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Fancy dress wedding for Southampton couple

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All dressed up for Carly Malone and James Burrows’ wedding day

11:20am Thursday 7th June 2012 in News

By Emma Streatfield, Senior Reporter

Carly, James and their guests in fancy dress.

CARLY Malone and James Burrows wanted their wedding guests to dress to impress – and they were certainly not disappointed.

The couple chose a fancy dress theme for their big day and their guests pulled out all the stops with efforts including Robin Hood, a Roman soldier, Super Mario, Elvis, Popeye, Snow White, a
mermaid, an air steward, the Flowerpot Men and the Mad Hatter.

Guests outside Southampton Register Office in Bugle Street waiting for other weddings looked on in bemusement as everything from the Flintstones to Crayola
pens turned up.

The couple, of Hinkler Road, Thornhill, dressed as a king and princess, with the bride wearing a purple floor-length gown and tiara.

Their son Lennie, four, had a prince’s outfit, while James’ other two sons Robbie, 14, and Reece, eight, dressed as a hot dog and a Star Wars stormtrooper.

Carly and James, nicknamed ‘Bomber’, have been together for seven years after meeting at a bar in the city.

While drivers greeted the wedding party by hooting their horns, curious passers-by stopped to take pictures.

As each guest arrived, they were greeted with laughter from their friends as they revealed their outfits and some guests were so disguised others did not at first know who they were.

One of the most eye-catching outfits was the bride’s brother, who was dressed as the Honey Monster, the face of the Sugar Puffs cereal.

Even the registrar joked: “It’s most off-putting looking over and seeing the Honey Monster.”

Carly was escorted on the arm of her father Danny Malone, dressed as Julius Caesar.

“I’m a very proud father,” he said. “It’s absolutely brilliant.

“I was surprised when she said it was a fancy dress do, but I think it’s great, it’s better than getting dressed in a suit on a day like today.”

Carly, 28, an administrator, said: “We’re not very traditional and we wanted to make it a day for everyone to remember.

At first my mum was horrified, but then she got into it and now she loves it.

“It’s brilliant. We’re made up – everyone has made such an amazing effort.”

James, 35, a gas engineer, told of a last-minute dash to the fancy dress shop on the morning of the wedding after his best man, brother Craig Burrows, lost his moustache for his 118 Man outfit.

He added: “A few people raised their eyebrows when I first told them, but they said it’s a good idea.”

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mummsie

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11:46am Thu 7 Jun 12


What a brilliant idea!!! Hoping you both have a Fun Filled life together… X
mummsie


BillyTheKid

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11:52am Thu 7 Jun 12


[quote][p][bold]mummsie[/bold] wrote:
What a brilliant idea!!! Hoping you both have a Fun Filled life together… X[/p][/quote]No offence to the happy couple – I wish you loads of luck and happiness – but the photo does remind me of the outfits worn by bicycle fanatics ? Is Downfader in there somewhere ?
BillyTheKid


Willy47

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11:59am Thu 7 Jun 12


Great spot, I regularly cycle to work dressed as a hot dog, but usually on fridays i go as a stormtrooper. You five star TERD.
Willy47


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War Damn Wedding

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Slade and Katie Ponder, both Auburn alumni, wed on Samford lawn on May 26. (Courtesy of FlipFlopFoto)

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The voting was completed; the lawn was set up; and the big day had finally come for one lucky couple.

After months of anticipation, Slade and Katie Ponder finally said “I do” on May 26, 2012 to conclude the first War Eagle Wedding.

This was no typical wedding.

Every aspect of the Ponder’s wedding from the dresses to the cake were voted on by the Auburn family online.

The idea originated from the University of Utah’s “The Ultimate Utah Wedding”.

Teresa Whitman-McCall, director of campus and community events in the Office of Communication and Marketing, said she believed the idea would work beautifully at Auburn.

“We couldn’t think of any better way to commemorate a wonderful occasion in a young couple’s life and share it with the Auburn family,” Whitman-McCall said.

Auburn University then partnered with the Hotel at Auburn University to host the event, which would come to be known as the War Eagle Wedding.

The group talked to local companies for help with the event and received a great response.

“The vendors liked it a lot,” said Terri Lynn Beasley, Sales Manager at The Hotel at Auburn University. “They were able to get quite a bit of exposure from this.”

Auburn students also played their part to make the War Eagle Wedding happen.

Students in the design program designed wedding dresses as a class project.

