Angelina Jolie's Wedding Dress Was "Comfortable but Plain"

A very well-placed source tells E! News that Angelina wore a white, floor-length gown for her wedding to Brad Pitt this past weekend, as brides often do. The dress was "very traditional, but very Angie," the source says. "It was comfortable but plain, [made from] antique lace and silk." The designer is, as yet, unknown.

Angelina wore a veil, the source — who appears to be one of only 22 wedding guests — adds, because "when "Brad lifted it [he] gasped, because she looked so stunning." Aaw. And for her "something old," Angelina added a gold locket previously owned by her mother.

Brangelina's wedding bands were designed by celebrity jeweler Robert Procop; the couple's six children wore either "matching cream linen suits" (that's Maddox, Pax, and Knox) or "a dress [chosen] to match their own individual style" (that's Zahara, Shiloh, and Vivienne).

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Claire Danes Basically Wore Kim Kardashian's Wedding Dress To The Emmys

Claire Danes wore red-carpet red to the Emmys red carpet.

Besides the color (and lack of sleeves), Danes's Givenchy gown was reminiscent of Kim Kardashian's wedding dress.

Killing it, Klaire.

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Would You Put a Logo on Your Wedding Dress?

When Courtney McKenzie's boyfriend of two years got down on one knee on the beach in her hometown of Palm Beach, Florida, she thought they'd have a huge wedding.

"He has a big family and I have an even bigger family," McKenzie, 27, told Cosmopolitan.com. "We sat down to make the guest list and it was 250 people. But then we thought, 'What's true to us?' and we decided we just wanted it to be a lot of fun."

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The two had always been into adventure sports, so instead of the big traditional wedding, they went with an elopement-honeymoon combo in Thailand. "We figured we'd tweet, Instagram, put out a podcast ... all sorts of social media stuff to tie in our family and friends," said McKenzie.

But then the marketing professional had another idea: Get companies to sponsor their 11-day trip in exchange for logos on just about everything and hashtags in their social media. "We will be hashtagging, tweeting and instagramming our way through Thailand to our over 30,000 combined social media followers and we want to include some of our favorite brands on our adventure," she wrote on their website. She also plans to sew sponsor's logos onto everything from her wedding dress to her honeymoon bikini and her husband's tux.

The goal, she said, is not to pay for any of the trip, and to donate a percentage of the money to charities like The Boys and Girls Club and Big Brother, Big Sister. So far they have three major sponsors, but are only about halfway to their $30,000 goal.

Reactions from their family and friends have been mostly positive, and an initial announcement on Facebook got more than 40,000 likes, but since then the Internet hasn't been kind.

"I've gotten a lot of emails saying, 'This is so tacky,' 'How can you put a logo on your wedding dress?' 'Your daughter will never be able to wear your dress,'" she said. "It stings a bit. But we feel good about doing it. And it'll be a fun story to tell our kids."

McKenzie has now gotten more positive feedback than negative, and her new goal is to launch a platform to help other brides pay for their weddings with sponsorship. With the average wedding costing over $25,000, who wouldn't slap on a logo to have it paid for?

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Have Set a Wedding Date

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have set a wedding date, People reports. America's royal wedding will occur on May 24. Mark your calendars now!

Also, start saving your pennies if you're planning to attend, because you know these two are going to register exclusively at places like Hermès. Does Givenchy make flatware?

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Wedding Delayed By Uninvited Guest Who Cut Off His Own Balls

Delaying one's wedding could be due to any number of understandable factors. Cold feet. Too many pre-ceremony shots with the best man. Frizzy hair. 

Here's a new one for you: because a crazed dude decided to cut off his balls!

An unidentified man in London did just this with a pair of scissors in a church right before some poor couple's wedding was about to take place. He then proceded to throw some chairs around in a rage for good measure, delaying the events a half hour. One guest interviewed by U.K.'s Brentwood Weekly News reported to seeing a testicle and a pool of blood on the church floor. “There was a bit of an atmosphere,” this person said. “The bride didn’t know anything about it, i’m sure she does now. But it took place. I’m surprised the vicar held it all together.”

Hey, better a random ball-severer than a runaway groom, right?

Correction: This post has been updated to reflect that the man who decided to chop off his own balls was not in fact the groom, but rather another, unidentified person. 

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Caring About Your Wedding Doesn't Make You Lame

You know those women who dream about their wedding days, create elaborate Pinterest boards for said weddings long before they're actually engaged, and believe that getting married will be their biggest life accomplishment? That's me.

For much of my post-college life, I've been that girl who just wanted to get married. So when I met my fiancé four years and change ago and quickly realized he was the proverbial "one," I got a little, well, excited. I filled a Pinterest board with mason jar candle holders and lace table runners and hand-painted wood signs. Because this man was The One, he didn't care that I was the kind of a nutcase who makes pre-engagement wedding vision boards for all of our mutual friends to see. As I merrily pinned away, my three best friends all got engaged, leaving me dying for my turn.
The man proposed last November while we were on vacation. The fact that it happend at 6 a.m.—while I was still half-asleep—made the moment all the more surprising. I literally blurted out "What is this?!" when he presented the ring. It happened. It finally freaking happened.
For someone who basically pre-planned her wedding, and grew up happy to be the center of attention, I expected to relish my new role as "bride-to-be." Instead, I felt anxious and weirdly self-consious. While I wanted to post our engagement to Facebook immediately, I stopped myself. I didn't want to be "that girl," did I? I did, but I also felt insecure about it. So, my fiance and I told our parents privately, I emailed my best friend, and then we waited to share the news with everyone else when we got home from our trip. I even managed to delay the Facebook announcement for an entire week. I eventually switched my relationship status late on a Friday night—the social media deadzone.
Soon thereafter came the guilt. First, I felt guilty about money. I felt bad when my parents generously offered to give us thousands of dollars to pay for the wedding. Then, there was the bridal party: What right did I have to make my friends shell out hundreds of dollars for a dress they'll never wear again? And, finally, there's the inconvenience: Isn't asking people to possibly take time off work to fly somewhere to watch us get married too much to ask?
We sent our save-the-dates out two days ago but instead of being excited—like, holy crap, all of my bridal-slash-life-dreams are actually coming true IRL!—I've been working on making our wedding website flawless, so that the guests who view it will be greeted with an informative, seamless experience. Completing tasks for other people helps me less guilty about the whole thing.
For a while, focusing on my best friends' pending nuptials also helped distract me from my own unexpected feelings. I'd talk about my wedding planning with them. Our wedding powwows were wonderful bonding moments—we all had the same things to commiserate over.

