Wedding, Tour Call-up - It's Enough To Make Doug's Hair Stand On End

"THIS is the best week of my life," announced Doug Bollinger before he departed for Hawaii. The NSW paceman - having grown a new head of hair, gained a Cricket Australia contract, and been married to wife Tegan in Wollongong in the past seven days - is now a bona fide international tourist with selection for the West Indies trip next month. Time to buy a lottery ticket, Doug.

Bell On Long Road Back To Hawaii

IN THEORY, Victorian Luke Bell should be getting closer to his quest of winning a Hawaii Ironman.

Aussie Twist To Us Hit

LOST, Tonight: Prime, 8.30pm Tonight's episode of Lost features an interesting special effect - it turns Hawaii into rural Victoria.

Rape Claim `old'

* AFL HAWTHORN AFL club said allegations of rape against its players during a trip to Hawaii five years ago were unsubstantiated.

Exchange Vows In Paradise

ISLAND weddings are the in thing these days, and you can get married in style at one of two historic homesteads at The Parker Ranch on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Lisa Marie Gets Cagey At Wedding

OSCAR-WINNING actor Nicolas Cage has married Elvis' only child, Lisa Marie Presley.

Couple Says Aloha To Wedding Plans

It was going to be the most romantic wedding imaginable.

World Cup Dream Keeping Tiatto Keen

WELLINGTON: World Cup aspirants do not come much more enthusiastic than Danny Tiatto, who spent much of his honeymoon pounding Hawaii's beaches and thinking of windy Wellington.

Wedding Plunge In Pipeline

After suffering a few wipe-outs at the Pipeline Masters, Port Kembla surfer Michael Lowe is getting ready to take the plunge of a different kind. Lowe has returned to his Port Kembla home after completing another year on the World Championship Tour and next month he will tie the knot with his chi

Sketchy Scenes

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Today, 6.30pm, Arena TO mark 25 years since the broadcast of the first show, Sophie Lee (the star of Muriel's Wedding, The Castle and Bootmen) presents her favourite episodes of the long-running American sketch comedy series best known for launching the careers of Eddie Murphy,

Agassi Toys With Wedding Rumour

The world's No1 tennis player, and the game's current major source of romantic rumour, almost confessed yesterday. But in the end, the stinging sarcasm and caustic wit of Andre Agassi meant everyone was still guessing over the American star's marital status. Agassi has been hounded for the p

$34,000 For Marriage

SEVEN months in the planning, Aneta and Chris Urdarov's wedding in February catered for 600 guests. The were married at the Macedonian Orthodox Church in Broadmeadow, followed by a reception at Newcastle Workers Club. Mrs Urdarov said the size of the wedding, which cost $34,060, was traditiona

Pipers Set Festive Air

THE Celtic revival has been good news for Scots pipers John and Andrew Iverson. The stirring music accompanying Mel Gibson's Braveheart movie prompted many brides to choose a bagpiper to add colour to their wedding day. "People saw the movie and thought; `that's cool'," John, 22, sai

Sydney Goes All Out To Become Cupid's Capital

Sydney is giving the elbow to Italy and Hawaii to stake a claim as the Cupid capital of the world for Japanese couples wanting to tie the knot overseas. By the time of the Sydney Olympics, one in 10 Japanese couples will be getting hitched outside their own country, according to the Australian To

Tissues At The Ready In Relocated Wandin Valley

WHAT better way to celebrate the resurrection of one of Australia's longest running TV soaps than with a wedding? Not just a normal wedding, mind you. When Jimmy and Liz got hitched in the first episode of the reborn A Country Practice on Ten last night, it was in the cardiac care unit of the Royal

Potter Revving Up For A Late Charge

There's an old saying that if you want to catch a surfer it must be between the swells. And that's precisely what happened to Martin Potter in Hawaii last December. Potter, the 1989 World Champion, married long-time friend Fiona in a colourful and picturesque Hawaiian-style wedding a

I Don't

ON THE scale of public humiliation, nothing ranks higher than being stood up for your own wedding. Getting jilted at the altar is every bride's worst nightmare and every groom's darkest fear - just ask Primrose Dunlop, the hapless Sydney socialite who is still recovering from the shock cancellat

Magnum Bows Out - Alive

IT'S goodnight from everyone's favourite private investigator tonight as Magnum hangs up is floral shirts and boardshorts. Channel 10 screens at 8.30 a two-hour telemovie, The Final Chapter, that signals the end of Tom Selleck's thespian reign in Hawaii. Selleck, who is to pursue his

Reception Will Put The Spotlight On Australia

TONIGHT'S super-glitter wedding reception of Japan's singer Hiromi Go and actress Yurie Nitani in Sydney, complete with a $2.5 million Sydney-designed diamond-studded gown, could prove Australia's biggest Japanese promotion of recent years - and focuses attention on the potential of the wedding