Jennifer Faircloth and Jesse Lingerfelt selected the Florida Strawberry Festival for their first date four years ago. So when festival promoters announced an essay contest to pick a couple to wed at the 2009 event, Jennifer picked up a pen. ...more

March 11, 2009

After judging a wedding cake decorating contest, this writer finds simple honest food at a Gainesville eatery. ...more

February 24, 2009

The Florida Strawberry Festival wants to treat a couple to a wedding with a berry theme - right down to the wedding cake. ...more

September 10, 2008

The Florida Strawberry Festival wants to treat a couple to a wedding with a berry theme – right down to the cake. ...more

September 3, 2008

The Florida Strawberry Festival wants to treat a couple to a wedding with a berry theme – right down to the wedding cake. ...more

September 3, 2008

The Florida Strawberry Festival wants to treat a couple to a wedding with a berry theme – right down to the wedding cake. ...more

September 3, 2008

TAMPA A Tampa couple are in the running for a $100,000 wedding courtesy of Us Magazine. They are pitted against 19 other couples from across the nation baring their lives to the public in hopes of garnering enough votes to be hitched in style. The contest is online and in living color at www.usmagazine.com/wedding-2008-top-20, and as of this morning Courtney Dempsey and Gary Courtney Jr., have garnered about 90,000 votes. ...more

June 23, 2008

Flowers are nice. Chocolates are good. And diamonds rock. But Sheila Kilpatrick has a better idea for a Valentine's Day gift. ...more

February 9, 2008

The wedding bouquet has barely faded and already an Upper East Side bride has regrets - not because she married, but because of the flowers. ...more

October 19, 2007