IT’S A NICE DAY FOR A COLOURFUL WEDDING You’re getting married soon, or you’ve been asked to help with wedding plans or maybe you’re a marriage celebrant who is often asked for advice because your “finger’s on the pulse”? Here’s something to consider, colour! Call this a trend or call it an awakening but many [...]

Advice for Couples from Derek Zoolander In the year of YTK panic and Destiny’s Child, actors Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor tied the knot (a year before they both starred in the hit comedy Zoolander).    17 years later, this Hollywood couple called it quits.   “With tremendous love and respect for each other, and [...]

HOT GAMES FOR HOT COUPLES Do you enjoy games? Are they usually solo games on your phone or game console? One of the best ways to keep the fires of romance burning is to have fun with your partner. One of the best ways to have fun is to play games. So let’s get that [...]

The First Romantic Movies The year was 1896. It was the year that the X-Ray was invented, the first modern Olympics was held in Athens, and the first “Romance” film was released. The Romance section at Blockbuster didn’t require much shelf-space I guess. Film was in its infancy and as an “infant” was only walking [...]

A Friend May Be Waiting Behind a Stranger's Face Being around strangers is stressful. Studies show that it causes our stress hormone, cortisol, to go up. But why? And how do we overcome it?  There are a couple of reasons for this reaction. As humans we have lived for thousands of years within small, protective [...]

Hey Marriage! Where Did you Come From? To be honest we don’t have an exact birthdate for marriage, but evidence points to the institution being around 4,350 years old. Before “tying the knot” became a thing, it is believed that what we may loosely define as families, consisted of around 30 people with a few [...]

Words to Buckle the Knees Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. With most gifts of roses, chocolates, lingerie, EB Games vouchers, novelty socks… comes a card. If you’re looking for that perfect line to sign off your card with, read on for a list of the greatest romantic one-liners. From poetry to movie quotes, these are [...]

Homeless Romantic “How to Fall in Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush” is the title of her novel and as fantastically whimsical as that sounds, it was the reality for world travelling, Swedish polyglot actor Emmy Abrahamson. If the title wasn’t already taken, she could have called her book “Lady and the [...]

WEDDING SONGS PART 4: 2021 Let’s look back to the year where weddings started to find their resurgence post extreme lockdowns. It was the year of resilience. It was a year where media both social and traditional found ways to cause division for profit yet humanity still found a way to look to love as [...]

7 WEDDING TRENDS BORN OUT OF COVID With near elimination of weddings in 2020 and smaller, localised weddings in 2021, one has to wonder if some of the concessions made to ensure weddings went ahead over the last couple of years will carry over into weddings of the future.  It seems that there are a [...]