Indecent Proposals

Because you just might fuck it up by yourself

BluePrint Proposals: New York’s Premier Pre-Engagement Planners

You know how people are always complaining that getting married in New York is too cheap these days? What with the variety of venues open year-round and the plummeting prices of caterers, diamonds, wedding planners and gown designers, it’s like you can’t even go into debt to show you care anymore!

Luckily, there’s a new way for the fellas to make a small dent in their wallets before making a much larger dent in their life savings: hire BluePrint Proposals to plan your proposal for you. Read More

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‘Guerrilla Weddings’ Trend Piece Not the Gas-Masked Nuptials Thriller We Had Hoped For

As most people who live and/or work in New York City can probably attest, doing anything in Manhattan short of breathing is prohibitively expensive (no offense meant towards those who have been priced out of our rarefied/smog-filled air). While the ritual of joining a spouse in co-habitation may seem cheaper in the long-term than living by one’s self or a Craigslist roommate who eats rocks, in the short-term, this sometimes requires things like getting married, which sometimes requires inviting people to be a part of said sacrament. Which costs, as many who have been married in New York City can tell you, way too much money.

So some folks are going guerrilla. On their weddings. Read More

Power Couples

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Beltway Ambition Infiltrates New York Times Weddings Section

Capitol Hill staffers make up a disproportionate amount of the New York Times wedding announcements, according to a piece on Roll Call today.

The Times selects just 30 couples every week from a pool of 200 submitted nuptials, according to the article, but legislative directors, committee counsels and “those at the top of the Capitol career ladder” sneak in roughly twice a month. Read More

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Kiss Me, Kate! Moss and Rocker from The Kills Are Now Married

Earlier today, Rolls-Royce after Rolls-Royce crawled into an ancient church in Little Farrington, deep in the English countryside, for a wedding ceremony dubbed, alternately, “Mosstock” or “Glastonbury Meets The Ritz.” The guests had come to see Kate Moss marry Jamie Hince, the guitarist for The Kills, thus ending her two husband-less decades in the Read More

The Local: Bridal Industry Remains Very Marry

Luke and his fiancé are getting married at the Foundry in Long Island City this weekend. Like many of the New York couples tying the knot in this uncertain economic climate, they are still going all out for the big day.

“We just said, ‘Let’s hang the cost because it’s only going to happen once Read More