The fast casual spot’s Pi Day tradition is rising faster than pizza dough.

Sorry, love birds: D.C. courts won’t be performing weddings while the federal government is shutdown.

Whilst perusing the fine content on display at our sister blog in New York over the weekend, this editor couldn’t help but notice this post, boasting about The City That Never Sleeps’ booming population of people who aren’t sporting wedding bands.

When the women of Bridesmaids board a plane bound for a bachelorette party in Vegas, it’s easy to assume that’s where the movie’s really going to get crazy. By this point in the narrative, the characters in this group have already been established as an idiosyncratic and wide-ranging set of personalities. Rather than making them a band of lifelong friends, writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo choose to make them strangers, only bonded by their independent friendships with the bride-to-be, Lillian (Maya Rudolph). The personality clashes and getting-to-know-you moments provide the basis for a lot of the initial comedy within that group dynamic; as the flight takes off for Sin City, the possibilities for disastrous hilarity seem set.

During yesterday’s legislative meeting, D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced a piece of legislation which would allow notary publics to conduct marriage ceremonies in the District. The bill, which Cheh, along with Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and David Catania (Ind.-At-Large), previously introduced last year, seems like a pretty common sense thing for the city to do. But not everyone on the Council is on board.

Local event planner Mike Wilkinson had big hopes to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by hosting the largest ever group wedding for same-sex couples this Saturday. But he ran into a couple of snags. For one, he says the Guinness people told him they aren’t interested in keeping track of records that have to do with specific demographics, for which this would qualify. And for another, he fell quite a bit…

This comes courtesy DC Agenda, which had exclusive access to the courthouse nuptials of Jeremy Moon and Bryan Legaspi earlier this morning. Their marriage, officiated by D.C. Superior Court Judge Brook Hedge, took place at roughly the same time as a religious ceremony joining James Betz and Robert Hawthorne went on outside the courthouse. The two couples marked the first legally recognized same-sex weddings to be performed in the District of Columbia on March 9….

The Post reported earlier that the very first gay couples to get legally wed in the District of Columbia this morning were Jeremy Moon and Bryan Legaspi, a pair of White House staffers, and James Betz and Robert Hawthorne. The two couples appear to have held their marriage ceremonies nearly simultaneously, one inside the courthouse in judges chambers, and the other just outside the building. Meanwhile, three of the couples we talked to last week,…

Local entrepreneurs are scrambling to get in on the ground floor of the District’s impending same-sex marriage nuptials, whether it’s wedding planners, photographers, caterers, you name it. There’s real money to be made here, not to mention the additional potential of endearing yourself to the LGBT community on the whole. Gay marriage is just good business at this point. But of all the Craigslist postings and gay wedding targeted ads and offers of free…

Good morning, Washington. It’s Columbus Day, the least observed of all the federal holidays — or is that Veterans’ Day? Unless you work directly for the government or your job is absolutely dependent on it being open for business, odds are about even you’re sitting at your desk at the usual time this morning, as a trade-off for getting to take the Friday after Thanksgiving off. It’s also, of course, a controversial day, and is…