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  • Badgley Mischka's 2012 brial gown collection

    Badgley Mischka’s 2012 bridal collection is beautifully feminine with vintage styling that offers hints of a bygone era. Soft, flowing and romantic, the New York designers’ latest range is elegant and feminine and it’s easy to see why the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Sharon Stone are fans of their work.  

  • Didi someone say WEEKEND?

    Woohoo! Guess what time of the week it is, folks? Happy Friday!

  • A new look for Easy Weddings

    Easy Weddings has a bright and breezy new look aimed at helping brides-to-be get around our directory, blogs and community much more easily – and it’s much prettier, too. Our fabulous team of designers and programmers has worked for months to consolidate our very large site so that it’s easier-to-navigate and new, customised backgrounds mean…

  • Groomed to perfection

    Let’s face it, when it comes to weddings, it sometimes seems as though it’s all about the bride. From her dress to her shoes and her bridal bling, she’s very much the focus of the day. But weddings are about two people and, though the blushing brides will probably always take centre stage, there’s no…

  • I found my venue – or maybe fate did?

    I have to share this story with you all… I have found my venue! After all our searching we have found the perfect place for us! It is beautiful, elegant, but also quite rustic! The gardens are perfect for photos and it has beautiful waterfalls and rivers. The best thing for us is we can…

  • A sneak peek at Jen Aniston's giant engagement ring

    Whoa! Check out actress Jennifer Aniston’s giant rock. The 43-year-old actress has never been flashy but her huge engagement ring is unmissable. Jen became engaged to scriptwriter Justin Theroux when he proposed on his 41st birthday in August but the former Friends actress has managed to keep her engagement ring under wraps for two months.…

  • Join us for the ultimate girl's night out

    Forget about running around town trying to find the perfect supplier for your big day. Easy Weddings and Lookbook Bride will bring Melbourne’s premier wedding suppliers to you during our glamorous, fun-filled bridal dinner show. Grab some girlfriends, don your finest gear and prepare yourself for an evening of being wined, dined and entertained by…

  • Should I wear my engagement ring during the wedding ceremony?

    It’s a question I’m asked all the time and the answer is simply that you can do whatever you wish as there is no hard-and-fast rule. However, given the significance of the wedding band during your all-important wedding ceremony, many brides prefer to keep their ring fingers “clear” for the big moment. Brides tend to…

  • Come out and play

    It’s that time of the week again, peeps! It’s FRIDAYYYY!! Woohoo!!! Sooo excited about this weekend and the big, fat essay I have to write. NOT! I hope you’re all up to something far more fun! What’s the most exciting thing you have on this weekend? Snorkling? Dancing? Travel? A nice drive to the country?…

  • Most romantic wedding proposal

    Wow! How beautiful is this wedding proposal pic by Adrian Limani Photography? This very clever artist took full advantage of a recent full moon and snapped some remarkable images in his native Albania! I think that calls for a double wow!

  • Anne Hatahway's wedding

    Happy Tuesday, folks! So, we had four celebrity weddings on the weekend, which I’ll tell you about shortly, but one of them was between Anne Hathaway and her fiance of one year, Adam Shulman. The gorgeous couple wed in front of 180 guests at Big Sur in California and Anne’s dress was a pretty and…

  • We almost missed our wedding – because of traffic.

    If you think traffic in your neck of the woods is bad, spare a thought for Isle of Wight couple Jason and Briana Gilliam. Traffic on England’s largest island was so bad on their wedding day last week, they ended up sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic – for nearly six hours! Located south-east of Hampshire in…

  • Em's peanut butter cups

    Em's peanut butter cups

      I decided to do a chocolate theme, as mentioned in my preparations for my engagement party, and I was thinking of different chocolates to make. Dillan (My fiance’s son) said to me “You should make peanut butter chocolates” at first I laughed, but then I thought – why not? It was such a good idea and so easy to make – I…

  • Would you share your wedding day with another bride?

