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Good news for stressed out brides: It's okay to feel happy and sad while planning your wedding!

Brides have long been sold a bill of goods regarding the emotional state they are "supposed" to be in during what is commonly known as "the happiest time of your life." There are so many ups and downs on the way to the altar that some brides feel there is something wrong with them when bridal hormones and stress kick their emotions around and up and down.

If only we realize at the start of the wedding planning journey, there will be stress. There may be a little strife. You may wish you eloped to Las Vegas (and you are welcome here!). But this is all part of life, exacerbated by the fact that your emotions can be on edge when dealing with such a major life event.

Next Tuesday, November 13, Steven Hodes, MD, will be addressing the topic of "The Power of Happiness and Sadness: Why You Need Both for a Truly Healthy and Balanced Life" in Manhattan at the Quest Lecture Hall, 242 East 53rd Street in Manhattan from 7 to 8:30 PM.

This is part of his ongoing FREE lecture and dialog series, "Tuesday with Dr. Steve." While it is not specifically for brides and grooms, it will be helpful to anyone who wonders if there is something wrong with them if they do not feel happy all the time!

Dr. Steve is a board certified physician with almost 30 years in private practice and author of Meta-Physician on Call for Better Health: Metaphysics and Medicine for Mind, Body, and Spirit (Praeger Publishers, 2007), in which he writes about the connections between metaphysics, medicine, and healing. He's a traditional doc with a metaphysical point of view.

Here are some of the points he will discuss:

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Posted November 10, 2007 6:27 AM by Editor | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This

Wedding Goddess Wisdom

This weekend is the Annual Wedding Goddess Blessing of the Brides and Grooms, which I officiate each year in New York’s Central Park … to BLESS and DE-STRESS engaged couples and give them a chance to reconnect to the joy and the sacredness of their upcoming wedding.

I wish all you local and Las Vegas-bound brides and grooms could join me and my hubby and partner, Rev. Vic Fuhrman, for this very special blessing for your marriage this Sunday, June 4, at 4 PM, east coast time, at the Central Park Conservatory Gardens, at 105th Street and 5th Avenue in New York City.

The next best thing is to tune-in … and join us in spirit.

We would be happy to offer a blessing upon your union from a distance. Just send both your names, wedding date, ceremony location and any specific prayer requests to me at WeddingGoddess.com and we will hold you in our circle of kindred spirits.

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Posted June 1, 2006 6:00 AM by Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This

Planning a wedding? Love major league baseball?

Arrange your wedding around Las Vegas' 16th annual Big League Weekend, March 30th-April 1st, and take in some of the best pre-season Major League Baseball exhibition action anywhere, and exchange your vows at a Las Vegas chapel. What could be better for lovers (of baseball.)

This year's Big League Weekend match-up features the Seattle Mariners versus the Los Angeles Dodgers, as well as the San Diego Padres versus the Chicago Cubs. It's a homecoming of sorts for Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux, a 1984 graduate of Las Vegas' Valley High School.

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Posted March 6, 2006 8:05 PM by | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This

If you are making the trip to Las Vegas to see the 2006 NASCAR races this weekend or planning a Vegas wedding at the same time as the races, be sure to visit with your favorite drivers. Whether at the Sahara Hotel and the NASCAR Cafe, at Caesars Palace; or up and down the Las Vegas Strip, drivers will be making numerous appearances. Below is the schedule for Wednesday through Friday.

Remember ladies, many of these "hotties" are single, and the chapels are open 24/7.

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Athletic couples interested in running a marathon and getting married at the same time have that option with the New Las Vegas Marathon.

The 2006 race is set for Sunday, December 10.

Last year’s race marked the first time in history that the famous Las Vegas Strip was closed for a private event. Organizers promise a similar route this year, including the portion along the Strip.

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Posted February 28, 2006 9:59 AM by Pete Codella | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This

In the Italian tradition of Carnival, ballerinas and brides, aerial acrobats and cart wheeling clowns celebrated the close of Turin's Winter Games on Sunday.

Coinciding with Italy's Mardi gras weekend, the carnival combined with the circus to close the Games that Olympic chiefs hailed as a success according to all reports.

To add to the excitement, the last gold medal to be given at the Games was placed around the neck of Giorgio di Centa whose win in the 50 km cross-country skiing produced a fairytale finale.

Thousands waved miniature Italian flags as his sister, Manuela, a member of the Olympic Committee, presented the gold. She won five medals at the 1994 Winter Games.

The formality of handing the Olympic flag to the mayor of Vancouver, Sam Sullivan, was completed as Canada took to the stage to invite the world to "come play with us in 2010."

Next, thousands of spectators wore devils' and angels' carnival masks and joined the extravagance on stage while grotesque, fanciful paper mache characters drawn from Viareggio masks trooped across the stage.

They were surrounded by volunteers dressed as Tarot cards.

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Posted February 26, 2006 2:20 PM by | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This

A Utah couple hits the jackpot while shopping around Las Vegas for a place to get married after getting engaged on Valentine’s Day. “The View” offered to marry the couple and give them a complete Vegas wedding on today’s show.

Co-host Meredith Vieira referred to it as a “quickie-wedding,” and it certainly was put together in a hurry.

Apparently, the producers heard the couple wanted to get married and made the offer and swept the two off to salons, jewelry stores, and bridal shops.

Through the magic of TV, by the end of the hour show, this family had a Vegas wedding. Shawn McCoy and Amber Severe of Utah exchanged vows in front of the fabulous Caesars Palace.

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Posted February 22, 2006 10:39 AM by | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This

This may not be a lover’s heart story, but it’s a story of what a few people are doing from the heart. It’s about giving back.

Tonight you can follow your heart and head to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, then open your wallet.

The three Colosseum staples — Elton John, Celine Dion and Jerry Seinfeld — will appear in a special performance called H.E.A.R.T.

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Posted February 20, 2006 1:24 PM by | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This

Las Vegas artist Jackie Johnson will wed New York attorney Gary Suffir on March 7 at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. The couple met in September 2004 playing poker on PartyPoker.com.

The folks at PartyPoker.com, who claim to be the world's largest online poker room, are certainly enthused by the publicity opportunity, bidding it as the world's first marriage made in online hold'em.

They claim online poker is becoming the world's largest social network-where people compete, but also meet, share experiences and become friends

The Suffir-Johnson wedding will reportedly be poker themed with an online tournament for wedding guests a couple of weeks before the big day.

Their honeymoon, as announced by PartyPoker.com, begins March 12 on the PartyPoker.com Million V Cruise around the Cayman Islands and Jamaica with nearly 450 other poker players all competing for $5 million in prize money.

Let’s hope the newlywed couple has some time to themselves before embarking on an all-poker cruise.

Posted February 14, 2006 9:03 AM by Pete Codella | Permalink | Comments (1) | Email This

Isn’t it interesting to watch celebrities tie the knot — usually again, and again, and again?

Why is it some of us are fascinated with celebrity weddings?

Well, those of you LeAnn Rimes fans who feel left out because you weren’t invited to her wedding in 2002, never fear.

You can catch all the juicy details on tonight’s ET or on ABC’s Monday night (Jan. 30) special, InStyle Celebrity Weddings. Be sure to tune-in or set that DVR.

LeAnn wed Dean Sheremet in an intimate ceremony with 150 guests in Dallas, Texas in 2002.

Posted January 26, 2006 2:30 PM by Pete Codella | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This