Wedding Guests for Hire in Korea
According to Kim Seyeon, a college student and part-time role player, the going rate for pretending to be a guest at a Korean wedding is about $20. When the wedding season is in high gear, Seyeon can do up to three weddi ...
Category: Wedding Planning
Judge Stays Busy Performing Weddings in Retirement
A retired judge from Salem, Oregon, recently performed his 5,000th wedding ceremony. Richard Barber officiated at his first wedding in 1973 and is still going strong today. He has said that while he knows many judges rea ...
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Robot Funerals Denote Spiritual Connection
In January of 2015, a memorial service took place in Isumi, Japan, at a 450-year-old Buddhist temple. The figures being honored were brought together at the altar, where a priest offered prayers for the peaceful passin ...
Category: Get Ordained Funeral
World’s Most Extreme Wedding Proposals
Almost everyone has heard of a hopeful fiancé who has taken an innovative route to popping the question. They might hide an engagement ring or a love note in an unlikely spot for their beloved to find. The more am ...
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Jordan River Cleared for Christian Tourism
Over the past several years, Jordan has worked to remove thousands of personnel and anti-tank mines from under the ground along the southern banks and surrounding area of the Jordan River. The explosives, buried mostly b ...
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Social Media and Grief
It may seem like an oxymoron to use social media to channel and process something so deeply personal as grief. Many people, however, are turning to various sites to make sense of and find meaning in loss. Although sites ...
Category: Funeral
How to Make Your Wedding a Party You Would Go To
The difference between a fun and memorable wedding and a forced march through overblown tradition is that at the former, the couple getting married actually has a good time. The secret, of course, is no secret: It's all ...
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Negative Online Wedding Vendor Reviews: Defamation or Free Speech?
An upscale inn in upstate New York received a barrage of criticism recently for a policy that addressed online negative reviews posted by dissatisfied brides, grooms and their guests. In Hudson, New York, the Union Stree ...
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Wedding News Highlights: Princess Proposals, World Records and Going to the Dogs
Each wedding season offers up a number of newsworthy proposal and marriage-related items. It seems people show no lack of imagination when it comes to nuptials even pretend ones. The following are a few events chosen fro ...
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Jewelry Ad Bucks Second Marriage Taboo in Indian Media
In a country that has historically and sometimes notoriously held onto customs that shun divorced and widowed women, one jewelry manufacturer and a single advertising campaign have taken a stand in support of second marr ...
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