wedding dress

    By Catherine New

    | 7:30AM 9/08/2011
    With the ink barely dry on their marriage certificates, and piles of thank-you notes yet to be written, many brides are wasting no time getting their summer wedding dresses on the block for fall gown-buying season, hoping to cash out on their investment and eliminate a storage issue in one fell swoop.

    By Linda Doell

    | 8:00AM 7/07/2011
    Weddings can be the stuff dreams are made of. Unfortunately, nightmares, too. Just ask the couple whose wedding and reception was supposed to be at a mansion in the Tampa, Fla., area -- before the property owner canceled three weeks before their big day. The groom told Reddit they managed to save...

    By James O'Brien

    | 2:00PM 3/01/2011
    As spring approaches, so does the season for weddings -- and for fleecing unsuspecting brides-and-grooms to be who don't pay attention to their contracts, leaving them open to get stuck with all kinds of surprise surcharges, overcharges and outright rip-offs. Falling into that last category are...

    By Tom Barlow

    | 3:00PM 9/17/2009
    This happens every day: a bride-to-be finds the perfect Vera Wang gown, but at $15,000 it's just too expensive. All too often, in the passion of the moment, she flings caution to the wind and spends the money anyway, only to end up with thousands of dollars worth of silk and lace in a size she'll...