Blog Posts by Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

(Via Twitter)Twitter has hosted proposals and divorce announcements, so it was only a matter of time before the site serviced an actual wedding ceremony.

On Monday, a Turkish couple made it official by tweeting 'I Do,' in what's believed to be the world's first Twitter-hosted wedding. Actually they wrote 'Evet'—the Turkish word for 'Yes'—on their iPads, and added a few extra 'T's' as is customary when expressing joy through digital mediums. 

The groom, Cengizhan Celik, is a social media editor for the news website Ensonhaber.com, so it almost makes sense that Twitter would serve as his best man. The bride, Candan Canik, doesn't seem to share the same enthusiasm for the service, considering her vow was her first tweet. But love is all about making sacrifices, right?

In a video of the ceremony, posted on YouTube, an officiant prompts the couple to confirm their vows and they both gaze into the faces of their respective iPads. By that point, Celik was already deep into live-tweeting the

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There are two reasons to watch the MTV Video Music Awards: staged French kisses and meat dresses. Unfortunately, Thursday night's music prom had neither. Instead the biggest theatrics were some one-sies and a pair of matching platinum mohawks. Despite the low shock value, there were a few red carpet highlights that got the party started.

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She's done it again. With unlikely nail color and a few dramatic hand gestures, the First Lady has catapulted a new beauty trend into the mainstream.

On Tuesday during her impassioned speech at the Democratic National Convention, the First Lady's blue-gray nails got as much buzz as her Tracy Reese dress. Equal parts Katy Perry and high school goth, the color was an unusual choice for a political figure, no less a woman over 30. But Michelle Obama doesn't follow style rules, she reinvents them.

The style campaigns of Ann and Michelle

By the second day of the convention, Michelle's gray nails were still intact and beauty bloggers were on a mission to identify her polish of choice. Was it Chanel? O.P.I?

A Wall Street Journal reporter confirmed the answer with the White House. Michelle was wearing (drum roll, please) the Artistic Nail Design Soak Off Colour Gloss in "Vogue."

The bad news: It's a kind of polish mostly available in salons only. The good news: Salons are

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When Michelle Obama wears a dress, people ask who designed it. When Ann Romney wears a dress, they ask how much it cost. In the case of Romney and Obama, they wear their party differences on their sleeves, or lack thereof. One day in the future, we may have two female presidential candidates whose words will be more scrutinized than their outfits. But for now, First Lady fashion is a critical element in a man's race for the White House, and the wardrobe of both wives shape the political discourse as much as any scripted speech.

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As the DNC kicked off Tuesday, the topic at hand was moving forward. But looking backwards has its rewards too. If you want to see how much times have changed, consider the way we 'wore' party politics at DNC conventions in decades past.

Joan and Robert Vanderhorst were planning to fly home to California with their 16-year-old son on Sunday. But before they could board their American Airlines flight from Newark airport bound for Los Angeles, they were stopped at the gate.

"We were not allowed on the plane because they saw my son and made a decision," Joan Vanderhorst told KTLA local news.

Her son, Bede, has Down Syndrome. Because of it, the airline deemed him flight risk, the Vanderhorsts claim.

Airline seating gets high-tech upgrade

The family had traveled on dozens of flights in the past and insist their son was behaving calmly when the airline made its decision. A smartphone video of Bede, taken by his mom during the incident, shows the boy quietly playing with a baseball cap.

But American Airlines' reps painted a very different picture of the child's actions before boarding, describing him as "excitable, running around, and not acclimated to the environment."
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(Photo courtesy of Emma Magazine)Nils Pickert's 5-year-old son likes wearing dresses. If anyone thinks that's odd they can take it up with Nils. He's the guy in the skirt.

The German dad has become a role model not only for his son, but for parents around the world, after a photograph of the pair holding hands in red skirts spread across the internet.
"Yes, I'm one of those dads, that tries to raise their children equal," he explained in an essay published alongside the photo in Emma, a German feminist magazine.

Celebrities who were bullied as kids

Pickert never minded that his son liked dressing in little girl's clothes, but when his family moved from West Berlin to a small southern town in Germany, he learned that other people did. In fact, it became a "town wide issue," according to Pickert, whose essay was translated by Tumblr user steegeschnoeber.

A new school didn't make life any easier for his young son. Shortly after his first day, he stopped reveling in his own tastes and Pickert worried about the damage

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(Photo by Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic/Getty Images)The following women are not attractive to Donald Trump: Angelina Jolie ("She's been with so many guys"), Cher ("bad plastic surgery"), Rosie O'Donnell ("big, fat pig"), and now, Arianna Huffington.

On Wednesday, Trump used his Twitter account to call the internet powerhouse "unattractive both inside and out." He went on to attack her marriage, which ended in an amicable divorce.

"I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man-he made a good decision," Trump added in less than 140 characters.

It's not the first time he's publicly judged a successful female media figure by her looks and intimate life, and it probably won't be the last.

Trump's world seems to be divided into three categories. Women he finds attractive. Women he doesn't find attractive. And Men. It's not so different from a Miss USA pageant, only "contestants" like Huffington don't ask to be entered.

Trump slams Cher for anti-Romney tweets

It's unclear what exactly prompted Trump's alarmingly

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