And the wedding crasher was the brides sister. Family dysfunction at its finest.

Twenty-three-year-old Annmarie Bricker of Valparaiso faces a misdemeanor battery charge for last Friday’s attack outside a Porter County home.

The Porter County Sheriff’s Department says a friend was hosting a reception for Nicholas Landry and Lori Kappes - Bricker’s sister - when Bricker attacked Kappes on the front porch.

Police say that after the attack, Kappes had smeared makeup and clumps of hair missing from her head but sought no medical treatment.

Annmarie insists that she never touched her sister and “just wanted to talk” about family problems.

Good Times!! Whenever I read about stories like this I always have to check for a Myspace or a Facebook account. I stumbled across this is one… is it the wedding crasher??

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Since we were talking about controversy over ministers ordained online last weekend, I figured I’d continue with the trend.

A couple in Normal, Illinois got married last week at their local taco bell. They were married as their friend Ryan Green, who was ordained online, administered the vows over customers inside the fast-food restaurant continued to order tacos, burritos and my personal favorite, spicy chicken crunchwrap supremes.

Employees went through all the hot sauce packets and picked the out the ones labeled with the words “Will you marry me?” and decorated the restaurant with streamers and balloons.

“Caragh Brooks, 21, of Australia, met Paul Brooks, 30, on an Internet dating Web site. They already had the same last name.

The couple wrote back and forth and talked on the phone for nine months before Caragh Brooks moved to the United States.

We have the same brain, just in two bodies,” Paul Brooks said. “We think alike in virtually every manner. We have the same interests, viewpoints.”

He proposed on New Year’s Eve and, because they like to spend time at the local Taco Bell, they decided to wed there.

“It’s appropriate,” groom Paul Brooks said. “It’s an offbeat relationship.”

The bride wore a $15 hot pink dress and the entire wedding cost about $200. When asked to comment the grooms mother said “This is the way to go — there’s no stress.”

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A September 2007 decision in which a York County, Pa., judge invalidated a marriage because it was performed by a minister who was ordained via the Internet was the catalyst for litigation over the validity of a ministers credentials and what exactly defines a church.

“A minister ordained over the Internet who has no congregation and no church to preach in is nonetheless empowered under Pennsylvania law to preside over marriage ceremonies, a Bucks County judge has ruled.”

“The Dec. 31 decision by Judge C. Theodore Fritsch Jr. in In re O’Neill directly conflicts with a September 2007 decision in which a York County judge invalidated a marriage because it was performed by a minister who was ordained via the Internet.”

In the 2007 case Heyer v. Hollerbush , a judge held that the marriage of Dorie Heyer and Jacob Hollerbush never existed because the Universal Life Church minister who conducted it did not serve a congregation or preach in a physical house of worship.”

As a result of the judges decision, registers of wills in counties throughout Pennsylvania began telling prospective couples that marriages performed by ministers who don’t serve a congregation or place of worship are not valid and some counties were even telling couple to get remarried.

As a Result, Attorney Mary Catherine Roper of the American Civil Liberties Union Of Pennsylvania  went to court on behalf of three couples seeking legal declarations that their marriages are valid.

Now, with Fritsch’s decision, Roper has won all three cases and, in the final case, a written opinion that rejects the previous judges’ analysis.

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