I’m an animal lover. My two cats are easily my best friends in the world (even if they can sometimes be a little… well… catty, but what best friend isn’t sometimes catty?). Still, would I ever include my cats in my wedding? No. Not a chance. Call me old fashioned, but I believe weddings are for people. So my wedding advice is to leave the critters at home (or in a kennel), and let the bipedals enjoy their day. Unless you’re a bride who want to enter in a horse-drawn carriage.  Then you can have a four-legged creature… that’s OK, I guess.

I actually didn’t always feel this way about including animals in weddings. I honestly didn’t think much about it. But then I read this article, and specifically, one line from the article, that made me change my mind:

“Muffin Top, a two-year-old Pomapoo, will be wearing a pink satin harness dress while the maid of honour leads her down the aisle on a tiny pink leash.”
Muffin Top? Pomapoo? Pink satin harness dress? Maid of Honour? I don’t know if any two of those phrases should ever be used in the same sentence… but all four? I simply can’t support it. Just trust me on this one, gals. This isn’t wedding savings advice I’m offering up here at Practically Ever After. This is advice for how to save your wedding. Just leave the fuzzy creatures at home!

I always explain that there are lots of ways to make your wedding fancy, special or even unique without spending a lot of money.  I’m not sure I would like our wedding to be remembered as the wedding where they said Dr. Seuss vows, but this is certainly a creative idea.   Happy Friday everyone!

Apples and marriage just don't go well together... hasn't all of human history taught us that?

Blech! Yuck! Ugg! Barf! Hurl! Ick! And whatever other noise I can make that will help me belt these poor lungs out of my body that just had to endure air tainted by the very idea of such an atrocity. Yes, we all know Apple fanboys. And yes, we all know people who would rather lose an arm than an iPhone. But when it comes to good wedding theme ideas, this is one wedding blogger that has to draw the line somewhere, and that line stops about 50 iMiles away from the nearest couple that could possible decide it’s a good idea to get married… MARRIED!… at an Apple store with an Apple themed wedding.

I don’t hate Mac people. I’m even a little jealous sometimes. In fact, I’m going to a wedding two weeks from now where the bride and groom are surely going to incorporate some form of iTasticness into their ceremony. But an entire wedding with an Apply theme? Puh-lease.

You can read the story that caused this outrage here… but it’s really not worth your time. Or the irreparable damage you’ll do to your wedding psyche. Just don’t say you weren’t warned.

Our biggest wedding expense is turning out to be food and beverage.  As Tennessean.com explains, this bride cut these expenses my having her wedding at White Castle, take a look here.

Happy Friday!  In case you didn’t catch this on MSN, here are ten wacky weddings… There are lots of ways to make your special day stand out without spending a lot of money.

…don’t pay for celebrity appearances!  The New York Daily News can give you more details here.

At least she found some wedding savings on the cost of her dress...

Since this post is probably going to make me sound like I hate the environment and all things Mother Nature, I want to start by emphasizing that I am a green-a-holic (if that’s even the right word). I sold my car years ago and use public transportation. I always bring recyclable grocery bags everywhere I go. And, when I was 11, I single-handedly converted every house on my entire street into recyclers. Sure there were only six houses, but for an 11-year-old with the attention span of a cockapoo, that’s pretty good, no?

But if there’s one “Green” trend I just can’t seem to get behind, it’s the idea of green weddings. Yes, I realize this might make me a horrible person. But I think I’ve decided I’m OK with that. They way I see it is that I spend every other day of my life doing my best to help protect the planet. So if I want one day to be about me, then I feel like Mother Nature should be able to cut me some slack. So yes, I want to have my wedding in some exotic place that forces all my guests to fly and then rent cars to get there.  And yes, I want to have an old Royals Royce drive me around instead of a Hybrid.  And yes, I’m going to send extra-thick invitations printed on sparkling white paper, even if that paper isn’t recycled (but my guests are welcome to recycle the invites after the wedding). In short, the day I get married is going to be entirely about me. My family knows that.  My future husband, wherever he is, knows that. And God knows that. So I’m pretty sure He took that into account when he created the earth however many years ago, and so He’s not going to be too mad at me when get a bit, how-shall-I-say… “less than carbon neutral.”

With that said, here’s an article about an eco-friendly wedding showcase. Maybe you’ll get something more out of it than I did…

Here’s another bizarre wedding story. A bride-to-be was happily preparing her upcoming wedding to the man of her dreams Until one day, she discovered her fiance’s secret life. Hello you fabulous people out there, this is your Wedding Diva with another wedding blog for you to enjoy.

Haylie Hocking, 27, a bride-to-be from Bristol, England, got the shock of her life when she discovered her fiance’s secret life. Miss Hocking’s Maid of Honour, Lisa Hoskins, searched the internet to find and hire a male stripper for the hen night (bachelorette party). They discovered that the dashing groom is actually a porn star and male stripper! The prospective groom admitted his secret double-life and Ms Hocking called the wedding off. To read more about the story just click this link.

It’s really sad when someone you love keeps secrets from you. It’s a good thing if you find out about it before the big day. What if you discover the secret after you get married? What would you do?

This is your Wedding Diva asking you to make sure your significant other is telling the truth or there are no skeletons in the closet yet to be discovered. Just be truthful and honest with each other to have a long lasting marriage. Always remember that a marriage based on lies never lasts long. Enjoy planning your wedding. Toodles.

If you are looking for real bizarre weddings which really happened, the best place for you to search for it is from the pages of history books. Yes, history is full of them. And if you think what we have featured here our bizarre enough for you… wait till you read the article I will link you to. They will blow your mind.

From the oldest woman who got married to Elton John’s outrageous fee to secure him to sing at a wedding, all of this and more bizarre wedding facts will amaze you and make you think if you are still living on Earth or you were zapped into a different planet from a distant galaxy without you knowing it.

Enjoy the historical and bizarre wedding facts from WeddingChaos.co.uk, sometimes it’s really enjoyable to read something weird from time to time and rest from reading wedding savings tips and advices on how to have an inexpensive wedding. So, wait for more amazing wedding blog posts for this week. In the meantime enjoy the weirdness from our history books. Enjoy planning your wedding.

Hello you fabulous people. I’m so excited since we are facing the last hours of this year. When the clock strikes twelve midnight, we’ll have a new exciting year. But as the saying goes, “It isn’t over till the fat lady sings!” So here is my last wedding blog for the year.

Today’s wedding blog is neither about how you can get wedding savings nor about how to have an inexpensive wedding. It is about luck. I have a video here where a groom, who decided to parade his bride by carrying her and marching along the road instead of riding in the bridal car, was lucky enough to avoid a horrific accident.

Click the video (from eBaum’s World) and be amazed at how lucky this couple was. I would have fainted if I was the bride being carried by the groom. Well, this has been your Wedding Diva saying, Have a Happy New Year everyone and enjoy planning your wedding! Toodles!