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Grooms celebrate collective wedding party for 100 couples without brides in Gaza Strip (Pravda) - Gaza authorities organized a collective wedding party Thursday for 100 couples, where grooms celebrated without their brides in observance of Islamic law.

Lessons for young 'brides' (Hindustan Times via Yahoo! India News) - From the looks of it, it is just another decked-up wedding venue. But go inside and you see that it is unlike any wedding you may have ever attended.

Brides say 'I do' to eco-chic weddings (Cape Argus) - London - Here comes the bride, all dressed in - green. White weddings might have been the dream of fashionable brides of old. But the trendiest British weddings are now at least metaphorically green as couples seek to reduce the impact of their nuptials on the environment.

Weight loss and fitness for brides-to-be (The Virginia Gazette) - Eager to slim down and shape up for your magical day? You can accomplish these goals successfully and safely by eating right and making sure to exercise, according to two experienced dieticians.

C-P has ideas for brides (Courier-Post) - If you recently became engaged, congratulations.

Wed like a celeb without the costs (The Record) - Famous couples enlist professional consultants who expertly plan extravagant weddings on a near-limitless budget -- something nonfamous brides and grooms aren't usually able to do.

Mock marriage to help real marriage in Orissa (ANI via Yahoo! India News) - By Ashwini Kumar Darjee Shampur (Orissa), Oct. 26 (ANI): Villagers of Shampur near Bhubaneshvar, the capital of Orissa, celebrate a festival when girls participate in a mock marriage ceremony with the hope that it would help them find a good match. The festival is known as Kumar Purnima, when the unmarried girls dress themselves as brides and grooms and participate in the marriage procession. ...

Hamas organises mass wedding (NDTV) - Will Hamas-Fatah fighting undermine Palestinian desire for statehood? The Islamic rulers of Gaza organised a collective wedding party for 100 couples, distributing almost a month's salary on grooms who celebrated without their brides in observance of Islamic law.

Of brides in black and beach weddings (IBN via Yahoo! India News) - Bollywood s favourite designer Rocky S unveiled his latest couture collection and to cheer him on was his best friend - sultry siren Bipasha Basu.

Nigeria: brides' fat camp (Channel 4) - News programmes and politicians in Britain love the subject of obesity - every day there's news of another initiative to make us slim. But perhaps the ways in which other countries see fat can help us recognise our own obsessions.