But two weeks ago, my last very close friend got married. My wedding is the only one left in our close-knit group of friends (and it's still 10 months away). On Monday, the day after my last BFF to get hitched returned from her mini-moon, she asked me about my wedding decor and what I'm thinking about for my bachelorette. After rattling off a few details about my color palette, I stopped myself. "You just got back—I should give you a little time," I said, forgetting how much I loved assisting her with florist drama and favor dilemmas. I felt bad jumping into me-me-me when her wedding dress was still hanging, not yet dry-cleaned, from the back of her living room closet door. And now I feel guilty about shutting out my best pal, too.
Every Sunday, my fiance and I chat about wedding stuff and, every Sunday, we get annoyed with each other. Mainly because, instead of being excited, I feel guilty when it comes to him as well—that I have to "make him" do wedding stuff. Even though he wants to help. Even though he told me that me being not excited makes him not excited.

But I've realized that I have no reason to feel guilty about getting married and wanting to celebrate it. I don't need to feel uncomfortable about presumptuously hosting and planning a day that's all about me. Because it's not all about me—and it never was. It's about my wonderful significant other, the families we are marrying into, and the friends who want to be there to witness our commitment.
So I've adopted a new mantra, courtesy of A Practical Wedding author Meg Keene: Your wedding is not an imposition. Sure, it's going to be ridiculously expensive (my mom is an amped up version of Martha Stewart and pretty doesn't come cheap). Sure, we're asking people to give up a weekend to watch us say our vows. Sure, it's illogical to worry about the repercussions of having a traditional wedding cake versus trendy assorted mini-desserts. But this is the one, socially-acceptable instance in which all of these things are OK (or at least, that's what I repeatedly assured my now-married best friends).  
Rather than downplaying the biggest, happiest thing going on in my life right now, I'm just going to be obnoxiously excited about it. Because I'll be damned if I don't enjoy being a bride-to-be after spending years longing for the right man to slide a ring onto my finger.
It's time to embrace the fact that, at my core, I am completely, irrevocably, "that girl." And now's my time to shine, for better or for worse.

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Why My Wedding Won't Be The Best Day of My Life

When I went wedding dress shopping for the first time, one of the accessories they had for sale was a crown. Literally. A fake gold one with fake diamonds. There was not a single trace of irony anywhere else in the store, so I'm assuming the crown wasn't an exception.

Why any bride would want to look like a member of the Burger King royal family is beyond me, but the fact that such items are offered just underscores that—according to The Knot, Brides magazine, Style Me Pretty, and most movies starring Kate Hudson—the best day of my life will be November 23, 2013, the day I am getting married. Now that I am planning my wedding, I encounter this platitude pretty much constantly. And it irks me. I mean, why stop at the date? Why not also decree which exact millisecond of my ceremony will represent the greatest joy I will ever experience?

To clarify: I'm not anti-wedding. Actually, I love them. I reliably weep (and get a little smashed) at every one I attend. And on a daily basis, I feel a kind of sweet disbelief that gawky me is marrying such a dashingly sweet man. But I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as "the happiest day of your life." The pressure that is placed upon this event to be the alpha and omega of your entire existence makes it, I think, into a kind of nuptial New Year's Eve, and we all know how that usually turns out. By the end of the night, you almost always realize: this was fine, but I'd be just as happy had I stayed in.

It's not that I think weddings—or marriages—are letdowns. It's just that I want to see my wedding as one awesome achievement on a continuum of achievements, all of which were, in their way, just as beautiful and profound for having led me to the current one.

For example: I found a strength I didn't know I had when I made it to the other side of my breakup with my college boyfriend, a disaster that broke my heart into a thousand pieces. Coping with the loneliness drove me to try stand-up, a lifelong dream, at a sparsely attended open mike in a gritty bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which two years later led me to tell the story of the aforementioned split in front of 4,000 people at Central Park SummerStage. It was an achievement, in my late 20s, to realize I needed to go to therapy and deal with the fact that even though I wanted a boyfriend, I was a mess of a human being. It was an accomplishment when I put together an Ikea dresser all by myself (crooked but standing). And I'm proud of the fact that, seven years later, slightly better and more self-aware, I sent an e-mail to my friends letting them know that I was available to be set up with any likely contenders. This was how I ended up at a hole-in-the-wall on a magical first date with Mike, my future husband. Since that night, there have been hundreds of moments in our relationship that I wish I could have had my best friends present to stand and cheer.

Including the night, months before we ever said I love you, that we had an impromptu whiskey picnic sitting cross-legged on the rug and he told me simply, "I'm in."

The other reason I don't want to think of my wedding as a finish line is I don't want to think of myself or my dreams as finished. There are so many things I still want to achieve, some of which involve Mike and some of which are just about me. I want to be a good mother. I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes. I want to write a movie in which Clive Owen and I play astronauts who have an affair while on a mission to Mars (the koala thing might be easier).

Ultimately, I want to see my wedding as a fancier version of the kind of pencil mark you made on a door frame when you were a kid tracking your height. None of these marks were the best (or the worst): They were just you, growing.

