Queen's jubilee lunch met with controversy

The British royal family is welcoming foreign royals for events leading up to the Queen's jubilee. The king of Bahrain's inclusion has sparked a furore, calling into question the participation of so-called despots.

Quinn enforcing wedding gift ban for city officials, lobbyists

This weekend’s high-profile wedding for Christine Quinn and her longtime partner, Kim Catullo, will be a cheap affair for scores of lobbyists, City Council employees and people who make money off the city. Quinn, the City Council speaker and Democratic mayoral hopeful, is enforcing a gift ban for some...

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Months of preparation go into a wedding. Couples do everything they can to ensure that the day will be perfect. But for a brilliant wedding, sometimes you need to bring technology for even more help, so wedding guests can love the new couple even more. How to get there? When to arrive exactly? What is brides’ father name, again? All the answers at guests’ fingertips, powered by OurWedingUsher ...

Asking people to prom can be elaborately staged event for some

Never mind a text that meekly asks “will u go 2 prom w/me?” Today’s teenagers are taking a cue from elaborately staged wedding proposals, inviting each other to prom with flash mobs, scavenger hunts, homemade music videos and even airplane banners flying over the beach.

Advice helped seal the deal

Dear Readers: No advice (mine or anyone else’s) can suit all people. Following is a reader’s comment, and then that of the person who originally wrote me, asking about a destination wedding (April 7):