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Wedding Day Stress: Focus on What Matters (Derby Daily Reporter) - (ARA) - The wedding day is considered to be the happiest day of many people's lives. It also ranks as one of the most stressful. Invitations. Flowers. Catering. Dresses and tuxedoes. The reception.

Hour-by-hour, a wedding 'Day' (Newsday) - Yes, "24" should or could have been one of those series that spawned a thousand imitators but, as we now know, did not - except counting the tsunami of serials that washed over prime time the past couple of seasons. That 24-hours-in-a-day signature is simply too specific, too personal, too "24," and any show caught lifting it could be prosecuted for grand larceny. ("The Nine" comes close but ...)

Mayor: 'Excessive force' used in wedding day slay (Newsday) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg emerged from a meeting with the police commissioner and community leaders Monday and said that it seemed like "excessive force was used" when a groom was killed on his wedding day by a flurry of police gunfire outside a Queens strip club.

Humor, anxiety are high in "Big Day" (Los Angeles Daily News) - The title sequence of "Big Day" perfectly captures the show's skewed wit. George Michael's "Faith" plays on the soundtrack as we see a factory assembly line crank out smiling plastic wedding-cake couples that glide and then plummet off a conveyor belt.

24 Hours of High Suspense, but of the Wedding Kind (New York Times) - ?Big Day? is marvelously cast, and the actors, especially Wendie Malick, manage to convey a sense of urgency that almost belongs on the stage.

One season, one 'Big Day' (USA Today) - Big Day, a new ABC comedy premiering Tuesday at 9 ET/PT, is a little unusual. For the entire season 13 episodes the show follows a single wedding day. As the clock ticks closer to the "I do" moment, more and more mishaps occur. But this isn't 24 for the bridal gang; no one's saving the world from terrorists.

NYC mayor responds to fatal shooting of groom on wedding day (ABC 13 Texas) - NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg responded Monday to the fatal shooting by police of a groom on his wedding day.

CHUCK BARNEY: AS SEEN ON TV: Wedding plans make 'Big Day' seem like bad idea (Contra Costa Times) - SURELY, there are some harried wedding planners who will tell you that they've had grueling days on par with those endured by Jack Bauer. And thus a sitcom that takes a "disaster"-riddled, "24"-like approach to a couple's nuptials would make perfect sense to them.

Bloomberg, Kelly respond to wedding day slay (Newsday) - Politicians, activists speak against killing of man on wedding day, saying it s reminiscent of past police brutality Mayor Bloomber and Police Commission Ray Kelly will meet with community leaders at City Hall Monday at 11 a.m. in response to out outrage over a police shooting that killed a Queens groom just hours before his wedding.

NYC mayor: Shooting was unacceptable (USA Today) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it appears that police officers had used excessive force in killing an unarmed man hours before his wedding and wounding two companions sprayed by dozens of bullets.