Smart Talk Topics Engagement & Marriage
 

Planning a honeymoon on a budget means you’re probably willing to think outside the box. Here, we’ve gathered some information on locations that are easy on the wallet and also rather unexpected.
Time.com included Canada, Iceland and South Korea on a list of the best places to travel in a recession. Heading to Canada would cut […]

Fear brings out the worst in people, and marriage certainly brought out the worst in me.
Unlike most young women I knew, I was less than thrilled to be going from a “me” to a “we.” Don’t get me wrong. I loved Michael, the man I was marrying, but I wasn’t used to taking others into […]

Being a runaway bride has nothing on a Japanese groom’s tactic for avoiding his nuptials: setting fire to the hotel where he was meant to marry later in the day.
Reuters reports that the 39-year-old groom, Tatsuhiko Kawata, told police he set fire to the hotel so he “wouldn’t have to go through with the wedding.” […]

Why aren’t you in an open relationship yet? Carla Bruni Sarkozy, wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, famously “prefers polygamy and polyandry.” In July, Reveal magazine quoted Will Smith as saying that he and wife Jada Pinkett-Smith allow each other extra-marital dalliances. Oprah did a segment on open marriages. And both YourTango contributor Jenny Block […]

Whew. According to reports, Angelina Jolie is totally willing to get married to Brad Pitt now. The reason has nothing to do with religious sentiment or her esteem for him. It’s for the kids. Good work, way to let sound, scientific research help with good decision making. While we’re at it, Kathy Hilton don’t think you’re all that. Sorry.

Ever notice that Nelly Furtado looks a lot like Courtney Cox? Yeah. It’s a pretty good celebrity lookalike. In addition to her doppelganger status, she also got a secret wedding back in July. That was a year after she and sound engineer Demacio Castellon were engaged, so perfect timing. Also, she has Portuguese citizenship and made an album called Whoa, Nelly!

The Simpsons started us down this road in which everything is the best, worst, most, or least. Sure, it could be the Best Week Ever, but it probably isn’t. In that regard, what makes a Best Man the best man? And what makes him the worst Best Man? There are probably degrees of ruining a wedding and this video has to be right up there.

A weatherman in Lubbock, Texas used another stations news set to propose to his girlfriend. It turns out that she’s an anchor for ABC and he’s the rain-and-shine guy for CBS. But that did not stop Matt Laubhan from asking Emily Leonard to be his wife on Lubbock’s KMAC evening news.

As we approach the 2008 presidential election, we’re naturally inquisitive about our future leader: his standpoint on the economy, his views on foreign policy and his choice of running mate. Many are also curious to know what his relationship with his wife (or potential other woman) is like. The secret love lives of our presidents […]

Connecticut today became the third state to extend the same rights to same-sex marriages as those that apply to straight couples.
The state Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that Connecticut’s previously approved civil unions are unconstitutional and discriminatory. The dissenting opinion argued that the “regulation of procreation,” which it said includes defining marriage as […]

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