Ten Best Wedding Movie Moments Part 3

By sparklyscotty on 8/24/10 9:04am
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Our final installment of the best wedding movie moments of all time pulls from a variety of cinema styles and, in one case, revisits familiar territory:

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Worst Wedding Movie Moments Part 3

By sparklyscotty on 8/21/10 9:03am
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Jumping right in, here is the last installment of our worst-ever movie moments centered on weddings, beginning with …

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Ten Best Wedding Movie Moments Part 2

By sparklyscotty on 8/20/10 9:28am
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Are you feeling all romantic and slushy yet? If not, don't worry, we have plenty more wedding movie moments to get you in the mood for matrimony. Here come three more movies which contain some of our best wedding moments to date. Beginning at number seven, we have a modern classic:

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Worst Wedding Movie Moments Part 2

By sparklyscotty on 8/14/10 9:15am
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So far, the first three movies in our countdown of our Worst Wedding Movie Moments have included mob-enforced nuptials (The Marrying Man), out-and-out slaughter (Kill Bill Vol. 1), and Vince Vaughn’s usual antics (Old School). Included in our second installment are three wedding movies that just don't make inspire us to start reaching for the bridal magazines or brood over solitaire diamond rings. Overdone themes, boring scripts and a lack of originality that borders on insulting plague these three wedding movies...

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Ten Best Wedding Movie Moments Part 1

By sparklyscotty on 8/13/10 9:19am
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Hollywood loves a good wedding, and always has done. Some of the most memorable movies in our culture center on the commitment ceremony of two main characters, some in slapstick ways (think Wedding Crashers or The Ghost of Girlfriends Past), and others in a more serious light (for example The Godfather). Weddings bring together the best and the worst of family, friendships, love and romance, often with dramatic or hilarious outcomes, and Hollywood has explored them all.

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Engagement Rings 101: Multiple Diamonds

By sparklyscotty on 8/12/10 9:32am
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Besides diamond cut and color, there are other factors which affect what you’ll pay for a ring and the overall impression your ring will give. Number and size of stones used can certainly make a difference.

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Wedding Cupcakes

By sparklyscotty on 8/11/10 9:50am
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When it comes to wedding cakes, many couples are opting to go creative (and perhaps less expensive) with cupcake wedding cakes. These cakes run the gamut from simple tier arrangements to looming cupcake towers, each cupcake festooned with cascading icing flowers.

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Engagement Rings 101: To CZ or not CZ

By sparklyscotty on 8/10/10 9:59am
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Cubic Zirconias are a synthetic stone created specifically to imitate diamonds.

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Engagement Rings 101: Diamond Colors

By sparklyscotty on 8/9/10 9:43am
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The grading system for diamond color ranges D – Z, with D being colorless and Z representing a light yellow. However diamonds actually come in a range of colors including pink, blue and yellow. Everything beyond the Z rating is considered an ‘exotic’ or ‘fancy’ color. Excluding exotics, the more colorless the stone, the better is said to be the quality and therefore the higher is the price.

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Engagement Rings 101: Diamond Cuts

By sparklyscotty on 8/8/10 9:27am
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When deciding among the many available engagement ring styles, the first consideration is your budget. Once you determine how much you’re comfortable spending, you can narrow down the expansive field of choices. And don’t worry: you won’t lack selection regardless of what your final budgeting call is.

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