With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, love is certainly in the air, and if you haven’t tied the knot with that special someone, Houston might be the ideal place to do it!

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo recently celebrated a milestone, tying the knot in a small and intimate ceremony at the River Oaks Garden Club in Houston.

KPRC 2's Gage Goulding and Megan Shandel celebrated their wedding in Pittsburgh.

We all have our favorite parts of wedding, but the absolute best part of any wedding is the party that happens on the dance floor!

We all have our favorite parts of wedding, but the absolute best part of any wedding is the party that happens on the dance floor!

We all have our favorite parts of wedding, but the absolute best part of any wedding is the party that happens on the dance floor!

We all have our favorite parts of wedding, but the absolute best part of any wedding is the party that happens on the dance floor!

We all have our favorite parts of wedding, but the absolute best part of any wedding is the party that happens on the dance floor!

KPRC2 evening anchor Keith Garvin & his family are still celebrating after their daughter’s wedding last weekend!

After Al’s Formal Wear suddenly closed up shop, a local business is stepping up to help bridal parties get their tuxedos and suits for their special day. Allen Johnson Formal Wear on Hilcroft Street is offering special price packages.

Several brides-to-be reached out to KPRC 2 looking for a new wedding dress after the boutique they ordered their dream dress from closed with no notice.

Several brides-to-be are dealing with a nightmare after learning that The Princess Bridal Boutique closed without any notice.

The husband of the woman who was struck and killed in a crash on the couple’s wedding night in South Carolina has said he is feeling “just as good as I can” after the April tragedy that left him seriously injured.

They got married thousands of times on stage, but it’s their own wedding tale that led them to a one-of-a kind theater production here Houston!

Houston native and Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and Houston Texans’ Jonathan Owens are officially married.

The Houston Astros might have #LeveledUp, but one couple #LeveledUp their relationship by tying the knot yesterday! If you were at the 2022 Houston Astros World Series Victory Parade yesterday, there was a lot of fun and excitement going on, but for native Houstonians Kendall and Kyler Sommer, THEY GOT MARRIED AND TOOK THEIR WEDDING PHOTOS ON A ROOFTOP AT THE PARADE!

Lauren Kelly got married over the weekend and looked absolutely radiant.

“Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider on Tuesday tweeted photos of her wedding, calling it one of the best days of the last year “by far.”

It’s like a flashback from 2020.

Affordable wedding gowns for all types of bride-to-be

When the pandemic hit, the wedding season disappeared. But after a 2-year hiatus, it’s back and we’re celebrating! Maybe you, your daughter or granddaughter are getting married? We’ll have gowns on a budget. Even if you’re not getting married, it’s always fun to look at the dresses! That’s Friday at 3:00 p.m. on KPRC 2.

The beloved burger chain released its new “WhataWedding” collection just in time for Valentine’s Day.

One Houston couple had an unforgettable wedding. It happened at Memorial Hermann’s Emergency Room. The medical team there had prepared for a lot, but they never expected a wedding was in order.

The 97-year-old woman said she couldn't stand the idea of missing her last grandchild's wedding so she decided to fight to beat breast cancer... and she did!

It’s a story of love and determination.

HOUSTON – John Sanborn is a devoted father and veteran that has been working since 2018 to regain his strength after a freak accident that leads to traumatic brain injuries. On Sunday, Sanborn walked his oldest daughter, Janine Le, down the aisle at Houston’s Centennial Garden’s Park. During his road to recovery, Sanborn started walking and wrote messages on boards that God works well. His daughter said she is grateful that her dad was with her on a very special day. We had no idea he would even be able to walk let alone walk me down the aisle on my wedding day.

CONROE – Nancy Maxwell calls it a true love story. But when they got home in late September John wasn’t feeling good. But Maxwell said she wasn’t going to let it derail their plans. “With this ring, I thee wed,” said John Maxwell, in the video. “It’s been a wonderful love story and it will continue, he will recover and we look forward to our next travel adventure,” Nancy Maxwell said.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Savannah Rodriguez said she went from planning her wedding to trying to track down her refund. Rodriguez said the venue has given her nothing but the runaround after they emailed her that the place had closed. Still, she said she’s reached out multiple times and hasn’t heard anything from the venue in over a week. KPRC 2 also called the venue and reached out to the email listed on its website multiples times with no response. “I’m trying to see, sorry, I’m trying to see how I’m going pay for everything now.