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9 Wedding Rules From an Insane Bridezilla

A series of “instructional” messages forwarded to Gawker — written in fluorescent pink font, no less — detail one bride’s descent into stereotypical wedding rom-com movie madness. She signs off her emails as “The Queen Bee,” which says it all; this is very much a “my big day will be just perfect even though everyone else will be scared I’m going to stab them in the face with a stainless silver cake fork at the reception” kind of story. Below, nine of the most ridiculous demands poorly couched as friendly suggestions:

1. “Bed times leading up to the wedding will be strictly enforced. I absolutely cannot have you all have saggy, baggy eyes. I am sure you all understand.”

2. “Swimwear attire: I would like everyone to wear matching bikinis that have rhinestones on the tushie spelling out 'maids,' which brings me to my next point… All bikinis leading up to the wedding must be strapless bandeaus. I cannot have terrible tan lines in strapless dresses.”

3. “Speeches: We all know what happened at Taylor's wedding. So if you plan to make a toast, please submit it for approval and revision, no later than 4 weeks prior to the wedding.”

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4. Naturally, our bride expects the final say on any changes her bridesmaids might be making to their appearance: “If you plan on chopping off your locks, please submit your proposed new look prior to any actions (this applies to coloring as well).” But shit soon gets real, because — oh my gosh, get this — bridesmaid Chelsea asks for permission to cut her hair, gets denied AND THEN HITS THE SALON UP ANYWAY. In the words of Oda Mae Brown, “[Chelsea], you in danger girl."

5. “It brings me great sadness to write this e-mail but it was brought to my attention that one of my chosen-bees has defected. The punishment is obviously bridal party banishment. However, after careful consideration, I have decided to re-instate her status on a provision basis… Miss Chelsea from this point on is on bridal party probation.”

6. “Additionally, if anyone does decide to break any future rules, please do not try to justify your behavior by telling me what other maids are doing in other weddings. I do not care and I am the QB. Also, I have posted an image to this e-mail, which will serve as my official logo.”

7. Though no image appears to have been forwarded, it’s probably the Eye of Sauron. With a bridal veil. Anyway, some more weighty issues:

8. “I hope everyone is on a water and rice cake diet from this point forward. I would also appreciate it if everyone incorporated arm workouts into their daily routine...”

9. “I was thinking that we should start a daily google doc, where everyone can update in real time their daily calorie content.”

10. And in yet more body-conscious-to-the-extreme ranting: “No-one can be skinner than the bride. That means Kelly and Lizzie will be on a protein weight gainer diet exclusively until May. I will have the nutritionist call you to discuss diet plans.”

This last rule, Gawker’s tipster claims, was not actually enforced… though one bridesmaid was asked to pop some diet pills. And another had to wear a pashmina at the wedding because her arms were too fat.

Oh, and one more thing — one Gawker commenter claims to know the bridezilla in question, and reports three of her bridesmaids “no longer speak to her.”

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What to Do When Your Wedding Venue Cancels on You

Just two and a half months before her wedding, Tiffany Goldsmith got a shocking email that made her burst into tears. It was from the owner of her wedding venue, The Inspirador, announcing that she was being foreclosed on and therefore would be soon forced out of business. All events on the calendar were canceled—effective immediately. 

"I was in my mom’s car at the parking lot at a local restaurant with my mother and sister, getting ready to have dinner," she says. "I read the email on my phone and I cried all the way through dinner as I tried to explain to them what was going on. I was shocked, confused, and didn’t have any idea of what to do."

A popular Scottsdale, Ariz. venue, The Inspirador was a cool, modern space that perfectly suited Tiffany and her then-fiancé Michael. It even had an art gallery, an ideal place for the couple to hold their pre-reception cocktail hour since Goldsmith is an art teacher. Plus, it was indoors, crucial for an Arizona summer wedding and the price was right, fitting in the couple's budget.

All soon-to-be-wed couples affected by The Inspirador's sudden closure, including the Goldsmiths, were told that their festivities could be relocated to a nearby venue, The San Marcos Crown Plaza Resort. However, just two days after receiving that tears-inducing email, Tiffany and Michael learned that this promise was in fact an outright lie—leaving them with no place to hold their wedding. And the clock was ticking.

"It’s unfortunate that this young couple had to go through all this," says Deanna Holguin, Senior Catering Sales Manager with The Venue Scottsdale, who stepped in to provide the couple with a free last-minute wedding in her event space. While the wedding turned out beautifully in the end, the couple embarked on their honeymoon still owed a whopping $8,000 in fees they paid to The Inspirador, plus they were still dealing with the stress of going back and forth with their bank to try to recoup the lost funds.

The Goldsmiths' situation is actually much more common than you'd think: According to a recent survey by Travelers Insurance, 15 percent of all wedding-related issues in 2012 were from venue problems, such as going out of business before a wedding could even take place. Given that the venue is the heart of any event, this situation can be devastating, financially and emotionally, for a couple.  

Thankfully, the Goldsmiths' story has a happy ending. Just one week ago, the couple finally received a written notice that Bank of America Fraud Services would refund them the money they were owed.

"It was a very lengthy process, but we are thankful that we used a Visa debit card, as opposed to checks, to enable this to happen," Goldsmith says. "We are very lucky."

Alicia Almeida and her now husband, James E. Boivin Jr., found themselves in a similar situation. They began planning their dream wedding two and half years before it was set to take place and were thrilled to find the ideal venue for their big day: Cafe Funchal, a Portuguese restaurant in New Bedford, Mass. that would accommodate both their sizable 250-person guest list and their budget (a major score in the wedding planning world). They put down a $1,000 deposit and started planning all the details.

But a year later, Almeida and Boivin got shocking news: Cafe Funchal was going out of business. 

"We were really stressed because we had planned our wedding years in advance in order to have the date we wanted so we worried that we would have to find a new date," Almeida said. "The whole wedding was at stake because we had planned just about everything at that point and we were looking at possibly having to redo all of it with the selection of a new venue."

