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Brides Demand Answers When Dress Store Closes (WESH via Yahoo! News) - Brides-to-be in Ocala are up in arms over a bridal shop that is out of business, and the owner is nowhere to be found. Fifty of the wedding dresses are in the back of a van, and another 50 dresses are in storage.

Villager hopes to establish a local war brides group (Villages Daily Sun) - THE VILLAGES — Paula Meier loves hearing World War II brides tell their stories. She always adored hearing how her U.S. Army father met her mother while he was stationed in Liverpool, England, and the pair married six months later.

War brides' kids might not be Canadian: Supreme Court denies those who left Canada after 1947 (The Halifax Daily News) - Tens of thousands of people who assumed they were Canadians have had their citizenship thrown into question by a federal court ruling on the status of Second World War brides and their children.

War brides' children may not be citizens (Montreal Gazette) - Tens of thousands of people who assumed they were Canadians have had their citizenship thrown into question by a court ruling on the status of Second World War brides and their children.

Vampire brides wed on Halloween (Montgomery Advertiser) - DECATUR -- The grooms were vampires amid a shroud of fog as they took brides in back-to-back Halloween night weddings that featured Freddy Krueger as a ringbearer and a motorcycle-riding Jesus performing the services.

Island Brides (Honolulu Advertiser) - Fashion designer Tamara Catz, of Pa'ia, was heartsick when she saw beautiful brides cavorting on Maui beaches in pouffy formal gowns that looked decidedly out of place. The disconnect between the gowns' overly ornate ballroom look and the pristine sands and rolling surf caused a rift in her visual mind. So she decided to do something about it: She designed a collection of Island-appropriate ...

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.

'Bucket brides' or 'casket girls'? (The Longview News-Journal) - QUESTION: Who were the "bucket brides" who came to Louisiana from France? My relative was from the Alsace-Lorraine region, and she may have been one.

EDITORIAL: Leveling the migrant playing field (Taipei Times) - It was refreshing to hear expert commentary yesterday on a part of the immigration debate normally blocked out by bickering over the ideal number of brides that should come from China: the tendency for governments to treat children of "mixed" marriages -- normally a Taiwanese husband and a Chinese or Southeast Asian wife -- as an administrative problem rather than an opportunity.

Flowers, colors abound for fall weddings (The Virginia Gazette) - The choices are endless for fall brides. From flowers and colors to décor, fall brides can create the wedding of their dreams simply by using their imagination.