INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — A Victorian Christmas, a frontier Christmas and Nativity sets from around the world can all be found in Independence, Mo.

NEW YORK — There was a list at the door, but the beautifully dressed guest in the chic, red-soled Christian Louboutin shoes wasn’t on it. Still, she insisted she was a friend of the host. Not wanting to offend, the staffer at the door waved her in.

Ex’s relatives haul groom out of mass Peruvian wedding, beat him in the parking lot

LIMA, Peru — Edwin Ortiz was just about to utter “I do,” but the mother of his two children and her relatives had a different message: “Oh, no you don’t.”

Hepburn’s high fashion wardrobe, seen in flims, goes on display ahead of auction

Brides aren’t budging on the gown for their big day, so designers offering more choices

Audrey Hepburn’s classic chic wardrobe, including Givenchy gowns, on display ahead of auction

Mass. chief reprimanded for letting firefighter to ride department ladder truck to wedding

New hip-hop program at Minnesota music school gives students a license _ or diploma _ to ill

Time to close InStyle Weddings; last issue to hit newsstands on Dec. 25

Black parents teach young girls the significance of Disney’s first black princess

NEW YORK — Holly Price Alford is over the moon about Disney’s first black princess. Her 8-year-old daughter is, too, but not because the princess is black.

NJ sanitation workers dig through 10 tons of trash to find wedding ring tossed by NJ couple

Disappointment, not joy, fills Maine ballroom where gay marriage party was planned

PORTLAND, Maine — Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date. When they joined about 1,000 other gay marriage supporters for an election night party in a Holiday Inn ballroom, they hoped to celebrate the vote that would make it possible.

APNewsBreak: La. justice of the peace who refused to marry interracial couple resigns

Presentless Christmas brings more time with family and fewer holiday bills

Argentine Congress considers legalizing same-sex marriage despite church opposition

Argentine Congress considers same-sex marriage

Bomb kills 105, mostly women and children, as Clinton arrives in Pakistan to improve US image

Car bomb in crowded Pakistan market kills 105

Bomb kills 100, mostly women and children, as Clinton arrives in Pakistan to improve US image

Car bomb in crowded Pakistan market kills 100

Sleepy Hollow church rejects Halloween-themed wedding, offers graveyard ceremony instead

Sleepy Hollow church: No Halloween-themed weddings

Elvis’ hair trimmings sell for $15K, his shirt for $52K at Chicago auction house

CHICAGO — A clump of hair believed to have been trimmed from Elvis Presley’s head when he joined the Army in 1958 has sold for $15,000 at a Chicago auction house.

Outrage grows for Louisiana justice of the peace who wouldn’t marry interracial couple

NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana’s governor and a U.S. senator joined Friday in calling for the ouster of a local official who refused to marry an interracial couple, saying his actions clearly broke the law.

Thousands expected to tour Rose Garden, other White House gardens during weekend public tours

WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of people are expected to stream through the White House gates this weekend for a rare opportunity to see the fragrant roses, blue salvias and towering, decades-old trees that beautify the president’s back yard.

Louisiana Justice of the Peace refuses to issue marriage license to interracial couple

NEW ORLEANS — A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

Rev. Moon marries 45,000 people worldwide in biggest mass wedding in 10 years

ASAN, South Korea — It was his wedding day, but Choi In-seok admitted to a twinge of nervousness Wednesday about spending the rest of his life with the woman hand-picked for him by the Unification Church.

Rev. Moon marries tens of thousands of couples worldwide in biggest mass wedding in 10 years

ASAN, South Korea — From South Korea to South America, Rev. Sun Myung Moon married tens of thousands of couples in the Unification Church’s largest mass wedding in a decade and potentially the last for the 89-year-old leader.

Rev. Moon marries tens of thousands worldwide in church’s largest mass wedding in 10 years

ASAN, South Korea — From South Korea to South America, the bride wore white for the Unification Church’s largest mass wedding in a decade, with some 40,000 people participating in dozens of cities around the world.

Tens of thousands take part in biggest Unification Church mass wedding in 10 years

ASAN, South Korea — Brides in white gowns and Japanese kimonos joined grooms in black suits and red ties Wednesday for the Unification Church’s biggest mass wedding in a decade — a spectacle church officials say will involve 40,000 people in cities around the world.

Montana man accused of assault during bachelor party must wear monitoring bracelet at wedding

Europe marks 150th birthday of Polish-born Esperanto creator Zamenhof

Christmas in Independence, Mo.: From Victorian to frontier Christmas

Fla. woman plans to be a graduate and a bride on the same day in Iowa

Behind a gate, Kandahar women create works of art, earn money and lament their lives

A shock at the White House, sure, but party crashing flourishes elsewhere, say harried hosts