The couple contacted the restaurant and they were able to get their deposit back when Café Funcal did in fact go out of business soon after. But that didn't change the fact that they were left venue-less.

Luckily for Almeida, she and Boivin were able to find another location for their wedding—even if that meant they needed to rethink the event so it could be held in a tent rather than indoors—and they got married on the date they wanted, May 18, 2013.

Yet another bride, in North Carolina, had to relocate her wedding in a pinch because of a venue related issue—but this time, financial woes weren't the problem. Event planner Emily McCollin says that after her clients' venue caught fire just a few months before their wedding, the proprietors refused to give the couple their deposit back. The reason? The property was not burned completely to the ground, therefore, it was still a usable, if charred, venue (yes, really). 

"Thankfully, my client chose to pay her deposit on credit card and was able to work with the credit card company on a stop payment," she says. "We helped the couple move forward quickly and were able to move her wedding to the Biltmore Estate here in Asheville."

To save yourself—or a pal—from the headache and stress of this situation, here are some tips from Rhode Island-based wedding planner Andria Medeiros who has helped two other couples in the north east area find new locations after their venues suddenly closed (and actually created a dessert station for Almeida and Boivin's reception).

"Frantic doesn’t begin to describe a bride's emotional state" in this situation, she says, but taking some precautions can keep it from happening:

Get wedding insurance. For couples who prefer to play it safe, consider purchasing wedding insurance. This insurance will protect you financially not only if your venue goes out of business, but if the wedding is cancelled due to inclement weather, a family emergency, what have you. It’s a great option to consider and well worth it for your peace of mind.

Do your homework and don't be afraid to ask questions. Doing your due diligence can prevent a situation like this before it starts. When seeking out wedding venues, ask the following questions: How long has the establishment been in business? Is the venue now under new management and if yes, why? If the venue is on the smaller side, ask the manager or event coordinator how long they’ve been in business. Knowing these answers will be a great indicator as to how stable the business is. (You can also check the Better Business Bureau's website to see if any complaints have been filed against the venues you're considering.)

Look out for red flags. Another thing to watch out for is a huge discrepancy in pricing compared to other local venues. Most likely these places are desperate to book anyone who walks in the door and are lowering their prices just to stay afloat. When you find a venue with pricing that comes off as too good to be true, it often is. 

Let your vendors know ASAP. If your venue does out of business, send an email out to every other vendor you’re working with and inform them of your situation immediately. They will need to be notified anyway but there is nothing wrong with asking for help. Most wedding vendors have a huge network with each other and, instead of being alone in your search, you will have an experienced team working with you. 

Hire a day-of planner. If you were considering hiring a planner or a day-of coordinator but weren’t sure about it financially, now might be the time to rethink the decision. Planners have the biggest network of industry contacts so they can take the reigns for you on this and help relieve some stress. In one day, you could have availability, pricing, and appointments at venues that suit your exact needs. 

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13 Totally Ridiculous Wedding Superstitions

1. Watch out for blind guys and pregnant women. In olden times, a guy sent a trusted friend or family member to chat with his potential bride as part of the marriage proposal process. But if the person saw a blind dude or a pregnant chick on the way to her house, it was considered a bad omen.

2. Your last names shouldn't start with the same letter. Because it's bad luck, duh. There's even a handy rhyme: "To change the name and not the letter/Is to change for the worst and not the better." No wonder Henry CAVILL and Kaley CUOCO had no future together...

3. Don't get married in May. Another marriage rhyme of yore warns against weddings in the fifth month of the year: "Marry in the month of May, and you'll surely rue the day." Tell it to the gajillion brides who get married in this gorgeous spring month!

4. Your wedding dress color can predict the happiness of your marriage. While many women are swapping out the classic white dress for other hues, brides-to-be might want to think twice before wearing the following shades, which are warned against (once again) via rhyme:

Married in Red, you will wish yourself dead, (we know this one is really a myth because many wedding dresses in China, India, Pakistan and Vietnam are red, a traditional colour of good luck,) Married in Yellow, ashamed of your fellow, Married in Green, ashamed to be seen, Married in Pink, your spirit will sink, Married in Grey, you will go far away, Married in Black, you will wish yourself back (ahem, Avril Lavigne).

5. The wedding veil offers protection. While veils might seem outdated and even silly nowadays, they're supposed to ward off evil spirits, according to Roman tradition. By hiding the bride's face, the veil supposedly keeps any wicked ghosts and bad juujuu away. Does this include evil mothers-in-law? hehe

6. Spiders are good luck. Find a spider inside your wedding gown before you walk down the aisle? Shriek all you like but know that, according to English legend, the creepy little guy is actually a "best of luck omen."

7. Hungry cats—also good luck. One of the more outrageous superstitions says that having a cat eat out of your left shoe one week before the wedding is good luck. Does your cat barfing on your pillow count?

8. Don't drop the rings. Because you'll die. Apparently, if you or your man accidently loses hold of your wedding bands, whoever drops the ring will be the one to die first. Which is totally something you want to think about during your marriage ceremony.

9. Your choice of flowers can bring good luck—and bad. Roses symbolize love, which could be why they're so popular for weddings. But all of you pinning photos of peonies on Pinterest might want to think twice about including them in your wedding décor: Apparently, they represent shame. Wah, wahhhh….

10. Buy something ASAP. If you want to have the upper hand in your marriage, be sure to make a purchase before your hubby does, says one legend. One way some brides used to this? They bought a small item off one of the bridesmaids right after the ceremony. Sneaky, sneaky.

11. Let people throw shoes at you. Tudor custom mandates that wedding guys throw shoes at a newly married couple for good luck. (Thankfully, most people just tie a pair to the back of their getaway car now.)

12. Bury the bourbon. According to Southern tradition, you can prevent rain from ruining on your wedding day by burying a bottle of bourbon exactly one month before your nuptials. (But you might want to chug that sweet, sweet alcohol instead—especially when you're in the one-month-before crunch time of stressful wedding planning craziness.)

