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The funny thing about marriage: fun facts; silly kid stuff; what if?


Fun Facts

Most Common Terms of Endearment en·dear·ment  
n.
1. The act of endearing.

2. An expression of affection, such as a caress.


endearment
Noun

an affectionate word or phrase

Noun 1.
 (in order): Honey (48%), Baby (44%), Sweetheart (41%), Dear (39%), Lover (32%), Darling (31%), Sugar (24%), Angel (20%), Pumpkin (13%), Beautiful (6%).

Most Requested Wedding Songs

1. "Have I Told You Lately" by Rod Stewart/Van Morrison

2. "Always & Forever" by Heatwave heatwave nola de calor

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heatwave nondata di caldo 
 

3. "Because You Loved Me "Because You Loved Me" is a smash hit from Céline Dion's Falling into You album, released as the first single on February 19 1996 in the United States, Canada, Japan, and Latin America. " by Celine Dion Céline Marie Claudette Dion OC, OQ, (born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian singer and occasional songwriter and actress.[1][2][3] Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Québec, Dion became a teen star in the French-speaking world after  

4. "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed "Slowhand", is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th and 21st century,[1]  

5. "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers

6. "Unforgettable" by Nat King & Natalie Cole

7. "Could I Have This Dance?" by Anne Murray

8. "I Swear" by J. M. Montgomery/All-4-One

9. "Everything I Do" by Bryan Adams

10. "When A Man Loves A Woman" by Percy Sledge

"Terms of Endearment" is from an online poll of website visitors. "Top 25 Wedding Songs of 1997" is based on music played for the First Dance at weddings that took place in 1997, compiled from a survey of hundreds of DJs and wedding couples across the United States. From the 1996-1998 Ultimate Internet Wedding Guide, www.ultimatewedding.com

Silly Kid Stuff

What is marriage?

* "Marriage is when you get to keep your girl and don't have to give her back to her parents." (Eric, age 6)

Is it better to be single or married?

* "You should ask the people who read Cosmopolitan." (Kirsten, age 10)

* "It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need somebody to clean up after them." (Anita, age 9)

* "It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble." (Will, age 7)

When is it okay to kiss someone?

* "You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a ring and her own VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder.
VCR
 in full videocassette recorder

Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound.
, 'cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding." (Allen, age 10)

From Robyn and Todd's Wedding and Marriage Humor website: www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6369/humor.html?

What If?

If Yoko Ono had married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.

If Dolly had married Salvador Dali, she'd be Dolly Dali.

If Bo Derek Bo Derek

A slang term used to describe a perfect stock or investment.

Notes:
The term comes from the name of the actress (Bo Derek) in the 1979 movie "10," in which she portrayed the "perfect woman.
 married Don Ho, she'd be Bo Ho.

If Oprah Winfrey married Deepak Chopra, she'd be Oprah Chopra.

If Olivia Newton-John married Wayne Newton, then divorced him to marry Elton John, she'd be Olivia Newton-John Newton John.

If Sondra Locke married Elliot Ness, then divorced him to marry Herman Munster, she'd become Sondra Locke Ness Munster.

If Liv Ullman married Judge Lance Ito, then divorced him and married Jerry Mathers, she'd be Liv Ito Beaver.

If Cat Stevens married Snoop Doggy Dogg (hey! it's the '90s!), he'd be Cat Doggy Dogg.

If Ivana Trump married, in succession, Orson Bean (actor), King Oscar (of Norway), Louis B. Mayer Noun 1. Louis B. Mayer - United States filmmaker (born in Russia) who founded his own film company and later merged with Samuel Goldwyn (1885-1957)
Louis Burt Mayer, Mayer
 (of MGM MGM
 in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925.
), and Norbert Wiener (mathematician), she would then be Ivana Bean Oscar Mayer Wiener.

From Robyn and Todd's Wedding and Marriage Humor website: www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6369/humor.html?
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