to her plus size bridesmaid dresses , ‘Forget this stuff, what can one person do?You can’t save a girl in Iran on death row.Just get on with the record.Afshin-Jam thought otherwise.She joined the international voices of protest and used the platform of her pageantry success, her presence, voice and looks to bring attention to the case around the world.Afshin-Jam came to Ottawa to lobby the government to agitate for Ms.Fatehi’s life and in the process ended up changing her own.MacKay was Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.MacKay told his local newspaper, The New Glasgow News, on Thursday, a day after announcing their marriage.She is a very caring and compassionate person.I came to admire her kind heart and the fact that she loves children and animals.Her successful campaign for Ms.Fatehi’s freedom inspired her to start a human rights organization called Stop Child Executions with another Iranian ex-pat in 2007.When she found out that it could be done, that she could do it, she realized there were a lot of other kids out there.Meanwhile her professional relationship with Mr.MacKay became personal.The pair began dating in 2010.MacKay said he proposed to his new wife in Valentia, a little island on the southern tip of Ireland that is his great-grandfather’s ancestral home.But first he phoned her father for his blessing, Mr.The Afshin-Jam clan are all remarkably close and major decisions are often based on wide consultation.Peter was vetted, I was vetted.Karroll, laughing over the phone from Mexico, where he travelled for the couple’s wedding.Her parents would want to make sure he was right for his daughter.They only really knew what they read about him.He passed the test and the couple were married in Mexico by a Nova Scotia reverend with the couple’s family in attendance.They are currently on their honeymoon.MacKay said of the couple’s decision to wed in Mexico.We were married by local reverend, Glen Matheson of New Glasgow, in a beautiful, quaint, traditional hillside chapel overlooking the ocean.Our families and loved ones took part in the service.In announcing the marriage on his website, Mr.MacKay said his bride feels at home in Nova Scotia and they look forward to calling Pictou County home.I am very happy for them.Duke, secretary-treasurer for Stop Child Executions.It’s the most unlikely union, on the surface.Nazanin is quite the pacifist.She opposes military intervention in Iran.SCE has a logo that dramatically waves a flag for its tragic cause.It features a stick figure, akin to the picture of a man on public washroom doors bridesmaid dresses from 99$ , only this one is hanging despondently from a noose with a crooked neck and clutching a teddy bear.Who pops the question?Sarah Nicole Prickett on the rules of engagementBy Sarah Nicole PrickettWhy has 2011 been like the official year of wedding fever?Surely we women should be concentrating on our tech start-ups, urban farms and loft conversions.But no, this year half the globe obsessed over a certain Kate and her dress and her wedding (for the record, I literally slept through it), while the fashion world (guilty) went green over the other Kate and her Mario Testino photos and her eleventy bridesmaids in Bonpoint frocks.We then satisfied our resulting envy and/or self-disgust by watching Bridesmaids, the wedding-brained Kristen Wiig-starring comedy smash that proved surprisingly feminist by taking men mostly out of the whole ordeal.went flop; let’s please take a moment to thank ourselves.on why, oops, we’re not getting married.In last weekend’s New York Times, there was an op-ed challenging the belief that 70% of black women remain single;Unlike Bolick, Walker dared breathe no suggestion that if the institution of marriage is limping, maybe we should just walk away.But the majority remain stuck with a lifelong attachment to lifelong attachment.Or, shall I say, a lifelong attachment to the idea of lifelong attachment.This was also the regrettable year in which we all kept up with the Kardashians, even without watching (I swear!a single episode of the show.It was impossible not to know that Kim got married, in August, smack in the dead days of television, bringing her gajillion-dollar enterprise a network record-imploding 10.It was impossible not to know that Kim got divorced, on Halloween, after 72 days of marriage (or, a third of the length of Hermain Cain’s campaign).by the incredibly romantic business of being herself on E!Entertainment Television.million and weighed 20.It was impossible not to know that she kept it.And it was impossible not to wonder, again, if all this rigamarole isn’t really more about the ring than what the ring represents.are a-flash with full-page ads selling forever diamonds.It’s telling of the institution just how dated formal bridesmaid dresses , how traditional, how frankly tacky and bougie and lame these rings look.and felt like a dude in the ’90s trying to tell the difference between little black dresses.It’s telling also that in both lads and ladies mags, the rings are for the ladies.Tiffany’s has launched the dedicated engagement site WhatMakesLoveTrue.s, so expectation-maxing and pornily voyeuristic, that it should really be WhatMakesLoveTrue.proposals: in one, he takes her deep-sea diving for pearls, but she finds a diamond instead.Jesus, like speaking of pressure levels.Anyway, to the great credit of Tiffany’s ad agency, What Makes Love True doesn’t position the ring as the end goal of romance; what’s being sold here is more subtly implied.If it seems strange that 80% of men say (or said, in a few-years-ago survey) they would accept a proposal from a woman, but only 9% of women would propose, it helps not to accuse both sides of lying to themselves (that too, though), but to look long and hard at the ring.I think women still want that ring, and as with anything sparkling and over-the-top and too expensive, we want to be given it.You know, ’cause it’s a symbol of enduring love and commitment, but like, dudely.On something of a whatever note, recent word has it the young Selena Gomez.