13. Let it Rain...or Not. According to Alanis Morissette, rain on your wedding day is ironic, but the jury is out on whether or not it's lucky. Good omen proponents say some nuptial drizzle can be cleansing, unifying, and fertility-boosting, while others say the rain represents all the ugly-crying you'll do during your marriage (single tear).

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"I'm Not A Virgin—But I'm Waiting for My Wedding Night"

Way back when, women saved themselves for marriage all the time.

Now, a woman waiting to get down with her fiance 'til the night of their wedding is pretty damn rare.

But Jean S., 28, who got engaged last summer to her long-time boyfriend, Andrew L., 27, and is set to marry this September, doesn't fall into either of these categories.

Instead, the couple has decided to hold off on having sex until their wedding night...which is six months away.

"It actually kind of started by accident," Jean says. "We just realized we hadn't had sex in longer than usual because we had been so busy with work stuff, and we made a joke about it and somehow it turned into: 'Why don't we wait for the wedding?'"

Jean then said the joke turned into reality. "But then it was like, 'But why don't we wait for the wedding? It would make it even more special. And there's so much other stuff between us that's more important."

"It obviously won't be just like my first time all over again, but it'll be more special than a random Tuesday night. I think it'll add something. We're not having a super fancy wedding, either," she says.

The bigger question: How did she convince her fiance to go six months without sex?!

"Actually, he wasn't as against it as you would think," she said, laughing. "We've been really busy with moving, our jobs, and the wedding. Plus, there are plenty of other things besides regular old sex. We're not refraining from oral or anything. We're definitely both keeping ourselves and each other satisfied."

Well, then...

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7 Epic Wedding Hookup Stories

"I was bummed about sharing a room with a girl I didn't know at a friend's wedding, but went along with it to save cash. Luckily, I hooked up with a groomsman in his room on the first night of the weekend, so it wasn't an issue. The next night, I got lucky again when my roommate didn't come back to our room. Turns out, she was busy…hooking up with the same groomsmen that I was with the night before. Oops." —Kristin S.

"I'd never hooked up with a guy the first night I met him before, but after I met a sexy groomsmen at my friend's wedding, there was no way I wasn't spending the night with him. We spent the reception flirting together and ended up in his room, where we had incredibly hot sex. Afterward, I snuggled in the sheets while he went to the bathroom. And then he started screaming (not manly screaming, btw, but totally tween-at-a-Bieber-concert screaming). Turns out, I'd gotten my period and his manhood was covered in blood. We eventually laughed it off (kinda…not), but there was really no going back from that awkwardness." —Sara P.

"At my cousin's wedding, I had a bit too much to drink and ended up making out on the dance floor with one of his friends. It was fun at the time, but when I looked back at photos afterward I saw that not only had the top of my strapless dress slipped down below my bra pretty much all night but that the guy I was making out with had layer upon layer of red wine gunk all over his teeth. Hot." —Alison F.

"I attended a friend's wedding in East Hampton and I ended up hooking up with the groom's brother. The only problem was, I was wearing a slinky dress and didn't want any panty lines, so I went with a pair of control top pantyhose—not for one minute thinking this could ever present a problem. (Um, I wasn't planning to sleep with this brother of the groom.) I ended up having to borrow a pair of panties from the bride as well as a T-shirt, so I'd have something to sleep in. I still have the shirt because I was too embarrassed to return it and yes, I threw out the panties afterward." —Jami K.

"I was at a resort with my girlfriends when we spotted signs for a wedding. After a little debating, we decided to crash the party. We dressed a little nicer than usual to blend in—except it totally turned out to be black tie. As we were casually standing outside the reception area, a groomsman started chatting us up. We confessed we wanted to crash the wedding and he took us straight to the open bar. Soon after, we met the bride and groom…and they invited us to the after-party! That's where I spent the rest of the evening making out all over the place with the groomsman who let us into the wedding. All in all, not a bad night." —Kourtney N.

"My friends made it their mission to set me up with one of their friends from college at their wedding since we were both flying solo to their celebration. Despite the awkward-slash-obvious set-up, we ended up really hitting it off. We danced all night and I slept over in his hotel room. Soon after the wedding, he invited me to fly to visit him, and I did, even know we barely knew each other And, yeah. It was super awkward. I realized that what happens at a wedding should stay at a wedding…" —Lois M.

"After my wedding, my new husband and I walked into our bridal suite and found one of our bridesmaids and the best man doing the nasty right in our bed. Note to future brides: Don't give any male member of the bridal party the key to your room for 'safe keeping' if you don't want it used for other purposes." —Sarah G.

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7 Wedding Traditions That Need to Die

1. The bouquet toss
I used to think the bouquet was the most exciting part of a wedding. When I was 12. As I got older, and the crowd of women around me hungering for the bride's flowers thinned out to a handful of tweens and me, I realized how awful this tradition really is. Plus, I'm selfish and want to keep my bouquet to myself, m'kay?

2. The garter retrieval
There's nothing less sexy than your guy burrowing his head under your wedding dress while your dad—and his—watch. Not to mention your mother, your mother-in-law, your friends…need I go on? My groom can put his head between my legs all he wants on our honeymoon, but not in front of our nearest and dearest.

3. Bridesmaids
Why, in 2013, are we still down with the idea of forcing our friends to buy ugly coordinated dresses and stand up in uncomfortable high heels next to us while we get married? There is literally no reason to do this, now or ever. Sure, I suppose some people like the cuteness of taking pictures with their friends in matching outfits, but I did enough of that at the mall's glamour shot booth in middle school. Not trying to hate on gals who dream of a big bridal party, but I honestly don't see the point.

