Lisa Flam

By Lisa A. Flam
Tiffany Enriquez knew that weddings are expensive. Yet, shortly after getting engaged in February 2022, she felt the jolt of sticker shock as she began looking for venues and vendors.
“I didn’t realize how much money it was going to be,” says Tiffany, of Mount Olive. Tiffany and her fiancé are paying for about half of their May 2024 wedding.
What was causing Tiffany, 26, the most stress was the struggle to save for both a dream wedding and a dream home.

As a bride-to-be, Kelsey Lannon was completing a demanding medical residency and was short on time to plan her wedding. She knew she wanted to incorporate the colors burgundy and apricot but needed design ideas and a creative vision for the event.

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Brielyn Souza donned a cathedral-length veil for her church wedding in 2015, but popped on a fresh floral crown for the reception.
With its earthly beauty, the crown fit the laid-back, rustic-glam feel of her barn party, and felt true to a bride who often wore flowers in her hair as a girl.
“It was my version of a bride,” Souza, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, says of the crown. “Some people put on a veil and they feel like a bride. I put on that floral crown and I felt like a bride.”

Pregnant women are more likely to suffer a severe illness from the flu and potentially life-threatening complications.

This mom's hope is that she will never get cancer and lose her hair again, keeping the tattoos hidden forever once their hair returns.

When Alexis Cardwell met AJ Nolin, a dead flower took center stage, but their relationship blossomed into a beautiful love story. The pair met as undergraduates at Syracuse University in 2016, when she was president of the theater club and he was trying out for a play.

With a loving act of kindness, Brittany Peck's dad made her wedding-day dream come true.
Just before her father, Todd Bachman, walked her down the aisle on Sept. 26, 2015, he stopped the processional and continued down the aisle alone to grab the hand of her stepfather and make a surprise invitation that left everyone teary-eyed.
"He asked my stepdad to stand up and said, 'You deserve this just as much as I do. Will you help me walk our daughter down the aisle?'" Peck recalled, adding that ju...

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The talent, creativity and self-expression of students in sixth through 12th grade was on display at the Byram Hills Winter Art Show, which featured pieces in a wide range of artistic mediums.

If you’re worried you might have the flu, one distinguishing feature of the dreaded respiratory virus is that its symptoms can come on quickly and all together.

“The hallmark of influenza tends to be fever with a cough or a sore throat,” says flu expert Dr. Jonathan Temte, a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

“For younger children, a fever with respiratory symptoms, cough, sore throat, runny ...

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A New Hampshire toddler who suffered a nightmarish injury when a pencil impaled her eye and became lodged in her head was saved by a remarkable turn of good fortune: The pencil that penetrated deep into her brain took a near-perfect path that left her virtually unscathed.

A woman followed her doctor’s orders, and it saved her baby girl’s life.