Tag: WEDDING

A fellow drops on one knee, hands a girl an iPad 2 with a wedding proposal engraved on the back, and the rest is history. After all, you know what they say: diamonds may be forever, but fresh-off-the-assembly-line iPads are a girl's best friend. They do say that, don't they? This latest techy proposal may not be as rollicking as that iPhone one, or as supremely nerdy as the Pokemon question, ...

Police in Michigan have arrested a man on charges of polygamy after discovering some incriminating wedding photos on Facebook. In 2004, 34-year-old Richard Leon Barton, Jr. reportedly married a Rhode Island woman, whom he'd met online. Not long after their wedding, Barton mysteriously de-friended his new bride on Facebook, and soon vanished from her life altogether. Though the two had discussed ...

Share On her wedding day, 27-year-old Helen Oh found herself standing alone at the altar, in front of 500 friends and family. Samuel Kim, her husband-to-be, wasn't by her side, and wasn't even in the same building. But the Big Day still ended on a high note, thanks to some resourceful improvisation, and a Skype connection. A few days before the wedding, Kim came down with a serious lung ...

If saying "I do" is in your near future, Google has launched a wedding planning site. According to The Official Google Blog, Google Weddings offers four main tools for the soon-to-be-married: Google Sites for creating a website that can be shared with the wedding party; Picnik for editing photos; Google Documents for creating seating charts, schedules and budgets with wedding-themed templates; ...

Weddings are expensive. According to the Wedding Report, a research firm run by We TV, the average American wedding costs $19,581. And things aren't any cheaper overseas. U.K. weddings are reported to clock in at an average of £11,000. So, it's no surprise that some couples struggle to afford traditional nuptial rituals. Emma Collins and Shaun Parsons, a British couple with three children, ...

Need further proof that the Internet is turning us into anti-social, asexual balls of pathetic brain mush? Look no further than the results of a new survey from security firm PC Tools. According to the survey, 29-percent of American Internet users see no problem whatsoever with accessing the Internet during a wedding, 41-percent think it's perfectly acceptable to surf during family dinners, ...

French workers, in an entirely unorthodox turn of events, have gone on strike today to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to raise the national retirement age by a couple of years. If recent history is any indication, today's strike will make headlines around the country, but it certainly won't do the kind of damage that Facebook recently did to French Immigration Minister Eric Besson's ...

Share It may seem like a trivial choice to some, but picking out the perfect wedding ring is actually a pretty major decision. This is the piece of jewelry, after all, that your future spouse will be wearing (in theory) til death do you part, so it probably shouldn't look like a Ring Pop. Even more importantly, this ring could one day serve as an immediate deterrent to any bar flies or hussies ...

Ridiculously long lines of surly shoppers greeted the iPhone 4's official arrival last week. For those smelly campers who returned home to dismayed and agitated significant others (as long as it wasn't empty handed), a brand new app may help inspire the jilted lovers to forget their temporarily subordinate status to a gadget. Tiffany and Co. now offers the 'Ring Finder' app, which guides ...

How do you know when your iPad love crosses into unhealthily obsessive territory? When your entire wedding ceremony revolves around it. As Gizmodo reports, one happily married couple recently had the geektastic idea of conducting their entire wedding (i.e., the most important day of their lives) with an iPad. As you can see in this video, appropriately titled 'iPad Wedding,' the officiant ...

The Icelandic volcano that froze European air traffic this year may have disrupted vacations and business meetings for anyone traveling within or through the continent, but it certainly didn't keep one British man from marrying his Australian girlfriend... on Skype. Sean Murtagh, from west London, and Australian Natalie Mead had already been officially married in Brisbane, Australia, but were ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Print is dead! Long live the... slide projector? Rotary Magazine is a boutique publication that appropriates old transparencies found on eBay and presents them as a ...

Share Every bride and groom wants their wedding to be unique and memorable. For gamers and nerds the world over, a soon-to-be married couple just might have set a new bar that will never be risen above. According to Offbeat Bride, Darina and her groom Niko ditched traditional paper wedding invitations, instead opting for a playable video game called "Darina and Niko's Incredible Adventure." ...

Share Geek weddings are nothing new to the Switched beat. Video game 'Katamari Damacy' inspired one service, and we've seen one set of marriage vows culminate in a groom updating his Facebook relationship status. In 2010, we'll supposedly see the first weddings... in spaaaaace. Today's tale of geeky nuptials comes to you from that gleaming, subterranean realm known as Manhattan's Fifth Avenue ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Using only sounds from the first and second Terminator movies, YouTube user Pogo created a funky dance tune cut and chopped with images of Ahnold, Sarah Connor, and of ...