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Natasha Burton is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in People, Maxim, Glamour and Daily Variety, as well as online at WomansDay.com, iVillage.com, FHM.com, ModernMom.com and Mom.me, among others. She was formerly a Staff Writer for The Huffington Post and a founding editor at Glo.com, a women's lifestyle site partnered with MSN.com and Hearst magazines.

In 2011, Natasha coauthored the critically-acclaimed dating guide "The Little Black Book of Big Red Flags," which was based on the website, BigRedFlags.com and published by F+W Media.

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Divorce Effect On Kids: How My Parents' Split Didn't Screw Me Up

(421) Comments | Posted October 3, 2012 | 2:35 AM

We asked adult children of divorce to share how their parents’ splits affected their lives in the long run, for better or for worse. This story came to us from Anna Jones,* age 26 (As told to Natasha Burton.)

I found out my parents were splitting up...

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Lisa Rau And Robert Cannon: Planning A 'Super Happy Funtime Robotland' Wedding

(487) Comments | Posted September 25, 2012 | 2:55 AM

Lisa Rau and Robert Cannon’s August 4 nuptials at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, California were more carnival than wedding. Rau, 26, a documentary editor for the National Science Foundation and Cannon, 33, a speech and debate teacher, tied the knot in a vibrant celebration in front of 200...

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Kristen Abele and James Schulman: How We Had A Beach Wedding For Under $10K

(31) Comments | Posted September 11, 2012 | 11:49 AM

Think it’s impossible to have a beautiful beach wedding on a budget? Miami-based couple Kristen Abele and James Schulman, both 28, will prove you wrong. After spending a total of $8,000 on their January 2012 nuptials ($20,000 less than what the average couple in Miami shells out for...

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Rentrée 2012: les enseignants révèlent les plus grandes erreurs des parents divorcés ou séparés (PHOTOS)

(1) Comments | Posted August 28, 2012 | 11:37 AM

Les parents et leurs enfants ne seraient pas les seuls affectés par un divorce. Un autre groupe se sentirait pris dans la tourmente des séparations parentales: les enseignants.

La rentrée approche; aussi nous avons parlé à des professeurs un peu partout au pays, leur posant des questions sur ce...

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Jessica Hische and Russell Maschmeyer: Love Story Behind Couple With Incredible Wedding Website

(20) Comments | Posted August 24, 2012 | 2:32 AM

As far as wedding websites go, Jessica Hische and Russell Maschmeyer's sets the bar high. When we came across the couple’s intricately designed site -- which doubles as their wedding invitation -- we just had to get the story behind it. (Especially after the site was lauded for...

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Back To School 2012: Teachers Reveal Parents' Biggest Divorce Mistakes

(27) Comments | Posted August 14, 2012 | 2:00 PM

Parents and their children may be the ones most directly affected by divorce. But there’s another group who end up with a front-row seat to the post-split drama -- teachers.

With back-to-school season approaching, we spoke to teachers from across the country on the things divorcing parents often get...

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Children Of Divorce: How Kids Are Affected By Splits

(198) Comments | Posted August 9, 2012 | 5:10 AM

We asked adult children of divorce to share how their parents’ splits affected their lives in the long run, for better or for worse. This story came to us from Crystal Pearson, age 50.* (As told to Natasha Burton.)

My parents' divorce would have screwed me up a lot less...

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Budget Wedding: Elizabeth Ulrich And Will Fanguy Plan Cheap, Gorgeous Wedding (PHOTOS)

(68) Comments | Posted July 31, 2012 | 2:18 AM

When Elizabeth Ulrich learned that her father had pancreatic cancer, she and her fiancé, Will Fanguy, 30, scrapped the $8,000 wedding they’d been planning for almost three months and put together their nuptials in just eight weeks -- on a reduced budget of $5,000 -- to ensure that her father...

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Peter Scalettar And Cassie Lambert: Engaged 'Bachelor' Producers Share Their Behind-The-Scenes Love Story (PHOTOS)

(13) Comments | Posted July 27, 2012 | 12:29 PM

Helping people fall in love is just part of a day’s work for Los Angeles-based couple Peter Scalettar, 34, and Cassie Lambert, 33, both producers for the reality TV franchises “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette.” But while they steer contestants toward finding “the one” for a living, they never expected...

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Wedding Costs: What's A Wedding Really Worth? (INFOGRAPHIC)

(124) Comments | Posted July 26, 2012 | 2:38 AM

It’s no secret that weddings are expensive. In 2011, couples across the U.S. spent an average of $27,000 on their nuptials, according to a survey conducted by TheKnot.com and WeddingChannel.com.