    It started as a bit of a joke between sisters – but ended with English siblings Gabby and Ellen Byrnes walking down the aisle together. “We just joked, how funny would it be to have our weddings together and it all blossomed from there,” Gabby told The Daily Telegraph. Gabby, 26, has been seeing her…

  • Pssst. Wanna buy a piece of Kate and Wills' wedding cake?

    If you’re partial to a nice piece of wedding cake, boy, have the folk at online auction house PFC auctions got the motherload for you. Up for sale are pieces of wedding cake from several royal nuptials, including Prince William’s April 2011 wedding to Kate Middleton. The souvenier piece is up for sale by one…

  • Proffesonal bridesmaids?

    Today I was reminded of a post I once saw online by someone who hired herself out as a professional bridesmaid for people who want a bridesmaid, but didn’t have one. From memory she claimed to know all the proper etiquette, that she looked good in photos and knew how to support any bride on…

  • Red, red bike 🙂

    The  photographer of this happy couple got them at the beach, told them to take their shoes and made them ride a red bike, just to take the perfect photo. It is so worth it! 🙂

  • Is it a wedding bouquet or a popsickle?

    What a fabulous idea for a summer wedding outdoors, popsicle bouquets! These take just minutes to make! You kind of grab some flowers, put them in water and in the fridge! Wow! What’s the most novel bouquet you’ve used/seen/heard of?

  • Can't. Move. TGIF!

    This is how I feel. S’all I’m sayin’!

  • I don't want to call my new in-laws 'Mum' and 'Dad'. What do I call them?

    There is nothing wrong with not wanting to call your in-laws ‘Mum’ or ‘Dad’ but that very much depends on your own relationship with them, but also your relationship with your own parents. Some people genuinely don’t feel comfortable calling another woman ‘Mum’ or another man ‘Dad’, but many others have no issue with it.…

  • Best man loses ring – at the altar!

    Ping! That’s the one sound a bride and groom don’t want to hear just as they’re about to exchange rings. But that’s precisely the noise heard by Londoners Elizabeth Gray and Lewis Aubrey (and a church full of their guests) as the best man (and groom’s brother) dropped one of the wedding rings – moments…

  • Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' secret wedding

    Gossip Girl Blake Lively wed Hollywood hunk Ryan Reynolds in a hush-hush wedding ceremony over the weekend – and they did it in style, picking the mansion featured in that super-romantic chick flick, The Notebook. The glamourous couple, who met on the set of The Green Lantern, wed in a huge white tent on the…

  • All that glitters: How to choose a diamond engagement ring

    Diamonds. Aside from the fact they can be stunning, sparkly and, often, expensive, how much do we really know about them? When my fiance Matt proposed in April 2012, he gave me a temporary “in between” ring so that we could choose and design my engagement ring together. The only thing we both knew was…

  • Girlfriend livid after fake death proposal

    Russian Alexy Bykov wanted to be absolutely sure that his girlfriend Irena truly loved him. So, the 26-year-old computer programmer hired a director, make-up artists and even stuntmen to help fake his death as realistically as possible – before springing to life again to propose to his devastated girlfriend. The highly questionable (and bizzare) stunt…

  • Kate Bosworth is engaged!

    Congratulations to actress Kate Bosworth who’s officially engaged to director Michael Polish. Kate recently Tweeted “This photo was taken by my husband-to-be! Thank you all for the wonderful engagement wishes… We feel truly blessed.” Kate shared this lovely black and white photograph of herself with fans of her Twitter account and Facebook. The shot prominently…

  • Egyptian hi-five

    Woohoo. 🙂 I Friday soooooo much…

  • The McFaddens

    Check out the newlyweds! Irish singer and Australia’s Got Talent judge Brian McFadden posted this pic of him and new wife Vogue Williams heading off on their honeymoon after their hush-hush weekend nuptials in Italy. Yesterday Brian tweeted the pic with the caption: Mr and mrs mcfadden on the train (sic). Congrats to them both!

