Celebrating love and preparing for the big day! Today is Saturday, November 21, 2009

Is the Engagement Chicken Myth True?

Oct15

According to Glamour Magazine, there is a specific roasted chicken recipe that, well, helps you get engaged!  It all started when an editor at the magazine gave the recipe to an assistant who made the delicious dish for her boyfriend.  Within a month, she was engaged!  As the recipe was passed around from assistant to assistant, the weddings had been sparked!

Could it be too good to be true?  The magazine claims that over 26 engagements (that they know about) relate back to a certain chicken dish that was made in the not-so-distant past.  And just this very month a Glamour writer for the popular blog "Smitten" got engaged post-chicken roasting.

So while all of our OurWeddingDay.com brides may already be engaged (congratulations by the way!) surely there are friends out there in relationships who also want to get engaged.  And who enjoy roast chicken.

You can find the Engagement Chicken recipe here.  Pass it around... and let us test it for ourselves to see if the myth is true.  I think I'll be making this dish myself in the next coming weeks!


Sonia Sotomayor Performed a Wedding!

Oct15

Imagine being married by one of our Supreme Court Justices!

Check it out: Sonia Sotomayor recently honored one of her former law clerks when she married Danielle Feldman Tarantolo and Sean Henderson Murray!

Read the full story here.


Popping the Question On Stage with Mariah Carey!

Oct15

There has been a lot of talk lately about whether proposals should be private, combining wedding proposals and the arts, proposals that double as media events and even on-stage rock-star wedding stuff... and now a true pop diva is in on the action.

Check out this video of a marriage proposal between Maurie Sherman and Matthew Almeida on stage at a Mariah Carey concert, complete with mimi herself 'cheers'-ing them with champagne!

Good thing he said "yes!"


Do Language Barriers Help Marriages?

Oct15

Is there a language barrier between you and your groom-to-be?  Lucky you!

Jag Carrao just posted and interesting article over at The Huffington Post, "Surprising Advantages of Dating Someone You Can't Understand." Citing doctors, relationship counselors and even Sean Connery (who credits his 30 year marriage to often not understanding his French wife), Carrao thinks the argument has merit and even provides a half-serious list of its benefits:

  • No man-terrifying “relationship talks.”
  • Fewer heated debates about stem cell research and Oscar predictions.
  • Less ambiguity about date logistics (aware of the language barrier, he nails down date/time/place to avoid any misunderstanding).
  • Exotic charm of endearments uttered in a foreign tongue.
  • And most importantly: less conversation, more kissing.


Of course, she also details the obvious drawbacks to not understanding your spouse... but those aren't as funny!  Check out the full article here!