Weddings can be expensive. Here's the top ten most expensive weddings of all time.

I know you get a lot of letters about break ups. My girlfriend and I were together for seven years. We have made big joint decisions about careers, just had a world trip and I was arranging a beautiful ring for her.

At a dinner party, I found myself seated next to a recently engaged socialite, with a diamond the size of Gibraltar on her ring finger.

I sprained my wrist two days before Mother’s Day. In the middle of a show-jumping lesson, I lost my balance over a jump and my right hand came down heavily on my horse’s neck as we landed.

What is it that makes rockstars so attractive to the opposite sex? Turns out Charles Darwin had it pegged years ago - and it has a lot to do with peacocks.

Belinda and Campbell Stewart spent their first married moments alone on a mountain peak for perhaps the most dramatic wedding photos ever.

There is no doubt that pressure and views from others about how we live our lives will impact our feelings and perceptions about ourselves.

The course of true love never did run smooth, but a New Zealand Government official did his best to help a celebrity couple walk down the aisle when their dream wedding seemed in peril.

Kim Dotcom's estranged wife Mona celebrated her birthday dog-sledding with the Megaupload founder and their children yesterday.

They are arguably the UK's most high-profile showbiz couple - and they've managed to withstand the pressures of the paparazzi and family life to celebrate 15 years of marriage.

Children in same-sex families scored better on a number of key measures of physical health and social well-being than kids from the general population.

I get lots of lovely emails from readers when these columns or my weekly blog resonate with an issue they are facing in their life.

The temperatures are falling and our thoughts are turning to all things warm — winter getaways, crackling fires, mulled wine . . . and talent. Welcome to Spy’s annual Winter Hot List.

Kim Dotcom is enjoying a holiday with his brood in the chilly south - and he's even taken estranged wife Mona for the break.

David and Victoria Beckham celebrate the 15th wedding anniversary this year.

Any old rented tux won’t do anymore. Guys do give a damn about what they get hitched in. A lot, says well-dressed husband Alan Perrott.

A woman was pleasantly shocked when the family pet recently vomited up her wedding ring six years after it first went missing.

Susie Markham is the woman who's given Lou Vincent 'so much strength' to tackle his match-fixing secret.

Sleeping naked and keeping food out of the bedroom are two of the secrets to a happy relationship, according to a survey.

Glamour couple Kylie Bax and Spiros Poros have separated after nine years of marriage.

When the Stockton Police Department in the United States posted mugshots of four men they'd arrested after a spate of shootings and robberies, one of the crims found instant fame.

Kiwi actor and Hollywood star Karl Urban has announced that he and wife Natalie Wihongi will separate.

We have all been caught up in flaming rows with our nearest and dearest - or else our colleagues or bosses, tradesmen or the neighbours with whom we share our physical space.

Chlamydia rates in Kiwis are on the decline, but New Zealand still has a much higher rate of infection than Australia.

It has long been associated with guilt and heartache, but a new study suggests casual sex can have a positive effect - for some people.

When Vicki Parry's highly trained Siberian husky nudges forcefully into her leg, she knows it's time to do a diabetes test of her blood-sugar level.