Brides, which is one of the 5 top national monthly wedding magazines, has ranked Salt Lake City’s McCune Mansion as one of the top fifty romantic wedding venues in the United States.
The twenty seven room early twentieth century house features a romantic manicured garden and old world interior details. The Inn on the Hill, which McCune’s sister property, is another charming and beautiful place for friends and family to stay there before or after the wedding ceremony, reported the publication.
The McCune Mansion is situated at 200 N. Main St. and is listed on National Register of Historic Places. The mansion was purchased by the McCarthey family in the year 1999 and returned the mansion to its original architectural splendor.
Wedding planning business is a very popular entry point for wannabe solo entrepreneurs to get themselves into this industry, since a wedding planner does not require much more than just some expertise, a website and business cards to get started in this lucrative and profitable industry.
Marriage represent around a US$ 51 billion market in United States, and pairs are investing more in marriage planning services to turn their special days into an unforgettable one. Since the year 2009, spending on marriage planners has increased to forty seven percent. Earlier the average was US$ 995 in 2012, the average turned into US$ 1466, reported a market research firm.
In Kentucky, a well known Bible Belt state in the United States where people have voted for a constitutional amendment stopping same-sex wedding, the movement to bring gay rights has got two factions.
One looks to overturn discrimination via a legislative path, saying that it faces long odds. The other group wants to break all the barriers to gay wedding with demonstrations as well as civil disobedience. Kentucky’s Fairness Campaign head Chris Hartman spends a lot of time lobbying for a non-discrimination law which would protect the lesbians and gays from losing their jobs or being refused housing because of their different sexual orientation.
He confesses that the law that has been proposed each year for ten years and has never been brought to a vote, has a very little scope of passing soon. After that, there is Rev. Maurice Blanchard and according to him he is less patient. Now he is asking people to join in the historic gay rights march on 26th March on the state capitol; the very same day that the Supreme Court starts hearing 2 gay marriage cases: one on a California wedding ban and another on a federal law which stops the definition of wedding to the union of man and woman.
Chris Hartman told that marriage is on the forefront of many people’s minds, and it is tough to go to the folks who are excited about relationship recognition and be the person to say.
Tiffany Isenberg calls up the day in October which changed everything in her life; when the person she had planned to spend the rest of her life with told that he had lung cancer. Tiffany told that James Quarterman, her lover, had gone through a series of doctor’s appointment few days back and came to know that he had around a year to live.
Isenberg said her partner, James Quarterman, had gone to a routine doctor’s appointment earlier that month and learned he had about a year to live. James told that when something like this takes place, you look at your life in a different way. Now, the pair want to tie the knot in the days James has left.
Tiffany told that it is really important to them that they be married. He is healthy at present, therefore they could relish this time. But with their 7 children from past relationships – 4 of whom they are bringing up in their home in Bloomington – they could not afford a traditional marriage ceremony. Therefore, the couple decided to arrange a simple marriage at courthouse.
Now, they have altered everything – no court house marriage, Mall of America ice castle wedding in. Quarterman and Tiffany are among the eleven pairs who would tie the knot on this Valentine’s Day at Ice Castle as a part of a competition that is sponsored by KARE TV and this mall.
In the Kent Wedding Awards, Chiddingstone Castle, one of the most picturesque places in England, has been voted as the best wedding venue in Kent. Ali Ditzel (the director of the castle) and Natalie Wilkins (weddings coordinator) collected the trophy from the well known comedian Hal Cruttenden and Chris Melton( from award organizers – Brilliant Marketing). Around four hundred guests were presented at the event.
Ali Ditzel is one of those people who tied the knot in this castle. She told that the whole team at the Chiddingstone Castle is really happy to win this magnificent award. They were confronted with some very tough contest.
She added that wedding ceremonies are the main source of income for the private charitable trust which runs this castle. Therefore, this award is really important to them. People come from all over South East region and more importantly as far away from London to tie the knot and also have their wedding reception inside the castle or at the castle grounds.
Picturesque Chiddingstone Castle has already got bookings for nest year which even exceeded the number for the whole of 2012. Ditzel further added that this award can only help them to hold their momentum.
This place is known as one of the finest historic places in Kent. Since fifteenth century, there is a house on the Chiddingstone Castle site.
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