In these tough times, lots of engaged couples look for ways to trim the cost of their wedding reception. Here is one we most certainly do not recommend: shoplifting more than $1,000 in food from Wegmans. [More]
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Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Crashes Wedding
By 8.22.11
Rolling advertisement that it is, the driver of an Oscar Mayer Wienermoble couldn’t resist stopping by an upstate New York wedding this past weekend, delighting the wedding party and guests and providing a delightful photo opportunity. [More]
Bridal Store Refuses To Sell Wedding Gown To Lesbian
By 8.18.11
A New Jersey bridal store is catching a lot of flack after it refused to sell a wedding dress to a lesbian. [More]
Wedding Photographer Convicted For Not Turning Over Photos To Couple
By 8.11.11
This story is sweet justice for anyone out there who’s gotten married and had to beg and plead just to get their photos back: a South Carolina wedding photographer was sentenced to two years of house arrest for not turning over the photos he took of a couple’s wedding, even though they had already paid him $2,450. [More]
Wedding Photographer Ignores Clients For 2 Weeks, Won't Give Deposit Back
By 7.27.11
Emily isn’t sure what to do. Last summer, she and her fiancé hired a photographer for their wedding in August. Earlier this month, about six weeks before the wedding, she tried to contact the photographer so she would be aware of some last-minute changes to the start time of the wedding. The photographer didn’t respond, no matter how they tried to contact her. More than two weeks went by, and they prepared to hire another photographer with a month to go before the wedding. Finally, they heard back from the photographer, who promised their “non-refundable” deposit of $700 back. Then changed her mind. [More]
Man Chooses Chick-Fil-A Cow As Best Man At Wedding
By 7.26.11
In a decision that will undoubtedly lead to interesting wedding pictures, a North Carolina man has enlisted a Chick-fil-A cow mascot to be his best man. He convinced managers at a nearby restaurant to re-purpose a cow tuxedo outfit the restaurant used in an Oscar-related marketing campaign. [More]
How To Save Money On A Honeymoon
By 7.1.11
Honeymoons and frugality aren’t normally associated with one another, but extravagant, (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime vacations offer ample opportunities to save some money for the real world that follows newlywed bliss. [More]
5 Tips For Saving On Your Wedding Without Looking Cheap
By 5.18.11
Wedding season is upon us, and while it may be too late for this summer’s brides and grooms to trim their wedding budgets too severely, there is still time for next year’s couples to start thinking about ways to spend less while still having a storybook ceremony. [More]
How Much Should You Spend On An Engagement Ring?
By 4.29.11
The diamond industry wants men to believe they should spend three months’ salary on engagement rings, but that’s just silly. Still, it’s tough to find a more reasonable measuring stick as to the appropriate amount to spend on such a bauble. [More]
Woman Sues For $63K In Wedding Expenses After Fiance Has Fling With Floozy In Vegas
By 3.18.11
The cost of one man’s Las Vegas bachelor party could end up being a lot higher than airfare, hotel and gambling expenses if a Chicago woman gets her way. Claiming breach of promise, she’s suing her former fiance for at least $62,814 in wedding expenses after he got caught sowing his wild oats in Sin City. [More]
Economy Hammers Quickie Vegas Wedding Industry
By 2.16.11
At any given moment, the Las Vegas Strip is strewn with gown-wearing brides and unshaven grooms with befuddled, what-have-I-done looks on their faces. But tough economic times have brought the population of these leap-before-you-lookers down to its lowest level since 1993. [More]
Bride Celebrates Wedding At KFC — 2 Decades After Mom & Dad Did The Same At McDonald's
By 2.14.11
After getting hitched at the register office in the English city of Bristol on Saturday, a pair of newlyweds and their party of 30 strolled on over to KFC to chow down on various forms of fried food. But for the new bride, having her wedding reception at a fast food joint wasn’t just an inexpensive way to celebrate, it’s also a family tradition. [More]
Save Money: Get Married In A Funeral Home
By 1.19.11
Superficially, weddings and funerals have a lot in common: everyone’s dressed up, families get together, some people are crying, and the guests of honor ride off in fancy vehicle to an uncertain future. Funeral homes, though, are large and beautiful spaces that provide a cheaper alternative site for wedding receptions and/or ceremonies. [More]
Bride Sues Runaway Groom For $100,000 Wedding
By 12.14.10
A jilted bride is suing her ex-beau who dumped her days before the wedding, leaving her standing at the altar holding a bill for nearly $100,000 in wedding expenses. [More]
Erstwhile Bride-To-Be Transforms Canceled Reception Into Charity Fundraiser
By 12.3.10
Here’s a pretty good example of someone turning lemons into lemonade. A college professor in NYC has taken what could have been a heartbreaking situation and transformed it into a heartwarming one, using the deposits for her canceled wedding reception and unprinted invitations to host a fundraiser for a local soup kitchen. [More]
It Took 13 Months To Get My Incredibly Crappy Wedding Video – What Should I Do?
By 11.11.10
What’s more precious: money or memories? A bad wedding videographer can leave you with with neither. Autumn writes that she and her husband hired a videographer for their wedding, assuming that when you pay $1,000 for a videographer, you receive a video of highlights of the wedding and reception in a timely manner. Instead, Autumn had to hound the company to actually get her video, finally receiving it in August 2010 after a July 2009 wedding. Oh, and the video is also missing most of the moments from the reception that people actually want to remember. Maybe the company assumed that after a year passed, the couple would forget that there had been a father-daughter dance. And speeches. [More]
McDonald's Offering $400 Wedding Packages
By 10.14.10
With folks now getting hitched in Walmarts, Taco Bells and Home Depot, it would make sense that McDonald’s would eventually get around to adding weddings to their menu. And that’s exactly what the fast food chain is doing in Hong Kong, where happy couples will soon be able to say “I do” under the Golden Arches. [More]
Scottrade Won't Accept My Weird Foreign Marriage Certificate
By 9.24.10
Kim tells Consumerist that while she lives in the United States, she got married in the Cayman Islands. That sounds very beautiful and romantic and all, but she wondered: would she have problems with the handwritten marriage certificate when she returned home and needed to change her last name? Nope. No private or government institutions had any trouble with the handwritten certificate…except Scottrade. Apparently, online brokerages are stricter about name changes than the U.S. State Department. Who knew? [More]