(NBC NEWS) – When COVID-19 restrictions forced weddings, parties and other events that had been planned for months to cancel, Jill Marcus’s catering business came to a halt. She turned things around by reimagining how events needed to look in order to be safe, offering boxed appetizers and buffets protected by a six-foot Plexiglas screen. Other businesses are also adapting in order to stay afloat. Craig Barbour, owner of Roots Catering and Little Fete, adjusted as well. “All you have to do is a little bit of warming, a little bit of stirring maybe,” he says of his new offerings.

(NBC NEWS) A Parma, Ohio couples wedding day didnt include the usual reception, DJ and first dance. Instead Tyler and Melanie Tapajnas said I Do, then headed to The City Missions Lauras Home Womens Crisis Center in Cleveland to serve women and children experiencing homelessness. Why not spread the love, said bride Melanie Tapajna. We paid for it already so were like we might as well donate it, Tapajna shared just before entering Lauras Home with her groom. Trickel said this is the first time to his knowledge someone has donated their reception food to the crisis center.

NEWARK, New Jersey For a bride, the most important thing on her wedding day, besides the groom, is her wedding dress. Narolin Cepeda nearly didnt have hers for her big day earlier this month after her mother accidentally forgot it while rushing to catch a plane at Newark Airport. Her younger brother, whos a physicians assistant, immediately emailed TSA but got an automatic reply that said responses take five days. Fortunately, a TSA administrative assistant saw the email, went looking for the luggage and sent it overnight express to Ohio. The TSA worker said she put herself in the brides shoes and could only imagine how stressful it would be to find out her dress got lost the day before the wedding.

(AP) – A German woman who joined the Islamic State group fell on such hard times that she had to sell her wedding present, an AK47 rifle, according to prosecutors in Germany. After marrying a Chechen fighter she ran his household and used social media to urge a friend in Germany to join IS. Following the first husband's death she married a fellow German IS member in October or November of 2015 and moved to the group's stronghold of Raqqa. German prosecutors say the couple occupied the home of someone who had fled from IS, which would amount to looting or pillaging under international law and is considered a war crime. She was detained in Turkey in February and arrested on her return to Germany in May, where she now faces trial.

HOUSTON – A shooting that left a groom injured on his wedding day Thursday is under investigation, Harris County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies said the shooting happened in the 16800 block of Anna Green Street around 11:26 p.m. Deputies said the victim had a gunshot wound to the chest and was transported via Life Flight in critical condition. It was reported to the investigator that a person who was invited to the wedding party got into some sort of altercation with the groom. “My daughter ran into my room and said, ‘Mom, there’s shots, there’s shots, there’s shots.’ So we came outside to see what was going on and we saw the bride come out and she started yelling, ‘Where is he?

HOUSTON – UPDATE: As of August 19, Ashton Gardens had refunded the couple their money for the wedding. Original storyEverything about the wedding planning seemed to be going smoothly until six months before the big day, when the father of the bride died suddenly. They chose Ashton Gardens in West Harris County. They added that many wedding VIPs suffered from underlying health conditions and would not be able to travel. He said he learned about the family’s underlying health conditions and other details on Monday.

BIHAR, India More than 100 people attending a wedding in India tested positive for COVID-19, including the groom who died two days after tying the knot, Indian newspaper The Times of India reported. The wedding took place in Bihar, located in northeastern India. The Times of India reported approximately 400 guests attended the wedding. According to Indian health officials, the bride was not among the 100 guests who tested positive. It took weeks to contact-trace all exposed guests and test them, The Indian Express reported.

Newlyweds Dr. Kerry Anne and Michael Gordon shared their first look on their wedding day with dozens of people demonstrating during a Black Lives Matter protest in Center City, Philadelphia on Saturday. "It was the most overwhelming feeling that I had in my heart," Kerry Anne told CNN. Even though the hotel has closed its doors because of the pandemic, they offered up their courtyard for a small ceremony, Kerry Anne said. Linda McQueen, the couple's wedding photographer, told CNN protestors were chanting "Black Lives Matter" and "Black Love Matters" as they gathered around the couple with their bright colored, handmade signs. Kerry Anne wrote her vows for Michael five months prior to their wedding day and said she had not looked at them since.

