LIBrides.com Web News Archive

Brides.com Finds That 43% Believe TomKat Wedding Is 'Just Another Publicity Stunt' (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Brides.com, the destination site from Conde Nast Publications, has found that 43% of its users think that this weekend's TomKat wedding is just another publicity stunt. While it goes without saying that brides-to-be love getting new information on wedding tips and trends, more than half of respondents said they're ready for the "wedding of the year" to be over.

Local mission helps child brides (The Plain Dealer) - Imagine a 9-year-old girl facing a forced marriage to a man old enough to be her father, or grandfather. Such Maasai girls, their futures often traded for cattle, can find refuge at the Bride Rescue Project in Kenya.

Father of the brides needs wedding with and without a hitch (Stamford Advocate) - When you're the father of the bride, you want your daughter's wedding to go off without a hitch. You also want it to go off with a hitch because otherwise your daughter wouldn't be married and essentially you will have spent all that money on a colossal hangover.

Bridal Shop Says 'I Don't' To Fuming Brides (NBC 5 Chicago) - There is anger and tears over the sudden closure of a Plainfield bridal shop that has left many brides scrambling before the big day.

Firefighters and brides (Arkansas News Bureau) - The Springdale Firefighter's Association made the right call when it endorsed his opponent, according to Springdale City Council member Ray Dotson. Such forthrightness is refreshing, especially for a candidate in a Nov. 28 runoff.

Ask Carley: Dance with Dad? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Q: My fiance isn't close with his mom and doesn't want to do a mother-son dance at our wedding. Would it be rude of me to still do a father-daughter dance? I know my dad would be really disappointed if we didn't.

What the scribes didn't write about Vietnam (Yahoo! India News) - Hanoi, Nov 20 (IANS) Most of the 2,000-plus international journalists who were here to cover the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit probably missed the real story of Vietnam: a nation going through an internal crisis.

Doug Thompson (Arkansas News Bureau) - Firefighters and brides The Springdale Firefighter's Association made the right call when it endorsed his opponent, according to Springdale City Council member Ray Dotson.

Ritu’s tradition tryst (The Telegraph) - The Indian bride might no longer be romancing a 50-metre ghagra as in the bygone era of royalty, but Indian exoticism remains the key word in bridal drapes even today. With the winter-spring wedding season kicking off with its own set of fashion rules, antiquity is in the air.

Shape up for your wedding day (Deccan Herald) - As the awareness of a healthy body, healthy mind catches up, many people enroll in gyms to shed that extra flab and tone those muscles. Fitness One recently launched a Bridal Bliss package at all their centres across India.