You Can Get Hitched in the Jail, or Above I-40, or at a Lot of Weird Places
The Durham County Detention Facility isn’t the first place you’d think of to get hitched. Unless you’re Natalie Spring and Harris Carpenter, that is. The Durham couple had vowed not to get married until same-sex marriage was legalized in North Carolina. In 2008, they had a commitment ceremony that wasn’t conventional either. The ceremony took…
Seriously, Stop Playing “Blurred Lines” at Your Wedding
There’s a near-infinite crop of songs you can queue up to celebrate the new chapter of your life with your partner. But here are some you should absolutely, under no circumstances, play when you get married. No, these aren’t the well-worn favorites like Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” or Etta James’s “At Last.” These are…
Where to Take Your Out-of-Town Wedding Guests
It’s never easy dealing with the inevitable nerves that emerge as your wedding day approaches. But keeping a needy group of family and friends busy can crank your stress levels to epic highs. Here are some ideas to keep the fam occupied for hours, if not days, while you’re preparing for your own big day.…
Where to Find Last-Minute Wedding Gifts in the Triangle
For the couple with a sweet tooth: Videri Chocolate: The area’s best chocolate is made in Raleigh. Videri offers everything from bitter sea-salt bars to creamy milk chocolate. For the best variety, choose the fifteen-piece confections box full of bonbons and caramels. 327 West Davie Street, Raleigh For the garden enthusiasts: The Zen Succulent: A…
Your Wedding Jewelry Doesn’t Have to Be Standard. Staci Sawyer Phebus Can Help.
Nobody needs to tell you how huge jewelry is within the massive wedding-industry scheme. There are some companies that are happy to have you believe that the bigger the diamond, the stronger your love. But it doesn’t have to be that way, of courseyou may find yourself more interested in getting a one-of-a-kind, meaningful piece…
The INDY’s Alternative Wedding Guide: Please Yourself, Not Martha Stewart
What can you say about weddings that hasn’t been said a million times before, in a million glossy magazines with size-0 models in $8,000 gowns on the cover? There’s a whole wedding-mag industry dedicated to servicing the wedding industry: Brides, The Knot, Martha Stewart Weddings, Town & Country Weddings, etc. And if you actually read…
How to Officiate a Wedding on the Fly When You’re a Marriage Skeptic
Two hundred miles west of the Triangle, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, two waterfalls begin at the head of Linville Gorge. As they cascade down a series of tiers, they merge into one before plunging through more than forty feet of open air. To the Cherokee people, this was “the river of many cliffs,” but…
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Cake Boss: Edible Arts Bakery’s Todd Mozingo on Some of His Wildest Creations
Many long-established wedding traditions are being altered, twisted, and revamped to accommodate the interests and aesthetics of a new wave of couples. That goes for cakes, too. We talked to Todd Mozingo, the owner of Edible Arts Bakery, the oldest dessert bakery in Raleigh, about some of his bakery’s wildest custom creations and how the…
An Illustrated Gender-Neutral Guide to Suits
Much ado is made about wedding dresses, and understandably so. They can be gorgeous, intricate works of art as much as they are functional garments. But what if you don’t want to wear a dress? Suits, too, are an essential part of wedding wear. The finer details of suits and their accessories are myriad, from…
Capturing the Flag Takes a Hard Outsider’s Look at the Ugly Reality of Voting in North Carolina
Capturing the Flag, an often infuriating documentary about voting suppression in North Carolina, climaxes in a hotel room in Cumberland County, where three exhausted election volunteers are sprawled on beds watching the 2016 returns come in on the television. Being liberals who traveled to the state from New York City, they are dismayed by what…
Mad at Full Frame or Just Want More? Either Way, Single Frame Has You Covered.
Single Frame Sunday, April 8, 6 p.m. Shadowbox Studio, Durham Maybe you can’t afford Full Frame. Maybe all the screenings you want to see are sold out. Or maybe you have a grudge against it for any number of reasonsbeing mainstream, being traditional, being elitist, being popular. In any scenario, the Smyth brothers, proprietors of…
The Same Footage, Treated as Fiction by Terrence Malick and as Fact by Eugene Richards, Forms a Complete Picture of Faith and Filmmaking
Eugene Richards’s new documentary, Thy Kingdom Come, is one of several films at Full Frame that engage with religious questions. Its origins lie in director Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder, an experimental film that weaves together stories that demonstrate memory’s witness to loveboth divine and humanamid rural and urban landscapes. Drawing on Richards’s background as…
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