Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, the Irish holiday where lots of people get drunk on bad green beer, a few people eat corned beef and cabbage, and everyone is hoping for some luck.

Bring some of that Irish luck into your wedding with Irish toasts,  a wedding blessing, and other Irish wedding customs.

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A Lucky Irish Wedding originally appeared on About.com Weddings on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 13:55:02.

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Are you superstitious? Today's date, March 15, is traditionally considered to be unlucky thanks to Brutus's backstabbing (literally) of Julius Caesar in 44BC. You may have heard it called The Ides of March, after the Roman feast where Caesar was murdered. Superstitious folks avoid starting a new business, taking a risk, or getting married on such an inauspicious anniversary.

Fortunately, March 15th will be a weekday for the next couple of years, so you're unlikely to choose it for a wedding day. Instead, focus on adding good luck to your wedding with these lucky charms:

Get married on a "lucky" wedding date

Make sure you have something old (perhaps a vintage wedding dress?), something new (your new wedding ring?), something borrowed (rent some wedding jewelry?), something blue (blue shoes?), And a silver sixpence in your shoe. Or incorporate another lucky wedding tradition.

Incorporate a lucky horseshoe on your favors, or give out four leaf clover cookies.

Save the top layer of your wedding cake to eat on your first anniversary.

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Beware the Ides of March...and Other Superstitions originally appeared on About.com Weddings on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 11:13:13.

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Showing off your engagement ring might be a bit cliche^', but it's also incredibly fun. As soon as it's on your finger, everyone else wants to see, touch, hear, exclaim, squeal. And we here at About.com are no different. So show it off girls! We want to hear all about your engagement ring, where it was purchased, how you feel about it, why it's awesome.

Show Off Your Engagement Ring! originally appeared on About.com Weddings on Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 18:37:14.

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Okay, so getting a celebrity to tweet about you isn't so easy. But one woman is really getting a free wedding after Conan O'Brien started following her on Twitter. Sarah Killen (username LovelyButton) is the only person that the stand-up comic is following, and the ensuing media attention has companies offering her freebies for her upcoming wedding. In one day, this Michigan girl and her fiancé went from 3 followers to over 10,000, and from wondering about how to pay for the wedding to getting a free dress from Kelima, wine from a California vineyard, and even wedding bands . Now she's using her new-found celebrity for greater good, raising almost $3K for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure and retweeting other friends' charity causes. Is this a Web 2.0 version of Cinderella, or what? She is even getting free custom-made wedding shoes - perhaps they'll be glass slippers!

Want a Free Wedding? Get a Celeb to Tweet About You! originally appeared on About.com Weddings on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 10:18:36.

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Did you watch ABC's The Bachelor Wedding last night? It was the highly anticipated reality TV wedding of Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney, complete with lavish details like a Monique Lhuillier wedding dress and a fabulous Californian cliff-side resort. The only problem? The producers didn't plan for a rain location.

Yep, that's right. Though they waited for a break in the rain to start the ceremony, the skies opened up again during the wedding vows. It looked like a torrential downpour, and while the wedding guests all had clear umbrellas, the bride and groom got completely soaked. It's the most classic of wedding planning mistakes, and yet the producers didn't plan for it! How did that happen!? Don't let this happen to you: read my 10 Tips for an Outdoor Wedding

Getting Married in the Rain - The Bachelor Wedding originally appeared on About.com Weddings on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 15:17:05.

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