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Rainbow brides shun dream of a white wedding (Telegraph.co.uk) - More and more brides are following the example of Jordan and Camilla Parker Bowles by ditching white wedding dresses in favour of more colourful gowns.

Abandoned Brides: Canada's Shame India's Sorrow (Nanaimo Daily News) - The men travel to India in the hundreds to meet a new bride, offering promises of a better life back in Canada. Instead, the women are often left penniless, shamed and stranded in a nation that views them as social outcasts. Series begins: Pages A6-A9.

Forget booze and baudiness. Today's bachelor and bachelorette parties are all about making that 'last night' a creative (Republican American) - relatively tame bachelor and bachelorette parties. But what is lost in raunchiness is made up for in creativity. Today's brides and grooms are more likely to take a trip to Miami Beach, visit a spa, go on a golf weekend, have a slumber party or play paintball than hit up the strip clubs.

Wedding gowns moving away from white (UPI) - BIRMINGHAM, England, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The National Wedding Show in Birmingham, England, showed brides and their mothers an array of colorful wedding gowns.

Palestinian TV: Jews murder Arab brides in cold blood (WorldNet Daily) - JERUSALEM – Jewish soldiers murder Arab brides in cold blood, and the Israeli coastal towns of Jaffa and Haifa are really Palestinian cities, according to broadcasts this week on official Palestinian Authority television.

Wedded blitz (New Orleans Times-Picayune) - Although uninvited guests named Katrina and Rita blew many couples' nuptial plans out of the water, one local couple still set sail last weekend on the sea of matrimony. And a rescheduled bridal show can help steer other displaced brides and grooms in a similar direction.

Fashion forecast (Miami Herald) - Tea time: Style and tea guru Tracy Stern will host a day of beauty Saturday 12-2 p.m. at Brownes & Co. in Miami Beach. The New York-based Stern will be on hand to launch her new chai tea incense, loose tea collection and lip balm. Where: 841 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, 305-538-7544.

Staggering numbers, tragic stories (Canada.com) - In Punjab's Doaba region everyone knows someone who is married to an Indo-Canadian. It is also there that everyone knows someone whose marriage to an Indo-Canadian was a scam.

BUDGET DESIGNER COPIES DEMI'S DRESS (ContactMusic) - Copycat designer ALLEN SCHWARTZ is working overtime to create budget versions of DEMI MOORE's one-of-a-kind wedding dress because he's convinced the actress has started a new nuptials fashion trend.

Human trafficking in the aftermath of the quake (Rediff.com) - Human trafficking in the quake's aftermath