Weddings

I'm in Love With a Stripper, For Real!

Editor's note: Rap pioneer and Geto Boys member Willie D dispenses sage advice, for free! Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! Dear Willie D: I loaned my cousin $500 more than six months ago. She promised to pay me back when she got paid, but to this day I have yet to see one red cent. The puz ... More >>

I Was a Real-Life Wedding Crasher

More First Person pieces: *I Was Sick of L.A. Traffic. So I Took a Plane to Work *I Rode the Entire L.A. Metro in a Single Day *Why the San Fernando Valley Hate Needs to End Once and For All Between July and October of 2011, I crashed more weddings in Los Angeles than I've probably been invited to ... More >>

A Threeway With Mother Earth

TLC's Something Borrowed, Something New: Two L.A. Fashion Experts Battle for Wedding Dress Supremacy

Who wouldn't want to wear their mother's (or possibly their grandmother's) wedding dress that resembles a prop from Little House on the Prairie more than a gown fit for a contemporary bride, you ask? On TLC's new reality show Something Borrowed, Something New, airing tonight at 10 p.m., a conflict ... More >>

Alan Katz, L.A.'s Most Hilarious Wedding Officiant

It's a mellow day at Point Dume. A scattering of beachgoers lies in the Malibu sand or walks ankle-deep inxto the waves, while the occasional sandal-clad hiker ascends the adjacent hilly path. Over to the side, near a rough wall of boulders that jut out into the ocean, a couple gets married by a ... More >>

My Brother Got Married. The Theme of the Wedding Was Widespread Panic

This weekend my little brother got married. Now, in and of itself, nothing about this is newsworthy to anyone outside my family. People get married all the time. But in those weddings, was the bride's hair knotted into dreadlocks and did she walk down the aisle to Jerry Garcia's "Shining Star"? ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Take the Cake, Please

It was not chef Art Smith's best day, to say the least. What, you ask, could have happened to cause him such shame -- worthy of a melting forehead slap? Last night on Top Chef Masters, it was a case of letting his mouth write a check his baking skills couldn't cash, so to speak. More on that in a mo ... More >>

VIDEO: Marriage Proposal at the LACMA Rock Employs Record Number of Terrible Rock Puns

So we know we said we'd never mention the $10 million, 340-ton LACMA rock ever again -- unless maybe it rolled off its "oversized load" truck and crushed a Prius -- but we at the Weekly have a strict policy on covering every L.A. marriage proposal ever caught on tape. And this one is special. Ramo ... More >>

Upon The Closing of Angeli Caffe: A Love Story

Back in 2009, I was assigned by the LA Weekly to cover a wedding that was being held at Angeli Caffe. I can't remember how the story came to me but I've known Evan Kleiman for longer than either of us would like to see in print. Yet I don't see her very often. Over the years, she's become the friend ... More >>

David Tutera's 'My Fair Wedding' Be Damned: Bettina Hubby's 'Get Hubbied' Project Will Transform Your Wedding Into Performance Art

In a way, every wedding is a multimedia theatrical production. Each detail is managed, choreographed, and rehearsed; from rings, to cakes, seating charts, music, vows, catering, decoration, and, of course, wardrobe. Wedding professionals have to pull off flawless manifestations of other people's mo ... More >>

Former UCLA Student Proposes to Girlfriend via Flash Mob: 'You're So Cheesy' (VIDEO)

Flash Mob America has news for you: When it comes to marriage proposals, flash mobs are the new baseball-game billboards! Or sky messages! Or tombstones, as the case may be! Thus completing the transition of the flash-mob concept from rebel's rally to gushy Hallmark musical. (See also: Disney flash ... More >>

How Crazy is This?

Ceremony

Love Among the Nuggets: McWeddings on the Rise in Hong Kong

ceetap/Flickr​ In other countries, McDonald's franchises sell different things.  Big Macs are made with lamb in much of India.  In Greece, a Greek Mac consists of several smaller patties tucked into a pita.  In Hong Kong, you can get a burger sandwiched between compressed sheets of glutinou ... More >>

Movie Review: THE ROMANTICS

Same-Sex Marriages To Resume In California Next Week: Federal Judge Lifts Stay On Decision Overturning Prop. 8

Via TwitpicCelebration earlier this month at San Francisco City Hall.​ By Dennis Romero and Patrick Range McDonald, with reporting by Steve La from Norwalk Updated with reporting from the county clerk's office. First posted at 12:40 p.m. U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker on Thursday mo ... More >>

Prop. 8 Stay Messes With Big Wedding Day in West Hollywood

Patrick Range McDonaldWest Hollywood officials celebrate gay weddings in June, 2008.​Unlike the summer of 2008, the city of West Hollywood doesn't plan to hold a major ceremony if U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker lifts his stay on the Proposition 8 ruling, which would allow gay and les ... More >>

Marry Your Gay Lover For Free at Coco de Mer Sex Shop: Their Garden is Your Garden

​To celebrate the recent Proposition 8 decision, if you're gay and local to Los Angeles and want to get married, the quaint little Victorian sex shop Coco de Mer is offering you their garden as a wedding venue. Free. What's the catch?

