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Brides.com Names Top Five Things to Keep in Mind When Choosing an Engagement Ring and Lists Fifty Favorite Rings Online (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - With 75% of all brides-to-be giving their future husbands direct input on the engagement ring they want, Brides.com offers potential proposers insider advice with a new list of fifty favorite engagement rings -- from antique chic to colorfully captivating -- and the top five things to keep in mind when choosing that special stone.

Foreign brides to face English tests before they can come to Britain (Evening Standard) - Foreign brides planning to marry their British lovers should have to take an English test before they are allowed into the country, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said.

Brokered brides seek a better life (Post-Bulletin) - Web sites pair American men with Russian women. But mismatched expectations on both sides can turn dreams of marital bliss into a true nightmare. ------ FORT WORTH, Texas -- Back on Dec. 4, 2000, a sloe-eyed Nataliy

2:46 p.m.: Brides 'Trash The Dress' (WAPT Jackson) - VICKSBURG, Miss. -- "Trashing" wedding dresses is taking on a whole new meaning thanks to an offbeat trend. Some brides are opting to participate in "Trash The Dress" photo shoots.

War brides remember (Rapid City Journal) - RAPID CITY — During World War II, Dorothy Clements did what a lot of Custer girls did. She wrote to the soldiers.

Brokered brides seeking better life (The Charlotte Observer) - Web sites pair American men with Russian women. But mismatched expectations on both sides can turn dreams of marital bliss into a true nightmare. Back on Dec. 4, 2000, a sloe-eyed Nataliya Robertovna Yamayeva arrived in the United States wearing a $200 engagement ring from her American fiance. On the surface, "Natasha" Yamayeva was like all other newly minted fiancees, brimming with affection ...

Brokered brides seeking better life (The Kansas City Star) - Web sites pair American men with Russian women. But mismatched expectations on both sides can turn dreams of marital bliss into a true nightmare.

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.

Curruption hits poorest people most (Pravda) - A survey released Thursday said that the more poor people are the more they suffer public corruption – for example, Africa n and Asia n people pay brides for police protection, education and justice.

PAKISTAN: Traditional marriages ignore HIV/AIDS threat (AlertNet) - Source: IRIN Bound by 'watta satta', a cultural tradition of exchanged marriage between two families, Nuzhat (not her real name), 22, cannot disclose her HIV status. The tradition of watta satta describes the exchange of brides between families, in which a brother and sister from one family are married to a pair from another family, often close relatives.