After the engagement as you plan your wedding, an important item to buy is the wedding ring. Yes, this little piece of jewelry will be with you for a long time, hopefully, a lifetime, and it makes sense to get it right. For most couples, it is also a very expensive item. Watch this helpful video with great tips on how to buy a wedding ring:
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A relationship with a military man is a tough one, and even tougher in the midst of a war. The separation can be long and lack of news can be nerve-wrecking. So it was nice to see couples get together in Times Square in New York to recreate the scene from over 50 years ago when a sailor kissing a nurse was photographed. Here is a photo of Ben Summer kissing Elizabeth Booher after he proposed to her. So when you are ready to marry, make sure that you make it special. Women often remember their proposal more than their wedding day.

Planning a wedding can be overwhelming especially if you are having a destination wedding and that too in a castle near Paris. Hollywood celebrities have to work extra hard because everything is being watched. But an average couple about to wed, who should plan the wedding?

The answer is tricky. As you will see in this interview of Eva Longoria and Tony Parker, looks as if Eva is running the show. That is how it turns out for most couples since not only do women have a better sense of aesthetics, they also seem to be more excited about their wedding. But it doesn't have to be this way. If a couple is not equally enthusiastic about planning their wedding, chances are that they will have problems later. And if wedding is too complicated for a man to say that he does not want to get involved, the woman has to slow down and involve him in the process.

Moms without wedlock increase in numbers

According to latest statistics, out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, with 40% of the newborns, mostly among women in their twenties - so it is not due to teenage pregnancy.

Why is this happening?

Well, more couples are choosing to live together before marriage. Others, afraid of a divorce, are simply choosing not to have a legal marriage (these couples often live like married couples in other ways, for example, by managing their finances jointly). And of course, women who do not want to get married for the heck of it but would still like to be moms, become pregnant with the help of a donor so that they are still in control of their biological clock.

What does it mean?

Be ready to see more of such kids. Also do not make a fool of yourself by asking a mother about the child's father or her husband - they are gradually becoming archaic concepts.