Johnny Gonzales The Wedding Ceremony Cocktail Hour Reception Guitarist

Imagine this: You're single and feel totally  fine with it, and suddenly you get a call from your college bestie. She's getting married. Yay for her! Do you want to be her bridesmaid? Of course! But what if you knew it'd cost you $1,466? Would you still want to do it? Read more from New York Magazine

The wedding of a tycoon's son was the place to be this weekend, apparently!   WOW!!!!!!!!!   Jennifer Lopez ,  Enrique Iglesias and Sting all made the trip to Moscow this weekend to play a classy AF wedding, a gigantic party Russian energy tycoon Mikhail Gutseriev threw for his son. The family is  reportedly one of the wealthiest in Russia and threw a hefty amount at the artists. There were fireworks, a cake the size of Alaska and a  wedding dress that weighed 55 pounds.

Check lists, appointments, to-do lists, and more swirl around in your head throughout the wedding planning process. Chances are if you're even a remotely organized bride-to-be, you have measures in place to ensure you don't forget any of the important stuff. Unfortunately, even some of the most detail-oriented brides get so overwhelmed on their wedding days that they forget the most important things of all — enjoying the special, smaller moments with their new husbands. We're here to help. Check out our top three things you can't forget to do with your new husband on your big day. Read this great reminder from Brides

Tired of marching down the aisle and leaving with nothing more than leftover wedding cake and a wilted bouquet? Plan a trip to “Mantana” and you might come home with more “beefcake” than cheesecake! Read more from Tamra Bolton at Parade

Long story short: She won, and I'm still not over the drama. Weddings are, by nature, an emotional cesspool of fantastical expectations and frenzied reality. Add to that an argument over a wedding dress (a seven-year saga, actually), a complicated mother-daughter dynamic, and bad weather and you have all the ingredients for a perfect storm. Or, in this case, my nuptials.   Read more from Good Housekeeping  

It’s always a bit disconcerting when two big things on your weekend calendar fall on a Saturday night and a Sunday morning. If you have a bit too much fun at your event on Saturday evening, it can threaten the potential fun of the morning after’s event, and this weekend, readers, we are guessing there might be more than a few of you with a wedding on your Saturday-night docket—and then some sort of Easter brunch/church/egg-hunt extravaganza with the family in the a.m. hours the next morning. You might be feeling a bit worried. (We might be right there with ya.) Read more from Philadelphia

Ben-Israel to judge Let Them Eat Cake Contest Updated: March 23, 2016 — 3:18 PM EDT   City of Hope’s  Let Them Eat Cake competition will take center stage March 28 at 6 p.m. at the Loews hotel. Dozens of pastry artists create over-the-top wedding cakes, and judging categories are taste, originality, artistry, and this year’s theme, "animation." Read more from Philadelphia