Photo: Anesha Collins of Unashamed Imaging A 33-year-old bride preparing for two weddings suffered a grueling medical emergency that required surgery just one day before she was set to exchange her vows. With the big weekend approaching, Gaines had her sights set on piecing together the final wedding details — until something wasn’t right. Gaines and Nnadi.Anesha Collins of Unashamed Imaging “I had come down with a flu or upper respiratory infection....

Photo: Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office An Arizona bride and groom have been arrested for allegedly inciting a brawl with police just hours after they said “I Do.” On Saturday at around 9:30 p.m., police responded to a call of a woman — wearing a wedding dress — assaulting an employee of a local business on Whiskey Row, according to Prescott Police,The Arizona Republicreported. Officials have since identified the bride as 30-year-old Ashley Jordan....

Jonathan Ceballos and Holly Matthews.Photo: Jonathan Ceballos Facebook; Holly Mattews Facebook A bride-to-be and a man who “always made people laugh” have been identified as the fatal victims of a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Illinois that killed two and injured 12 others. Holly Matthews and Jonathan Ceballos, both 22, were fatally shot early Sunday at a huge backyard party in Joliet, about 40 miles south of Chicago, the Will County Coroner’s Office announced in a press release Monday....

Photo: GoFundMe Kiersten Smith and Eric Ridenhour were preparing to become husband and wife. The Texas couple were enjoying a casual Sunday in their Dallas apartment on June 9, looking forward to their wedding just three months away. But their love story was cut short when a high-wind thunderstorm sent a construction crane onto their apartment complex, killing 29-year-old Smith. “Everything kind of just went dark. I don’t remember hearing a sound,” Ridenhour, 29, told ABC News....

Photo: Marie Kamp/Red Door Photography Just a few weeks after Tara Foley bought her wedding dress, her 102-year-old grandmother began receiving hospice care. Foley’s nana, Stasia Foley, told hospice workers in Naples, Florida that her goal was to attend her granddaughter’s wedding that summer. “I knew she wouldn’t be able to make it back to Texas for my wedding,” Tara, a 37-year-old realtor, tells PEOPLE. “When I heard that, I said, ‘I have to go to her....

Photo: jasmine cruz/instagram A bride-to-be is setting a few rules and regulations for her wedding guests before they say “I do” to attending her big day. “I saw the trend going around when I started wedding planning. Since I already had some stuff laid out I decided to add to it and make the TikTok,” Cruz told PEOPLE. “I’m one of those girls who has thought of her wedding day since I was a kid....

Jenna Johnsonis counting down the days until she says “I do” toVal Chmerkovskiy! Earlier this week, theDancing with the Starspro, who said“yes” to Chmerkovskiy last June, opened up about the “crazy whirlwind” that it has been to plan her wedding while on theDancing with the Stars: Live!tourwith her fiancé. “As tour is coming to an end, the realization that I am getting closer and closer to being married is hitting me!...

Photo: Courtesy Martinez Family Wendy Martinezwas always happy and rarely — if ever — in a bad mood when she served as a six-week intern for Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart in Washington, D.C., in 2006. “She worked as a right hand for me doing research and was always smiling and eager to learn. She never cussed and was bright and enthusiastic,” Franco says. “This is such a tragedy.” Martinez, 35and newly engaged, wasfatally stabbed Tuesday nightwhile she jogged around D....

Paris Hilton has been in full-on planning mode since her engagement to Chris Zylka in January. The heiress is gearing up for a royal wedding of her own and she recently gushed to PEOPLE that she was a fan of She looked very elegant – like a princess – and I love that she was very natural,” Hilton told PEOPLE. “It looked like she had no makeup on. She’s just a natural beauty and they looked so happy together....

Becky Carey and her father, U.S. Air Force Colonel Timothy Carey, had always dreamed of the moments they’d share together on the dance floor at Becky’s future wedding. Timothy was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate and pancreatic cancers in 2014 and later placed on hospice care. Still, when Becky got engaged in September 2018, they were determined to make the special father-daughter dance happen no matter what. When it came time for Becky and her fiancé Matt to take engagement photos, the couple decided instead to have Becky and Timothy pose together, and share their father-daughter dance on Oct....

Katharine McPheeis celebrating in style ahead of her upcoming wedding toDavid Foster. On Friday, theWaitressstar, 35, shared three photos of herself partying on a boat in Mykonos, Greece. In the set, McPhee rocked a neon tutu, a sequinned hair bow and numerous other colorful accessories. “Honey this is how you throw a party in Mykonos bitch!!” she captioned the fun-filled photos. Husband-to-be Foster, 69, could also be seen partaking in the yacht celebrations in since-deleted posts on McPhee’s Instagram Story....

Photo:Facebook Facebook A 19-year-old woman from Reedsburg, Wis., has died after a house fire took place on what was supposed to be her wedding day. However, a house fire on the day of her wedding broke out in the residence where Ruddy had been living with her fiancé and his grandparents, who owned the home. She was hospitalized for smoke inhalation due to the fire and died of a brain hemorrhage a day later on Wednesday....

Samantha Wendell.Photo: Blake-Lamb Funeral Home A 29-year-old Kentucky woman who was fearful of getting vaccinated died of COVID-19 after missing her wedding while hospitalized with the virus. Samantha Wendell had spent nearly the last two years planning her wedding to fiancé Austin Eskew, obsessing over every aspect of the big day,NBC News reported. The surgical technician from Grand Rivers had put off getting vaccinated, worried that her plans to have three or four kids with Eskew wouldn’t be possible after she heard false information from her co-workers that the shots led to infertility....