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Wedding Day Stress: Focus on What Matters (Carmi Times) - (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.

Tussling for that to-die-for wedding (The Plain Dealer) - What hath Christopher Guest wrought? The clever writer-director-actor's rolling road show of faux documentaries, including "Waiting for Guffman" and "Best in Show," has spawned legions of admirers and imitators.

Music & Entertainment for Wedding Receptions (Manila Bulletin) - Your wedding reception is, in itself, a full-length production. Here’s some advice from my many years of experience for making it a success:

Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Wedding (Manila Bulletin) - Weddings are joyful events that fill your heart with good vibes. When couples hire me to sing for their wedding ceremony and/or host the reception, I gain not just treasured memories but also unforgettable moments. Some were simply hilarious, while others really tested my grace under pressure.

Film throws wedding parties full of laughs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - The editors of Confetti magazine -- all brides, all the time -- have a surefire promotional brainstorm. They're offering a brand new (to-be-constructed) house for the lucky couple who wins their "Most Original Wedding of the Year" contest.

Wedding farce 'Confetti' is so light it flutters (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - The British mockumentary "Confetti" is a witty satire of the wedding industry.

Rupert Everett spills beans on Hollywood (AP via Yahoo! News) - Rupert Everett hates Hollywood. The British actor, whose screen hits include "Another Country," "Shrek" and "My Best Friend's Wedding," says he's sick of the movie industry's hypocrisy and homophobia. He's even tired of celebrity — the whole glittering illusion deliciously evoked and eviscerated in his candid new autobiography "Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins."

This toast to weddings isn't bubbly (Baltimore Sun) - Debbie Isitt's sweet, fizzless British mockumentary Confetti contains too many moments that mockumentary master Christopher Guest (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) would have left on the cutting room floor - or never taken to the soundstage. This tale of three couples competing for the title of "most original wedding of the year" in a promotion cooked up by a bridal magazine, also called Confetti, is

"Confetti" mockuments excesses of wedding culture (The GW Hatchet) - The best way to describe "Confetti" (Fox Searchlight) would be to say that it's a romantic comedy directed by Christopher Guest ("This Is Spinal Tap," "Best in Show," etc.) - except that Guest isn't directing it at all. Filling in is a Brit by the name of Debbie Isitt, a writer and director new to American audiences.

Movie review: 'Confetti' proves to be enjoyable fluff (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - While it doesn't attain the dizzying hilarity of Christopher Guest's mockumentaries "A Mighty Wind" or "Best in Show," there's an affectionate tone to "Confetti" that makes it a serviceable time-waster. The British import is a cinéma vérité-style satire of England's wedding industry, following three couples in a contest sponsored by the nation's leading bridal magazine. The pair that mounts the