Jezebel: Wedded Bliss

Feel-Good Alert! Flash-Mob Wedding Goes Viral

Sadie Stein — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:30:00 EST

When Caroline Turcksin and Jon Kleiman decided to get married, they wanted a wedding short on commercialism and long on audience participation. It's no shocker that their flash-mob ceremony in Boston's Prudential Center has gone viral! More »

Jane Lynch's New York Times Wedding Announcement

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:20:00 EDT

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Adorable details from Jane Lynch and Lara Embry's NYT wedding announcement: Jane's vows included a promise, "to be the very best parent I can be," to Embry's 8-year-old daughter Haden, who performed Madonna's "Vogue" with Jane at the reception. [NYT] More »

Barack & Michelle Obama's Marriage Is Happy, Boring

Kate Harding — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EDT

Of course, that's not what most headlines are saying about the revelations in Christopher Andersen's new biography of the first couple, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. But it sure sounds like the gist of the book. More »

Marriage: For Adults Only

Sadie Stein — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:40:00 EDT

We thought engagement meant we'd get married. Everyone else thought it meant a wedding. When's the "right" time to get married? More »

Will Your Marriage Last? Vintage Chart Tells All!

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:20:00 EST

An Associate Professor of Social Economy at Bryn Mawr named Hornell Hart, created a chart — printed in the October 1927 issue of Popular Science — which predicts one's chances for marital happiness using "a new scientific method." The chart (pictured after the jump) is based on the age of the groom and the age of the bride. Hart used "four authoritative investigations" — a study of 100 divorce cases; confidential statements from 1000 women, 116 of whom said their marriages were unhappy; an investigation of "child marriages"; and lastly, an analysis of 1000 marriages done by Hart himself — 500 of which "had reached such difficulties that they had appealed to the Domestic Relations Court." From all of this information, Hart made a graph that predicts the outcome of a marriage based on the ages of the bride and groom. More »