LIBrides.com Web News Archive

Grooms serve hard time for brides (Kuensel) - 6 November, 2007 - Boy meets girl, they fall in love and get married. This is how nuptials normally happen.

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.

Here Come the Brides (The Advocate) - From wedding gowns with trains as long as the Mississippi to bridesmaids’ dresses that show short in a new way, two local shows highlighted trends for those about to walk down the aisle.

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.

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.

Making your own wedding dress (The Virginia Gazette) - Brides today have more choices than ever before when they are picking a wedding dress. Many of the old rules have been tossed out. For example, dresses aren't always white, they're not always big and poufy and they don't have to include trains that go on for miles. A bride can feel free to choose a wedding dress that fits her body type and personality.

Interview with Mohammad Yunus (CNN.com) - Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his pioneering work in microcredit, which has helped millions of people out of the poverty cycle. The first businessman ever to receive such a high honor, Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded revolutionized conventional ways of banking, creating a system of lending money to the poor, mostly women.

Trash the Dress -- Former brides turn treasured dresses into artistic new photos (Conroe Courier) - Wedding dresses across America and around the world are being dunked in bayous, doused in pools, splattered with paint and subjected to a myriad of messes - all in the name of a new style of highly-personalized photography.