Tag: Wedding

Royal wedding: Beckham’s coming but no Obama

LONDON - News that Britain's royal wedding invites are in the post has touched off lively press speculation, with former England soccer captain David Beckham and the King of Bahrain tipped to be attending but not Barack Obama or Sarah Ferguson.
Royal watchers say Beckham, who worked with William on England's failed bid to host the World Cup in 2018, and his ex-Spice Girl wife Victoria will be among the 1,900 guests at London's Westminster Abbey on April 29. Other lucky recipients

William and Kate reveal wedding guest list

LONDON - Prince William and Kate Middleton have invited 1,900 guests to their wedding in April, palace officials said Sunday, filling Westminster Abbey with a vast array of royals, diplomats, family and friends. Gilded invitations issued in the name of Queen Elizabeth II were sent out by post on Wednesday and Thursday, with the monarch's EIIR cypher and the text die-stamped in gold.
When the couple became engaged in November, Kate said that marrying into the royal family was

Aerial firing at wedding claims boy’s life

GUJRANWALA - An aerial firing at a marriage ceremony at Jandiala, Baghwala, claimed the life of a 14-year-old boy while the relatives and heirs of the victim blocked traffic by putting the body on Pasrur Road. Nadeem Butt's friends resorted to aerial firing on his marriage.
One of the bullets hit Zohaib Gulzar who expired on his way to hospital. The villagers staged a protest and blocked the road. The police reached the spot and assured the protesters of arresting the culprits.

13 wedding guests burnt alive

RAWALPINDI - At least 13 people, including women and children, were burnt alive when a bus carrying a wedding party caught fire near Sohawa, a town in Jhelum district, about 100km from Rawalpindi. The victims, all Christians, were returning to Rawalpindi after attending a wedding ceremony in Shakargarh in the wee hours on Monday.
The injured, more than 60 in number, were rushed to local hospitals, where doctors were trying their best to save their lives. According to rescue

Royal wedding grips US TV

LOS ANGELES - The romance between Britain's Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton is getting the TV movie treatment as celebrity-hungry US media gears up for the royal nuptials in London on April 29.
But an actress is still being sought to play Middleton in female-oriented Lifetime television's movie "William & Kate", which is due to start production in Los Angeles in two weeks time. William, 28, second in line to the British throne, will be played by little-known New Zealand

Bomb kills nine wedding guests in Afghanistan

PUL-E-KHUMRI - A roadside bomb destroyed a car carrying nine people to a wedding in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing everyone inside including one child, the provincial governor said.
The previous day, six civilians were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Helmand province and another six died after an airstrike by foreign forces in mountainous eastern Kunar, local officials said. Three children were among the dead in the airborne attack on two houses in the Kodagai

PTI denies rumours of Imran’s wedding

LAHORE - Rumors of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan getting married again were contradicted by the party's central information secretary, Omer Sarfaraz Cheema, on Sunday.
A private TV channel ran a ticker about Imran Khan purported marriage late on Sunday. However, Cheema rejected the report, saying the PTI chairman did not take any such step.

CM wants one dish, wedding times implemented

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has directed that one dish law and the observance of fixed timings should be ensured strictly at the weddings.
CM, while presiding over a meeting, said that action should be taken against the marriage hall owners for violating fixed timings and should be sent behind the bars. He said that the action should be taken against the violators without discrimination and all articles of such halls should be confiscated.
He said

3 dead, 3 injured in wedding marquee electrocution

LAHORE: Three died of electrocution and three sustained injuries while putting up tents for a wedding in Shad Bagh police precincts on Saturday.
Investigation Officer Sub-Inspector Khalid Mehmood said the victims were employees of Usman Catering Service.
He explained that six people from the catering service were putting up tents and lights for a wedding in Taj Pura ground when the central iron pole, on which lights were to be placed, short circuited with the

Pattinson, Stewart plan secret wedding

Hollywood stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are reportedly planning a commitment ceremony to be performed by a voodoo priestess in December.
The couple, who has refused to confirm they are dating since meeting on the set of the 'Twilight Saga', reportedly want to show their commitment to each other at the unusual ceremony in December.
"Kristen is quite dark so she wants a ceremony performed by a New Orleans voodoo priestess," a source told.
"They've both had