Make a Run for the Altar

With immigration reform stalled, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants are entering sham marriages with a little help from their friends

Elton John Played Rush Limbaugh's Wedding for $1M

​We're a little late on this one, but, seriously, we couldn't pass this up. Rush Limbaugh got married for the 4th time last week and Elton John was his Wedding Singer. For 1 million dollars (who was Rush's Wedding Planner? Dr Evil?). From The Guardian: On Saturday, Elton John performed at ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Wedding Cake Art And Design

Get Your Piping Bags Ready​Aspiring Sylvia Weinstock types take note. It's almost wedding season. Your triple-tier, rosebud appliqué red velvet-white chocolate ganache (oh gawd, please no) cake is the next lady-in-desperate-wedding-planning waiting. Toba Garrett's new Wedding Cake Art and Des ... More >>

Seven Chances

Bauhaus' David J. Wants To Be Your Wedding DJ (When Not Busy Helping Buddies Black Francis and Alan Moore)

Jenine De Shazer/www.davidjonline.com​Hey brides! We know you've been preparing your wedding for over a year, that everything is just like you imagined through your princessy girlhood, and that you've successfully altered yourself so you don't have to alter the Vera Wang. Still, wanna make you ... More >>

Free Colt 45 Tonight at the Mountain Bar! Jail Weddings, Polyamourous Affair, Dios, Voices Voices!

It has come to our attention that this magical thing is happening tonight at the Mountain Bar in Chinatown. Specifically: Free Colt 45 all night long. Holy crap. Jail Weddings​ Jail Weddings sent us this email:

Mike Gin, Redondo Beach’s Chinese-American, Rotarian, Gay Mayor

(Meet Hizzoner)

Another L.A. Love Story — the Setting, Angeli Caffe

The waiting game

Stage Raw: Bridezilla Strikes Back

BRIDEZILLA STRIKES BACK! Ed Krieger NEW REVIEW In August of 2002, Cynthia Silver, a struggling actress, was informed by her wedding "event designer" that a British film company, September Films was creating a "documentary series" called "Manhattan Brides," that followed couples through the pre ... More >>

Here Comes the Bitch

Goth on Wheels

They say it's the niche companies that will survive the recession. Better make that "crypt companies," as can be seen by a couple of Goth-oriented Southland outfits that are drumming up business in the middle of a dying economy. Gothic Limos offers transportation in vintage hearses "for gothic weddi ... More >>

WeHo Couple Who Hung Sarah Palin Mannequin at Halloween Now Want Gay Designers to Boycott Straight Weddings

A Wedding Day Without Gays: "Good luck trying to find a designer who's not gay!"

Los Angeles Protests Stop Mormon Marriages

It's one of those odd twists that leaders of the Mormon Church probably never saw coming. Whenever opponents of Proposition 8, the ballot measure that eliminates the right of gays and lesbians to legally marry in California, protest outside a Mormon temple, they effectively stop church members from ... More >>

An Italian Straw Hat: A Vaudeville

Disappointments and Surprises: Toronto International Film Festival

When good directors go bad

Queer Town: Power to the Sissies

June Weddings For Gays May Be Quashed

If Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was hoping for a quick injection of gay dollars into California's ailing economy this summer, it may not happen. Opponents of same-sex marriage asked the state's Supreme Court on Thursday to delay its decision to allow queer weddings until after November 4, when an ... More >>

How to Get Divorced by 30

A beginner’s guide to ending your starter marriage

Theater Reviews: Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, Bachelorette

Also: Departures, The Time Machine and more

Bachelorette

Best Place to Stop and Smell the Roses

Exposition Park Rose Garden

Mama in Charge

Tough love at the White Horse

Marrying for Money

Poverty-wage young soldiers wed strangers and friends to get cash and housing

We Do, Too!

How to plan an absolutely fabulous same-sex wedding

You Only Go Around Once

Space Commodity

Wedding Day

Expert Advice: Pre-Nup

Mindy Weiss of Mindy Weiss Party Consultants explains the I dos and don’ts

Guerilla Etiquette: The 'Oops, I Did It Again!' Tour

Stormy Weather

Monsoon Wedding shelters under a tree of chestnuts

A Not-So-Fine Romance

When Lopez met McConaughey

I Am Not From Venus