Weddings

For Masterpiece Cakeshop, coming out against gay weddings is good for business

Reader: Don't want criticism? Don't refuse to make a gay wedding cake

Last week Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig stopped by Lakewood's Masterpiece Cakeshop to order a cake for their wedding reception -- what they hoped would be a rainbow-layered masterpiece decked out in teal and red frosting (their ceremony colors). Although they'll be reciting their vows in Provinceto ... More >>

Reader: Puke green bridesmaid dress colors my memory

Truth is definitely stranger than fiction -- especially when it's all gussied-up in a bridesmaid's dress. In honor of Bridesmaids, the featured movie at Film on the Rocks tomorrow (the festivities will also include the premiere of the Nix Bros.-produced video for T.J. Miller's Denver), we asked peop ... More >>

Share your worst bridesmaid dress (or your worst story), win tickets for Bridesmaids

Some of us hate Bridesmaids, if only for the fact that it likely was one of the reasons Kristen Wiig decided to leave SNL. Oscar nominations will do that to an actor/writer. However! We found a pair of tickets to see the movie at Film on the Rocks on Tuesday night at Red Rocks, and we know that man ... More >>

Death of the civil unions bill got you down? Just do what I'm doing, and marry a gay guy

After sitting through two recesses and a combined seven hours of debate and testimony before the House State Affairs Committee killed the civil unions bill last night, I left the Capitol with a numb ass and a heavy heart. But as I and other GLBTQ persons and allies face another year of Colorado legi ... More >>

Music App Roundup: Bandito, Groove Coaster, My Wedding Music, Voloco, Rdio

​As smartphones have opened the door to amazing mobile applications, the sheer amount of them being released makes it difficult to keep up with the best of them. So to help filter though all of it, we take a look at the best and tally them up here. This round, we've got an amazing rhythm game, ... More >>

Ten steps to make your wedding awesomely tra$hy

​We survived another wedding season, folks. With August officially upon us, the chances of being invited to any more summer ceremonies is nearly over. Looking back on many blissful marital moments, however, we've learned a lot about what to do and, better yet, what not to do at weddings -- and ... More >>

Adam Cayton-Holland: Comic proposes onstage at Red Rocks to a girl who doesn't exist (VIDEO)

Cayton-Holland.​Freaky weather shut down Film on the Rocks last week. But before being driven off by rains and lightning, at least the crowd got to see one spectacle: local stand-up comic and Westword alum Adam Cayton-Holland getting down on one knee and proposing to his beloved Lizzy. As show ... More >>

Foodie Registry brings Denver couples a non-houseware wedding gift option

​Ben Reid and his wife, Jennifer, didn't intend to register for their wedding. "We'd been living together for a year, we were a little older and we were happy with our towels and toasters," Ben explains. "It seemed wasteful to ask for gifts." But family pressure prevailed, sending Jennifer to ... More >>

Couple gets free burgers for a year after holding their wedding reception at Smashburger

Photo: Hunter StevensThis Smashburger location in Aurora was the setting for a wedding reception on Saturday.​It's spring and love is in the air, as is the smell of grilled meat.

Ron Ben-Israel dishes on his career, weddings and tomorrow's Park Meadows appearance

Brian Dorsey Studio, NYC​If you don't know who Ron Ben-Israel is, then we're going to make the wild guess that you aren't getting married anytime soon. Or didn't get married anytime in the recent past. Or don't follow celebrity weddings at all. Or never watch Wedding Central, the cable televis ... More >>

Herby the (Denver County) Love Judge to retire

Not Galchinsky.​ Herby the Love Judge is leaving the bench. After spending sixteen years as a Denver County Court judge, Herbert Galchinsky is hanging up his black robe in January due to the county's mandatory-retirement-at-age-72 rule. The court is now accepting applications for his replacem ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony and Lala Vazquez exclusive wedding fotos: Kenny Be's Fotochop Friday

Full-sized photos below.​Carmelo Anthony and Lala Vazquez may have sold their exclusive wedding broadcast rights to cable channel VH1, but that doesn't mean you will have to wait until the reality show airs in September to see photographs of awful bridesmaids' dresses and drunk-celebrity rece ... More >>

What's a Little Marriage Fraud Between Amigos?

It's a felony, sure, but in the absence of real immigration reform, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants see it as their best path to citizenship

Lala Vazquez scoring more often than Carmelo Anthony lately

Carmelo and La La want to share.​Lala Vazquez may not be the queen of all media yet, but she's in the running. She's the cover girl on the debut issue of the new mag Juicy and her forthcoming nuptials with Nuggets baller Carmelo Anthony will be the subject of a VH1 reality series to premiere o ... More >>

Vows with a View

In sickness and in health, 'til tuna do we cut

Non-traditional weddings are the new black. The bride wears whatever she wants, the wedding party jams to Kanye as they bebop down the aisle and beaches, backyards, and city parks have replaced chapels and churches. But a couple in Japan recently took the cake (or the sashimi, more appropriately) ... More >>

Strike Forth

The Aluminous Collective ponders the vagaries of Big Love

Getting hitched the Denver Cruiser way

Do You Take This Shmuck to Have and to Hold?

Things to Wear to a Wedding: Your Own

Wedding Bells

Wedding Bells

Baby Bargains Dishes Dirt

Alan and Denise Fields are on a mission to warn new parents about the baby/industrial complex.

Cyber Brides

The Bridesmaid

Starz FilmCenter

Sushi Den

Sake to them

Drunk of the Week

Capitol Lounge

Drunk of the Week

Dr. Etiquette's Wedding Reception Survival Guide

The Beatdown

DJ Quote gets caught in the Troubleshooter’s crosshairs.

Drunk of the Week

The Elm

Wed Alert!

Russian Roulette

The bride says she married for love; her mother-in-law suspects it was money. The only person who can settle the dispute is dead.

Best Budget Wedding Dresses

Puttin' on the Ritz

Best Unusual Wedding Venue

The Butterfly Pavilion

Best Appearance by Colorado Newlyweds in a National Magazine

Gary Magness/Sarah Siegel
In Style Weddings

Photo Finish

Vuong Vu is cornering the market on west Denver weddings, and yes, yes -- he likes it!

Check, Please!

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

Five Women, No Plot

A lively bridal-party setup fails to mate with a story line.

Check, Please!

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

Check, Please!

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

Best wedding invitations

Paper Talk

Best wedding photographer

Moses Street

Follow That Story

A new king in the castle.

They Were Saved

Broken Vows

Marriage will be costly for the couples who planned to wed at Pitkin County's Redstone Castle.