He wrote over 10,000 love letters to his wife

It is a unique love story which has lasted 40 years of utmost affection and resulted in the husband writing over 10,000 love notes and cards to his legal wife. Bill Bresnan from New Jersey has written to wife Kirsten almost one for each night of their marriage.

Bill and Kirsten, both 74 were ecstatic and happily revealed the secrets of their successful marriage.

The couple met when Bill was teaching a class back in 1974, and Kirsten happened to be his student. "She was this beautiful Northern European woman who struck me like a bolt of lightning," Bill said.

"Not long after meeting in class Kirsten and I began commuting to and from Long Island, together, on the Long Island Railroad." And that's when the practice of writing notes began. "We exchanged notes, drawings, and little scribblings on paper napkins over coffee on the train."

Bill and Kirsten soon began to date. "It was about this time, in the mid to late 1970s, that I started to send her periodic, funny cards as well as post cards from the various cities at which I was training," he said.

"I'd mail a card from Chicago, a note from Los Angeles, a napkin from a restaurant in Boston. All the letters are signed, 'I love you my darling,' with an infinity sign." Bill kept up the practice of writing love letters even after they were married.

The year that Kirsten turned 50, he sent her birthday cards 50 days in advance of the actual date, as a milestone for each year.

A few years ago, the couple decided to create a filing system that organised the thousands of cards and letters according to date.

"To this day, we have organised this collection in such a way that any time we'd like to know where we were or what we were doing on a particular day, we take out the file and revisit the past," Bill explained.

"They're essentially a love diary. For example, I could pick out a day in 1982, and it'll begin with the restaurant we ate in or a movie we saw and then a reaction to that."

It's really quite endearing to see a couple as much in love today as they were four decades ago. "There's no TV in our bedroom and never has been," Bill said.

"We eat by candlelight every night with romantic music playing in the background; every goodnight kiss is followed by I love you, the morning ones too."

Forty-six wedding bouquets but still single!

Bouquet Toss is a traditional wedding event where the bride chooses to toss her bridal bouquet to a group of unmarried female guests and whoever catches it will be the next person to be married.

But 37-year-old Utah resident Jamie Jackson who has caught 46 bouquets since 1996, earning herself the nickname 'The Bouquet Slayer', is still single.

It all started when Jamie attended her cousin's wedding in Layton, Utah, in 1996. "I'm kind of competitive by nature, so when his new bride tossed her bouquet, I went for it," she said. "After that wedding, I just knew that I could do it again."

Jamie who doesn't believe in "next to be married" myth says: "I've had boyfriends, sure. But I'm liking the single life. Besides, if I were married, I'd have to give up my favourite sport."

In fact, she's so proud of her achievement that she keeps all her dead flower 'awards' in a display case for everyone to see. "I can't help it - it's now an obsession.

At every wedding I get invited to, I just have to have the bouquet. I plot out my strategy as soon as I get there."

"Jamie is definitely a force to be reckoned with in the bouquet toss," said her close friend Nichole Keddington. "Some girls might be a little bitter that they'd caught so many bouquets and had never thrown their own, but not Jamie."

Bethany Hall, a former high school friend says: "It was so much fun to see her short and petite body leap into the air and catch my purple rose bouquet. Over the years, she's really turned her hobby into an art form."

Her secret is quite simple: "Position, position, position," she said. "You have to be in front if you want the best chance of catching the bouquet. Because usually when the bride tosses it, she throws it straight up and it will hit a ceiling or a chandelier then go straight down."

Jamie's quite sure that her bouquet-catching skills are unparalleled. She's only had to fight for it twice - both times with her twin sister Melissa, also single. "It was a battle she won both times," Jamie admitted. "But at the end of the day, she has two bouquets. And I have 46."

The current Guinness record holder, Stephanie Monyak from Pennsylvania, has caught only 15. "I got in touch with her and she says she's now going to more funerals than weddings," Jamie said. "So I figure I have this thing in the bag."

Millionaire monkey

Chunmun is a monkey who lives in an air-conditioned room at the home in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, of Savista and Brajesh, who have written their last will in his favour. Hence he will inherit a house worth seven million and a couple of million in the bank, but Chunmun can't sign a cheque.

Savista says she saw the monkey's mother fall to her death while delivering him and brought the infant monkey home. The couple did not have children and raised the monkey as their own child.Now their residence is called Chunmun House.

Chunman's human parents have now decided to start a trust in his name for the welfare of monkeys.

"When we are gone, we want this trust to organise altars for those monkeys who are friendly with humans and are suffering due to the cutting of woods. No monkey should suffer because of the wrong doings of humans.

As far as Chunmun is concerned, he is like a son to us," Brajesh, Savista's husband told ANI. The couple dismiss the local superstition that keeping monkeys as pets is bad luck. They say that Chunmun's presence has brought them luck and prosperity.