Mike and his fiancée MaiLien were all set to get married this Saturday on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial when the government shutdown abruptly shut down their dreams.

If you aren't familiar with how a "slap bet" works, please allow How I Met Your Mother's Marshall Eriksen to explain: "Whoever's right gets to slap the other person in the face as hard as they possibly can. But no rings."

"Our brother asked us to be his best men for his wedding." So begins the preface to the greatest wedding toast in nuptial history.

Over the weekend, the New York Times "Vows" section published a 1,765-word celebration of one couple’s love that was so aggressively serene—so gratingly ethereal—it just may be the most irksome in the history of the medium.

Carol Fowler says she was fully prepared to lose the deposits she and her husband Willie put down on a lavish reception for their daughter's abruptly cancelled wedding.

A couple exchanging vows on their wedding day were visibly stunned when their very own pastor stopped the ceremony in the middle so he could scold the photographers for standing too close.

Logan Stevenson is two years, nine months, and 15 days old. He has a younger sister named Savannah and an aunt named Kellie. Stocky with peach-fuzz hair, he's an empathetic child, the sort of little boy who wipes away his mother's tears when she cries. His favorite stuffed animal is a rabbit named Bun Bun.

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Avril Lavigne and the guy from Nickelback got married this weekend in France at a location so undisclosed, not even the invited guests could rip the clothes off that location and discover where it was the day before they were due to be there.

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For once, IKEA is in the news for something other than a poop or horse meat scandal: Eight years ago, Shirley Stewart and Berkely “Rashid” Smith met in the framing department of a New Jersey IKEA. When Smith proposed earlier this year, the couple decided to tie the knot in the same store, in the same section.

People are so mad at Robert Pattinson and Katy Perry.

Earlier today, some media outlets published a wackadoo rumor that Facebook co-founder and real life Justin Timberlake Sean Parker was planning to marry his fiancée in a medieval, Game of Thrones-themed, costume-mandatory ceremony this summer.

Magnet-powered mutant ultranationalist Magneto will set aside his political convictions for a day and officiate the wedding of his old friend and sometime enemy, assimilationist schoolmaster Professor Charles Xavier. Sort of.There are real human beings involved, but some of us have dreamed of writing this headline for…

There is a great deal to ridicule about the New York Times' "Weddings and Celebrations" section most of the time, and it is right and meet for us to come together and do so.

Every year on December 25th, Jesus throws himself a huge birthday party and everyone is invited and everyone brings a present for someone else (unique gifting idea coined by Jesus) and it is just, like, known that this day is Jesus' birthday so you shouldn't make any other plans.

2012 saw the public splits of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Heidi Klum and Seal, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler, amongst other couples. After 30 years of marriage, Rhea Perlman and Danny Devito called it quits in October. Their breakup was the official death of love as we knew it. There was no hope.

Remember when elegant British superstar Kate Winslet married a man who, like an idiot, changed his name to "Ned RocknRoll," and the whole world let out a collective, "Huh?" Today comes news that clarifies everything: Winslet's wedding gift, courtesy of RocknRoll's billionaire uncle, Richard Branson, is a trip to space

If you're rich and famous, sometimes surviving a hurricane hell-fire on a private island can lead to true love. Such was the case with Kate Winslet and the amazingly named Ned Rock'nRoll. According to Winslet's rep, the couple were married earlier this month in a secret ceremony in New York. Completing the bizarre,…

Pretty much the only thing Miley Cyrus knows for sure about her vaguely impending wedding to World's Best Wikipedia Photo Liam Hemsworth is that she wants another one and then another one. She's going to have three weddings.