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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?