples to unload their wedding finery and excess sundries so they could ride off in the sunset without staggering under the weight of debt.
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When it comes to getting hitched, some couples want to have a wedding for the sake of showing their commitment to friends and family, regardless of whether it will be legally recognized where they live, she said.
They now offer couples the chance to create their own wedding registry listing llamas, chicks, honeybees, water jugs, even cans of worms as gifts.
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Couples are requesting, in lieu of wedding gifts, donations of money to pay for goats, sheep and cows intended for poor families in underdeveloped countries.
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Admittedly, this survey only covers those couples which hired a professional vendor for their wedding, so the sample is skewed towards the bigger spenders.
"Couples today want to be intimately involved in the wedding ceremony, " she says.
Just as the traditional canon of wedding poses does not fit all heterosexual couples, there's a lot of variety in same-sex weddings that photographers need to plan for, Dodd said.
"Capturing Love" is primarily designed to help wedding photographers think about what to ask couples in the planning phase, but couples can also draw inspiration from the poses regardless of their sexual orientation, she said.
In 2011, the company set up a joint venture in China to bring its expertise in training wedding planners to the country, where many young couples want help figuring out how to best spend the thousands of dollars they have been given to celebrate their nuptials.
Nevada has long welcomed starry-eyed couples - drunk, sober, or freshly divorced - into its wedding chapels.
Couples are relying more on their own finances to pay for a wedding, rather than the event being paid for by their families, and gift-giving practices have even changed as well.
Unlike prior generations, contemporary couples aren't afraid to tinker with the order of a ceremony or the wedding traditions that have, in the past, seemed intractable.
For couples who would rather live in the here-and-now, using the money from a wedding toward buying a new home can be a wise idea.
The most important aspect of the fifty percent divorce rate on our wedding day is our happy belief that we will be among the half of all married couples who will sustain one another, strengthen one another, and, enliven one another until death cleaves us apart.
To satisfy both desires, many couples end up traveling to a state that recognizes same-sex marriage and making it into a destination wedding, such as Duffy and Kathy Tucker of North Carolina, who married in Boston in June 2010.
They were planning a symbolic, but not legally recognized, wedding when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered city officials to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2004.
The guests were served an all-white, seven-layer white rum wedding cake that was covered in white fondant and sugar crystals, and adorned with crystal brooches and the couples' monogram on the top layer.
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