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Monday, October 13, 2014; 4:00 PM-8:00 PM

InterContinental Chicago

Event Highlights include: Cake Tastings, Cocktails, Makeovers, Giveaways, Gown Previews, Goodie Bag Featuring…

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Stonewall Jackson Hotel Implements Wedding QuickQuote

Wedding QuickQuote - The Instant Response Solution - is now available from Stonewall Jackson Hotel in Staunton, Virginia.

Wedding QuickQuote provides estimated wedding date availability and estimated cost within seconds of submitting the easy-to-use, pick 'n' click, online form to the wedding venue...and...no there is no registration or…

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Wedding QuickQuotes Now Available From DoubleTree by Hilton Ocean Point Resort & Spa

Wedding QuickQuote - The Instant Response Solution - is now available from DoubleTree by Hilton Ocean Point Resort & Spa in North Miami Beach, Florida.

Wedding QuickQuote provides estimated wedding date availability and estimated cost within seconds of submitting the easy-to-use, pick 'n' click, online form to the wedding…

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Monday, July 21st, 2014; 4PM-8PM

JW Marriott Essex House, NYC

Event Highlights include:

Cake Tastings by TLC’s Cake Boss

Cocktails & Honeymoon…

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Indian Symbolism

In India, it is considered a form of protection and luck to be symbolically married to a tree.1

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Egyptian Wedding Tradition

In Egypt, women will pinch the bride to bring good luck to those who pinched her.1

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Oriental Wedding Traditions

Oriental wedding dresses often display embroidered cranes, which are symbols of life-long fidelity. At Japanese weddings, the presence of 1001 white paper origami cranes is considered good luck.1

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Motown Wedding

Get Down with a Motown theme wedding. Have your guests moving and grooving to sounds of The Temptations and The Drifters. Contact Mark Sonder, Chief Entertainment Officer 540-636-1640. Click for a preview of this Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame…

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Korean Wedding Tradition

Because ducks mate for life, a Korean groom will ask a happily married friend to make him two small wooden ducks for his new household.1

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Irish Wedding Tradition: Eggcellent Fertility Idea

To ensure fertility, the Irish would take a hen that was about to lay an egg and tie it to the wedding bed.1

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A “Sweet” Greek Wedding Tradition

Greek brides believed that tucking a lump of sugar into the wedding gown would bring sweetness throughout married life.1

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Modern Wedding Tradition: Drinking/Eating Together

Much like the modern tradition of feeding wedding cake to one’s spouse, in ancient Rome, couples pledged their unity by sharing food. Today a Japanese bride and groom drink sake together, Jewish couples drink from the same cup of consecrated wine, and Muslim couples eat from the same piece of candy.1

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Yellow Wedding Dress

In many countries, a yellow wedding dress has traditionally been seen as a sign of a wife’s intention to cheat on her husband or of jealousy.1

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Monday, April 28, 2014, 4:00 PM-8:00 PM

The Metropolitan Pavilion, New York City

Event Highlights include:

Meet Expert Planner Colin Cowie

Enjoy Tastings by Carlos Bakery of TLC’s Cake…

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Wedding Rings

Puritans banned wedding rings because they thought they were “frivolous” jewelry or relics of Popery.1

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Wedding Mock Battles

All over the world, there is a long tradition of mock battles to keep the groom away from the bride on their wedding day. For example, in Thailand, a groom often will find the entrance of the bride’s house roped off until he offers money to get through. In some nomadic tribes in Central Asia, a groom and his party would pursue his bride on horseback—as she was riding away…

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A Stitch In Time

Bedouin girls will often begin to sew their wedding dresses when they turn nine years old and so that they will finish their gown before they marry at the age of fourteen or fifteen.1

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Dried Tongue of Turtle Dove

The Ozark people located in central America believed placing the dried tongue of a turtle dove in a loved one’s house would persuade him or her to marry.1

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Afghanistan Wedding Proposal

In Afghanistan, a man who wanted to marry a woman would cut off a lock of her hair or throw a sheet over her and proclaim her his bride.1

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Added by Wedding Expert on March 3, 2014 at 4:28pm — No Comments

Morganatic Marriage

A morganatic marriage is a union of a person of royal blood with one of inferior rank. Such a marriage is called a “left-hand marriage” because at the wedding ceremony, the husband holds the bride’s hand with his right hand with his left hand the groom traditionally held his bride’s right hand with his left hand instead of his right. Though these marriages are…

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