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Break some wedding rules and make your own

One thing I learned before I got married is that nobody loves to talk about weddings more than women who just got married. They'll grab on to any socially acceptable opportunity to relive their experiences.

CNNMoney: Love in the time of recession

Last week, a bride-to-be visited online wedding hub TheKnot.com and posted a wistful set of questions to her virtual sisters. "Fiancé got laid off a month ago. We're trying to keep our wedding the way we had originally planned. How many of you are working through similar situations, and how do you...adjust your wedding/honeymoon plan?"

Destination weddings catering to kids

Four-year-old Grace Layman, decked out in full frilly flower girl regalia, excitedly led her smiling surprise guest to the separate kids' party she was hosting at her dad's wedding reception. Mickey Mouse wowed everyone -- grown-ups too.

She had a fabulous wedding on a budget

Michelle Cottle, 38, of Westchester, New York, always dreamed of an elegant wedding.

Too broke to be your maid of honor

The TV no longer sits on a moving box, but she's still using filing cabinets as end tables. Desiree Jacobsen graduated from college years ago, so why does her apartment resemble a dorm room? It's hard to save for the finer things when you've had to shell out money to be in five weddings in one year, three times as maid of honor.

Site seeks to engage brides in election

Did you know that Bill Clinton had to buy a house to convince Hillary Rodham to marry him? Or that GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee proposed to his wife with a pop top from a soda can?

FSB: Lessons from the fastest

What does it take to catapult your company onto the FSB 100? Innovation and persistence, of course. But this year it also helped if you worked in industrial manufacturing. Although conventional wisdom holds that U.S. factories are trapped in a death spiral thanks to cheap overseas labor, a quarter of our fast-growth all-stars are finding creative ways to thrive in the bent-metal sector, up from 3 percent in 2003.

FSB: Till Death Do Us Part

THE KNOT, A FASHION-FORWARD media company, has thrived by bucking business fashion. While other dot-coms spent millions on Super Bowl commercials, its wedding site (theknot.com) bought no ads at all. As competitors blew their VC stash on $800 Aeron chairs for every employee, The Knot ordered three. And when pundits declared the death of dead-tree media, The Knot—now run by two of its four founders, husband-and-wife team David Liu and Carley Roney—bought magazines.

FSB: Till death do us part

The knot, a fashion-forward media company, has thrived by bucking business fashion. While other dot-coms spent millions on Super Bowl commercials, its wedding site (theknot.com) bought no ads at all. As competitors blew their VC stash on $800 Aeron chairs for every employee, The Knot ordered three. And when pundits declared the death of deadtree media, The Knot - now run by two of its four founders, husband-and-wife team David Liu and Carley Roney - bought magazines.

Time.com: The Most Popular Wedding Day Ever

It's 7/7/07, when everyone from Vegas gamblers to Hollywood celebs hope the lucky numbers will make them lucky in love

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