Brad and Angelina to Hold Small Wedding Ceremony
Since meeting on the film set of Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005 and becoming parents to six children, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are planning on holding a small private wedding ceremony to say their vows.
The couple who are known for being very private people do not want a lavish wedding with hundreds of guests and it has been rumoured that they are going to ‘tie the knot’ because of pressure from their older children who have been asking them to get married and make it official.
This has come as no surprise to thirty four year old Angelina as she once admitted that her and Brad would one day expect their children to question them why they were not married and for what reason.
While shooting her new movie ‘The Tourist’, Angelina and Brad have become closer and have fallen in love all over again. This resulted in Angelina proposing to long term partner and father of their children Brad.
Both are now busy making plans to involve all of their children in their wedding plans and George Clooney, Brad’s closest friend has offered them his Italian villa on Lake Como for their special day!
Four Couples remaining in Bride of the Year Competition
A competition run by the Hartlepool Mail is due to end very soon and there are only four couples left who are in with a chance to winning their dream wedding which will take place in August this year at the Staincliffe Hotel.
The prize for the winning couple of the Bride of the Year competition is a wedding costing ten thousand pounds. The competition is a joint venture between Robert Usher Photography and The Hartlepool Mail Newspaper.
The shortlisted couples will go before a panel in May to relate their reasons why they think they should win the prize and the winner will be announced shortly thereafter.
The couples competing and in with a chance are:
• Michelle Davison and fiancé Stephen Jewson who are both thirty three.
• Twenty three year old Claire Kilvington and her partner twenty four year old Graeme Pattison.
• Twenty nine year old Paul Rowcroft and his fiancée Marie Hughes who is thirty one.
• Fiona Calvert, thirty nine and thirty six year old David Robinson.
Couple Wins UKBride Website Competition
How over the moon would you be to find out that most of, if not all, of your wedding was going to be paid for because you had won a competition? I think it is safe to say that the majority of couples would be ecstatic at finding out that they had been lucky enough to win a large competition and this is exactly what happened for one lucky couple from the Isle of Wight.
Twenty one year old Naomi Jones, a mobile hairdresser and her fiancé, twenty three year old Sean Taylor from East Cowes are due to be married in October of this year. After entering and winning the national competition run by UKBride , the couple will be awarded with a wedding ceremony which would have cost them twenty five thousand pounds and will take place at Shanklin’s Landguard Manor as well as a luxury honeymoon to somewhere in the Caribbean.
This fortunate couple’s wedding will certainly be a dream wedding and a day that they will always remember!
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Wedding Car Restored by Bride’s Father
Choosing the car (or whichever mode of transport you prefer) that takes the bride to the church, and then of course the happy newlyweds to their reception, is an important decision. Do you hire one? Do you borrow a friend’s car or do you modify your own car? One Bride’s father from Fellstone Vale in Withnell lovingly restored a car for his daughters wedding but did it with only one day to go!
Geoff Horton thought he had lots of time to restore the Sunbeam Talbot originally manufactured in 1953 for his daughter, thirty year old Ruth. Geoff had eighteen months before Ruth’s wedding to her fiancé Nick Jeffries but it seems the job was bigger than he expected. After buying the car off the internet, he and some friends, including his son, thirty seven year old Owen, set about getting the car ready and only the day before the wedding was the car finished. There was not even enough time to take it for a test drive to make sure it would run ok on the day and everyone, including Ruth’s mum Janet had their fingers and toes crossed that it would work.
The morning of the wedding came and the car struggled to start initially but once it was running it got the Bride to the church safe and sound and only a couple of minutes late.
Ruth and Nick were married at the Hillside Methodist Church in Brinscall the day after Good Friday with a wedding reception held in Simonstone at the Higher Trapp Country Hotel. The pair then jetted off to Kenya for their honeymoon.
Hollywood Gowns on Show
You don’t have to be an upcoming Bride to enjoy the beauty or the elegance of a stunning wedding gown. Most Brides-to-be enjoy walking round the bridal shops and touching the silky dresses on show and why shouldn’t they indulge in a little ‘fashion show’ of their own every once in a while. For those who like a good mooch, there is an opportunity to see wedding dresses from all occasions over the last hundreds of decades of Hollywood films.
The National Museum of Costume in Dumfries in Scotland has an exhibition on show which has wedding dresses from the movies and famous TV shows ranging from the early seventeen hundreds to the early nineteen hundreds. Dresses on show include those worn by Meryl Streep, Keira Knightley in The Duchess, the dress from Wallis Simpson worn by Joely Richardson and many more.
It is not just the dresses on show, other items such as invitations, cards, gloves and even wedding favours are displayed so that the public can see how they have changed. There is also a lot of information about how different traditions and customs have changed over the years.
The exhibition intends to run from April 2010 through to October 2010.
Wedding Video Returned Two Decades Later
In 1986, a woman received a wedding video that did not belong to her or her family but was unable to identify anyone on the video so instead kept hold of it for many years, only to track down the rightful owner decades later!
