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Reader Lisa sent in a nice resource Glam For Less that specializes in wedding jewelry for a low cost. Check it out.

Thanks Lisa!

This stunning dress successfully incorporates details from traditional Japanese wedding kimonos. Made of vintage, ivory uchikake, the gown is complete with a bottom band and cowl neck of silver silk charmeuse and finished with a silver obi belt with light blue highlights.

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Seattle designer Matt Terich & his wife, Tere Mendez, created this rock-poster invitation for a Seattle couple who wanted something a different.

Terich & Mendez make custom wedding-poster invitations and began the business in 2005 after attending a poster convention where they were asked if they were interested in making their wedding invitations.

The invitations are created to resemble event posters, providing the couples’ names and wedding date & location just like an upcoming concert. While couples can choose smaller sized posters, they can opt for a larger 19 x 25 inch size that can be displayed as a keepsake on their wall after the wedding.

Says Terich: “It’s a way to do [something] for somebody where they … get to be the rock star for that event — because they are, and that’s what a wedding is.”

Interested? Check out the website posterbride.com for more info. They have 2 more samples online that you can check out.

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Here’s one way to play your ‘part’ in your own Tim Burton wedding…that is, if you are a fan of Corpse Bride.

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Courtney Gregoire, daughter of Gov. Chris Gregoire, and Scott Lindsay walk down the aisle lined with pink and orange rose petals in Olympia, Washington on August 9, 2008.

The wedding was held at Washington state’s century-old governor’s mansion.

Pictures: AP Photo
for La Vie Photography (thanks Michelle)

If you aren’t aware, today is a lucky and prosperous day for many. It’s basically 7-7-7 revisited but to a greater extreme. The Chinese consider the number 8 to stand for prosperity. In fact, if you know anyone who is a traditional chinese, you would expect that they would try to get the number 8 in anything that they own. Just this past month, my dad went to the automobile registry and requested that he get to choose his license plate just so he could get a number eight in it. Ha! But he had just missed it because someone else had grabbed it (must have been asian :P).

In fact, even the Summer Olympic Games are starting exactly eight minutes after the eighth hour on the eight day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the 21st Century. Goodness that’s a lot of 8’s.

The picture above was taken at the Hokkien Association building in Klang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Aug 8/08 where 238 newly wed couples tied the knot. In fact, there are numerous weddings taking place where the couples are not asian, yet believe that indeed ‘8′ is their lucky number.

Black is always a sharp wedding color when incoporated with white and is slowly becoming a very popular theme. In fact, Ashlee Simpson carried a bouquet and had centerpieces made of black roses. Well, mini calla lillies also come in a black variety called the Black Schwarzwalder. However, they are actually deep purple in color but look almost black when they are fresh. As they age, they lighten to a rich purple color. Click here to learn more.

I have to admit this is perhaps the most unique bridal bouquet I’ve ever come across. Pictured here is a bouquet of 300 beaded stems made of galvanized silver wire handwrapped with beading up top. The beads seen here are Celestial Crystals, though the seller says Swarovski crystals can be substituted. Interested? Click here to learn more. They also make matching boutonnieres.

Here’s a twist off a simple bouquet of red roses. This bouquet incorporates green twig dogwood throughout the otherwise classic bouquet.

Only a special girl would appreciate these engagement rings. Would you say yes?

and the best for last….

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Now this is something you can boast about to all your friends and family. “I got married in space.” How about that?

Japanese space transportation provider Rocketplane Kistler and wedding planner First Advantage have come together in this venture that will allow couples to take their vows in space. The wedding aboard the Rocketplane XP suborbital spaceplane will cost 240 million yen ($2.2 million), this includes a wedding ceremony aboard a 1-hour space flight that reaches an altitude of more than 100 kilometers (62.1 miles), as well as a photo and video album, original dress, wedding certificate and other ceremonial items. The price also includes cost of transportation to and from the launch site, accommodations, a live broadcast of the ceremony to friends and family at a reception hall on the ground, and 4 days of rehearsal. The space wedding services are scheduled to begin in 2011, but you start applying from early next month.

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A Glasgow, Scottland couple were the first to marry on top of the Sydney Harbor Bridge on a rainy Tuesday. The couple, both wearing watersuits, climbed 134 meters (440 feet) above the harbor for their nuptuals.

“I always wanted somewhere unusual to get married and this was the first place, somewhere I’ve always wanted to visit and I thought it would be amazing to do it,” Tullan told Australia’s Network Seven television.

“I’m so excited I don’t believe I’ve actually done it.”

And just in case, the bride’s wedding ring was attached to a safety rope.

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