LIBrides.com Web News Archive

One-stop centre for Indian brides and grooms (The Star Online) - The Little India One Stop Wedding Centre in Brickfields is exactly what it says it is – a one-stop wedding house offering bridal and wedding packages all under one roof.

Multicultural Bridal Fair benefits scholarship program (The Wichita Eagle) - Shawnta Williams spent four hours Sunday afternoon at the Multicultural Bridal Fair gazing at wedding gowns, cake patterns and all of the things that transform women into brides.

A wedding dress for every occasion (Daily Telegraph) - Brides looking for a choice of gowns for the big day should visit the Designer Wedding Show this week, says Hilary Alexander.

British court rejects Pitcairn appeal (AP via Yahoo! News) - Six men from remote Pitcairn Island on Monday lost their final appeal against their convictions for a string of sex attacks dating back 40 years on the tiny Pacific home to descendants of the HMS Bounty mutiny.

Hotlinks (Tiscali) - AMRITSAR, INDIA - Indian brides garland their bride-grooms during a mass marriage ceremony of 151 poverty-stricken couples from the Indo-Pak border areas in Amritsar, 29 October 2006. Marriage is a costly affair in India and some parents turning to the idea of mass marriages where many couples tie the knot together, which helps the parents to spread the cost.

Saat pheres for seven brothers (Deccan Herald) - Seven brides for seven brothers a familiar musical comedy is set in a farm in the mountains in America where Adam Pontipee lives with his six brothers...

Echo boomers driving wedding business (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - The percentage of households in America may have fewer married couples, but the amount of money spent on weddings is growing 25 percent faster than the gross domestic product. That's one of the findings in a report on the wedding industry by The Mercanti Group, a Minneapolis-based financial advisory firm.

Magazines reject common wisdom (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - If print is passé, why are so many people launching new local magazines -- on paper?

Miss Mississippi greets shoppers at Billie’s (The Natchez Democrat) - VIDALIA — Miss Mississippi decided to plan for her upcoming wedding, after her reign ends, by using Miss-Lou businesses. Kendra King, 20, came to Vidalia two weeks ago and stopped in Billie’s Formal Wear to order her wedding gown.

Full circle: NRI brides dupe Punjabi 'mundas' (The Times of India) - NEW DELHI: Call it new-age feminism or plain skulduggery. NRI marriages in Punjab — for long a ruse employed by NRI grooms to dupe innocent girls and their families — are seeing a role reversal of sorts these days.