Entries from Londonist tagged with 'marriage'
August 6, 2008
If you spot a gaggle of wedding-suited lads and ladettes marching Canary Wharf way this afternoon, fear not: it's no open casting call for hilarious new Steve Martin - Diane Keaton vehicle Father Of The Bride 3: Groomsday, but it is in fact a protest by narked newlyweds, angered by the closure of wedding gift merchants Wrapit, which called in administrators earlier this week. Some 2,000 couples, and around 100,000 guests, lost out when......
Continue Reading "The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bank, Even"May 10, 2008
If you go down to Westminster Cathedral today at 3pm, you're sure for a big surprise. Well, for one thing you'll see 700 married couples going in after an invitation from the Archbish of Westminster for a Mass to celebrate their marriages. So far, so blessed. Celebrating partnerships that this year mark significant milestones - 10, 25, 50 or even 60+ years - must be really something. Taking a moment from the every-day to......
Continue Reading "Mass Marriage"March 11, 2008
Seems the purpose of marriage for the jolly old Church of England is no longer simply 'go forth and procreate'. In a post Valentine's, pre-Leap Year PR stunt the CofE released "Growing Together - the course", aimed at making church leaders better at preparing aspirant marrieds for the choppy waters ahead, including the loss of "spark" in the bedroom. Clearly the church PR folk didn't big up the sex angle quite enough at the......
Continue Reading "Go Forth And Let's Talk About Sex"January 11, 2008
Like something straight from the Evening Standard Headline Maker, this story musn't have been happy for those involved, but seeing it like this tickled us.......
Continue Reading " ES to the Rescue"