Q: What are your feelings about "commitment ceremonies" -- would love to have some down-to-earth ideas. In today's world there are a lot of couples living together without the benefit of marriage ...

"Red is a symbol for love, and that's what marriage is all about," Human Rights Campaign spokesperson Charlie Joughin told msnbc.com on Tuesday.

Marriage in America has become a symbol of class status, according to a demographic researcher for the U.S. Census Bureau, Ben Gurrentz. “It has become sort of a class status now.

For Caroline, the wedding invitation was the first sign of trouble. On it, she and her fiancé had chosen to use a “simple, elegant, but certainly not traditional” black and white image of his ...