With a 24-hour news cycle and the daily drumbeat of working in and on your business, staying informed of current events in the wedding industry is difficult for most Certified Wedding Planners. To give you a heads up on any wedding-related news you may have missed, here is this week’s wedding news roundup.

This week, celebrity wedding news included Jennifer Love Hewitt dishing on her wedding dress and honoring her fiancé’s Scottish heritage, British singer Leona Lewis dreaming of her future wedding day, a second take on the Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds wedding, and the UCLA cheerleaders as wedding entertainment.

Hollywood continued its love affair with all-things wedding related with the movie drama “Rachel Getting Married”. MTV scoured Maryland for young couples to share their wedding planning stress on its series “Engaged and Underage”. And “The Bachelorette” star DeAnna Pappas rebounded from her failed reality show engagement to host Lifetime network’s “Get Married” show.

Reluctance to discuss wedding plans made the news for celebrity couples such as Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel as well as Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson, but Beyonce’s refusal to sell photographs of her wedding to Jay-Z created the most buzz.

Even political celebrities got into the wedding news act when the first daughters-elect, Malia and Sasha Obama, were invited to a less than successful attempt at a mass dog wedding world record and Florida Governor Charlie Crist spelled out the particulars of his upcoming December wedding.

On the international wedding scene, this past Sunday was celebrated as the day a Hindu god and goddess married with 90,000 weddings across the country. During the auspicious marriage period running through December 12, over a quarter million weddings are expected to take place. In Shanghai, China, the city’s most famous and influential website launched a new channel of marriage information called “Hot Marriage” to provide wedding news, advice, goods, and services.

While weddings are about happiness and love, sometimes tragedy intervenes. In New Zealand, a widowed groom tried to do good and lost his bride, a bus carrying wedding guests suffered a fatal crash in Taiwan, and a virus outbreak at a wedding in Scotland killed one guest and sickened dozens of others.

The battle over same-sex marriage rights continues. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger urged perseverance for proponents of gay marriage fighting for equal rights, protests marched throughout the country, and wedding industry businesses were caught in the middle. Meanwhile, Connecticut issued its first same-sex marriage licenses, New York State considered legalizing gay marriage, and a conservative pundit continued his crusade for marriage equality.

In other wedding industry news, a Nevada lawmaker is considering legislation to set a minimum age for wedding witnesses and The Motley Fool is bullish on The Knot after the wedding site’s surprisingly positive third quarter earnings report. A Las Vegas news team sought restitution for local brides devastated by another wedding business closing, a wedding photographer in Massachusetts left couples in the dark when it closed its doors, and a Texas con artist faked wedding planning certification and took unsuspecting brides and grooms for a ride.

Meanwhile, innovative Certified Wedding Planners and wedding vendors resurrected an abstinence contest, perpetuated their vocation, created business unity, revolutionized wedding photography, elevated wedding ceremonies, stylized wedding fashion, and influenced a burgeoning cottage industry.

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