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We just updated our New York Metro Wedding Guide with a new article about finding your ideal NYC wedding reception caterer.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, it’s probably because everyone’s too busy eating the wonderful food. Continental, French, Italian; anything you want can be had here, so fill up on your wedding day. Gourmands are as popular as eager actors, and finding the right caterer for your New York wedding should be the casting call of the year. Check out the full article to get the perfect guy for the part.

And if you're not planning a wedding in the New York Metro area, perhaps one of our other local wedding guides would be more useful for you: The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Houston, Indianapolis, or the San Francisco Bay Area.

We just updated our Dallas/Fort Worth Wedding Guide with a new article all about finding the perfect wedding cake baker in the Metroplex.

Dallas is designed on the principle that bigger is better. Big dresses, big cars, big cake! As such, finding the right wedding cake baker here is, well, no big deal. Desserts topple the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, with bakeries flourishing like wildflowers. Check out the full article for ten gallon tips!

And if you're not planning a wedding in the Dallas Metroplex area, perhaps one of our other local wedding guides would be more useful for you: New York, Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Houston, Indianapolis, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Les Atwell, 94, and Sheila Walsh, 87, just married after a four-year courtship,  becoming "Britain's oldest newlyweds."

Check out the full story here.

We love Les' quote on wedding planning: "It didn't take us long to organise the wedding. You can't hang around at our age."

This is our official "adorable of the day."  Check out this wedding invitation a designer made to reflect the 8-bit video games from the 1980's.  We're a little bit in love.

Check out more photos of the invitation here.  This could have only been cuter if it were Mario and the Princess.  Not that we played video games or anything....

Oh yeah...

We just posted a new article on something we hope you won't have to consider: Is it ever okay to "fire" one of my wedding attendants?

Even though it’s your wedding day, you’re not supposed to “fire” someone in your wedding party, whether it’s a restless Flower girl or your Maid of Honor. However, there are times when a situation is so unpleasant or unavoidable you need to do some major downsizing. Check out the full article for how and when to make the final decisions.

Over at NY blog Gothamist there's this great post about a marriage proposal in the middle of the famed New York Marathon!

"This runner stopped along the NYC Marathon course, right after mile 16 (coming off the 59th St. Bridge into Manhattan) and proposed to his girl. He pulled a ring out of his pocket (I'm assuming it was a ring box - it was something black and square) and they had a few moments. I didn't think to get a shot of his bib number to identify him, so I'm hoping that people might link to this pic on Facebook or twitter in hopes that it'll get to this couple. I'm sure they'd love to have it. :-)"

Check out the full Gothamist post here.

We love that he carried the ring with him on the run and then stopped racing to pop the question!

We just updated out Houston Wedding Guide with a new article all about how to have your perfect East Texas wedding cake!

The only thing sweeter than a Southern dessert is a Texas-size helping. Order up your wedding cake in Houston, and you’ll get both. Like the entire South, sweets are de rigueur in Texas’s largest city, so finding the perfect wedding cake baker should be as fun as a roll in the haystack. Check out the full article for delicious tips.

And if you're not planning a wedding in the Houston area, perhaps one of our other local wedding guides would be more useful for you: New York, Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Indianapolis, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.

Check out Anne Naylor's new article, "How Forgiveness in Marriage Builds Intimacy."

She writes, "How often do couples bury a hurt and let it rot the relationship over time? It can take courage to openly let your partner know when they have hurt you, so that you place yourself in the position to forgive them; for them to express their love and regret for the misunderstanding or incident. It should be easy with the one you love the most to be that caring and honest. But often, as was in my own case, it is not."

Check out the full article here.

She goes on to offer advice on how to accept and forgive your spouse.  Being more forgiving and accepting has to be a goal for us all, right?

Oh boy, it's time for one of our favorite blog series: Altarcations.

It's a weekly feature over at Gawker, in which Phyllis Nefler reviews The New York Times' "Weddings" section.  And we love it.

This week Halloween weddings make an expected appearance, as does a wedding which was fully described before it took place (spoooooky!), the introduction of the acronym "LOB" into the lexicon (it stands for "Level of Brutality"), and a whole lot more.

Check out thois week's Altarcations here.

The Times of London is running a piece about what it means to be a "good wife." Moreover, it's aimed at men and urges them to be better husbands.

Written by Shane Watson, it's broken down into pointed sections:

• "Make Him a Priority"
• "Have Sex"
• "Beware Resentment"
• and "Be Kind and Supportive"

...before segueing into a companion piece, "How to Be a Good Husband," by Matt Rudd.

It's an interesting, and controversial, article: It addresses culture, history, feminism, parenting, career and much more.  And it's begging to be debated.  What's your take?