"The newsfeed crushes my soul on a daily basis, " said another friend whose wedding pics I recently ogled on Facebook.

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Meanwhile, Lauren Santo Domingo, a Greenwich, Connecticut, native whose wedding to the son of a Colombian billionaire received 10 pages of coverage in Vogue, has been named by the New York press as a contender for late society doyenne Brooke Astor's empty seat.

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But the two television series that really secured Portmeirion's place in the popular British imagination were 1960s sci-fi drama The Prisoner (with the village making an eerily jovial setting for the Kafkaesque story), and the more recent Cold Feet, the romantic comedy series whose final episode in 2003 turned Portmeirion into a popular wedding venue overnight.

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They first turned to companies and people whose work they knew from videotaping weddings, because Fletke didn't want to compromise on the quality of the wedding.

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