4. The white dress 
Full disclosure: I bought a white dress for my wedding. But I can't say I wasn't tempted by the blush, pink, and red frothy creations that have been floating down runways and taking up valuable real estate in bridal salons. While I chose to wear white—mainly because it fits my personal vision of how I'd like to look as a bride—I don't like the kinda sexist, virgin-y undertones of the tradition. 

5. The father give-away
This is another thing I'm probably going to do, even though I'm not totally down with the origin of the tradition—as in, the suggestion that a woman is an object given to her husband from her dear old dad. Still, I don't want to walk down the aisle alone (I'll trip and fall on my face, knowing my lack of composure in these types of high-pressure situations), my mom has politely declined the job for fear of the same aforementioned clumsiness, and I have two amazing fathers—my dad-dad and my step-dad—who would happily escort me. And, more importantly, keep me upright.

6. The not-seeing-each-other-beforehand thing
Honestly, I love this tradition of not seeing my groom until I'm walking down the aisle. It's kinda romantic, right? But I don't like the idea of following a superstition that, if we happen to catch a glance of each other, bad luck will befall our marriage. Plus, I'm going to be nervous as sh*t pre-ceremony and I want to be able to hug my fiancé and hear him tell me how pretty I look before we swap vows.

7. The cake smashing
It's become custom for couples to get into a mini food fight after cutting their ungodly expensive wedding cake. I get it. It's funny to see people in fancy clothing with food on their faces. Maybe I'm a bit uptight, but I'd prefer not to have chocolate ganache smeared up my nose (or on my dress) on my wedding day. Considering that most couples don't get a chance to eat at their receptions, I'd much rather put that cake where it belongs—in my belly. And then get myself back out on that dance floor.

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The Hot New Wedding Night Wear: Spanx

Buying bridal lingerie is practically as ritualistic as choosing your wedding gown. However, many women are now forgoing the sexy stuff and opting for practical instead, swapping itty-bitty lacy things for control top, suck-you-all-in shapewear. (So not as sexy.)

At least that's what's happening in Great Britain where, across the country, Spanx now out-sells bridal lingerie at Debenhams department stories six to one. This wasn't always the case, according to one of the store's personal shoppers, who told told the Daily Mail that lingerie used to be way more popular among brides than it is now.

Honestly, I totally get it. While buying some sexy bridal lingerie is one of the things I'm really looking forward to pre-wedding, I sure as heck don't want traipse around wearing garters under my dress all day nor have lace-covered underwire poking into my underboob while I'm trying to bust a move on the dance floor. Plus, in a white dress, on a day when about 4,000 photos are being taken of me every second, I'd like to keep the inevitable stomach pooch at bay.

So, while I'd love to be able to rip off my gown when we get to our honeymoon suite and surprise my groom with the hottest bra-and-panty set he's ever seen in his life, I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen. Plus, as far I know, no one has sex on their wedding night anyway (and most of us have already had it, many times, with and without sexy lingerie).

I'm still going to buy something pretty to sexily commemorate getting married—but I don't think my guy's going to have the chance to see it until our honeymoon.

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The Top 9 Obligatory Engagement and Wedding Photos Coming Soon to Instagram and Facebook

moving cross country, finding a great partner... or lobbing off all your hair a la Karlie Kloss). But don't fret: It's not an impossible task. It just takes some thought—and great advice.

"A lot of times people don't like what they're doing in their current job, but they haven't defined what they want to be doing in their potential new job," Nicole Williams, career expert and author of Girl On Top, tells Cosmopolitan.com.

She says nabbing your dream job starts with doing some soul-searching: "I ask people to assess components of their current working life, and match them against the career they are looking to get into."

Try asking yourself these questions...

Time: How many hours do you want to work and in what kind of environment? Big company, small, telecommute, work-from-home flexibility (you know, the kind banned at Yahoo!)

Challenge Level: How important is growth potential and being challenged to you? Are you ambitious and ready to lean in, or just looking for a 9 to 5 to fill your time?

Work Environment: Define your best possible scenario in terms of work relationships. Who are you working with and for? What kind of boss would be ideal? Do you have dreams of becoming a boss?

Passion: How important is passion to you? For example, a woman we know races triathlons and feels like she doesn't need to be passionate about her job; her passion is attached to her sport.

6. Money: How much do you need to make? How much money do you want to make?

Steps To Making A Career Change

Stop Delaying

"The longer you are in the job you are thinking of leaving, the further away you are from new opportunity," says Williams. "It doesn't get any easier. Doing it earlier is emotionally, mentally and professionally better."

Be Willing To Sacrifice Something

You may have to start from the bottom (or the middle) and work your way to the top; Either way, be ready to drop a few rungs on the corporate ladder.

"Internships can be a good idea—or be willing to take a pay cut," says Williams. "If this internship, for example, introduces you to influential people and helps develop a skill-set, you'll be able to take these things to leverage them into a bigger position."

Start Saving

"Have a solid idea of the risk and savings in the bank," advises Williams. Even if it means cutting back on luxuries. "If you know the internship is going to last for six months at a minimum, that's the number you need to have in savings, and I normally advise 10 to 20 percent in savings as a risk buffer."

Network

"People love to talk about themselves," says Williams. "Find them on LinkedIn and through people you know, and consult with them."

Williams suggests asking those in similar fields questions like, "I wonder if you'd speak to me about your day-to-day life; What do you love most about the work that you do; What do you wish you would have known going into this career?"

"Those kind of questions are going to give you the information you need and will help you know the people you are going to need to know," she adds.

Now that you are armed with more than just your resume and a fresh manicure, it's time to start hitting the pavement. Happy hunting, gals.

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moving cross country, finding a great partner... or lobbing off all your hair a la Karlie Kloss). But don't fret: It's not an impossible task. It just takes some thought—and great advice.

"A lot of times people don't like what they're doing in their current job, but they haven't defined what they want to be doing in their potential new job," Nicole Williams, career expert and author of Girl On Top, tells Cosmopolitan.com.

