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Amidst the wedding-dress fittings, caterer tastings, and venue selections, it can be simple to forget the anxiety of saying "I do" to your groom. However, the long moments before you walk down the aisle are filled with the type of contemplation that can send even low-maintenance brides running to their grooms. Mutual support may be a significant part of marriage, but inundating the groom with all of your varied concerns just before the band begins playing Wagner's Bridal March is not the best way to begin your marriage. Read on for 10 confessions and questions to skip relating to your groom before the wedding.

1. "Are you as terrified as I am about spending the rest of our lives as a couple?"

Addison Elizabeth Matthews and Robert Hampton Andrews were united in marriage on June 13, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. The ceremony was held at St. Luke’s Chapel at MUSC at six o’clock in the evening and was officiated by the Reverend Doctor Terry Wilson. The parents of the bride hosted a reception following the ceremony at Cottage on the Creek, Shem Creek, in Mount Pleasant, SC.

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Late one September evening 10 years ago, the pavement outside Brick Lane’s Truman Brewery filled with people waiting for the last show ofLondon Fashion Week. Nothing unusual about that, in the city whose fashion weeks have turned passive-aggressive queueing into an art form. But this was something different. The crowd was waiting for MAN, LFW’s first dedicated menswear event, a show that would revolutionise British men’s fashion.

The event – which showcased the work of three emerging designers on one catwalk – was the brainchild of Lulu Kennedy, founder of Fashion East, a non-profit support scheme set up in 2000 to nurture design talent. “The idea came into my head while watching the Central Saint Martins MA show that February,” she says. “I thought: ‘Why is no one supporting this incredible menswear talent in London?’ So I approached Topman to be our partner, and by September we were doing our first show.” For Topman’s design and development director, Gordon Richardson, it was a no-brainer: “We agreed that we couldn’t let those designers fade into anonymity.”

Fashion designer Renee Salud is staging a runway show to put a spotlight on new ways of wearing traditional Filipiniana.

Billed as “tataksaludnyc 2015,” Salud’s featured design collections demonstrate contemporary and intricate ways of fusing Philippine indigenous fabrics with embroidery. The fashion show is at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, at Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Newark (128 Frontage Rd., Newark, New Jersey). The live events division of Fil-Am Who’s Who, a community lifestyle magazine catering to Filipino Americans in the New York Tri-State area, is mounting Salud’s latest runway show to benefit the “Feed the Children Program” of Catbalogan II Elementary School in Samar province, Philippines. “I’ve been a staunch advocate for the Philippine fiber industry,” Salud says, “Its fabrics such as piña, abaca and the Magundanaons’ handwoven fabric, inaul, which have been ingrained in indigenous traditions dating back to the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines, have the strong potential to appeal to global markets.”

The Taste of Hawaii was the perfect ending to a birthday/wedding package, Andrea Turner said on Sunday.

“We’ve been attending the Taste of Hawaii for the past six years as part of my birthday weekend,” the Kauai resident said. “Saturday was my birthday and I participated in the annual Haena to Hanalei Run. I always do that for my birthday. This year, we got bungalows at the Aston Aloha Beach Resort, got married this morning at Lydgate Park, and now we can eat and drink without worrying about driving because we’re right across the street. This is the perfect ending to a birthday weekend, and now he can’t forget our anniversary.”

The growing trend of a more relaxed wedding has turned many New Hampshire venues with barns, farms, and historic inns into prime destinations for couples who are ready to say “I do.”

Don Bilger, who owns Whitney’s Inn in Jackson says they have seen a tremendous increase in the last four to five years. When Bilger took over Whitney’s in 2007, they were doing about five weddings a year. Last year, they did 45. He says that a lot of people “want a rustic barn. They like the idea of a casual setting and a casual wedding, and they also like the idea of having their guests spend the whole weekend here.” Jackie Caserta, Innkeeper at the Inn at Valley Farms in Walpole, has seen a similarly strong demand for country weddings. “People have changed the way they look at things,” she says. “A lot of people are scaling down in size because they want something that’s more intimate.”

Saying "I do" is one of the most significant commitments and milestones people experience during their lifetime. Master Lock is kicking off wedding season and National Safety Month by reminding newlyweds of important safety and security precautions to consider as they embark on married life.

"Getting married is the beginning of a new chapter in couples' lives," said Rebecca Smith, vice president, marketing for Master Lock. "Understandably, many couples are focused on the excitement of planning a wedding and don't always spend time ensuring for a safe and secure future. Master Lock can help newlyweds by offering a variety of reliable tips and products they can trust."

Attention all women who have spent the last few years wearing yoga pants and sweats in your downtime: men are finally homing in on your stretchy-waisted turf.

Once considered to be the unfashionable clothing staple of people who spend their weekends on the couch with a bag of Cheetos, sweatpants have taken a decidedly stylish turn. Sales in Canada have risen 18 per cent year-over-year to $1.3 billion, according to market research firm NPD Group— and the biggest buyers in the category are male millennials aged 18 to 34, who increased their spending on the louche by nearly 40 per cent for the year.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation is going to consider a bill to amend Art. 14 of the Family Code. The amendments, if adopted, will ban transgender individuals from concluding marriage. The authors of the bill, MPs Alexei Zhuravlev, Dmitry Gorovtsov and Anatoly Greshnevikov say that they are struggling for "public morality."

Needless to say that sex-change surgery has become commonplace in modern medicine. If a woman wants to become a man, her breasts will be removed, the ersatz penis will be created and a complex of male hormones will be prescribed. Transgender males have their reproductive organs removed; with the help of plastic surgery, a pseudo vagina is created and female hormones are prescribed.

You’ve set a date for your wedding, and you’ve made zero steps towards planning it. But that’s OK, because you have plenty of time, right? How hard can planning a wedding be, anyway? Well, if you’ve been saying that for months and still haven’t planned a thing, you’re about to start running out of time, and you’ve officially become a lazy bride. Some women have spent years planning their wedding in their head, and know exactly how they want their big day to go. But some of us don’t even start thinking about it until our significant others are on bended knee asking one of the most important questions of all.

And planning a wedding isn’t easy. It’s basically a part-time job, and since you already have a full-time job, when are you supposed to make all of these important wedding-day decisions? How do you fit it all in and still have some semblance of a life? The key to planning a wedding as a lazy bride is not letting too much time go by. Because once you go from lazy to full-on procrastination, the panic sets in and will poison all the fun. Here are some easy, sanity-saving wedding planning tips for all you lazy brides out there.