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Tomei Turned Down Four Weddings (ContactMusic) - Oscar winner MARISA TOMEI will always regret turning down a leading role in smash-hit comedy FOUR WEDDINGS + A FUNERAL. The actress reveals she was o

Weddings, not funerals, at old cemetery site (Philippine Daily Inquirer) - MANILA, Philippines – What used to be a place for grieving now serves as a venue for beautiful beginnings.

Marriages, now, are made in Malaysia (Hindustan Times via Yahoo! India News) - IF YOU thought India was the hottest place for exotic weddings, think again. Indians sold out on 'destination weddings' are now flying out to fancy Southeast Asia locales to get married.

UK: Fewer weddings may trouble bridalwear market (just-style) - A downturn in the number of UK weddings is likely to spell bad news for the UK bridalwear market according to new research.

Vampire brides wed on Halloween (Montgomery Advertiser) - DECATUR -- The grooms were vampires amid a shroud of fog as they took brides in back-to-back Halloween night weddings that featured Freddy Krueger as a ringbearer and a motorcycle-riding Jesus performing the services.

Feds overcharge for new US passports (AP via Yahoo! News) - The U.S. government has overcharged Americans by more than $100 million a year in its fee for new passports, according to cost figures uncovered by congressional investigators and analyzed by two senators and The Associated Press.

San Francisco mayor poised for 2nd term (AP via Yahoo! News) - Eight months after admitting he had a drinking problem and an affair with a close aide's wife, Mayor Gavin Newsom stands poised to win his second term without breaking a sweat.

Witch Weddings (The Lewiston Sun Journal) - LISBON - As the sun set on Halloween night, witches and pirates, a bloody corpse and a ghost, an angel, a flower, a queen and a scarecrow (among others) assembled in the gathering darkness.

Red carpets in the time of 'Cholera' (USA Today) - Benjamin Bratt, one of the stars of Love in the Time of Cholera, says filming a work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a challenge of a lifetime.

Congress investigates passport fees (AP via Yahoo! News) - First, Americans endured exasperating delays and ruined vacations from passport processing backlogs. Now, a congressional investigation indicates they may have been overcharged, too — perhaps by more than $100 million a year.