She says nabbing your dream job starts with doing some soul-searching: "I ask people to assess components of their current working life, and match them against the career they are looking to get into."

Try asking yourself these questions...

Time: How many hours do you want to work and in what kind of environment? Big company, small, telecommute, work-from-home flexibility (you know, the kind banned at Yahoo!)

Challenge Level: How important is growth potential and being challenged to you? Are you ambitious and ready to lean in, or just looking for a 9 to 5 to fill your time?

Work Environment: Define your best possible scenario in terms of work relationships. Who are you working with and for? What kind of boss would be ideal? Do you have dreams of becoming a boss?

Passion: How important is passion to you? For example, a woman we know races triathlons and feels like she doesn't need to be passionate about her job; her passion is attached to her sport.

6. Money: How much do you need to make? How much money do you want to make?

Steps To Making A Career Change

Stop Delaying

"The longer you are in the job you are thinking of leaving, the further away you are from new opportunity," says Williams. "It doesn't get any easier. Doing it earlier is emotionally, mentally and professionally better."

Be Willing To Sacrifice Something

You may have to start from the bottom (or the middle) and work your way to the top; Either way, be ready to drop a few rungs on the corporate ladder.

"Internships can be a good idea—or be willing to take a pay cut," says Williams. "If this internship, for example, introduces you to influential people and helps develop a skill-set, you'll be able to take these things to leverage them into a bigger position."

Start Saving

"Have a solid idea of the risk and savings in the bank," advises Williams. Even if it means cutting back on luxuries. "If you know the internship is going to last for six months at a minimum, that's the number you need to have in savings, and I normally advise 10 to 20 percent in savings as a risk buffer."

Network

"People love to talk about themselves," says Williams. "Find them on LinkedIn and through people you know, and consult with them."

Williams suggests asking those in similar fields questions like, "I wonder if you'd speak to me about your day-to-day life; What do you love most about the work that you do; What do you wish you would have known going into this career?"

"Those kind of questions are going to give you the information you need and will help you know the people you are going to need to know," she adds.

Now that you are armed with more than just your resume and a fresh manicure, it's time to start hitting the pavement. Happy hunting, gals.

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Inside Groomzilla Sean Parker's $9 Million Medieval-Themed Wedding

moving cross country, finding a great partner... or lobbing off all your hair a la Karlie Kloss). But don't fret: It's not an impossible task. It just takes some thought—and great advice.

"A lot of times people don't like what they're doing in their current job, but they haven't defined what they want to be doing in their potential new job," Nicole Williams, career expert and author of Girl On Top, tells Cosmopolitan.com.

She says nabbing your dream job starts with doing some soul-searching: "I ask people to assess components of their current working life, and match them against the career they are looking to get into."

Try asking yourself these questions...

Time: How many hours do you want to work and in what kind of environment? Big company, small, telecommute, work-from-home flexibility (you know, the kind banned at Yahoo!)

Challenge Level: How important is growth potential and being challenged to you? Are you ambitious and ready to lean in, or just looking for a 9 to 5 to fill your time?

Work Environment: Define your best possible scenario in terms of work relationships. Who are you working with and for? What kind of boss would be ideal? Do you have dreams of becoming a boss?

Passion: How important is passion to you? For example, a woman we know races triathlons and feels like she doesn't need to be passionate about her job; her passion is attached to her sport.

6. Money: How much do you need to make? How much money do you want to make?

Steps To Making A Career Change

Stop Delaying

"The longer you are in the job you are thinking of leaving, the further away you are from new opportunity," says Williams. "It doesn't get any easier. Doing it earlier is emotionally, mentally and professionally better."

Be Willing To Sacrifice Something

You may have to start from the bottom (or the middle) and work your way to the top; Either way, be ready to drop a few rungs on the corporate ladder.

"Internships can be a good idea—or be willing to take a pay cut," says Williams. "If this internship, for example, introduces you to influential people and helps develop a skill-set, you'll be able to take these things to leverage them into a bigger position."

Start Saving

"Have a solid idea of the risk and savings in the bank," advises Williams. Even if it means cutting back on luxuries. "If you know the internship is going to last for six months at a minimum, that's the number you need to have in savings, and I normally advise 10 to 20 percent in savings as a risk buffer."

Network

"People love to talk about themselves," says Williams. "Find them on LinkedIn and through people you know, and consult with them."

Williams suggests asking those in similar fields questions like, "I wonder if you'd speak to me about your day-to-day life; What do you love most about the work that you do; What do you wish you would have known going into this career?"

"Those kind of questions are going to give you the information you need and will help you know the people you are going to need to know," she adds.

Now that you are armed with more than just your resume and a fresh manicure, it's time to start hitting the pavement. Happy hunting, gals.

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moving cross country, finding a great partner... or lobbing off all your hair a la Karlie Kloss). But don't fret: It's not an impossible task. It just takes some thought—and great advice.

"A lot of times people don't like what they're doing in their current job, but they haven't defined what they want to be doing in their potential new job," Nicole Williams, career expert and author of Girl On Top, tells Cosmopolitan.com.

She says nabbing your dream job starts with doing some soul-searching: "I ask people to assess components of their current working life, and match them against the career they are looking to get into."

Try asking yourself these questions...

Time: How many hours do you want to work and in what kind of environment? Big company, small, telecommute, work-from-home flexibility (you know, the kind banned at Yahoo!)

Challenge Level: How important is growth potential and being challenged to you? Are you ambitious and ready to lean in, or just looking for a 9 to 5 to fill your time?

Work Environment: Define your best possible scenario in terms of work relationships. Who are you working with and for? What kind of boss would be ideal? Do you have dreams of becoming a boss?

Passion: How important is passion to you? For example, a woman we know races triathlons and feels like she doesn't need to be passionate about her job; her passion is attached to her sport.

