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...really excited about it,” said Donahue, a Georgia native. After Donahue graduates, the couple will move to Rio Grande Valley, Texas where she will teach elementary school through Teach for America and he will work as an Edward Jones financial advisor. The couple plans to wed on June 6 of next year, but have yet to decide if they will be married in Massachusetts or in Texas. Donahue said it will likely be a “kind of weird wedding” with multiple flower girls, male bridesmaids, and lots of bright colors. The pair described...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Emily D. Donahue ’09 and Greg J. Mancuso | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...early 1960s, hopes that the church would abandon celibacy were dashed by the election of the conservative Paul VI. A severe shortage of priests may prompt the church to reconsider. Since Vatican II, seminary enrollment has dropped 75%. Cuti, suspended from clerical duties, is grappling over whether to wed his girlfriend of two years. If he takes the secular path, he won't be alone: an estimated 25,000 former priests are married and living in the U.S. today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: Celibacy | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

...well over a year, I campaigned for my boyfriend and me to wed. "I don't see what the point of marriage is," he'd say. Public avowals of love, I suggested - or presents? "Le Creuset?" I'd ask, mostly joking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All but the Ring: Why Some Couples Don't Wed | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

...other far, far too much to ever actually get married," says Raymond McCauley, 43, a biotech engineer in Mountain View, Calif., who has twin 2-year-olds with his partner of five years, Kristina Hathaway. His opposition to marriage is political, in solidarity with gays who can't legally wed in most states, and personal - he and his partner both got divorced in their 20s, an experience that has led McCauley to liken marriage to food poisoning: "You don't want to eat that thing again, even if you know it's perfectly fine this time." (Read "A Gay-Marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All but the Ring: Why Some Couples Don't Wed | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

...years belong. She and Coontz have found that many of them end up marrying because they face the same discrimination as gay couples regarding insurance, taxes and other legal issues. Having kids can also change things. David Letterman didn't say what prompted him in March to wed his partner of 23 years, who is also the mother of his 5-year-old son. I know that in our case, the plus sign on my pregnancy test led my boyfriend and me to marry in April, which has made our relationship feel more committed, but maybe a little less cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All but the Ring: Why Some Couples Don't Wed | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

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