Fiancé Justin Montney is now left to pick up the pieces and the financial fallout from their wedding plans that never happened. Wyatt signed a contract with a photography company called Copper Stallion Media to take their wedding video and gave them $1,800. Copper Stallion did not respond to KRDO. Copper Stallion did, however, respond to all those commends online, calling them a smear campaign and saying they don't have the money to refund him because of COVID-19. After what Justin pulled with the media stunt to try and shake us down for a refund we hope you sob and cry all day for what would have been your wedding day.

Pummeled by pandemic, wedding must go onPublished: May 14, 2020, 5:03 pmA couple who couldn't wait to get married was able to hold their wedding online for others to participate in.

The couple planned to get married in December after the baseball season. However just a few months later, their plans – like many other couples’ – hit a snag thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. With baseball season delayed, many businesses closed and large gatherings prohibited, Bregman and Howard are not sure when their wedding will happen. “Our wedding plans, there has been a little fork in the road when it comes to our wedding plans,” Bregman told KPRC 2. While they aren’t sure how their wedding plans will pan out yet, Bregman said he has one very important job.

The former quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers tied the knot to former Rice University basketball guard Breion Allen at in an intimate ceremony at the couple’s home in Florida. Because of stay-home orders in Florida, Winston decided to bring the ceremony to their own backyard. Both Winston and Allen met while attending the same high school in Hoover, Alabama. Winston attended Florida State, who eventually went on to win the Heisman Trophy. Winston is currently a free agent after leaving Tampa Bay last month.

So, off to self-quarantine they went, however, not without tying the knot that coronavirus seemed destined to loosen. Jack and Mariah McElligott said they’ve already had been through a lot -- planning a wedding, only to be pummeled by a pandemic. “So, we found this out the day before the 28th when we were supposed to get married,” Mariah said. "Yeah, the day before we’re supposed to get married we found out we had to be quarantined for 14 days,” Jack said. “We probably had about a hundred, I’d say, two thirds of our wedding participants on Zoom, which was really cool, you know?” Mariah said.

A hospital in Delaware helped organize a wedding for one of its terminally ill patients and his fiancée. Doctors in August had found a small lump on Gus Jiménez's lung, his wife told CNN affiliate WABC this week. Then on January 31, the couple went to the emergency room at Wilmington Hospital, where Gus was admitted for dehydration. Just a week later, Gus and Rachel were at the altar -- in the Wilmington Hospital atrium. "The perfect definition is 'just bittersweet,'" Rachel told WABC.

HOUSTON – Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt is making it official this off-season. During an interview on the Dan Patrick Show, Watt said tying the knot with former Houston Dash soccer player Kealia Ohai is one of the top things on his list while football is put on pause. “I’m good at speeches,” Patrick joked during the interview. I won’t even stay.”Watt popped the question at sunset by the sea in May 2019. He and Ohai have been dating for nearly three years.

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South African couple, Hector Mkansi and Nonhlanhla Soldaat had their dream wedding December 31, right in time for the new year, after a video of their proposal went viral in November. Mkansi, 37, proposed to Soldaat, 28, midway through their meal at a KFC restaurant in South Africa. Since the video was posted by a Twitter user in November, the video has been shared more than 25,000 times using the hashtag #KFCProposal. KFC South Africa provided a wedding planner and Uber and Audi offered to help the couple get around on their honeymoon. South Africans later jumped in with offers to help pay for the couple's wedding jewelry, spa treatment, and home furniture.

Authorities say it was actually a scheme to commit fraud through the popular wedding website The Knot. Vermyttya Miller, 38, was sentenced to five years in county jail after she attempted to scam the wedding planning website twice in 2016, the California Department of Insurance said. Authorities said Miller filed an insurance claim using falsified medical reports and received a $10,000 check from Tokio Marine. "Insurance fraud is a felony with serious penalties and consequences. CNN has reached out to Tokio Marine and the Vallejo Police Department for comment.