Sixty two year old Margaret from Stroud in Gloucestershire had received the video by mistake from her local Boots store after she left some cine film of her son Jonathan with them to be developed. On discovering the mistake, Margaret had, over the years made numerous trips back to the store to try and find the rightful owners but had never been successful.
Margaret decided to post the film on the internet to see if that would ring any bells for someone and luckily enough the Groom’s sister, Jayne Cowan, saw the film and recognised the family and the occasion. Forty one year old Jayne contacted her family and Margaret to let her know that the wedding film had been shot in East Lothian in Scotland but that the happy couple had since split up and divorced. Jayne went on to explain that originally there had been two films that needed developing but had assumed that one of them was not viable when they only received one film back.
The couple do not wish to be identified but they and their family were delighted to see the film once again, particularly the Groom’s father, seventy five year old Alec Whyte who feels the film is an important part of history to the family.
German Swansea Fan to Marry
A man from the city of Mannheim in Germany has two important loves in his life. Not only is he head over heels in love with his fiancée as every man should be but he also loves the city of Swansea in Wales. In fact he loves the place so much that it is where he wants to be married!
Sixty year old Hans-Joachim Schulze first visited Swansea in 1968 when he was a teenager. He was a student at the time and was involved in the twinning between his home Mannheim and his now second home of Swansea. From the very beginning Hans was impressed with the hospitality and kindness of the locals and has gone on to make many friends, including Alan Lloyd the Lord Mayor.
Over the last forty or more years, Hans has visited Swansea on more than eighty occasions but it was actually his bride-to-be Barbara who suggested that they marry in Swansea and Hans was happy to agree.
Before the service the couple have been invited to the Lord Mayor’s parlour and following the wedding service, the newlywed couple will enjoy a walk at Worm’s Head in Gower.
Wedding Invites Stolen
Things can sometimes go wrong and small items can be mislaid or even broken in the lead up to a wedding but when important items are stolen by someone intentionally its enough to upset anyone. When said items happen to be the invitations to a wedding however the upset can be doubly felt.
Twenty seven year old Bride-to-be Rebekah Prattley from New Zealand was enjoying a meal in Auckland with her friends and bridesmaids-to-be Ruth Nixon, Olivia Weaver and Tracey Wistrand. The girls were busy discussing the wedding and enjoying the food at the Lone Star restaurant in Manukau and as they ate, unbeknown to them, a thief was robbing Ruth’s car.
Rebekah, a Primary school teacher based in Gore, had left her invitations along with some stamps and a wedding scrapbook inside a black bag in the front seat of Ruth’s car. Rebekah believes that the style of bag must have given the thief the impression that something electrical may have been inside and that’s why they were taken, along with some jewellery and clothes which were also inside the car.
Rebekah is due to marry her childhood sweetheart, Fraser Gulliver, early next year and she has appealed to the public for any information. She has made a direct plea to the robber to leave her invitations somewhere where they can be found safe or even that they drop them into the Police station.
Royal Wedding Anniversary in Plaster
Unbelievably the years have flown past and it has already been five years since Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles. As with any couple I should imagine that they will be spending quality time together but this year the Duchess of Cornwall will be celebrating their wedding anniversary with her leg in plaster.
Both Prince Charles and sixty two year old Camilla love nothing more than to take long walks around their property at Balmoral and this week while out walking she slipped into a rabbit hole and fractured her left fibula.
Camilla has been advised not to put any weight on her leg and she will be in plaster for around six weeks. Given Camilla’s family history of Osteoporosis, her injury does cause some concern so she will be monitored closely.
The Duchess is adamant that she will continue with her royal duties despite her injury and no doubt she will not let a little bit of plaster get in the way of celebrating her anniversary with her husband!
Bride’s Mother Dies Moments after Ceremony
A Bride’s wedding day is one of the best days she will experience and it should not include one of the worst days of her life. A Bride from Ruardean in Gloucestershire was married to her beloved fiancé and just moments after saying her vows her mother passed away!
Twenty eight year old Gemma Hope married her partner thirty two year old Darren Russell at her parent’s house wearing jeans and t-shirts. Gemma’s mother, forty nine year old Susan Hope had been diagnosed with Cancer and after having endured three brain tumours as well as breast cancer, Susan had contracted a lung infection which caused her to deteriorate quite rapidly but one of her last wishes was to see her daughter walk down the aisle.
Because Susan was so poorly and travel would have proved impossible for the sick woman, the Archbishop of Canterbury granted the couple a special licence which enabled them to get married in the living room of Susan’s home so that Susan could be present during their vows. Just ten minutes after completing the ceremony, Susan gave her daughter her last and extremely tearful cuddle before she died.
Gemma commented that her mother was her best friend and she was so pleased that her mother saw her get married. The couple plan to have a blessing later on in the year.