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Las Vegas Headliner Matt Goss Reveals How to Get Your Guests Dancing

13 Thursday Mar 2014

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Matt Goss wants to help you say “I do.”

Formerly the lead singer of British rock band Bros, Matt is currently headlining at Caesars Palace’s Gossy Room in Las Vegas (yes, the venue was named after him), and last month released his EP I Do as well as his latest single: a joyful, jazzy ode to marriage proposals also called “I Do.” We recently caught up with Matt to discuss the inspiration behind the song and his advice for putting on toe-tapping wedding entertainment.

What was the inspiration behind “I Do?”

I’m a hopeless romantic. I started thinking – what’s the quintessential song for a man or woman to propose to? And I wanted to write a song that was utterly inclusive of all demographics. I thought, there isn’t a song you can definitively propose to. I was engaged before and I remember my knee gave out. It’s a beautifully submissive place to be, looking up at your lady, asking “Will you marry me?” I wanted to write a song that was powerful, authentic, glamorous, and romantic. I had a couple days at the piano and then I thought, “I’ve got the song.”

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The Reverend D Talks Officiating Offbeat Weddings

23 Wednesday Oct 2013

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DonnaMarie SanSevero is a New York paramedic by day, but by night? She’s The Reverend D.

As The Reverend D, SanSevero specializes in officiating truly unique, offbeat weddings — think gothic, Halloween nuptials or ceremonies that feature the “Imperial March” from “Star Wars” as the processional song. And if this requires her to dress up like Elvira or quote raunchy lines from “Showgirls” during the service? No problem!

HuffPost Weddings talked with The Reverend D about the craziest weddings she’s performed and why it’s so important to offer couples a quirky, personal ceremony.

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NYC’s Prohibition Bakery Turns Cocktails Into Cupcakes

23 Wednesday Oct 2013

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Prohibition Bakery might be the only cupcake shop where you’re required to show I.D. before enjoying a sweet treat.

That’s because all the cupcakes are flavored like your favorite cocktails, and yes — there’s real alcohol in the frosting and filling. With flavors like Old Fashioned, White Russian and Margarita, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’ve stumbled into your local bar instead of this cute New York City bakeshop. And the bakery caters weddings, so if traditional white wedding cake isn’t your thing, you can serve your guests your favorite drink as a cupcake instead.

HuffPost Weddings spoke with Leslie Feinberg and Brooke Siem, the masterminds behind Prohibition Bakery, about how they developed their boozy flavors and if it’s possible to actually get drunk off these cupcakes.

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Fourteen Style Designs Wedding Suits For Lesbian, Queer and Trans Community

31 Wednesday Jul 2013

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Here’s something you don’t hear every day in the wedding world: not every bride wants to wear a dress.

For many in the lesbian, queer and transgender communities, the perfect wedding outfit is a clean, classically-tailored suit. But as HuffPost blogger and LGBT wedding planner Bernadette Coveney-Smith knows, it’s virtually impossible to find a chic, wedding-appropriate suit made for the female body in stores. So six months ago, Coveney-Smith launched Fourteen Style, an online boutique that specializes in pants, jackets, vests and shirts designed for customers of varying gender identities.

HuffPost Weddings spoke with Coveney-Smith about how difficult it can be to find the perfect wedding suit in stores, and how Fourteen Style’s suits differ from average formalwear.

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‘Newlyweds: The First Year’ Stars, Tina Sugandh And Tarz Ludwigsen, Open Up About Marriage

07 Friday Jun 2013

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On Bravo’s new reality show “Newlyweds: The First Year,” premiering Monday May 6, you’ll be able to watch four newlywed couples navigate their first year of marriage. One of those couples is Tina Sugandh, an Indian pop star, and Tarz Ludwigsen, president and co-founder of web start-upPandoodle. The couple, who married in December 2011, recently opened up to HuffPost Weddings about their relationship and how being on a reality show has affected their marriage. Below, 10 things we learned about the couple.

1. Their first conversation was about steak

Tina: “It was a long conversation. I grew up vegetarian and I had just started eating steak so I was enamored of all sorts of different steaks at all places.”

2. They moved in together after their first date

Tina: “We were just best friends from day one, which was really crazy. It was so easy to move in on the first date because it was like we were the same person.”

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New Zealand Jewelry Company Designs Personalized Wedding Bands

07 Friday Jun 2013

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Even though couples wear their wedding rings every day of their married life, wedding bands can be plain and, if you buy them from a large retailer, not personal to the couple. That’s where Ashley Hilton and Laurel Williams come in.

Hilton and Williams are the husband-and-wife team behind Ashley Hilton Jewelry, a New Zealand design company that creates personalized wedding and engagement rings (Husband Hilton creates the jewelry and wife Williams handles the financial side of the business). Working with photos (or occasionally just a few words) as inspiration, Hilton etches simple, elegant designs into handmade rings that tell a couple’s story.

HuffPost Weddings spoke with Hilton and Williams about their design process and what it means for couples to have personalized rings.

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‘The Artful Bachelorette’ Offers A New Take On The Bachelorette Party

07 Friday Jun 2013

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At bachelorette parties hosted by The Artful Bachelorette, you’ll see a naked man — but he’s not there to dance. He’s there to be drawn.

The New York City-based Artful Bachelorette hosts nude life-drawing classes for brides (and occasionally grooms)-to-be, offering a unique, sexy party experience. Partygoers enjoy drinks served by a topless waiter and a two-hour life-drawing class, featuring a naked male model as the subject. Parties can be held in private residences or in one the company’s rented event spaces, and every guest leaves with new artistic skills.

HuffPost Weddings spoke with Artful Bachelorette co-owner Samara Hodgson (her business partner is artist Fleur Childs) and one of the company’s regular models, Kurt McVey, about the inspiration for the business and what it’s like hosting an Artful bachelorette party.

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Del Sol Photography’s ‘Adam and Eve’ Shoots Show Sexier Side of Couples

08 Monday Apr 2013

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Here at HuffPost Weddings, we’re all about celebrating unique and innovative ideas in the wedding world. In this series, Wedding Trailblazers, we’ll be spotlighting wedding-industry professionals doing creative new things. Check out our latest trailblazer below.

What’s the best thing for two hot-and-heavy newlyweds to do post-wedding? Get naked and do a photo shoot, naturally.

That’s the idea behind “Adam and Eve” photo shoots, a new offering from wedding photographer Matt Adcock and his team at Del Sol Photography. Surrounded by the natural beauty of the “cenotes,” or underground rivers, in the caves of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, couples slip out of their clothes and into the water for the ultimate romantic (and sexy) photo shoot.

We spoke with Adcock about the inspiration behind the photos, how to capture the perfect couple shot and how he gets his clients to look so graceful underwater.

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Study shows a 21-minute writing task can improve your marriage

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

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While millions of couples spend hours trying to learn how to improve their marriages through books or therapy, one recent study found that sustaining a happy marriage may only take 21 minutes, a pencil and a piece of paper.

A Northwestern University study set to be published in “Psychological Science” later this year surveyed 120 married couples for two years about their relationship satisfaction, and asked them to describe their most significant recent arguments. During the second year, half of the couples were also asked to complete three seven-minute writing tasks — one task every four months — in which they wrote about the arguments they’d had in the preceding months from the perspective of a theoretical neutral third party who wanted the best for all involved. These couples were found to have greater relationship satisfaction than the couples who did not participate in the writing task.

Lead author Eli Finkel, a Northwestern psychology professor, talked with HuffPost Weddings about why this 21-minute writing task was so influential in sustaining marriage quality.

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