As we kicked off our Take Back Your Wedding campaign last month, encouraging couples to plan...

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'The Bachelorette' Final Episode: An 'Amazing', 'Perfect' Fairytale Ending?

(7) Comments | Posted July 23, 2012 | 4:05 PM

HuffPost staff writer Natasha Burton and her boyfriend, Greg St. Clair, live together, which means that Monday nights he can either resign himself to the office, or watch "The Bachelorette" with her. He chose the option that wins him more brownie points (watching "The Bachelorette," of course).

Each week, they've...

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Real Weddings: Debbie Pray, Larry Crooker Reunite After 30 Years, Wed In Kayaks (PHOTOS)

(0) Comments | Posted July 23, 2012 | 12:21 PM

Though Larry Cooker, 54, and Debbie Pray, 50, felt a connection when they dated 30 years ago, they ended up marrying other people. But after rekindling their romance in 2010, the couple wed -- in their kayaks -- on Connecticut’s Mystic River on July 3, Stonington Patch reported....

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Wedding Etiquette: 10 Rules You Can Break

(177) Comments | Posted July 19, 2012 | 2:34 AM

Here at HuffPost Weddings, we believe in having your Big Day your way. (Have you seen our Take Back Your Wedding campaign yet?) But even as couples strive to personalize their weddings, they still can get confused about which long-standing "rules" they can break.

“Weddings tend to...

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'The Bachelorette' Episode 9: Playing 'Do, Dump, or Marry' With The Final Trio

(12) Comments | Posted July 10, 2012 | 3:00 PM

HuffPost staff writer Natasha Burton and her boyfriend, Greg St. Clair, live together, which means that Monday nights he can either resign himself to the office, or watch "The Bachelorette" with her. He chose the option that wins him more brownie points (watching "The Bachelorette," of course).

Every Tuesday, they'll...

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Airplane Proposal: Jacob Klaven Proposes On Transatlantic Flight To Memphis (PHOTOS)

(350) Comments | Posted July 9, 2012 | 12:22 PM

After Jacob Klaven, 27, spent weeks preparing to pop the question to his girlfriend, Natalie Cohen, 26, on an airplane, a particularly nasty flight attendant almost grounded his plans.

Klaven reported his ordeal to The Consumerist, then shared the specifics of his proposal -- and...

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'The Bachelorette' Episode 8: Meet The Final Fours' Families

(2) Comments | Posted July 3, 2012 | 1:28 PM

HuffPost staff writer Natasha Burton and her boyfriend, Greg St. Clair, live together, which means that Monday nights he can either resign himself to the office, or watch "The Bachelorette" with her. He chose the option that wins him more brownie points (watching "The Bachelorette," of course).

Every Tuesday, they'll...

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'Call Me, Maybe' Wedding: Indian-Pakistani Wedding Pays Tribute To Carly Rae Jepsen Song (VIDEO)

(3) Comments | Posted June 28, 2012 | 1:00 PM

Will the infectious summer hit “Call Me Maybe” become the new "it" song of viral wedding videos?

If the Indian wedding video (above), made by HuffPost blogger Sarah Khan and her friend Asma Sethi, is any indication, the answer is yes.

Khan and Sethi got the idea to...

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Nora Ephron's 'Heartburn': How It Changed The Conversation about Divorce

(23) Comments | Posted June 27, 2012 | 7:05 PM

Nora Ephron’s novel “Heartburn,” a roman à clef loosely based on her discovery of husband Carl Bernstein's affair and its aftermath, was published in 1982. That same year, the U.S. divorce rate was higher than it had ever been.

Though splits were becoming increasingly common, women were...

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'The Bachelorette' Episode 7: Czech Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

(0) Comments | Posted June 26, 2012 | 4:04 PM

HuffPost staff writer Natasha Burton and her boyfriend, Greg St. Clair, live together, which means that Monday nights he can either resign himself to the office, or watch "The Bachelorette" with her. He chose the option that wins him more brownie points (watching "The Bachelorette," of course).

Every Tuesday, they'll...

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Same-Sex Wedding: Gay Couple Weds At NYC Comic Book Store

(151) Comments | Posted June 22, 2012 | 1:12 PM

In May, self-professed "geek" Scott Everhart from Columbus, Ohio, entered a contest for a free wedding at a New York City comic book store. However, unlike most couples hoping to win the all-expenses-paid nuptials, Everhart and his partner, Jason Welker, were not yet engaged -- and Welker had no idea...

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