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London’s Best Wedding Venues

Looking for a place to get hitched, or to party afterwards. Here are a few ideas…

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London Food & Drink News: 23 February 2012

Bompas & Parr launch new “food explosion service for weddings” and more London-centric foodie news.

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The Book Club Boutique Throws Mock Wedding With Literary Twist

Whether you’re sick to the back teeth of all things bridal or praying your partner will pop the question, the Book Club Boutique is holding a wedding party with a difference this Friday from 7pm. If you like your decadence intellectual, you might have come …

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The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bank, Even

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 …

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What’s for Lunch? Betjeman’s

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Betjeman’s 44 Cloth Fair EC1A 7JQ Nearest Tube: Farringdon 0207 600 7778 12pm-3pm for Lunch(Monday-Friday) 6pm-9pm for Dinner (Monday-Friday) 12pm-11pm for drinks (Monday-Friday) Map Expect to Pay: £10 or more …

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‘Four Weddings’: Bad for Grant, Good for Church?

Ever stop to wonder about the legacy of romantic comedy ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’? Every other minute of your work week? Well, you’re in luck, as today’s the day that Londonist tackles this very question. Sort of. Mild-mannered examination of love and marriage in …

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Love Art Lab At Chelsea Theatre

The International Workshop Festival has been rumbling away in the city since 28 August, allowing the bold and brave to take part in workshops and experiments in performing arts with specially invited artists and practitioners. As the festival draws to a close, a curious couple …

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Some Traffic Stats For Your Delectation

The BBC are facting us out from under the sheets this morning with a bevy of traffic stats garnered from London councils. 5 million parking tickets were issued in 12 months up to March 2007. That’s roughly one per car in the greater London area, …

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Gay For May

Maybe it’s the heat, but May in London has become a veritable political gay-fest. Last week, a gay man took the helm of Richmond Borough Council for the first time, and announced ‘diversity’ as a key theme for his year in office. This happens just …

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Cine City

If the London movie map created by FilmLondon and VisitLondon is to be believed, there are few places in this city that haven’t been filmed. So next time you have a ‘this could be in a film’ moment when you’re out, that’s probably because it …

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Interview: Crumbs and Doilies

We’ve walked past a lot of cupcakes over the last year. Walked past, hesistated for a very long time, and then kept walking, pulling a sad face while thinking of our waistline. But like it or not, ditch the knitting – cupcakes are the latest …