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Here come brides to be at Gainesville Civic Center (AccessNorthGA) - GAINESVILLE - An estimated 140 brides to be, their moms, dads, prospective grooms, friends and everyone else involved with the future wedding attended the 14th Annual Bridal Fair Sunday at the Gainesville Civic Center.

Brides-to-be turn out for annual expo (The Valdosta Daily Times) - VALDOSTA — Brides-to-be looking for something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue could find it all Saturday at the Fourth Annual South Georgia Bridal Expo.

Brides special section now available on this Web site. (Perry County News) - The Perry County News regularly includes special sections in its print edition, and those special sections are posted here, as well. Just look on the left side of this page for the list, which includes sections on seniors, brides, home improvement, Little League players and other topics.

For bold brides, vivid hues, accessories, flowers add dramatic flair at Showcase (Rapid City Journal) - RAPID CITY — If you are planning a wedding in the near future, the annual Bridal Showcase is your one-stop shop for all things matrimonial.

Dave Eggers on his teen idols the June Brides (Guardian Unlimited) - Pop: The June Brides may have caused few ripples in the 1980s indie scene but they meant the world to a teenage Dave Eggers. But why was that?

Brides got their down payments back (Wisconsin State Journal) - Nurse practitioner and midwife Debra Adams of Reedsburg got worried when the Raintree Resort in Wisconsin Dells closed its doors in December with $1,000 of her money in its till.

Connecticut Bridal Expo underway in Hartford (WFSB 3) - HARTFORD - It is a big weekend for wedding planning. The Connecticut Bridal Expo is underway in Hartford. Hundreds of brides to be packed the Connecticut Expo Center to check out china and cake. Models showed off the latest trends in dresses during a fashion show.

It Takes a Village (WNYC New York Public Radio) - Moments in time, from two different worlds: Japanese picture brides and the village of Brief Encounter in Julie Otsuka's "1919," read by Dawn Akemi Saito and Robert Coover's "Milford Junction, 1939: A Brief Encounter," read by Cynthia Nixon.

Bangladeshi couples hold dowry-free weddings at Islamic gathering (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Some 100 couples were married in a mass wedding ceremony in Bangladesh during the world's biggest annual Islamic event after the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, officials said.

Government support for mail-order brides (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - A rural province in South Korea plans to give financial aid to help lonely male farmers pay for mail-order brides from overseas.