LOVE & COMMERCE Here's a personal finance column about the small but growing trend toward sponsored weddings, where goods and services are traded for advertising at the event:

Pulling off a sponsored wedding isn't exactly easy. In fact, Weiss figured it was a lot more work than planning a regular wedding. Of the 2,000 vendors Vincelli had approached at press time, she corralled 16 into saying yes, for a less than 1-percent success rate. She still lacks tuxes, her gown, the cake, a photographer and horse-and-carriage transportation.

(For the record, Cudge.net does not entertain sponsorship deals at this time.)