“We were able to give some real-world application to students through the advanced apparel design program,” Whitman-McCall said.

Each week the Auburn community voted on different aspects of the War Eagle Wedding including the couple.

The event quickly grew in popularity.

More than 150,000 people voted on the wedding cakes alone.

“(The wedding) was a community effort,” Whitman-McCall said. “Our slogan was ‘It’s their wedding, but its your plan.’”

With the first War Eagle Wedding completed, talks have already been made about a second War Eagle Wedding, but some things need to be finalized.

“(The wedding) was a big expenditure for (the hotel) and I know it was a big expenditure for Auburn and some of the other vendors as well,” Beasley said. “We’re going to have to do a cost-benefit analysis and see if it makes sense to have another one, but I know many of the vendors do want to.”

Whitman-McCall said the experience was one to remember for all.

“I know I can speak for all of the people involved, whether they are sponsors or vendors that the experience was very humbling,” Whitman-McCall said. “The couple was just a dynamic wonderful couple to work with.”

Nonprofit makes wedding a reality for Taunton cancer patient

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On Tuesday afternoon, Taunton resident Liznay Rodriguez sat on her living room couch looking exhausted and experiencing some pain, while calmly contemplating the final touches of the wedding. She slowly sifted through a bag of capias, corsage-like adornments typical of traditional Puerto Rican weddings, given to all guests to be worn during the ceremony and kept as as mementos.

Since she started receiving treatment for ovarian cancer, Rodriguez never thought that it would be possible to get her wish of a having a proper wedding.

“It has not been easy,” said Rodriguez, 31, whose relatives added that the disease has taken a toll physically and financially. “It’s been a lot of time at the hospital.”

But about three months ago, employees at Morton Hospital who volunteer with an organization called Wish Upon a Wedding surprised Rodriguez. With the help of the nonprofit, she is getting married today to Taunton native Norberto Ramos, who met Rodriguez about five years ago in her home of Puerto Rico where he went to college.

Speaking through a Spanish interpreter, Rodriguez said she was overcome with joy when she was told that her dream of getting married would be taken care of through private donations organized by Wish Upon a Wedding. The Villa in East Bridgewater offered to host the wedding, the Boston-based Lemon Drop Team did all the planning, the cake was baked by the Berkley-based Molly B’s, Isbaella’s Bridal in Taunton is taking care of the gowns and many other vendors stepped up to helped make it happen.

“I’m very emotional about this,” said Rodriguez, surrounded by her family, including 2-year-old son Dylan. “I could not believe it. It’s a lot of surprises. This is a big step for me.”

For Rodriguez, whose energy is often so sapped that she needs Ramos to bring her around with a wheelchair, “the wedding is something to look forward to.”

Ramos said that it’s a great opportunity, and he’s happy that his fiance is finally getting what she has wanted for the last two years.

“For us people that can’t get married, for something like this to come along is amazing,” said Ramos, explaining that he’s very happy for his soon-to-be wife. “I’m very excited for her.”

Ramos said that since Rodriguez was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, it has been a roller coaster of tough times, as the disease went into remission at one point and then came back.

Luz Torres, Ramos’s mother, said, “The wedding is great because it’s her wish.”

Julia Barnes, a nurse trainer at Morton who is on the Board of Directors for the local chapter of Wish Upon a Wedding, helped solicit donations to make the wedding possible.

 “This is all based on generosity; everything is donated,” said Barnes, who is also decorating Rodriguez’s wheelchair in case she needs it at the wedding ceremony. “The whole community comes together.”

Ginny Starvish, Morton’s Cancer Care Nurse Navigator and also a volunteer for Wish Upon a Wedding, said everyone is glad to help out, adding that it’s nice to have gotten to know Rodriguez.

“What we do at the hospital is really get to know our patients, and in doing so I was able to find out that she wished she had the opportunity to get married,” Starvish said. “Because she is my daughter’s age, I feel like a happy mother. She so deserves this. If you take into consideration anxiety that comes with her kind of diagnosis and the expenses, this would never happen if it weren’t for Wish Upon a Wedding.”

Rodriguez remarked about the gown she’ll be wearing at the wedding, saying it looked like “a princess’s dress,” and added that she is so grateful for all the help.

“Until the wedding is actually taking place, I won’t be able to believe this is actually happening to me,” Rodriguez said.
 