  • The big engagement party

    So, we had the engagement party on the weekend which was fantastic!  The whole night flew by, so I can’t even imagine what the wedding will be like! We invited 120 of our closest friends and family and held it at a function venue in Ferntree Gully, Vic. I felt like I barely had any…

  • Here comes the bride – on a jetpack

    Californian couple Amanda Volf and Grant Engler love the water. No, they really love the water. So much so, that last week the beach-loving duo donned $90,000 water-powered jetpacks and married while “hovering” above the sea. The groom, 25,  wore a black wetsuit (complete with white bow tie) and the bride, 26,  jetted up the…

  • Easy Weddings survey 2012 winners – $100 giftcards

    Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Easy Weddings’ Annual Australian wedding survey. Your giftcards are on their way! Natasha T, Forresters Beach NSW Lauren T, Wollert VIC Paul A, Glenfield NSW Gavin M, Dandenong North VIC Lauren F, Glenelg North SA  

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  • Friday monkeys 🙂

    OMG, folks. It’s been such a crazy-busy day, I didn’t realise…

  • Work days flow

    Happy Monday, folks! Gearing up for a big week of weddings galore. Hope you had a fabbo weekend. Any weddings and pics to share?

  • Friday puppy

    The look on this pup’s face says it all…

  • Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger got engaged

    So, rocker Avril Lavigne is engaged to fellow Canadian muso, Nickelback singer/guitarist Chad Kroeger. What do you reckon their theme song would be – and can you imagine what the wedding setlist would be if they only played their own songs? PS: Check out Av’s huge 14-carat ring in the pic. Shiny, eh?

  • Ice cubes with spring flowers

    Wow!!! With Spring around the corner, this is a fantastic idea, spring flowers in ice cubes to add a little colour to your drinks, especially if you’re having a garden or outdoor wedding! Ohh, they’d be fabbo with mint! What’s your best ice cube trick?

  • First photograph ever

    Happy Monday, folks! Check out this picture. It is, apprently, the first photograph ever taken by a human. Wow. We kind of take it for granted these days, but this photo was taken on Paris’ Boulevard du Temple in 1838. Aside from being one of the first photos ever taken, it’s also the first known…

  • Why?

    Happy Friday, folks. Finish this question: We’re getting married because… Ok, ok you don’t have to answer, it’s friday anyways 🙂

  • Kate Ritchie's latest trip down the aisle

    TV darling Kate Ritchie returns to the small screen next week as host of Channel 10’s Don’t Tell the Bride and freely admits that some of its stars are far braver than she could ever be. The show’s premise involves handing grooms a $25,000 cheque and allowing them to plan an entire wedding  – with…

  • Natalie Portman's secret wedding

     Details of Natalie Portman’s secret weekend wedding are starting to leak out and, by all accounts, it was a simple and fun outdoor wedding for about 100 friends and family. Portman, who last year won an Oscar for her role as an obsessive ballerina in Black Swan, married the film’s choreographer, Benjamin Millepied, the man…

  • Jen Aniston's getting hitched!

    It’s official, Jennifer Aniston is engaged – and she’s sporting a mighty “huge diamond” to prove it! The 43-year-old actress  and her boyfriend of 18 months, actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux, will be waltzing down the aisle some time in the not too distant future and, it seems, they couldn’t be happier. In fact Justin,…

  • Em's engagement preparations (food)

    I had organised for hot finger food to be served cocktail style. But prior to the party, my future mother in law said to me when we started organising the engagement party “can we have a chocolate fountain!” (she is a big kid at heart) and of course I thought that was an awesome idea! But…

  • Let the games begin!

    Woohoo! It’s that time of week again, peeps? What have you got planned? Skiing? Sleeping? Cleaning the house? LOL. Anyone getting married?

  • Em's engagement preparations (decorations)

    I didn’t want your standard balloons and streamers for our engagement party. I wanted to keep it simple, but classy. Being the crafty person I am, I wanted to make as many of the decorations myself as I could. I used to make candles for fun and still have everything lying around at home, so…

  • The "in-between" ring

    Matt proposed with what we call an in-between ring. This allowed him to propose with a ring that I could wear, but not with a diamond. This was for 2 reasons, firstly I thought when the time comes I would like to design the ring together and secondly, we live together already and I look…

  • The proposal…

    So recently Matt, myself and a group of friends decided to holiday it up in Phuket. So day 3 in, we are all in the pool bar having a cocktail (or 2) and Matt disappears upstairs for a little bit, I didn’t notice at first he had been gone so long and then I realised…

  • LOL indeed!

