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Usher Holds Elaborate Wedding (CBS4 Miami) - Usher and Tameka Foster wed in a large, glitzy ceremony Saturday after exchanging vows a few weeks ago in a civil ceremony, a magazine reported. Slideshow: Celebrity Weddings

Pigeons brighten up parties, unify family (The Capital) - Reedy Hines, 9, and his sister, Amberlin Hines, 12, release some of the colorful pigeons they maintain at their Galesville home. Using a process they call a trade secret, they dye some of their 100-plus birds to release at festive occasions, such as weddings.

WEDDINGS (The Standard-Times) - Silva-Pacheco

WEDDINGS (The Standard-Times) - Tavares-Simmons

When Controversy Follows Cash (Washington Post) - Sant S. Chatwal, an Indian American businessman, has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaigns, even as he battled governments on two continents to escape bankruptcy and millions of dollars in tax liens.

Civil Union Dispute Pits Methodist Retreat Against Gays Who Aided in Its Rebirth (New York Times) - A Methodist organization that owns all the land in Ocean Grove, N.J., has sought to block civil union ceremonies.

Book Report: A sharp, stinging look at the American way of weddings (International Herald Tribune) - "One Perfect Day: The Selling of American Weddings," by Rebecca Mead, does for the matrimony industry what Jessica Mitford in "The American Way of Death" did for the funeral business.

Iowa judge puts hold on same-sex weddings (UPI) - A judge has ruled that same-sex couples can legally marry in Polk County, Iowa, the Des Moines Register reported Friday.

The 20 most expensive celebrity weddings (International Herald Tribune) - In Forbes' first-ever search for the 20 most expensive celebrity weddings, A-list nuptials during the past 20 years are surveyed.

Shark From Saturday Found Dead On Queens Beach (WCBS-TV New York) - The parks department believes the same shark that frightened beachgoers Saturday, washed ashore Sunday, only this time it could not be saved. A 5-foot-long thresher shark was found dead at dawn Sunday on the beach at 113th street in Rockaway Park, close to where it washed up and was pushed back into the sea by beachgoers a day earlier.