Latest Weddings News

A Greek novelist and a lawyer are the first same-sex couple to wed at Athens city hall

Mar. 08, 2024 05:08 AM EST

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek novelist and his partner became the first same-sex couple to be married in Athens' city hall, three weeks after the legalization of same-sex marriage in Orthodox Christian Greece. The Greek capital's mayor officiated at the civil wedding on Thursday of...

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Feb. 15, 2024 14:08 PM EST

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Women” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) 2. “House of Flame and Shadow” by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury) 3. “Bride” by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley) 4. “Iron Flame” by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) ...

Michael Kors inspired by grandmother’s wedding gown for Fall-Winter collection at NY Fashion Week

Feb. 14, 2024 23:03 PM EST

New York (AP) — The original location of the legendary Barney’s Department store in the Chelsea section of Manhattan set the stage for designer Michael Kors to present his Fall-Winter 2024 collection at New York Fashion Week. Inside the mirrored lobby, the celebrity-rich crowd...

AP Week in Pictures: Asia

Feb. 09, 2024 04:42 AM EST

Feb. 2-Feb. 8, 2024 People prepare to celebrate Lunar New Year in many Asian countries including China and Taiwan; senior high school students celebrate graduation in Seoul, South Korea; fans cheers for a K-pop band in Jakarta, Indonesia; Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray during...

A blaze in a fireworks factory in central India kills 11 people and injures scores of others

Feb. 06, 2024 09:52 AM EST

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire raced through a fireworks factory in central India on Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring about 150 others as it sparked other explosions, officials said. Videos on social media showed smoke and flames billowing from the factory as people fled the area...

Brides, biryani and marriage multiplexes: Pakistan's wedding season heats up in cool weather

Feb. 04, 2024 00:09 AM EST

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — There’s a scrum of people trying to get photos with the married couple at the Radiance banquet hall, and you can barely hear someone talk above the din of 400 guests tucking into biryani and chicken tikka, music and the drone whirring around the room. The bejeweled...

Man gets 40 years to life for shooting bishop and assaulting the bride and groom at a wedding

Jan. 29, 2024 18:17 PM EST

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A man convicted of opening fire inside a New Hampshire church during a wedding, wounding a bishop and the bride, was sentenced Monday to 40 years to life in prison. Dale Holloway, 41, “turned a marriage into mayhem," prosecutor Seth Dobieski said at the...

Brunei's newlywed Prince Mateen and his commoner wife to be feted at the end of lavish celebrations

Jan. 15, 2024 02:41 AM EST

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Brunei’s Prince Abdul Mateen and his commoner wife will be feted at a royal banquet Monday to mark the end of a lavish nuptial festival in the oil-rich sultanate. The 32-year-old prince, once dubbed one of Asia’s most eligible bachelors, married...

Insider Q&A: How wedding planners are adjusting for Gen Z nuptials

Jan. 08, 2024 10:27 AM EST

Tim Chi, the CEO of The Knot Worldwide, attended eight weddings in the year leading up to his own 2005 nuptials. After seeing all that stress and emotion firsthand, he started thinking about ways to make wedding planning easier. “I felt very strongly that the wedding industry...

1-2-3 and counting: Las Vegas weddings could hit record on New Year's Eve thanks to date's pattern

Jan. 01, 2024 12:36 PM EST

LAS VEGAS (AP) — For better or for worse, a wave of couples saying “I do” in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve could set a record for the city's busiest wedding day ever. That's because 12/31/23 is known in the massive Las Vegas wedding industry as a “specialty date,” thanks to...