    Woohoo, folks. It’s our favourite day of the week… this should give you a wee giggle before you head off for the WEEKEND!!!

  • How Matt & I Met…

    Matt and I met when we were 15 working part time at Woolworths. He worked in the produce area and I was on the checkout. We did like each other and did spend a little bit of time together until we parted ways at 19 and moved on to full time jobs. We didn’t really…

  • But…grooms can carry this bouquet

    Woohoo, folks. It’s our favourite day of the week… this should give you a wee giggle before you head off for the WEEKEND!!! Phwoarrr. I just found this online. A doughnut bouquet!!! Did you hear me, A DOUGHNUT BOUQUET? What do you think of this as a wedding bouquet? What’s the most unconventional bouquet you’ve…

  • And the bride wore… mouse ears!

    And the bride wore… mouse ears!

    UK couple Julie Webb-Flint and her hubby Jason love Disney. They really, really, really LOVE Disney. So much so, when the Disney-obsessed couple celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary last month it had a Disney theme – and the bride ditched the white dress and veil, opting instead for a Minnie Mouse costume – ears and…

  • Spooky stuff: Graveyard weddings on the rise

    Here in Australia we’re used to wide, open, and lovely green spaces, but in other parts of the world, particularly crammed cities such as New York, space is at a premium. So, couples looking for unique, or even green spaces in which to hold an outdoor ceremony or reception must think, erm, outside the box,…

  • Black couple refused wedding at white church

    A predominantly white church in Mississippi, America has refused to marry a couple because of the colour of their skin. After agreeing to perform Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson’s July 21 wedding ceremony, the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Mississippi informed the couple they could no longer marry in the 129-year old church because they…

  • Happiest squirrel ever

    Just sayin’… 57 minutes left…not that anybody’s counting… 🙂

  • Pink is the colour!

    Wow, how fantastically different is this wedding photo? We’re not sure if it’s a guest or a bridesmaid, but they’re obviously having a blast!!! She’s obviously danced her little footsies to the bone! Love the colour combo, too! Of course, it could be the bride! What is the most fabulously eye-catching colour combo you’ve seen…

  • Let's dance in soap bubbles because…

    Hey, folks… in case you forgot…IT’S FRIDAY – and I feel like dancing in a shower of bubbles! Yippee!!!

  • Share your wedding plans for a chance to win

    It’s that time of year again, folks! Australia’s No.1 online wedding destination, EasyWeddings.com.au, is holding its annual survey of all things wedding related. We’d love to hear about your big day (whether you’ve already taken a trip up the aisle or are about to) in order to get a better picture of what Australian brides…

  • Married Olympics couple banned from sharing a room

    Aussie shooter Russell Mark and his wife Lauryn are none-too-pleased their time in the Olympic Village will be spent apart. The couple, both members of the Australian Olympic shooting team, have been banned by officials from sharing a room during the Games. Mark claims the ban punishes him and Lauryn for being married since many…

  • Kate's wedding gown, too 'trivial' to deserve a Wikipedia page?

    It has been only a year or so since Kate Middleton walked down the aisle at Westminster Abbey and already her stunning wedding gown has snagged itself a place on the list of the world’s most memorable wedding dresses. Yet, it seems, some of the folk at Wikipedia, mostly volunteer editors, believe it to be…

  • Mystery military couple found

    While wandering around snapping pictures of Washington D.C.’s War Memorial one evening earlier this month, primary school teacher Angila Golik happened upon a most intimate scene. Standing in the middle of brightly-lit rotunda on the other side of the park, she spied a young man in a crisp military uniform proposing to a lady in…

  • Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb got engaged

    Congrats to uber fun and gorgeous Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara who not only celebrates her 40th birthday today, but also her engagement to on-again, off-again love Nick Loeb. The couple have been dating for two years after meeting at the Golden Globes and, it seems, he popped the question during her 40th birthday celebrations…