Wedding bells ring for Amanda Peet

NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Actress Amanda Peet and screenwriter David Benioff have married at the actress' alma mater, Friends Seminary, in New York, People magazine reports. The wedding took place Saturday at the Quaker school, People said. It is the first marriage for both. The couple, engaged in July 200, is expecting their first child. Pete, 34, appeared in movies such as "Syriana," "The Whole Nine Yards," and "The Whole Ten Yards" and stars in the NBC drama "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." Benioff, 36, wrote screenplays for "25th Hour" and "Troy" and has four films due coming out in the next two years.

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Planning the perfect wedding

Planning your wedding can range from a fun experience to a stressful event you never want to undertake again. Your experience depends on many factors: the type of wedding you are planning, the size, your personality and the other family and friends you involve in the event. Although we can't help you control those factors, we can help you in your planning research by providing you with good information for planning a unique Milwaukee event. Through personal experience and the advice of local experts, our team has assembled the basics for you from how to choose the right photographer to a comprehensive list of area ceremony and reception locations. The Web has definitely changed how weddings are planned, from discovering lesser-known ceremony locations to purchasing your wedding photos online through your photographer's Web site.

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Couple spend RM3.5mil on wedding

But unlike the highly-publicised wedding between businessman Datuk Khalid Muhammad Jiwa or Datuk K and pop icon Siti Nurhaliza, the wedding of Datuk Roslan Hashim, 49, and his 24-year-old bride Puteri Shahanaz Hazlin Hamdan is taking place in the affluent area of Kampung Tok Sira here today with less fanfare. In terms of gifts and the reception, the wedding amounts to about RM3.5mil, surpassing that of Datuk K and Siti which had been dubbed the Wedding of the Year. Malacca-born businessman Roslan said his wedding gifts to his bride included RM444,444.44 in cash and a further RM22,222.22 in dowry.

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8 biggest pre-wedding mistakes

Even the smartest, most on-top-of-things couple can make mistakes during wedding planning. Here are the 10 things you should keep an eye on before saying I do. 1. Blowing off your budget It costs a lot of money to put on a wedding. Many excited brides start booking vendors and making purchases without having a real budget, and then they're shocked to discover they've spent all of their money (or their parents' money) and still don't have half the things they need. If you bounce checks, don't have the money to pay your deposits, or make your final payments past your vendors' deadlines, your wedding will not happen as you have planned. The flowers won't be delivered, your cake will not be decorated, and the band will not play all night —— unless you pay up. Planning a wedding is serious business.

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