6. Money: How much do you need to make? How much money do you want to make?

Steps To Making A Career Change

Stop Delaying

"The longer you are in the job you are thinking of leaving, the further away you are from new opportunity," says Williams. "It doesn't get any easier. Doing it earlier is emotionally, mentally and professionally better."

Be Willing To Sacrifice Something

You may have to start from the bottom (or the middle) and work your way to the top; Either way, be ready to drop a few rungs on the corporate ladder.

"Internships can be a good idea—or be willing to take a pay cut," says Williams. "If this internship, for example, introduces you to influential people and helps develop a skill-set, you'll be able to take these things to leverage them into a bigger position."

Start Saving

"Have a solid idea of the risk and savings in the bank," advises Williams. Even if it means cutting back on luxuries. "If you know the internship is going to last for six months at a minimum, that's the number you need to have in savings, and I normally advise 10 to 20 percent in savings as a risk buffer."

Network

"People love to talk about themselves," says Williams. "Find them on LinkedIn and through people you know, and consult with them."

Williams suggests asking those in similar fields questions like, "I wonder if you'd speak to me about your day-to-day life; What do you love most about the work that you do; What do you wish you would have known going into this career?"

"Those kind of questions are going to give you the information you need and will help you know the people you are going to need to know," she adds.

Now that you are armed with more than just your resume and a fresh manicure, it's time to start hitting the pavement. Happy hunting, gals.

Want more stories from Carson? Follow her on Twitter.

Photo Credit: Getty Images">Whether you're a doctor who dreams of doing hair, or a hairdresser dreaming of climbing the corporate ladder, career expert Nicole Williams has pro tips on how to get started.

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Having A Friend Or Family Member Officiate Your Wedding: Yea or Nay?

Blake Shelton will be double-booked the night of Kelly Clarkson's wedding, but not the way it sounds.

The American Idol alum has asked her pal to not only sing at her wedding to fiance Brandon Blackstock, but also to officiate it. No word yet whether the country crooner is certified yet to perform the nuptials, but these days, he can do that in one afternoon on the internet.

Full disclosure: My younger brother holds a degree from Harvard—and an online verification from the Universal Life Church saying he can proceed over weddings as a minister. He, Conan O'Brien, and 20M others, who have all been ordained online. If you're looking to get ordained yourself, or get someone ordained, it's not too difficult: Just type it in to Google, and hundreds of sites will pop up, a lot of them linking you back to the Universal Life Church.

This is the most popular, and quickest, way to become an ordained minister, or person to marry two people in this country, although it differs from state-to-state on what is considered legal. For instance, Connecticut, Alabama, Virginia, Tennessee, a part of Pennsylvania, and oddly enough, Las Vegas does not necessarily recognize the credentials of those who get ordained online to proceed over weddings.

Having family members and friends perform this duty at weddings seems to be a growing trend that's seeping into our consciousness—how else?—via Hollywood. Emma Stone officiated her publicist's wedding back in November, after introducing her to her director husband.

Vanessa Williams oversaw her Ugly Betty co-star America Ferrera's wedding to Ryan Piers Williams in 2011, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden were married by pal Rev Run in 2010, Mark Consuelos played the part at Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky's 2008 nuptials, and Victor Garber married off his Alias co-star and close friend Jennifer Garner to Ben Affleck in 2005. Closer to home, a friend of mine had her sister officiate her wedding instead of being the Matron of Honor.

"I felt as my sister she deserved an even greater position in my wedding," she explained to me. Her sister took classes at a local community center in Indiana to prep for her duties and to make it official.

But is this an honor you'd want to bestow on a pal, parent, co-worker or sibling? Or does it take away from the authority to have your brother who gave you wedgies growing up to then marry you? If I ever get married, my little bro won't be my first choice (or probably any of them) to proceed over the wedding, but he's definitely offered up his services to myself, all of his friends, and anyone else on their way to the altar. Any takers?

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Wearing Red—or Black!—on Your Wedding Day? Why Not!

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The Top 9 Obligatory Engagement and Wedding Photos Coming Soon to Instagram and Facebook

Spoiler alert! That’s what we'd call the moment your future brother-in-law Facebooks a pic of your fiancé in the process of proposing. Live-posting someone else's engagement is a bold move reserved for the truly splashy, allowing the world to see the exact moment the q was popped, and how everyone else was reacting when he got down on one knee (namely Dad turning white and Grandma catching zzz's at the table). Still, usually yields around 100 "likes!"

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<i>Harry Potter</i> Themed Wedding Proposal Will Make You Die

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Korin is the site director for Cosmopolitan.com. She loves uncovering cool new research and learning more about what makes guys tick. Outside the Cosmo office, you can find her running with her dog, trying to convince friends to go to karaoke bars, and watching as much reality TV as humanly possible. Hit her up on Twitter: @korinmiller
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Michelle Ruiz
Michelle is the news editor for Cosmopolitan.com. She's obsessed with interviewing celebrities and spotting the latest pop culture trends. Her life highlights include chatting with Ryan Gosling about sex dolls, dancing on stage at the Oprah show, and shopping with her mom on Long Island. Tweet her: @michelleruiz
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Dara Adeeyo
Dara is the associate web editor for Cosmopolitan.com. She's intrigued by all things digital. Dara loves playing with html and discovering new studies. When she's not reading up on the latest cocktail recipes (for work, of course), she can be found breaking it down on the dance floor or watching the Investigative Discovery channel. She also has a sick obsession with nail polish, elephants, and most importantly, Nutella. Dara basically lives on Twitter, so tweet at her and say hey: @dadeeyo.
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Elisa Benson
Elisa Benson is the senior editor of social media for @Cosmopolitan?so, yes, she tweets about sex for a living. Elisa grew up in Ohio, attended Colgate University, and wrote love and relationship advice for Seventeen before graduating to Cosmo. She lives for girly things (weddings and eyelash extensions and Pretty Little Liars?) and frequently tweets about all of the above: @elisabenson.
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