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Amy Grant loves her family, and she's making that very clear. The Grammy Award winner, 62, is opening up about her decision to host her niece's same-sex wedding and how she's been navigating the varying feedback that's come as a result. "I never chase any of those rabbits down the rabbit hole," Grant told PEOPLE of social media responses — both good and bad. "I love my family, I love those brides. They're wonderful, our family is better, and you should be able to be who you are with your family, and be loved by them." The wedding came to...

Sharing the same table with strangers at a wedding banquet is already painful, how about sitting with fellow exes? A video went viral on Chinese social media recently (Jan 8) documenting a wedding banquet in Hubei, China which was allegedly attended by a bride's ex-boyfriends. What's worse, that bride apparently invited these five guys, putting them all on the same table. And on that table, there was a place card that reads "table of ex-boyfriends" in Chinese, which resulted in a great level of awkwardness among the guys, who even look alike, according to fellow netizens. "How did the bride...

"Return my dowry": A husband's campaign to get a refund from his estranged wife for wedding expenses after their marriage lasted only 33 days trends in China. Weibo. A man in China who borrowed heavily to pay for his 510,000-yuan (S$98,000) wedding, which fell apart just 33 days later, has demanded his bride refund a substantial part of their marriage costs. The 25-year-old man, surnamed Hou, from Henan province in central China, trended on mainland social media after launching a one-man campaign late last month seeking the return of 140,000 yuan he spent on the wedding, reported Jimu News. The...

A woman identified as Melissa Stout said she attended the wedding from Michigan. After feeling buzzed from a couple of drinks, she ate some food to stop herself from becoming too intoxicated. She had a Caesar salad, a pasta with white sauce and bread with herb dip, according to an arrest warrant obtained by Law and Crime. 'After eating the food, she felt much worse,' deputies say. She 'didn't notice anyone else getting sick as she was on her hands and knees throwing up.' Every guest tested for cannabis showed positive results, according to the warrant, and none who were...

A 76-year-old woman is suing a catering company for $30,000 after she ate a lasagna spiked with cannabis at a wedding in February, leaving her with 'severe, permanent injuries' - leading police to arrest both the bride and the caterer. Virginia Taylor-Svoboda attended the wedding of a relative before which the bride, Danya Svoboda, 42, allegedly schemed with Joycelyn Bryant, 31, of Joycelyn's Southern Kitchen, to serve bread, pasta and desserts laced with marijuana to nearly 70 unknowing guests. They started feeling sick soon after eating the variety of foods prepared by Bryant and at least eight people were taken...

Vogue Magazine debuted an exclusive cover to President Joe Biden’s granddaughter’s wedding on Tuesday after the White House shut out the general press. Vogue featured Biden’s granddaughter Naomi on the cover sitting on the couch with her grandmother Jill Biden to mark the lavish ceremony on the White House lawn, followed by a reception in the building.

President Joe Biden on Saturday is hosting a wedding for his granddaughter at the White House, but the family plans to keep everything very private and secret. Biden’s granddaughter Naomi, the daughter of Hunter Biden and his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, is marrying her fiancé Peter Neal in a ceremony on the South Lawn, followed by a reception and a party in the evening.

Ana Navarro told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that the Saturday wedding of former President Donald Trump’s youngest daughter Tiffany Trump was a “MAGA funeral.” Co-host Sara Haines said, “Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany got married at Mar-a-Lago, and Ivanka posted a photo on Instagram where she cropped out Don Jr.’s fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle of course. The internet went wild with speculation over this, and she reposted the photo in her stories and put her back in the frame a few hours later.” Haines asked, “Alyssa, you know both of them. Is there some scandal here?”...

The Trumps showed off their sibling love in a series of social media posts over the weekend documenting the night of Tiffany's lavish Mar-a-Lago wedding. The family all seemed to be enjoying themselves as they dressed to the nines on Saturday to watch 29-year-old Tiffany says 'I do' to 25-year-old billionaire Michael Boulos under a floral canopy, and celebrate in an extravagant party afterwards. Former first daughter Ivanka, 41, who served as the maid of honor for the special event, shared pictures of her family on Twitter, showing her, husband Jared Kushner, and children Arabelle, 11, Joseph, 9, and Theodore,...

Heather Richards arrived on the beach with a damp dress 'full of sand' A bride from Swansea woke up at the crack of dawn the day after her wedding day to go paddle boarding in the Gower in her dress. Heather Richards married Richard Selwood on Friday at Oxwich Bay Hotel and on Saturday she took her paddleboard for a quick dip at sunrise. The 47-year-old said she woke up, opened the curtains, saw the tide was in and told everyone to get up and get out. New husband Richard pulled on his shorts while Heather got into her...