Vendors in Texas, Washington, New Jersey, and California to be Featured on the …

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(PRWEB) June 06, 2012

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Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman Confirm Baby Rumor With Wedding Photo

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The ’50 First Dates’ leading lady is beaming as her art consultant husband lovingly embraces her and caresses her pregnant belly.

Drew Barrymore confirms she’s expecting. In a first official picture taken from her nuptials over the weekend, the “Going the Distance” actress is seen being embraced by her new husband Will Kopelman. He tenderly touches her growing belly and shares a big smile with his wife.

The wedding picture is featured on the front page of PEOPLE’s latest issue. The bride wears a Chanel flower-embroidered dress designed by Karl Lagerfeld himself. As for the groom who is the son of former Chanel CEO Arie Kopelman, he dons a Tom Ford tuxedo.

“The day was perfect,” Barrymore told the publication the day after exchanging wedding vows with the art consultant. “Everyone we love and care about was there. It was as fun and meaningful as we ever could have hoped.”

The nuptials itself took place in her $5.7 million estate in Montecito, California on Saturday, June 2 evening with 200 guests of family and close friends. Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Busy Philipps and Jimmy Kimmel were among those invited.

The couple “just wanted a backyard wedding,” so event planner Yifat Oren said. The fete had a “vintage romantic” theme with an “ethereal” feel. The decoration for the traditional Jewish ceremony included vintage lace, pink flowers and green garlands.

After tying the knot, the couple left in a vintage Mercedes with roses and “Just Married” streamers tied to the back, and were caught on camera sharing a loving kiss in the backseat of the car. The newly-weds reportedly spent the night at the nearby San Ysidro Ranch.

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Learning to adapt made wedding day memorable

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Ah, June! The month for brides. We acknowledge that weddings require grooms, but brides wear the pretty dresses. Sometimes it seems like more planning goes into making a wedding day memorable than on the actual marriage, which involves major effort (hopefully) for a lifetime, not just a day.

My best friend designed my dress. Made from lined white lace, it was extremely modest by today’s standards, with its Peter Pan collar and long sleeves – no bare shoulders or see-through fabrics allowed in 1950s church weddings. Its distinguishing feature was a waistband and trail of blue carnations down the front of the dress, joined with blue ribbon. Dyed flowers would bleed blue on the dress, warned the florist, who used only blue ribbon. Never a bridezilla, I made the first of many adaptations that would be needed in my 57 years as a bride.

The dressmaker chortled as she measured me. I thought she was more excited about the $125 she charged to make the dress than its design. Naively, I thought spending my entire tax refund on the dress was an investment; maybe my daughters would wear it. They didn’t. We were caught in a light drizzle en route to the photo studio, which made the heavy lace stretch; I had to change into higher heels for our three receptions to avoid tripping. The dress looks droopy in the group wedding photos and the traditional bride posed photo. One of my arms also appears to have been removed and then replaced incorrectly. The photographer didn’t airbrush the zit on my nose. The perm I gave myself was too tight. On the plus side, you can’t see the torn part of my veil that had been hooked on my Auntie Hertha’s brother’s watch when he hugged me as we left the church. I am not fond of my wedding pictures.

We had two receptions on our wedding day in Milwaukee, and my parents-in-law strongly requested a “wedding dance” to be held when we returned from our honeymoon, as was customary in their hometown for those who couldn’t attend the actual wedding. (What would an unadaptable bridezilla do about that?) On the plus side, I got to wear my wedding dress twice. I don’t recall if I wore the torn veil; the carnations had dried out by then. My bridesmaids also got to wear their dresses twice; very few bridesmaid dresses convert to partywear unless it’s a costume party.

Our wedding preparation included pre-marriage courses required by our church. Marriage vows were emphasized, especially the bride’s “obey” clause. Love puts stars in your eyes that prevent 20/20 vision, but time cures love myopia. When we renewed our vows at San Jose Mission for our 25th wedding anniversary, I had “obey” changed to “cherish.” Our marriage had evolved in 25 years; my husband was too smart to order me around, and I wouldn’t have paid attention anyway. Promising to “obey” would have been hypocrisy. We didn’t bother renewing any vows on our 50th anniversary. It’s like the guy who, when asked if he had been “born again,” replied, “Nope, once was enough.”

Write to Marcy Meffert at P.O. Box 680262, Leon Valley, TX 78268 or email mameffert@yahoo.com. To read previous columns, go online to www.mySA.com.