LIBrides.com Web News Archive

Keep your sanity while planning your wedding (The Virginia Gazette) - Working full-time or have friends and relatives spread all over the country or world? If you answered yes to either question, planning a wedding can be a logistical nightmare; but for savvy brides and grooms-to-be, online wedding planning has become a lifesaver.

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.

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.

Bridal registries reflect our casual lifestyles (The Virginia Gazette) - Brides building their bridal registries today are thinking twice about china cabinet classics, turning instead to home items in which the luxury is a bit more casual.

Brides.Com Top Ten Celebrity Proposals (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - With the engagement news of President and First Lady Bush's daughter Jenna, Brides.com decided to comb the archives of romantic, surprising and extravagant celebrity proposals and name the top ten of all-time.

It's all about money, honey (Hindustan Times via Yahoo! India News) - Three recent news items, given no great importance, are linked. The bad news first - a navy officer's wife commits suicide because she's unable to take incessant dowry demands.

Sculptor offers her custom work on the Web (Austin American-Statesman) - It wasn't that long ago that Elizabeth Bonura sat at her office as an Austin IBM employee, sure that she wasn't meant to be a programmer.

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.

Albright: If my adult daughter can cook a turkey then am I still useful (Tri-State Neighbor) - Chapter one. So, here I sit on Thanksgiving morning, responsible for Š absolutely nothing. This is an odd feeling. For many years, I have worked 40-plus hours a week and then, on Thanksgiving, I was responsible for tossing out a full-course meal for my loved ones.

40 marry en masse to celebrate holy day (The News & Observer) - A single drum pounded like a heartbeat as the 20 brides filed into the sanctuary Wednesday night, a statue of the virgin held aloft behind them. They came to marry before God on what is, for Mexicans, one of the holiest days of the year.