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — Two Volusia County men whom deputies say severely beat a Lake Mary man at a wedding on Sept. 3, have been arrested. Deputies said Joel O’Grady, 38, and his son Julian Falkinburg, 21, both of Sanford, were arrested by Daytona Beach police late Friday night. According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, O’Grady and Falkinburg were at a wedding reception in Lake Helen when they got into a fight with another man in a parking lot. Deputies said the pair struck the victim several times in the head and face until the victim became unresponsive. Investigators...

DEAR ABBY: Our daughter and her cousin are the same age. Both are medical school graduates. Eight months ago, when this cousin got married at an in-person wedding, he was showered with gifts from the family. My daughter, in contrast, had a private ceremony because of COVID concerns and sent a wedding announcement to the family. To the shock and amazement of my husband, my daughter and myself, not a single person in the family thought to send her a gift or even a card. There’s no bad blood in the family. Everyone appears to love her. She is disappointed...

A federal judge ruled yesterday that the city of Louisville, Kentucky, cannot ban a Christian photographer from limiting her wedding photography business to opposite-sex couples. In the lawsuit which Petapixel has previously reported on, photographer Chelsey Nelson challenged a Louisville law that required her to take photographs and blog online for same-sex weddings.Louisville’s 20-year-old “Fairness Ordinance” prevents discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. However, the lawsuit, filed on behalf of wedding photographer Chelsey Nelson by the conservative advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, alleges that the city’s law infringes on Nelson’s freedom of religion and speech. Beaton ruled that the...

Yes, you read correctly. There are (so far) 33 friends and relatives dead or sick since our wedding eight months ago. I've done the research. All 33 were vaxxed. Every one of them.This is a "vaccine death and disease cluster."This is like the Love Canal, New York, cancer cluster of the 1970s. It can't be ignored when you see so many people dead, or very ill in just one group.But it has nothing to do with our wedding. Open your eyes. This is happening everywhere. Non-COVID-19 deaths are up dramatically in the United States (and all over the world). Life...

1957 flu pandemic, also called Asian flu pandemic of 1957 or Asian flu of 1957, outbreak of influenza that was first identified in February 1957 in East Asia and that subsequently spread to countries worldwide. The 1957 flu pandemic was the second major influenza pandemic to occur in the 20th century; it followed the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 and preceded the 1968 flu pandemic. The 1957 flu outbreak caused an estimated one million to two million deaths worldwide and is generally considered to have been the least severe of the three influenza pandemics of the 20th century.

A bride has been shot dead at her own wedding when a stray bullet from celebratory gunfire hit her in the head. Mahvash Leghaei, 24, got married at Firuzabad in Iran when a guest, who is believed to be a cousin of the groom, fired his unlicensed high-powered hunting rifle.

Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy have all the ingredients for a real-life romantic comedy. The Bad Boys for Life star, 57, joked about his daughter Jasmin Lawrence potentially conceiving a "comedy super-baby" with Eddie's son Eric Murphy on Friday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! after their kids went Instagram official last year. "We haven't talked about it," Lawrence said of him and Murphy, 61. "We kind of just stay out of their business and let them do their own thing, and respect their thing." He also admitted that he's willing to put aside tradition to have the groom's father take...

A Mexican couple has sparked fury after holding a Nazi-style wedding honoring Adolph Hitler. Fernando and Josefina tied the knot at a church in the state of Tlaxcala - east of Mexico's capital - on April 29, the anniversary of Hitler's marriage to Eva Braun. Fernando and his three groomsmen wore replica suits of the Schutzstaffel, a paramilitary unit that served the Nazis - while Josefina wore a white gown. The themed wedding was condemned by Simon Wiesenthal Center in a statement. 'Our institution strongly condemns the distortion and trivialization of the memory of six million Jews murdered in the...

A Tennessee interracial bride and groom are facing backlash on social media after a controversial clip from their wedding shows the seemingly white bride escorting the groom, an apparent black man, into their reception on a dog leash.

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a wedding reception at the White House for their granddaughter in November, the East Wing confirmed on Monday. “The President and First Lady will host the wedding reception for their granddaughter Naomi Biden and her fiancée Peter Neal at the White House on November 19, 2022,” Elizabeth Alexander, the first lady’s communications director, said in a statement