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“I have everything she wants: a husband and a child.”

That is an actual sentence uttered by a character in Jenny’s Wedding, a tonally deaf film to the times, a film about a group of largely insufferable characters who we’re forced to deal with for 90 minutes. Katherine Heigl and Tom Wilkinson try their very best to carry the weight of the entire film, but the parents and sister (Grace Gummer, playing my least favorite character in a film in ages) are so unlikeable and Alexis Bledel so…

Thousands of people get married at Disney theme parks every year; the one in Florida even has a wedding pavilion with views of Cinderella's castle. If you want to get hitched in the Walt Disney Company's company, they sing "Be Our Guest" and make it happen—provided you pony up. Venues start at $12,000, and that's an economy package.

Lex Emmanuel and Emily Rose of Oakland didn't much like the idea of a fat nuptial bill from their favorite theme park. Their solution: Just smuggle the…

Morgan Woodard of Morgan Joy Photography shoots 35 or more weddings per year in Mobile and Baldwin counties. Often, the weddings are elaborate and expensive.

So when it came to her own recent wedding, she kept it small and easy. In her experience, "Most of the time the bride does everything to impress her friends instead of focusing on the meaning of her wedding," she said. "I think a wedding should be a joyful, happy celebration."

And that's just what she had, with a venue…

Time to start pulling out something old, new and blue! The celebrity wedding planner and TV host David Tutera is presenting his “Your Wedding Experience” Sunday, August 9 at the NRG Center.

The event will help brides and grooms budget for their wedding and map out their plans for the special day. Tutera has seen a common mistake of budgeting issues with couples when planning for the special occasion.