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Swedes try drive-in weddings (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - The Church of Sweden will carry out drive-in weddings lasting about seven minutes at a car rally next month in a bid to make marriage more accessible, it said on Thursday.

14 memorable movie weddings (Entertainment Weekly) - By Gary Susman In honor of June's brides and grooms, we look at some beloved onscreen nuptials, including those that really took the cake (''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'') -- and others that didn't quite come off without a hitch (''Old School'')

Local Pastor Rallies Clergy Against Gay Weddings (FOX 6 News San Diego) - Pastor Jim Garlow calls for a weekend of prayer at Qualcomm Stadium.

Weddings June 20 (Journal Inquirer) - Danielle Maria Ragno and Robert James Aldrich were married on Dec. 1, 2007, at 2:30 p.m. at St. Adalbert Church in Enfield. The Rev. Edmund O’Brien officiated.

Hollywood lives happily ever after (USA Today) - Last year, the crowd-pleaser movies were about pregnant women Knocked Up with Katherine Heigl and pregnant teens, as in Juno. This year, Hollywood, that town famous for flash marriages and ugly breakups, is throwing rice (and divorce stats) to the winds and serving up a slew of films about weddings. So what's that about?

Who pays for what at today’s Jewish weddings? (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles) - And for those looking to tackle costs according to tradition? Well, there is no distinctively Jewish law or historical precedent. A Jewish wedding used to be simple.

Old views, new vows attract tourists to state (San Francisco Chronicle) - Ride a cable car. Visit Alcatraz. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. Get hitched? Massachusetts was the first state to legalize same-sex weddings, but California is the first to allow nonresidents to marry - and 87 same-sex couples from other states and...

Young Saudis beat inflation via group weddings (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - A Saudi Arabian charity is spending millions of dollars helping people get married in mass ceremonies because inflation has put wedding costs beyond the reach of many would-be couples in the oil-rich kingdom.

Non-Californians getting married in San Francisco this weekend expected to spike (San Francisco Chronicle) - Ride a cable car. Visit Alcatraz. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. Get hitched? Massachusetts was the first state to legalize same-sex weddings, but California is the first to allow non-residents to marry - and 87 same-sex couples from other states and...

More divorces reduce married people to minority in Britain (Express India) - According to the Office of National Statistics, the number of weddings in England and Wales in 2006 was 236,980, the lowest figure since 1895.